To appreciate the true magnitude of its disgrace, imagine the response if murdered Gazan journalist Hassan Hamad were an Uygur or a Tibetan.

Earth, receive an honoured guest … In the nightmare of the dark / All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate; Intellectual disgrace / Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie / Locked and frozen in each eye.

– W.H. Auden

“I have seen the insides of too many dead kids to ever view the mainstream Western media with anything but pure disdain,” wrote independent Australian journalist Caitlin Johnstone.

I know the feeling, but unlike Johnstone, I chickened out watching unbearably gruesome pictures or videos of ordinary Palestinians, most of them women and children, being torn to shreds by weapons fired by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and provided by the United States, but also to a lesser extent by Britain, Germany, Canada and Italy – in short, the Free World, the great protector of global freedom, democracy and human........

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