Al Jazeera Reminds Us 'Pro-Gaza Protests' Are Still A Thing
The story’s title, "Week in Pictures: Pro-Gaza protests in Europe to floods in Sudan," positions protests against an ongoing ethnic cleansing as just another weekly occurrence, like natural disasters. What it omits is that these protests persist because the violence continues unabated, fueled by a geopolitical apparatus perfectly willing to call starvation a "tragic incident."
While Al Jazeera shows us the protests, it refrains from showing the historical context—like the 75 years of displacement since the Nakba or the consistent violations of international law that make such protests a moral imperative, not a mere current event. One might wonder if the headline writers considered framing it as "Week in Pictures: Ongoing atrocities in Gaza to floods in Sudan,"
but perhaps that would be too… direct. It conveniently overlooks the billions in U.S. military aid that allows this "conflict" to continue. For example, the recent $14.3 billion aid package for Israel, pushed through by members of Congress like Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), who received $10,800 from AIPAC in 2022-2023 ( OpenSecrets.org ), ensures plenty more weeks of ‘pro-Gaza protests.’ How
many "weeks" of global demonstrations does it take before the "news" addresses the cause, not just the symptom?