Vox Populi:

First published in Waging Nonviolence

To convince more people of the necessity of a ceasefire, pro-Palestine activists should disseminate graphic images of the war more widely.

The scenes that Palestinian journalists have risked their lives to capture are haunting: young children shaking with fear after surviving airstrikes; lying in pools of blood on crowded hospital floors; lifeless, in the arms of their inconsolable parents. These photographs and videos, which stream out of Gaza endlessly, speak for themselves. Anyone who has seen them, and has a semblance of a moral conscience, will understand the moral necessity of an immediate ceasefire.

But there is a fraction of the population that hasn’t been shown these harrowing images. They will have seen pictures of buildings reduced to rubble — but not of bodies of children ripped to pieces. Mainstream newspapers present a much more sanitized portrait of the war than one sees if one follows Palestinian journalists’ social media accounts. And so the genocide in Gaza — which is being “livestreamed” to some — is largely invisible to many others.

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