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Olatunji Ololade
September 11, 2025 by Olatunji Ololade
After the colonists are done with Palestine, their next stop would be Africa perhaps. Occupying Africa will be easy. They simply need to flaunt a scripture to validate the siege and seizure of Africa’s most fertile tracts.
Having successfully established and integrated religion as the most crucial element of colonial expansion, the psyops (psychological operations) that render Africans acquiescent to the eventual seizure of our land and resources will be easy.
In Gaza, it’s Israeli Zionists murdering innocent civilians; in Africa, it would be the Christian Zionist pitted against the Muslim fundamentalist, and everybody else in a free-for-all.
Consider the curious case of Nigeria, for instance; the magnitude of explicit and suppressed rage is enough to trigger the citizenry towards implosion. Here, the colonists need not actively get boots on the ground or soil their hands with the blood of innocents; Nigerians will happily slay each other in worship of imperial ‘gods.’
Faith, as espoused by the Abrahamic faiths, teaches us to conquer our animal instincts, but caught in a fit of righteousness, we circumvent credo, that we may glorify our espoused and unarticulated sinful lusts.
While it’s moral to rage against the bloodlust and carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram, ISWAP and other terror cells afflicting the peace and stability of Nigeria alongside her West African neighbours, shall we dare reproach the infamy and bloodlust flagrantly glamourised by the Christian Zionist across Africa and Nigeria?
If we agree that only a mindless savage would applaud the mayhem fomented on the continent by Islamist terror cells, shall we also condemn, without equivocation, every African celebrating the occupation and daily murder of Palestinians?
It’s horrid enough to witness – online and offline – the maniacal heckling of the Palestinians and their sympathisers by a people coming from a long history of slavery and colonist siege; it is even more alarming to see supposed ‘truth-tellers’ and leaders of thought dubiously pirouette, spinning words into apologetic shrouds for slaughter.
We must be wary of validating the carnage we dread as just deserts for others, simply because they are of a different creed and civilisation. Brings to mind the curious case of my childhood friend, a Christian and proud son of Bokkos, who once defended Israel’s siege on Gaza. “It’s security,” he said, “self-defence.” Until his village was set ablaze and his cousin’s children were murdered and burned to ashes. “This is too much. There is no justice,” he cried. And I had no heart to say what I thought; that “Nobody savours the taste of the bitter herbs we season for others.”
Lest we forget the reactions to the tragic fate of Apesuur Ukechia and Ward Khalil. On a Sunday morning, just after church, Ukechia watched as her husband and three children were gunned down by herdsmen in Aondona, Gwer West, Benue State. Months before, the same assailants killed her parents and all of her siblings. Ukechia’s loss is unacceptable, yet no more pitiable than Ward Khalil’s. The harrowing video of the five-year-old Palestinian girl trying to escape a burning Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School shelter in Gaza City after being incinerated by an overnight Israeli airstrike is heartrending. Although Khalil ambled through the flames to safety, her five siblings, aged two to 18, died in the flames along with their mother. “I was scared of the fire,” a teary Khalil told journalists, even as she had no words to relate her family’s massacre.
Reacting to Ukechia’s loss, some Nigerians blamed the government for allowing the culprits roam free. They made a radical call to arms, urging every community hosting northerners to “evict them before they kill us all and take over our lands.”
But these same anarchists, reacting to Khalil’s loss, described her as “collateral damage.” The tenor of reactions ranged from “Her people started it on October 7, now they must live with the consequences” to “Serves them right! Next time, they won’t attack God’s chosen.”
This thought process is shamelessly propagated by many a bigoted Nigerian across the civic sphere and it catches like wildfire as you read, in Nigeria’s citadels of learning and religious faith. In an academic forum, some academics dismissed a video of Zionist-Jews attacking Christian pilgrims in Israel, while claiming that it’s their divinely-ordained duty to kill every Christian because they are “idol worshipers.” They refused to condemn Israeli attacks on Christian brethren even as they justified the occupiers’ genocidal campaign in Palestine. “It’s a hard decision that must be taken,” said an esteemed Professor. These random reactions mirror our descent into moral atrophy.
As of September 3, 2025, over 66,700 people (64,739 Palestinians and 1,983 Israelis) have been reported killed in the genocide according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM), Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, media and humanitarian workers. Scholars estimated that 80% of Palestinians killed are civilians, of which 70% were women and children (OHCHR).
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Yet, many Nigerians, armed with half-baked theology and deeply embedded bigotry, cheer the perpetrators with messianic zeal. More worrisome is the incursion of this murderous mentality into the Nigerian newsroom. Every editorial and commentary validating the genocide resounds as a mindless brushstroke in the mural of apology, painted for Israel as it ethnically cleanses Palestine. This is more the journalism of complicity than compassion. For it does not document the truth. Rather, it thwarts it.
Never in modern memory has a genocide claimed so many journalists – at least 250 – as it has claimed in Gaza. But the bigoted newsroom would rather whip out alibis for the perpetrators, soullessly validating their siege, as a consequence of Hamas’s October 7 attack. Such pitilessness absolves the Israeli occupiers of ethnic cleansing and genocide perpetrated against their captive Palestinian hosts since 1948.
How did we arrive here? Some say it is faith. But faith has been mutilated into idolatry. Zionism, as advanced by the African pulpit, has replaced God with a political state. Murderous Zionists command Christian Africa just as ISIS masterminds excite ISWAP allegiance. Proof-texts are dragged from Genesis and wielded like bayonets, as if the promise to Abraham to bless all nations could be warped into a license for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
To watch journalists excuse the bombing of hospitals in Gaza is to see the rehearsal for the rationalisation of similar massacres in Borno, Kaduna or Lagos. To watch them amplify, even after being debunked, Israeli lies about “beheaded babies” is to understand how they will amplify the propaganda of local tyrants tomorrow. The “Hannibal directive,” which sanctioned the killing of its own citizens to prevent their capture, on October 7 and beyond, was once dismissed as fantasy until its grisly reality was exposed, but the newsroom is primed to conveniently ignore such disconcerting truths.
The newsroom that celebrates Zionist tyrants will bend to domestic despots. What is denied abroad will be denied at home; what is excused abroad will be excused at home.
There is a rhythm to atrocity, a choreography almost banal in its repetition. Palestine may seem a distant theatre. But it is a global mirror. Do we not see ourselves in those faces pressed against rubble? Do we not hear our own children in those cries? Or have we convinced ourselves that genocide is only real when it arrives at our gates?
Imagine the first inhabitants of Lagos, Plateau or Benin rising to reclaim ancestral lands, citing scriptures or ancestral decrees. Would today’s cheerleaders of conquest by Holy Writ validate their siege? Would they call resistance, “terrorism” and couch dispossession in divine justification?
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