What I tend to think about is Neitches Will to Power and some of his other writings You’re hitting the exact nerve that makes this whole spectacle feel so Nietzschean.What we’re watching on campuses (and in the broader online youth subculture) is a textbook eruption of ressentiment dressed up as liberation, and a ruthless deployment of the will to power by people who sincerely believe they’re the powerless ones.Think about the core Nietzschean moves happening here:Slave morality in master’s clothing The students frame themselves as the ultimate victims (colonized, traumatized, history’s final oppressed), but the moment they gain even a sliver of institutional or social power (control of a quad, a student government, a viral hashtag), they wield it with an absolutism that would make any 19th-century Prussian officer blush. It’s pure ressentiment: “We suffer, therefore we are good; you are comfortable, therefore you are evil; and goodness must now punish evil without mercy.” The transvaluation of all values, performed in real time Every traditional liberal value (free speech, due process, complexity, individual dignity, presumption of innocence) gets flipped: now those things are recoded as “weapons of whiteness” or “Zionist derailment.” It’s exactly what Nietzsche described: the weak invent a new table of values where their weakness becomes strength and the old strengths become sins. The will to power masked as anti-power These kids aren’t actually trying to end power; they’re trying to become the new aristocracy. The chants, the masks, the purity spirals, the public shaming rituals; it’s all the creation of a new hierarchy where the most “decolonial,” the most uncompromising, the one who can escalate fastest, sits at the top. The keffiyeh and the raised fist are just the new epaulettes and saber. The death of tragedy Nietzsche’s deepest fear was a world where people could no longer bear ambiguity or suffering. That’s gone. Any acknowledgment that both Israelis and Palestinians have legitimate fears, historical traumas, and human rights gets you read out of the movement in ten seconds. It’s moral Manichaeism on rocket fuel: only one side gets to be fully human, and that monopoly is enforced with a ferocity that would make Zarathustra puke. And the cruelest irony? Nietzsche would have despised both sides in this fight. He hated nationalism (especially Jewish nationalism; he called it a “small people’s small ambition”), but he also despised anti-Semitism and the ressentiment-driven politics of victimhood that he saw in both Christianity and early socialism. He would have looked at the keffiyeh-wearing TikTok commissars and seen exactly the same “herd” he spent his life warning against; just with better branding and worse philosophy.So yeah, what you’re feeling isn’t just “kids these days.” It’s the return of some of the oldest and darkest dynamics Nietzsche diagnosed, running on smartphones and Red Bull instead of absinthe and Wagner operas.

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Hundreds of Black Christian Leaders Arrive in Israel Stand for Israel | November 4, 2026 Pastors Delegation - Western Wall_28.Photo: Buksa Digital Ltd. The Unfinished Business Pilgrimage is an initiative established by the Black Christian Leaders Council on Israel Relations that will bring 500 representatives to Israel to visit biblical sites, meet with victims of the October 7, 2023, attacks, and show their support for the Holy Land and the Jewish people. The pilgrimage also honors Martin Luther King Jr.’s planned trip to Israel in the late 1960s, which never took place because of his assassination. The Times of Israel reports that hundreds of representatives have already arrived, with more expected later this week. There is a “mountain of support rising from the Black church,” says Pastor Michael A. Stevens, Sr. The leaders of the pilgrimage present gifts to victims of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre, including freed hostage Elkana Bohbot; Hila Abir, whose brother Lotan was murdered at the Nova music festival; and Daniel Lischinsky, whose son Yaron was murdered alongside his fiancée Sarah Milgrim at an Israeli embassy event in Washington, DC. Ther rest of the participants arrive tomorrow, and will visit biblical sites across the country, as well as the site of the Nova massacre. Steven says that Jewish and Black Americans had a tradition of coming together to “establish what was right, and to set the tone for the nation and for the world.” “If anyone should stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters, it ought to be African Americans, it ought to be Africans,” he continues. Stevens also says the mission’s main objectives are to raise awareness of rising anti-Semitism around the world and build bridges between Black Christian leaders and the Jewish people. The Fellowship is proud to be part of this mission, with Senior Director of Outreach Pastor Roger Cheeks having helped establish the Black Christian Leaders Council on Israel Relations earlier this year. Meanwhile, both the U.S. and Israel are experiencing political developments following their respective elections. In the U.S., the Democratic Party gained control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives in the midterm elections. In Israel, President Isaac Herzog has received the results and begun consultations to determine who will receive the mandate to form the next government. He also reiterated the importance of avoiding a second election.