The world keeps calling for peace.
Peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Peace between Israel and Iran.
Peace in the Middle East—as if that phrase still means anything coherent.
But let us speak plainly:
Peace without justice is not peace. It is silence.
It is the quiet of mass graves.
The stillness of children buried under rubble.
The diplomatic hush of nations too complicit to name the violence they fund.
We are not interested in that kind of peace.
The Hebrew prophets had a word for the mockery of justice paraded as peace:
“They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.”
(Jeremiah 6:14)
There is no peace where bulldozers roll.
There is no peace where water is stolen.
There is no peace where Gaza is turned into a graveyard and Iran is treated as a perpetual enemy for daring to resist the machinery of empire.
What we want—what we demand—is justice.
Not vengeance. Not reversal of oppression.
Justice—the sacred accounting of truth, the dismantling of systems built on domination, the full recognition of Palestinian and Iranian humanity.
And that means this:
Israel must be held accountable.
Not as a people. Not as a religion.
But as a state that has used its power, its nuclear arsenal, and its unholy alliance with the American empire to wage war against the coherent sacredness of other lives.
And if it will not disarm, then the world must disarm it.
Just as it must disarm those who abet it—financially, militarily, theologically.
Silence is no longer neutrality. It is complicity.
To speak this is not antisemitism.
It is covenant.
It is to side with the prophets, not the palaces.
The ancient word for such desecration is תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah)—an abomination.
A sacred betrayal.
A revolt against justice dressed in the robes of righteousness.
We see it.
We must name it.
And we will not bless silence while justice still cries out from the ground.
This is not a time for comfort.
This is a time for coherence.