Over the last three years, from the world’s largest cities to the smallest hamlets, millions of voices rose in the same chant, with the same cadence: “Free, free Palestine!”
Gaza is a generational touchstone and the key dividing line of politics in the West. It has laid bare the lies of the society we live in. It has exposed the genocidal bloodlust of the political right. And it has tested official “progressive” liberal politics.
For the past three years, the corporate media have been accessories to Israel’s crimes: dehumanising Palestinians, sanitising Israel’s atrocities, and silencing its critics.
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on adequate housing, Koldo Casla, usually deals with slum demolitions in third-world countries. Last month, he took aim at the Victorian Labor government.
