Gabor Maté Compares 1906 US Philippines Massacre to Israel’s Gaza War Narrative
July 11, 2026
“THEY SAID THE CHILDREN WERE HUMAN SHIELDS.”
Dr. Gabor Maté, world-renowned trauma expert, just dismantled the oldest, most murderous lie in the colonial playbook. Drawing a direct historical parallel between the 1906 U.S. massacre of over 1,000 indigenous Moros in the Philippines and the current justification for mass-killing children in Gaza, Maté exposes a terrifying, repetitive pattern: empires always label their victims as the aggressors to justify slaughter.
When the U.S. military slaughtered men, women, and children at Bud Dajo in 1906, they didn’t call it a massacre, they called it “pacification” and claimed the civilians were “hiding” behind the militants. Today, that same sickening rhetoric is being used to rationalize the vaporizing of children in refugee camps.
As Maté points out, when a state decides that an entire population is “primitivized” or “dangerous,” they effectively strip them of their humanity, making the murder of a child seem like a tactical necessity. History isn’t repeating itself by accident, it’s repeating because the empire refuses to acknowledge its own blood-soaked foundation.
Source: @muslimi.official
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