The march of the useful idiots
The March to Gaza was a Fyre Festival for the West's activist class.
Josh Howie
16th June 2025
In April 2017, thousands of wealthy Westerners headed to the Bahamas for Fyre, a luxury music festival. They expected villas and meals from celebrity chefs. What they got was soaked tents and cheese sandwiches. Watching the Netflix documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, it is difficult not to cringe as you see it slowly dawn on the privileged tourists that the whole thing is a con.
We saw a similar case of privileged Western delusion meeting reality in Egypt this weekend. Some 4,000 activists had descended on Cairo for the ‘Global March to Gaza’. They expected to take buses to Arish, a city in northern Sinai, before marching 30 miles to the Egyptian side of the Gaza border at Rafah. There they would break Israel’s blockade.
Instead, as they made their way to Arish, they were greeted by the Egyptian authorities. Videos of what happened have now emerged on social media. They show the Egyptian authorities confiscating passports and preventing the mainly white European activists from passing through checkpoints. They also show the activists being violently and verbally abused by angry locals – all before they were eventually removed and prepared for deportation.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/16/the-march-of-the-useful-idiots/
