Today’s comic was written and penciled by my wife! (I did inks and colors)

I am very proud of her and want to encourage her to make more art and speak her mind.

The neighborhood my wife and I live in is a battleground. Dueling graffiti marks the signposts, walls, and pavement. Messages of love and mercy to the Palestinians being starved and murdered, vs insults against these messengers and calls to bring home the remaining Israeli hostages. Messages get written, posters and stickers go up, and then, within an afternoon, those same messages are scribbled out or washed away, and those stickers ripped down or covered up. While I have sympathy to the families of those held hostage under Gaza (all of whom remaining are soldiers, by the way), I’m sorry, but at this point of over 730 days of genocide in Gaza with a death toll of over 600,000, if your primary concerns are about the remaining hostages rather than the massive scale of death, destruction, and suffering, that speaks volumes about what kind of person you are.

My wife was moved to write this comic after witnessing these two years of atrocities, and seeing countless instances of messages of love and mercy being rubbed out or washed away. Images of little children who have been killed in Gaza being scratched away so onlookers can’t see the human faces of this ongoing atrocity. What kind of person does that? What kind of person is only concerned about a handful of prisoners of war, and about the power and sovereignty of a settler colonial religious ethnostate, when hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in bombings, shootings, and intentional starvation?

As you read this independent platform, deals are being enacted to hand over control of most of the major media outlets to vocal, out and avowed Zionists, such as Larry Ellison and Bari Weis. Their stated goal is to further shift messaging to a pro-Israel lens, and prevent anyone from seeing the reality of the mass atrocities being committed, or from seeing the victims as human beings.

Make no mistake, there is a psychic war being waged against your very soul and humanity.

They want you to not care about the oppressed and the downtodden, to think that they deserve their fate, that there is only one valid vector of sympathy, and it is the western aligned settler state that our governments benefit from. They want you so desensitized that, when these tactics come home, you won’t have sympathy for those victims, either. Even if you do happen to see some independent outlet, or grafiti, desperately trying to tell you otherwise.

If you want to save your soul, the first thing you have to do is look.

Free Palestine.