Ilan Pappe - On 'moral panic' and the courage to speak: The West's silence on Gaza - Brave New Europe

Ilan Pappe - On 'moral panic' and the courage to speak: The West's silence on Gaza - Brave New Europe

Why are Western politicians, journalists and intellectuals so scared to show solidarity with the Palestinians? Ilan Pappé is a professor at the University of Exeter. He was formerly a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa. He is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, and Ten Myths about Israel. He is the co-editor, with Ramzy Baroud …

On ‘Moral Panic’ and the Courage to Speak: The West’s Silence on Gaza - Other News - Voices against the tide

By Ilan Pappe* –  The Palestine Chronicle   The Palestinians do not have the luxury for Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small but important step in building a global Palestine network that is urgently needed. The responses in the Western world to the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank raise a troubling question: why is the official West, and official Western Europe in particular, so in…

I live with the strange feeling that the present is becoming more and more complex and that, at any time, the established order could collapse. Entertainment and imposed obligations keep the masses disconnected from reality. A hard reality, in which people are monitored, arrested, expelled and even "disappeared" simply because of their political convictions, their public statements or their mere humanity.