The War on Gaza – An African Perspective

The carnage in Gaza has been ongoing since 1947, though the mainstream narrative claims it all began on October 7th, 2023. I believe that day was a false flag operation engineered by Zionists to manufacture consent for the final act of cleansing the Palestinian question once and for all. And it is happening.

If you are a follower of Hollywood propaganda, you might have noticed that scenes from Gaza resemble Star Wars, especially when the Death Star wipes out an entire planet because a section of its population refuses to kneel before Emperor Palpatine. This isn’t fiction. It’s happening. In real time. On your screen. Children are being burned alive in their homes. Others are shredded into pieces by American-made bunker-busting bombs, and Gaza lies in ruins of apocalyptic nature. The entire open city enclave-prison was flattened. Videos circulate in 4K clarity on Instagram and TikTok. And yet, from Nairobi to Abuja, Kampala to Kigali, many of our people remain indifferent.

This indifference across Africa didn’t come from nowhere. It was engineered. Manufactured over decades of imperial psychological operations, from school curricula to movies to churches, and intensified during the Cold War era. The rise of “born again” evangelical churches in Africa is not merely religious. It is political. These churches, connected to networks in the American South and funded by the same reactionary forces behind Project 2025, indoctrinate millions to believe Israel is God’s chosen state. So when Israel rains bombs on Gaza, many of our people see divine justice, not genocide.

President Museveni is fully aware of this ideological war. He may express solidarity with Palestine, but he permits this brainwashing to flourish. Why? Because authoritarian leaders love a docile, spiritually sedated population. One that quotes scripture while ignoring suffering. One that mistakes colonial violence for holy war. The empire doesn’t need tanks to control us. It has pulpits and compradors.

Still doubt it? Look at Uganda’s own Judge Julia Sebutinde, the sole ICJ vote in favour of Israel. That vote wasn’t a legal anomaly. It was the fruit of imperial theology, of generations raised to worship the empire cloaked in religious legitimacy. And she reflects the mindset of much of Uganda’s so-called intellectual elite, compromised, confused, colonised.

Meanwhile, in the heart of the empire, the contradictions are imploding. Elite universities like Harvard, which have long been complicit in imperialism, training Global South technocrats, partnering with the IDF, laundering settler-colonial ideology, are now under siege by the very reactionary forces they once enabled. Harvard is at war with the imperium not because it opposes the empire, but because it refused to kneel fully.

Trump’s fascist return, backed by Project 2025’s evangelical architects, is purging dissent. International students are being deported. Visas are being revoked. Pro-Palestine faculty and students are targeted. These institutions are now seeing the same tools of suppression, surveillance, propaganda, and state violence that were perfected in Gaza and Iraq, turned against them. This is the boomerang effect that Aimé Césaire warned about. Colonial brutality never stays abroad. It always comes home.

This is why I don’t cry for Harvard. I cry for the Nigerian student deported from JFK, for the Sudanese PhD student denied a visa, for the Palestinian academic jailed on campus and for the African diaspora surveilled in the empire’s core.

And still, while many in Africa sleepwalk through this genocide, others rise. Starving Yemenis have shown more solidarity than some well-fed African clergy. The Houthis, who dared to block maritime weapons routes to Israel, faced collective wrath from imperial forces, including direct strikes under the banner of Operation Prosperity Guardian, a name as grotesque as the carnage it conceals.

The empire punishes those who disrupt profit and power. That is why it maintains puppet regimes in Africa, funds dictators like Kagame, and props up Moroccan occupation in the Western Sahel. These are not “unruly states” being disciplined. They are mineral-rich zones being extracted. Zionist logic, with its settler exceptionalism, is mirrored in Rwanda’s foreign policy: exceptionalism, impunity, expansion.

Our people must wake up. The exact imperial mechanisms used to destroy Gaza are being tested and refined. Israel is not just a state. It is a model and imperial colonial outpost—a prototype for surveillance, dispossession, and permanent occupation. What happens in Gaza today may happen in the Congo, Mali, or Uganda tomorrow.

This is not paranoia. It is a pattern.

From New Caledonia to Kashmir, from Puerto Rico to Palestine, from Goma to Gaza, the struggle is the same. Settler colonialism must die. Neocolonialism must die. The religion of imperial exceptionalism must die. And above all, the indifference of our people must die.

Just a few Gen Zs on TikTok seem to see it. But that spark must grow.

The time for silence is over. The empire is on fire. Its violence is global. Its lies are crumbling. The role of the African today is not to observe but to resist. To stand in solidarity with all oppressed colonised people of the global south and those minorities targeted at the core of the empire. To decolonise our minds, our churches, our parliaments, and our tongues.

History will not absolve spectators. It will remember those who chose neutrality as missiles tore through refugee camps. And it will remember those who stood, no matter how small, in defiance.

Solidarity is not charity. It is self-defence. Africa’s future depends on dismantling the empire, abroad and within.

The author is a rural peasant who rejects imperialism in all its forms and dreams of a sovereign United Africa.

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