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This is one of the most harrowing stories I've read about contemporary Mexico, and that's to say sth... I'm glad it is being published in English-language outlets. Do read it if you are interested in Latin America/Human Rights/Violence: A great investigation by top journalists.

Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 7d ago

For five years, @marcelaturati.bsky.social, Eliezer Budasoff and Thelma Gómez Durán have investigated forced labour camps run by drug cartels in Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara mountains. This is an edited, abridged excerpt of their shocking report

Must read on the dilemmas of knowing the Gaza genocide” www.equator.org/articles/mor... “This structure of disavowal is deeper than mere propaganda, and recognising it as such redefines the Palestinian predicament. If the issue were simply censorship, the solution would be more documentation or”

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

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100% this. "The facts of Palestine are spoken, and increasingly by Palestinians themselves, but they are met by a refusal to listen, by ears that prefer the drone of implausible denial to the unbearable weight of fact." www.equator.org/articles/mor... @equatormag.bsky.social

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

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Overwhelming:"a system that has achieved the remarkable feat of making individual cowardice feel like responsible complexity, and of making the refusal of Palestinian humanity feel like a carefully considered position, despite its brute stupidity" @hamayel.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/mor...

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

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"Two years on, this grotesque convergence – total narrative victory coexisting with the unhindered erasure of Palestinian life – reveals that the issue was never a lack of facts or a failure of empathy" www.equator.org/articles/mor...

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

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The knowing stupidity - the wall of disbelief that protects Western interests - that Omar analyses so eloquently here in the extreme, urgent case of Palestine, is the same condition that allows such strong anti-reparative instincts in the face of slavery. www.equator.org/articles/mor...

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

equator.org