Glamour Magazine Hands Out Medals While Gaza Burns
While Ms Rachel (reportedly a new 'pro-Palestinian advocate') collects her shiny new trophy, the same media houses celebrating her appear to have lost their voice when it comes to the actual 1.7 million displaced Palestinians (OCHA, 2024). They applaud a YouTube star's carefully worded statements, yet run cover for politicians who continue to greenlight cluster bombs (SIPRI, 2023) and 'starve them
so they don’t get there' policies in Gaza. One might wonder if this 'activism' is less about justice and more about guilt-tripping PR for institutions. Is the West's latest move to canonize carefully selected 'activists' a genuine shift, or just another PR strategy to deflect from their own unwavering support for the ongoing violence? After all, it's easier to celebrate a celebrity's plea for
peace than to challenge the political funding that enables the violence (OpenSecrets.org data on AIPAC contributions, 2023-2024).