On Sunday, May 18, the largest demonstration, called ‘Rode Lijn’ (in English: ‘Red Line’), took place in The Hague, Netherlands. It was the first time in over 20 years that more than 100,000 people participated in a political demonstration in our country. It was organized by various activist organizations, such as Oxfam Novib, The Rights Forum, Save the Children, Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders. Most of the protesters were dressed in red-colored clothes, a symbol that we want to draw a red line, meaning no more financial support for Israel which is committing genocide in Gaza. It’s a message to our government that we want change. We are ashamed that the Dutch government still supports Israel. In our country it’s a major scandal that Geert Wilders, the far-right leader of the largest political party in the Netherlands, even supports Israel’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, in other words to remove all Palestinians from Gaza. By the way, Geert wilders blocked me on Twitter, aka x.com, because I criticized his aggressive and racist statements towards black and brown people living in the Netherlands. Anyway, during the demonstration on May 18th we walked from Malieveld, a large public park where we gathered, to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Peace Palace and then we walked to Binnenhof (a large building complex for the Dutch Parliament, official name ‘States General’, and the office of the Prime Minister) and then back to Malieveld. In total this walk was about 4 kilometers long. The next day I did feel some muscle pain in my legs, but I’m glad I participated. It was definitely worth it and one of the most important things I’ve done in my life. It was also the first time I took part in a demonstration. I live in Delft, a city right next to The Hague, so it was only about a 15 minute train ride to get there. I know The Hague very well because I was born and raised there and lived there most of my life, so I knew exactly where to go. I had told my mother in advance that I would go to The Hague for the demonstration. She liked it, but also said ‘Be careful’. I understand that a mother will always be a little worried, no matter how old you are, but fortunately there were no disruptions during the demonstration. No clashes between activists and police. It was a peaceful and beautiful event. Everyone enjoyed it and was happy to be there. We were all united: white, brown, black, old and young. Yes, even children were there with their parents. Fathers and mothers pushing strollers. Together we made history.

When I was a child, my aunt (an older sister of my mother) lived on the same street as me, namely A. van der Tangstraat in the Houtwijk residential area of The Hague. Between 1986 and 1990, every time I visited my aunt’s house across the street, I saw two large posters on the window of her office. In fact, anyone walking or cycling down our street could see those posters. One poster read: ‘Laat geld terugstromen naar Afrika’, translated in English: ‘Let money flow back to Africa’. The other poster read: ‘Free Nelson Mandela!’, with a large photo of him. So I saw Nelson’s poster every day for years until he was finally released from prison in 1990. As we all know, he eventually ended apartheid in South Africa and became the first elected president under the new constitution. Mandela, an activist who fought against apartheid, was known as a terrorist by the elite (white European colonists) in South Africa for many years. They demonized him and held him captive for 27 years, but today Mandela is seen as a hero. So now 35 years later, thousands of people took part in a demonstration to show their support for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, who have been fighting against the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime since 1948 (the first Nakba). And it’s South Africa that has filed a case at the ICJ against the state of Israel for commiting crimes against humanity in Gaza. Of course, Israel and its ally the United States justify their war in Gaza because Hamas is seen as a terrorist organization by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli war cabinet, US presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump, dozens of members of the US Congress and millions of Zionists worldwide. But according to many pro-Palestinian activists in Europe, the US and worldwide, Hamas is a militant resistance movement that has the right to receive support from the regime in Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. After Hamas attacked and killed hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, I was shocked, like many other people in the Netherlands. So I used to condemn Hamas and I still think it’s wrong to kill so many innocent people in Israel, but now that I’ve read more about the history and suffering of the Palestinians, which has given me some more wisdom, I simply cannot condemn Hamas anymore. On 14 November 2024 Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, wrote on Twitter that up to 700 Palestinian children have been kidnapped by Isrealis each year for decades. So this could explain why many Palestinians have become vengeful toward Israel. On Twitter I have seen so many photos and videos of murdered or mutilated Palestinian men, women and children. The Isreali Occupation Forces (IOF), also known as Israel Defense Forces (IDF), has killed and maimed thousands of Palestinian children since 8 October 2023. Now that I have seen this and am aware that physical abuse was taking place before October 7, I understand that the Hamas attack of 10/7 is comparable to a slave rebellion. In the 19th century, during slavery, there were many slave revolts in Suriname, where my parents come from. The Maroons (rebellious Negroes) regularly attacked the plantations of Dutch slave owners, often only to free other African slaves. These attacks were very violent. But thanks to their fighting spirit and courage, slavery was abolished in Suriname in 1863. So I owe it to them that I was born a free black man. John Gabriel Stedman (1744 – 7 March 1797), officer of the Dutch States Army, wrote a book about the Maroons, entitled: ‘Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam’.

