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.
