Afua Hirsch Instagram – “Israel’s annihilation of Gaza, provisioned by Western democracies… sought from the very beginning ‘to make the entire Gaza Strip uninhabitable, and to debilitate its population to such a degree that it would either die out or seek all possible options to flee the territory’”
“I write out of that guilt – a broad human condition after Israel’s livestreamed mass-murder spree in the Middle East– and the obligation that the living have to the innocent dead
I also write with the faith that there is such a thing as solidarity between human beings as human beings”
Mishra’s solidarity has already cost him – he describes how the lecture that would turn into this book cost him a high profile event at the Barbican, was cancelled once they realised what he was going to say, and his column at Bloomberg.
I can see why people don’t want you to engage with this. You won’t be the same after. It’s *the* most essential thing you can read right now
“The World After Gaza: A History”, by Pankaj Mishra
Published @fernpress_ @penguinukbooks
Out today | Posted on 06/Feb/2025 12:31:26
