The chant by Bobby Vylan at Glastonbury drew significant public and media attention, overshadowing grave reports from Haaretz about Israeli soldiers confessing to shooting unarmed Palestinians. This discrepancy illustrates a societal problem, as the chant provoked outrage while the enduring humanitarian crisis and accusations of genocide in Gaza remained largely ignored. Genocide is characterized by the destruction of civilization's foundations, denial of basic necessities, and indiscriminate killings, actions that have escalated alarmingly in Gaza despite minimal media focus compared to reactions to vocal protest against military actions.
A day earlier, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that Israeli soldiers and officers had confessed that they had been ordered to shoot at unarmed Palestinians as they queued for aid.
This one word, genocide, can only go so far in conveying what is happening in Gaza. Genocide means wiping out the pillars of civilisation from homes to schools to agriculture and forcibly driving people from their land.
Genocide means food, water and healthcare being denied. It means entire families being wiped out by indiscriminate bombing. It means babies being burned alive and suffocating under rubble.
How morally lost is a society in which a chant against a genocidal foreign army provokes a political and media firestorm, but the intentionally starved, unarmed human beings being mowed down on the orders of the IDF high command do not?
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