Truth regarding the death of civilians and children in Palestine following the recent spate of attacks by Israel has become the casualty, with ‘propaganda’ at the behest of ‘imperial powers’ gaining the upper hand, author and poet Meena Kandasamy has said.
She was speaking at a Palestine Solidarity Meet organised at Fort Kochi near here on Thursday by the Kochi Human Rights Collective on the theme ‘Free Palestine! Stop the Genocide!’. “The unprecedented violence is a test for societal conscience and public opinion must rise against it, so that a ceasefire is announced at the earliest. Sadly, ‘troll armies’ and much of the media are engaged in propaganda for Israel.”
“Imperialist powers have rallied behind Israel, even as Israel is attacking refugee camps and hospitals, by citing that Hamas leaders were hiding there. The gravity of the violence can be gauged from the fact that the first six pages of a long list of victims in Gaza is filled with the names of children aged below a year who were killed in the attacks. Apart from civilians, journalists and doctors are getting killed in large numbers,” Ms Kandasamy said and drew parallels in many ways with the struggle for self-determination by Tamils in Sri Lanka many years ago.