The genocidal war in Gaza has changed my view of the world, humanity and many countries, such as the US, UK and Germany, which have turned out to be the biggest financiers of Israel’s war. Germany is on the wrong side of history again. In World War 2 they were responsible for the Holocaust of European Jews and now in 2025 they are complicit in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. On 21 November 2024 the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, former Minister of Defense of Israel, and yet on April 6 French President Emmanuel Macron, despite his support for a ceasefire in Gaza, allowed Netanyahu to fly over France without arresting him. Does this mean that some or many European political leaders are afraid to actually do something about Netanyahu? Do the Zionists have this much power in Europe and the US? I’m still in shock after watching members of the US Congress give more than 50 standing ovations to Netanyahu on 24 July 2024. Does it mean they all sold their souls to AIPAC? Has the US government been hijacked by Zionism? It’s pretty obvious that Donald Trump is a Zionist and a fascist and so is his nasty Vice President JD Vance. What they did to DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) is absolutely disgusting, because now we see how their anti-DEI policies have led to a rising unemployment rate among black people, especially black women in the US. By the way, billionaire Elon Musk, former Senior Advisor to the President and head of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), gave a Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration on 20 January 2025. Wow! I’m still flabbergasted. I had a strong suspicion that he was a racist and a fascist, but I did not expect him to show it openly. During the 2024 US presidential election Netanyahu made it clear that he wanted Trump to win and he calls him the greatest friend of Israel. A few weeks after winning the election, February 26, Trump shared an AI generated video about Gaza on his Instagram account, showing plans for real estate developments in the Strip and calling it ‘Trump Gaza’. It’s the most bizarre thing I have seen in politics and it’s not funny. So what the hell is happening to US politics? I’m so disappointed in the US and humanity because it turns out that many people are really evil. I also notice that many celebrities (entertainers and influencers) choose to remain silent about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. It makes me wonder if they would have been silent during the Holocaust in WWII or the Transatlantic African slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries. If so many people, even millions of Christians worldwide, or maybe we’d better call them Christian Zionists, not only white Christians but also many black and brown Christians, continue to support Israel’s genocidal war, I must live in a very evil world. So I wonder: ‘Are they real Christians?’ Probably not because I don’t think that the Christ, if he walked around on our planet today, would support the Zionists. I think he would support the Palestinians and identify with them because they are the indigenous people of the Southern Levant. They have lived there for hundreds of years and many of them are descendants of the Jewish communities of Judaea. The level of violence against them is frightening and reminds me of the genocide of the indigenous peoples living in North America, South America, the Caribbean and Australia. As a descendant of African slaves, referring to the African slave trade in Suriname, I know the meaning and impact of displacement. I understand what the Palestinians are going through. I often wonder why I live in such a violent world because I’m not like this at all. I don’t belong here! So obviously I’m not happy that I’m part of this world and I’ll be glad when my time on this planet is finally done. By the way, at the end of this article I will tell a special dream I had in 1998. Christ appeared in my dream.

