Gaza: what did you do in the war?
As the slaughter in Palestine continues and the solidarity movement’s calls for accountability and a shift in international policy grow, political leaders must realise they face a reckoning for their silence, writes HUGH LANNING
“IT is exhausting living in a population where people don’t speak up if what they witness doesn’t directly threaten them.” So said the US painter and Aids activist David Wojnarowicz when Western governments were told that “silence = death” during that epidemic.
And just as the Western world was rightly charged with remaining silent during the Holocaust, Israel’s war on Gaza will haunt today’s generation of political leaders in Britain and across the globe.
They will be judged by what they did and didn’t do: failure to call for an immediate ceasefire, continuing to supply arms and supporting the industrial carnage in Gaza in the name of self-defence.
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