Yesterday The New York Times Did Something Revolutionary: It Humanized The Palestinian Children Killed By Israel’s Bombs.
We are witnessing a paradigm shift, right before our very eyes.
Lately, the world has been a profoundly polarizing place with people forced to take sides in Israel’s bombing campaign and displacement of Palestinians.
Here on medium, the most incisive article on the subject of Israel’s atrocities came from Tessa Schlesinger, who wrote movingly and powerfully about her background as a second generation holocaust survivor.
Judging by the comments on her page, there were numbers of people, who took exception to her article and disparaged her. These trolls weren’t restricted to the platform, as they were going all out elsewhere. I also did notice something interesting; people went to remove claps from my article as a result of my comments on her post.
Even though we saw images of the bombs raining down on Palestinians and the swift denunciation and condemnation of the state of Israel from the UN and the likes of Turkey, something, it seemed, had changed this time.
What exactly was it?
The political mood. Spurred on by the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent protests, the newspapers, that would have taken a…