There are no words to describe the atrocities in Gaza. The IOF killed more than 200 journalists. On Twitter I followed the account of Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat (born 10 October 2001 – died 24 March 2025) since the beginning of the genocide. After more than a year he was reunited with his mother. They were so happy together, but a few weeks later he was hit by an Israeli airstrike while driving his car. The IOF claimed that he was not a real journalist, but a member of Hamas. All lies! Israel is only using Hamas as an excuse to commit genocide in Gaza because the real plan of Netanyahu and Trump is to create a Greater Israel. In other words, the Israelis want to annex more territory. They have already occupied the Golan Heights after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. Not only Palestinian journalists, but also many doctors, nurses, paramedics, teachers, scientists and professional athletes have been killed in Gaza. For example, paramedics tried to rescue a little girl, Hind Rajab (3 May 2018 – 29 January 2024), from a car that was shelled by the IOF, but unfortunately they were all killed. And recently, on May 23, a Palestinian doctor, Alaa al-Najjar, lost 9 of her 10 children when they were all killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home. A few days later her husband, dr. Hamdi al-Najjar, died of his wounds. Only one child, her 11-year-old son Adam, survived, but he is seriously injured and in the hospital. Because of these atrocities in Gaza, we must continue to speak out against Zionism. I wonder why the UN and pro-Palestinian countries have not yet launched a military intervention to stop the war and genocide in Gaza. Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic. So who is really anti-Semitic? Actually, Palestinians are Semitic, because they are natives of the Southern Levant, while the majority of Israelis (white Jews of European descent) are not Semitic. So that means that Zionists are anti-Semitic because they oppress Palestinians. Ironically, they have become the Nazis of the 21st century. Zionists weaponized anti-Semitism to silence people critical of Israel and justify the murder of Palestinians, who have been compared to the people in Amalek (Amalekites, mentioned in the biblical books of Samuel and Deuteronomy) by Netanyahu on 28 October 2023. Furthermore, we must not forget that Zionists don’t represent all Jews, as there are many amazing Jewish people who reject Zionism. For example, Jewish American politicians Jill Stein (Green Party) and Bernie Sanders (Democratic Party) are highly critical of Zionism. And in Israel too, there are many Jews who condemn the current war in Gaza. So these Israelis are protesting against their own government and some young Jewish men and women are even refusing to join and serve in the IOF. On top of that, on May 27th former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, said that Netanyahu and his entire Israeli war cabinet are a criminal gang that is committing war crimes in Gaza. In fact, this war does not help the Jewish people at all because it only creates more tension. Israeli politicial leaders are making life harder for Jews worldwide. I do think that hatred of Jews has increased, but that’s the fault of the fascist genocidal war cabinet in Israel. Let’s not forget that Islamophobia has also increased in the last 24 years after 9/11 in New York (which by the way turned out to be an inside job) and is really at its peak right now. Both Trump and former US president Biden showed very little empathy for the Palestinians in Gaza, while thousands of innocent civilians have been killed there. I know this has happened before, for example during the US war in Iraq in 2003-2011, but the difference is that this time in Gaza, many of the atrocities were live streamed on Twitter and other social media. We are all eyewitnesses to it now, because we can see it all on our smartphones. It’s mind-boggling that so many people who claim to be Christians, e.g. Trump and Biden, are giving the Israeli government a green light to slaughter Palestinian children. Didn’t Christ teach you to love your neighbor? What happened to that? That’s why I’m glad that the late Pope Francis openly said that Israel’s war in Gaza is terrorism and that he continued to push for a ceasefire, supported the Palestinians and called a Christian church in Gaza City every day.

Back in 2014 I made a video about nuclear disarmament and published it on YouTube and Vimeo. Sadly, in today’s world this dream seems far away again, as the threat of nuclear war has become quite great. In my video I also talked about Netanyahu and said that I did not like him because his speech at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 26 September 2013 was so aggressive, while the statement of Hassan Rouhani, former President of Iran, was much more peaceful. The contrast was so striking then. It was very clear that Netanyahu was warmongering and wanted to drag the US into a war with Iran, and he still does! If you listen to my reasoning in this 2014 video, you’ll notice that I was still brainwashed by my upbringing and the mainstream media, because the Netherlands was always very pro-Israel. So I learned this way of thinking in Dutch schools. In my video from 2014 I said I praised Israel for protecting LGBTQI rights and freedoms and for being the only gay-friendly country in the Middle East. Now I realize I was looking at Israel through rose-colored glasses. I’m embarrassed that I tried to pinkwash Israel. Of course, as a gay man I care about LGBTQI human rights, but I hate it when Israelis use LGBTQI to justify their genocidal war in Gaza. Now I see Israel for what it really is and it turns out to be anything but a democracy. It’s an apartheid state where Palestinians and black Africans are often discriminated against. Anyway, I was so happy to see that the activist group ‘Queers for Palestine’ was present at the Dutch demonstration on May 18th. That was a nice surprise. Yes!!! I’m so glad that many other gay men are standing up for the rights of the Palestinians. I know that practicing homosexuality is illegal in Palestine, but that does not give the Israelis the right to commit genocide against the entire population of Gaza. Israel, you will not fool us anymore! No more pinkwashing! We are wide awake now. Finally, I’d like to say that I used to be in favor of a two-state solution, but I am no longer. Now I think that Palestine should be freed from the river to the sea. Palestinians should have the right to live wherever they want in the Levant region. I’m not saying that all white Israelis should pack their bags and return to Europe or the US, as many of the younger generation were born in Israel. They can stay in the Southern Levant, but they will have to accept that they live in Palestine, not Israel. Stop stealing the land and homes of the Palestinians! Palestine must be completely decolonized, just like South Africa in the 1990s. But ultimately, the Palestinians must decide their own future. Even if the Palestinians and Hamas were to accept a two-state solution, I would still respect and support their decision. Hopefully better times will come soon for the Palestinians and most importantly, a permanent ceasefire. Stop the killing! Make love, not war!

