Goda

“Language is damaged when demands to stop killing civilians are 'antisemitic', when an army that dehumanizes its enemies is 'moral', when an enterprise of obliteration is a 'riposte', when a military operation openly conducted against Palestinian civilians is the 'Israel-Hamas war'.”
― Didier Fassin, Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

“Without a doubt, what will haunt memories the longest, including perhaps in Israel itself, is how the inequality between lives has been paraded on the stage of Gaza, ignored by some and legitimized by others. That this supreme injustice - one life being worth less than another - is widespread in our world is a reality evident in peacetime and wartime alike. But there is hardly any previous instance in which the governments of Western countries so ostentatiously avert their eyes from it, to the extent of justifying it and silencing the voices that criticize it.”
― Didier Fassin, Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

“Notwithstanding the Jerusalem Declaration, conflation of criticism of Israeli policy, or criticism of Zionism, with antisemitism remains the rule for Western governments, mainstream media and academic institutions. This has resulted in the democratic paradox that to criticize a government comprising far-right ministers, which promotes religious supremacism, fashions discriminatory legislation, rejects international law, and carries out massacres of civilian populations, is to expose oneself to the accusation of iniquity.”
― Didier Fassin, Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

“The Palestinian People have consistently made it crystal clear that our enemy is Zionism, an ideology of dispossession, an expansionist and racist settler-colonial enterprise. Zionism, not Jews. Our capacity to produce such distinction is admirable and impressive, considering the heavy-handedness with which Zionism attempts to synonymize itself with Judaism. However, this distinction is not our responsibility, and, personally, it is not my priority.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal