Moral Abdication - How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

Consent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large sections of their elites have supported the war waged by Israel against Palestinians after Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023 and silenced voices calling for a ceasefire, a just peace and a respect of international law. Not only buildings have been devastated and civilians massacred, but also language and thought have been damaged. Providing an archive of the first six months of the war nourished by multiple sources, the book examines how the past of occupation and oppression of Palestine has been negated, how a vocabulary and a grammar of facts have been imposed, how accusations of antisemitism have produced censorship and self-censorship, how mainstream media have been restrained and biased. It addresses the acceptance of the unequal worth of lives and the differential treatment of deaths. It questions the invocation of the existential threat for Israel and the debt contracted because of the Holocaust. It analyses how the geopolitical and economic stakes in the Middle East and the growing rejection of Muslims and Arabs have contributed to the abdication of values and principles claimed as foundational.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gregory Elliott is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author of Althusser: The Detour of Theory and Labourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?.

Zusammenfassung

How most Western governments and elites have supported the destruction of Gaza and silenced voices calling for the rights of Palestinians

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Didier Fassin, Fassin Didier
• Mitarbeit: Gregory Elliott (Übersetzung), Elliott Gregory (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Verso
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.01.2025
• EAN: 9781804299678
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-967-8
• Seiten: 128
• Serie: The Verso Palestine Pamphlets
• Themen: Sachbuch; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, Gaza, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, War Crimes, Palestine, c 2020 to c 2029, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General