Virgil Walker, Sola Veritas, Oct 9, 2025
They chant for “liberation” while marching for their own destruction.
Across America, students wave rainbow flags beside the banners of those who would hang them.
It’s not compassion, it’s confusion.
A generation blinded by ideology can no longer tell the difference between freedom and suicide.
Across American universities, the imagery is surreal.
Rainbow flags wave beside Palestinian banners.
Students chant “From the river to the sea!” as if freedom were a slogan rather than a worldview.
When chanted at rallies, “From the river to the sea” functions as a call to dismantle the nation-state of Israel—a cry many Jewish groups and lawmakers rightly treat as a demand for Israel’s elimination.
The phrase itself traces back to Palestinian nationalist movements of the 1960s and was later codified in the Hamas Charter of 1988, which explicitly calls for Israel’s destruction and rejects any peaceful coexistence with a Jewish state.
As that document chillingly declares: “Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors.”
They call it compassion.
They call it justice.
But under Hamas, these same students wouldn’t survive a day.
In Gaza, “Pride for Palestine” would end not with applause—but with a sentence of death.
The Strange Alliance
The “Free Palestine” movement has become a cause célèbre across Western campuses, celebrated as a fight for human rights. Yet the very activists waving rainbow flags in solidarity with Gaza are aligning themselves with one of the most repressive regimes on earth.
Under Hamas, homosexuality is illegal. Public expression of it is punishable by imprisonment, flogging, or execution.
Classical Islamic jurists and some modern Sharia codes treat sodomy as a capital crime, and several contemporary states that apply strict interpretations of Sharia—most notably Iran, Taliban-run Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and certain Somali regions—criminalize same-sex acts with punishments up to death. Human-rights trackers list a small number of countries where the death penalty for consensual same-sex conduct remains in law or practice.
Gender ideology? Nonexistent. Pronouns? Blasphemy.
So why the alliance? Because both movements share one unspoken bond: hostility toward the biblical worldview that once gave the West its moral compass.
The Contradiction Exposed
In Tel Aviv, rainbow flags line the streets every summer.
In Gaza, the same flag would be torn down and burned.
That’s not a stereotype. It’s Sharia.
Israel, though secular in many ways, still carries remnants of a biblical moral framework that allows dissent, pluralism, and freedom of conscience. Those freedoms are the fruit of Judeo-Christian soil. And they are the very freedoms the “Free Palestine” activists unknowingly depend on while calling for Israel’s destruction.
The irony is tragic: the “oppressed” they defend would oppress them first.
Two Worlds, Two Gods
This isn’t just a political contradiction; it’s a theological one.
Islam demands submission to Allah through the external conformity of Sharia.
LGBTQIA ideology demands submission to self through the internal conformity of desire.
Both reject the authority of the Bible. One denies the Son; the other denies the Creator’s design.
One enforces law without grace; the other preaches grace without law.
Both are false religions, and both lead to bondage.
The Western Delusion
Western activists imagine themselves as freedom fighters, but they’ve become missionaries for rebellion. They’re not defenders of the oppressed—they’re participants in a moral collapse.
When truth becomes subjective, justice becomes a slogan.
When God is removed, compassion turns suicidal.
Freedom detached from truth is not liberation—it’s decay.
And here’s the irony: these protesters have the freedom to rage against “Western oppression” only because they live under a system built on biblical assumptions about justice, conscience, and individual rights.
The very freedoms they use to denounce the West would vanish under the regimes they celebrate.
Their moral outrage is possible only because they’re borrowing capital from the civilization they’re trying to burn down.
A Biblical Response
“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” — Genesis 1:27 (ESV)
The Bible doesn’t play identity politics. It tells the truth about reality.
God’s moral law still governs nations. His providence rules history. His justice applies to both Hamas and the West. Christians don’t defend Israel because it’s flawless; they defend truth because God’s Word is flawless.
Under Sharia, law is a tool of coercion—designed to force external obedience through fear of punishment. But under biblical law, morality flows from a transformed heart, where obedience is born of love for God.
One enslaves by fear; the other liberates by grace.
That’s why biblical nations, though imperfect, have historically produced freedom, art, science, and conscience—while theocracies produce fear and silence.
Israel, for all its imperfections, bears witness to a worldview that allows for reasoned debate and moral law grounded in something higher than raw power.
That’s what the West is now abandoning.
The Collapse of Moral Reason
“Pride for Palestine” isn’t solidarity—it’s self-destruction. It reveals what happens when a society unmoored from Scripture loses the ability to tell good from evil.
Both the rainbow movement and the Palestinian cause chant the same creed in different languages: “We will not have this God rule over us.”
That rebellion, not religion, is their common ground.
The Only Way Back
The same biblical worldview that gave the West its freedoms is the one it now despises.
These students demand “justice” but deny the God who defines it.
They cry for “freedom” but reject the truth that sustains it.
“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” — Proverbs 14:34 (ESV)
If we want peace, justice, and freedom, we must return to truth—and truth has a name.
Christ alone.
“Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?” (Psalm 2:1)
That’s the story of our moment—ideologies raging against the God who reigns.
But every movement built on rebellion eventually collapses under its own contradictions.
The kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.
Truth will stand when every false alliance falls.
How does one fix this special kind of stupid Pride, when political correctness is all that matters? If they think that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ then no, the enemy of their enemy is not their friend, he is still their enemy who will terrorize them also.
They stupidly allow their political correct Pride to override their own best interests!