I stand here knowing that Jesus was not some distant, sanitized figure — he was a Palestinian revolutionary who fought against the brutal occupation of his people by the Roman Empire. The Jesus I honor did not die so that empire and colonizers could continue stealing land, killing people, and profiting off their suffering. Yet today, so-called Christians who claim to follow him justify the ongoing settler-colonial violence against Palestinians, celebrating a Zionism rooted in white supremacy and brutal oppression. It’s a deep hypocrisy — preaching love and salvation while funding, with our tax dollars, the very machinery of occupation, war, and displacement. Our taxes pay for bombs, checkpoints, and apartheid walls, while healthcare, education, and housing for our communities are left starving and neglected. The system they protect is built on stolen land, stolen lives, and the erasure of entire peoples. White supremacy and settler-colonialism are inseparable from the violent state of Israel today, backed by Western powers that cloak themselves in the language of “Christian values”, values they betray daily by enabling and excusing the absolute brutality Palestinians endure. This is not about religion or faith; it is about power, control, and the continuation of colonial violence under the guise of divine mandate. Far too many have twisted faith into a weapon, using scripture and religious rhetoric to justify the persecution, displacement, and even the murder of innocent people. They cloak their hatred and violence in the language of divine will, turning what should be a message of love and liberation into a tool of oppression. This manipulation of faith not only betrays the true spirit of Jesus’ teachings but also enables systems of white supremacy and colonial violence to thrive unchecked. True faith demands that we stand with the oppressed, not the oppressors. I refuse to separate Jesus from his people — the oppressed, the colonized, the marginalized. To claim him while siding with his oppressors is a betrayal of everything he stood for. If you say you believe in Jesus, then you must stand against the settler-colonial state that murders, imprisons, and starves Palestinians in the name of Zionism. There is no room for silence or neutrality here — this is a fight for justice, truth, and liberation.