“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity (youtube.com)
‘It’s my tax money that's killing those Palestinians. I'm doing this.'
‘It's very difficult to find someone today who will tell you they were always in support of South Africa and Apartheid. Or segregation in [the US]. Once it’s safe enough, everyone can go back in hindsight and talk about how awful it was.'
‘I happen to live on the launching side of the missiles, and as a result it’s easy for me to look away.'
Speaks maybe well. Put him on a list maybe?
‘When the last Palestinian journalists have been killed maybe there will never have been any Palestinian journalists at all.’ Why does this remind me of Solzenetzin?
He was a journalist.
‘One morning I woke up, and I found an audio recording of a Palestinian girl begging for her life before the car she was in was shot at least 355 times by Israeli soldiers, and then I read a column from a columnist who was scared about protesters at college campuses, and I can’t use the word ‘fear’ to describe both those situations. ... [or] that word has no meaning at all. ... I am watching Palestinian journalists give their lives to report this information. And they are the sole source of news about what is happening in a killing field. And then I'm watching columnists and reporters on this side of the world essentially pretend those folks don't exist, because hey it's contronversial, and maybe they're linked to Hamas and all of that.'
‘While I’m watching such fundamental failures of journalism, I'm also watching some of the best examples of journalism in the world.'
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