Activism is an important thing. It sits within the core values of Democracy – Freedom of Speech, the Power of the People, and Equality. However, with the rise of social networks, conspiracy theories and misinformation on the internet and even worse – on leading TV news channels – we should all stop and wonder what happened to Human Morality and what is actually going on behind the scenes of those so-called social movements in the past decade. Are they completely genuine, honest and authentic? Is it really human kind at its best, fighting for the greater good? Or is there something else going on under the surface – bias, manipulation and misinformation – leading to the suspicion that some forces are hijacking our minds, our hearts and souls, steering it in different directions based on their own Agenda.

It was only a few years ago when activism was all about Climate Action, in a plea to Save Our World from the arguably inevitable Global Warming. Greta Thunberg, a Swedish climate activist known for her powerful advocacy for climate action among young people, initiated the Fridays for Future movement, a global student strike for climate action. Her endeavor to save the world peaked when she delivered a powerful address at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, criticizing world leaders for their inaction on climate change, demanding urgent action. But where is Greta these days, along with the enthusiastic crowd of Climate Action warriors?

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) social movement started in 2013, with the aim to highlight racism, discrimination and racial inequality experienced by black people, and to promote anti-racism. Its primary concerns became prominent after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, highlighting police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people. The movement has seen a decline in public support and a shift in focus since then due to backlash, political polarization, and questions about the movement’s structure and funding.

The Me Too social movement focused on raising awareness about sexual harassment and sexual assault, particularly in the workplace. The movement gained widespread attention in 2017, following allegations of sexual misconduct against Harvey Weinstein, when Alyssa Milano used the hashtag #MeToo on social media, leading to a global conversation about the prevalence of these issues and encouraging survivors to share their experiences. However, today the Me Too movement is barely seen or heard, with a striking and shameful SILENCE over the sexual violence during the October 7 attacks, where Israeli women, girls and men were reportedly subjected to sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault by Palestinian Terror Group Hamas and other Gazan militants. October 7 exposed the hollowness of the #MeToo movement and it is not hard to see why the #MeToo_UNless_UR_A_Jew campaign was established.

This leads us to the Free Palestine movement that has washed our streets across the Western world since October 7, 2023. On that dark day, more than 1,200 men, women and children, including citizens of more than 30 countries, were slaughtered by Hamas – the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Israeli Authorities were still counting the dead, horrified mums and dads were still looking for their loved ones who may have been among the 251 hostages abducted into Gaza, when thousands of people around the world marched through the streets, celebrating the massacre, praising Hamas for their brutal and barbaric attack against humanity, and labeling it as Resistance.

Can we pause for a moment and repeat the facts: Palestinian terrorist organizations invaded the sovereign state of Israel, committed a genocidal massacre against Israeli communities along the border with Gaza Strip, murdered whole families and communities in cold blood, raped, beheaded and slaughtered young women and men who were dancing for peace at the Nova Dance Festival, and the following day thousands of people across the Western world chose to go out to the streets and rejoice, as we watched in horror the moral collapse of our western societies.

The shocking effect of the immediate aftermath of the October 7 massacre did not dissolve since then. Western governments are protecting the right of free speech but fail to identify those who abuse this right and call for hatred and murder of Jewish people. The failure to set any limits on this so-called Activism resulted in a massive spike in hate-crime and antisemitism, attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions around the world and most tragically the murder of two young Israeli diplomats in Washington (while shouting “Free Palestine”) and the killing of an 82-year-old Colorado woman in a molotov cocktail attack on demonstrators in support of Israeli hostages still kept in Gaza. These are the early signs of a “Globalized Intifada” as chanted on the streets. This is the direct result of inaction, lack of leadership and complete blindness to hatred and support of terrorism.

The broken democracies in Europe, America and Australia fail to understand the long term risks to our societies. As we watch the Free Palestine movement taking over social media and our streets for nearly two years and counting, it is evident that behind big words like Freedom, Justice and Humanity, these activists are praising Islamic Jihadi Terrorist Regimes in the likes of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Taliban and ISIS, as we have seen on the iconic Sydney Harbor Bridge “March for Humanity”. Any support of terrorism is unlawful, yet it is accepted by law enforcement who don’t seem to be worried about a new trend of burning an Australian flag in Melbourne’s Federation Square while calling for the Death of our country.

What is it that Western democracies are yet to understand? Where is this ongoing wave of hatred leading us to? Where are all those 21st century social movements now – caring for gender and race equality? Have they just moved on to the next popular trend, without even realizing they have joined an anti-democratic movement fueled by a well orchestrated propaganda, praising terrorist organizations who openly wish to wipe out our democracies? How come this particular conflict between Israel and Palestine is at the hearts of so many people, while they could not care less about other conflicts around the world – Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Haiti and others – where millions of people continue to suffer.

You have to stop and wonder how did we get to a point where hundreds of thousands of people around the Western world, in free-speech democracies, led by manipulated Gen Z students who lack any form or shape of critical thinking (isn’t that the basic for academic studies?), parroting a pile of lies and nonsense about a place in the Middle East they have never been to and can’t even put their finger on the map to point where it actually is – while everyone else just gets on with it for so long?

We are watching the total collapse of activism and social movements as we know it. People are marching for a cause while failing to truly understand what the cause is, or consider the complexities of issues occurring on the other side of the globe, while relying on misinformation and manipulation. All I know is: when the war will eventually diminish, these so-called activists would have a lot to explain to their children about being on the wrong side of history.