I have mentioned the Holy Christ before, but I would like to elaborate on him. In November 1998 when I was 20 years old, Christ appeared in my dream. I recognized him because he looked exactly like the man I had met in a dream when I was 6 years old. He has appeared in many dreams since late 1984 or early 1985. So this started when I was 6. As a child and teenager I paid little attention to Christianity, so that’s why it’s all the more special to me that Christ appeared in my dreams, but I didn’t realize how special it was at the time, although I did write down my dreams on a piece of paper. So in this 1998 dream I had an out-of-body experience while I was sleeping in bed. I dreamed that I walked into a public building and sat down by myself in front of a large movie screen. As I waited for the movie to start, I felt my spirit leaving my body and the building. My spirit flew higher and higher into space where I could see millions of stars. In the distance I saw an angelic brown woman with long black curly hair, dressed in a long white dress, standing or floating among the stars in the cosmos. She looked at me. At first I thought she was my mother, but later I realized that she must have been another woman. I think she’s a real angel and probably the Holy Mother of Christ. After meeting her I continued and flew higher and higher until I saw a huge visual screen in the cosmos, which depicted an event from the past. At first it felt like I was watching a movie, but then I was in the movie, so this cosmic visual screen was like a time machine. Suddenly I was standing in a crowd and saw what a few Roman soldiers were doing to Christ, who was standing in a large square. It was the most horrific physical abuse I have ever seen, so I will not go into the details. He fell to the ground and for a moment I thought he was dead, but he never died and never gave up, so he resurrected right before our eyes, standing on his two feet again, because all his wounds were healed in a few seconds. Then I woke up. After this nightmare it was crystal clear to me that the Roman colonists in Judaea were very evil and racist towards the indigenous (Jewish) population and responsible for the death of Christ. The Romans were white men from Europe, specifically Italy. As far as I know, the Jewish communities of Judaea (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes) had nothing to do with the murder of Christ, so Christians today need to stop blaming the Jews for his death because that’s a lie. Probably there were only a few Jewish men who did not like him and saw his growing popularity as a threat, especially after the cleansing of the temple, but does that mean they all wanted to kill him? I doubt it. The majority of Jewish people loved him very much and welcomed him with open arms. I don’t know exactly what the role of Judas (one of the discipels) was in Holy Week. According to the New Testament he betrayed Christ on Holy Thursday, aka Maundy Thursday, but I don’t know if this really happened or was fabricated by the Romans, who became Christians only a few centuries later and perhaps wanted to clean their hands and blame the Jews for his death. The Roman Emperor Constantine I, also called Constantine the Great (born 25 July 306 – died 22 May 337), was the first Christian emperor and many scholars say that he ordered Eusebius of Caesarea, a Christian historian from Syria Palaestina (a Roman renaming for the province of Judaea in 136-390 AD), to publish the Codex Vaticanus (a manuscript of the Greek Bible) around 300-350 AD. I assume this is one of the earliest published versions of the Bible. It is preserved in the Vatican. Another early version from the 4th century, the Codex Sinaiticus (with Alexandrian text-type), is preserved in the British Library. The reason I say this is because I think we need to be aware that the Bible was probably written to serve the interests of the Roman Empire, which meant that Bible texts had to be approved by the emperors. “So don’t be too negative about the Romans in the Bible!” I guess this was the message that Christian historians received from the Roman emperors. So based on my common sense I assume that this so called Holy Book was manipulated by the Roman elite. Since the emperors were white men from Europe, I wonder if they also commissioned visual artists to whitewash Christ and depict him in paintings as a white European rather than a brown or black Nazarene from Judaea. So the indigenous population of Judaea, aka Syria Palaestina, aka modern-day Palestine, has been oppressed for a very long time. And we, believers of Christianity, have been manipulated and brainwashed for centuries. So here we are in 2025! Today the genocidal Zionists in Israel and the US Empire (or the United States of Israel???) are just as manipulative as the Romans. But unfortunately, they are even more violent and dangerous than the Romans and the German Nazis because current weapons technology (e.g. drones) is much more advanced and they openly pride themselves on killing Palestinians. So Zionists must be stopped at all costs. And I’m talking about Jewish Zionists and Christian Zionists. They are the synagogue and church of Satan. They say they are Jews or Christians, but they are not! Christ began as a follower of John the Baptist, probably an Essene. It is said that the Essenes disapprove of violence, so I think that Christ would agree that a true Jew or Christian would never rape the ancient land of the Southern Levant with thousands of bombs. According to experts, the total bombing of Gaza is equivalent to six Hiroshimas. Today over 80% of the Strip is destroyed. It’s sacrilege! Only racist Satanists would disrespect and rape the Southern Levant! They have not only disturbed the peace of the Palestinians, but also the peace of millions of animals and ancient nature spirits living in the Southern Levant. They are all refugees now. Displaced!

