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Moustafa Bayoumi

Standing up for Palestine is also standing up to save the west from the worst of itself

protesters carrying sign reading 'ceasefire' outside the white house
‘There is pain everywhere right now. I too feel it.’ Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

What are you doing to stop the imminent ethnic cleansing of Gaza? This is a serious question. If ever there was a time to stand up for the rights of an oppressed people, this is it. And yet, in many places in the western world, you can’t. It’s literally been outlawed. How is this even possible?

As I’m writing this, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied territories, is pleading with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, to demand Israel stop its killing. “The delay in calling on Israel to cease taking revenge on millions of Palestinian civilians,” she wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “is intensifying the descent into [the] abyss.”

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