Where are the protests demanding Hamas accept peace

In his recent video, “The Extraordinary Silence… And What It Tells Us,” commentator Konstantin Kisin examines what he sees as a revealing quiet from many of the loudest critics of Israel’s war in Gaza. After nearly two years of strident activism the silence that followed President Trump’s proposed Gaza peace plan speaks volumes — not just about the conflict, but about truth, hypocrisy, and moral posturing in public life.

Now, with the second anniversary of October 7th approaching, Kisin turns his attention to the reaction — or rather, the lack of reaction — to Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for Gaza.

A Plan That Should Please Everyone — But Doesn’t

The Trump plan, delivers almost every demand made by those calling for peace:

• An immediate end to the war

• Israeli withdrawal

• The release of over 2,000 Palestinian detainees in exchange for 20 Israeli hostages

• Humanitarian aid and the reopening of the Rafah crossing

• A non-Israeli, non-Hamas administration of Gaza

• An economic development package

• Commitments against displacement, annexation, and occupation

• U.S.-mediated talks for a “peaceful and prosperous coexistence”

In other words — everything that peace campaigners have been chanting for. And yet, those same campaigners have gone strangely quiet.

The Silence That Speaks

Kisin singles out several high-profile commentators — Crystal Ball, Candace Owens, Owen Jones, and Jeremy Corbyn — for either ignoring or rejecting the plan. Ball, he notes, spent twenty minutes on air insinuating that Hamas shouldn’t take the deal. Owens hasn’t mentioned it at all, preferring to focus on conspiratorial content. Jones and Corbyn, meanwhile, dismissed it as “colonial” and unacceptable.

The result, Kisin argues, is extraordinary silence — a void where there should be celebration. If this really were about stopping genocide, why is there no pressure on Hamas to accept a deal that would stop it immediately?

What the Silence Reveals

This is the moment when rhetoric and reality diverge completely. Hamas, has every right to reject terms it considers unfavourable — just as Ukraine might reject peace on Russia’s terms. But its rejection (or the West’s indifference to that rejection) exposes the true nature of the conflict.

“Far from being genocide,” Kisin says, “it’s a war — a war Hamas started and is losing badly.”

There is a sharp distinction between real genocides — in Rwanda, the Armenian Genocide, or the Holocaust — and wars, however brutal, fought between armed belligerents. The misuse of the word genocide, is not accidental. It’s what Kisin calls a “slide of mouth” — a distortion of meaning that turns aggressors into victims and facts into feelings.

The “genocide” label, has been weaponised to evoke moral outrage and to frame Israel as criminal, regardless of the evidence. But the failure of activists to embrace peace reveals they don’t actually believe their own rhetoric. They know it’s a war — but prefer the emotional power of pretending it’s something else.

Kisin’s Broader Message

Beyond the specifics of Gaza, Kisin’s argument is really about truth and moral integrity in public debate; silence can be more revealing than speech. When those who claim to champion peace fall quiet in the face of an actual peace offer, the mask slips. What’s exposed is not moral conviction, but performative outrage — a market for clicks, likes, and ideological identity.

The suffering of Palestinian civilians, he warns, is being used as content — a source of online engagement rather than genuine empathy.

A Mirror for the West

Kisin’s final message is a challenge to the rest of us. What do we really value — truth or tribal comfort? Are we willing to test our moral positions against reality, or do we prefer to keep signalling virtue while turning away from inconvenient facts?

The extraordinary silence, in other words, tells us more than the noise ever did.

Here is Kisin's YouTube video, well worth a view.