The Dutch demonstration on May 18 also affected me personally, even though I don’t live in the Southern Levant, because in July/August 2023 I bought a holiday apartment in Hurghada, Egypt. I don’t want parts of Egypt, such as Hurghada, to become part of Greater Israel. This is what far-right political leaders such as Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance in Israel, want. At the end of my Red Line video I included a song called ‘Put them in their cage’ that I wrote in 1992 when I was 13 years old and being bullied in high school. On May 30th I made a brand new recording (a cappella) while cooking in my apartment kitchen. I decided to play this song at the end of the video because the lyrics really sum up how I feel about these evil genocidal Zionist world leaders and everyone who supports them. Put them in jail!

PUT THEM IN THEIR CAGE (lyrics)

Horses need to run free.
Birds need to fly over the sea.
Some people will try to take away your freedom.
Don’t believe their good intentions.
Blinding lights tricking your eyes.
That’s what they will try.
And you feel something ain’t right.
So defend your territory!
Put them in their cage! Criminals!
Put them in their cage!
If there’s not another way to live your life with some grace.
Put them in their cage! Aha ah!
Put them in their cage! Aha ah!
If they misbehave, I’ll show them their place.
Put them in their cage!
Lock them up, lock them up, lock them up!
Lock them up, lock them up, lock them up!

Click on the audio file below to listen to the song.

Thank you for reading this new article on my blog.

Ryan Maurice Roemer
Written between May 29 and June 2, 2025

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If you’d like to listen to my 2014 podcast video on nuclear disarmament, click on the link below.

https://ryanmauriceroemer.com/2014/03/23/the-2014-nuclear-security-summit-in-the-hague-fight-for-nuclear-disarmament/

If you’d like to read more articles about the Dutch demonstration on May 18 and some other topics I discussed, click on the links below.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/19/tens-of-thousands-protest-in-the-hague-to-demand-dutch-government-action-on-gaza-war
https://www.reuters.com/world/tens-thousands-protest-hague-against-gaza-war-2025-05-18/
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1924164411775914122
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1856865954472264117?lang=en
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/france-criticised-allowing-netanyahus-plane-use-its-airspace
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gabriel_Stedman
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGhfpgHsOg6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/25/on-a-journey-family-mourns-hossam-shabat-journalist-killed-by-israel
https://x.com/hossamshabat?lang=en
https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators/on-her-7th-birthday-we-know-who-killed-hind-rajab-and-were-taking-them-to-court
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-doctor-receives-bodies-her-seven-children-while-duty
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eq9lq7xr1o
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231029-netanyahu-declares-holy-war-against-gaza-citing-the-bible/
https://www.gov.il/en/pages/statement-by-pm-netanyahu-28-oct-2023
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-05-27/ty-article-opinion/.premium/enough-is-enough-israel-is-committing-war-crimes/00000197-0dd6-df85-a197-0ff64a5c0000
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/former-israeli-pm-ehud-olmert-says-his-country-is-committing-war-crimes
https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-israel-hamas-war-gaza-31f1755f8426ec81cb07b29bff3db70e
https://www.bradford.ac.uk/news/archive/2025/gaza-bombing-equivalent-to-six-hiroshimas-says-bradford-world-affairs-expert.php
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241120-smotrich-has-confirmed-that-the-quest-for-greater-israel-is-real/
https://www.facebook.com/MiddleEastEye/videos/in-a-documentary-produced-by-arte-israeli-finance-minister-bezalel-smotrich-says/1044626283657314/

Here are some interesting articles for people who can also read Dutch.

https://nos.nl/collectie/13959/artikel/2567762-massaal-protest-in-den-haag-tegen-israel-standpunt-kabinet-rustig-verlopen
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/stop-de-aanvallen-of-verwarde-mensen-politici-verdeeld-na-protest-100-000-demonstranten-voor-gaza~a4572127/
https://www.oxfamnovib.nl/rode-lijn
https://www.savethechildren.nl/praktische-informatie-rode-lijn-18-mei-den-haag-malieveld?cta_referrer=banner2
https://rightsforum.org/op-3-mei-gedenken-we-hind-rajab-en-spreken-we-de-regering-aan/
https://nvj.nl/actueel/hossam-shabat-een-aangekondigde-moord-in-gaza
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/arts-alaa-verliest-negen-van-haar-tien-kinderen-bij-luchtaanval-gaza-alleen-11-jarige-adam-overleeft~a12c0569/