SOCIAL media has broken the monopoly of traditional media over information flows, but it has also exposed how the oppressed remain unheard, as the unconditional support of powerful Western governments to the Gaza genocide has demonstrated.

The live coverage on social media from Gaza, where Israel has enforced a foreign journalists’ entry ban, may have shaken millions of people around the world but has still failed to stir the conscience of the self-proclaimed champions of democracy and human rights.

Their own perceived strategic, ideological interests remain their solitary consideration. While some powers may have said they weren’t aware of the Holocaust being carried out by the Nazis in the heart of Europe in the 1930s/40s, today ignorance can’t be an excuse for inaction.

One can get a sense of the scale of the destruction and indiscriminate mass killing of Palestinians, including infants and children, in the name of retribution for the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct 7, 2023 from social media alone.

While some powers may have said they weren’t aware of the Nazi Holocaust, today ignorance can’t be an excuse for inaction.

However, the fact that Israel has not trusted even Western media outlets largely sympathetic to its point of view and barred them from reporting from the ground points to the impunity with which the occupation forces choose to operate.

The gulf on the issue between the governments and the people in many countries may be wide but also underlines how elections and........

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