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Gaza First Amendment Alert (10/16/24 ([link removed]) )
The official death toll ([link removed]) in Gaza is now roughly 43,000 people, very conservatively ([link removed]) . As the Lancet and others remind ([link removed](24)01169-3/fulltext) , armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence, including deaths from causes such as reproductive, communicable and non-communicable diseases. In Palestine, the death toll is exacerbated by displacement; destroyed healthcare infrastructure ([link removed]) ; severe shortages ([link removed]) of food, water and shelter; the inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding
([link removed]) to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRWA), one of very few humanitarian organizations working in the region.
A real accounting will also include not just those we don’t yet know are dead, but the maimed, the orphaned, the starved, the homeless. Democracy Now! recently spoke ([link removed]) with a doctor from Gaza who said that he wishes that “Americans could see more of what it looks like when a child is shot in the head, when a child is flayed open by bombs. I think it would make us think a little bit more about what we do in the world.”
The New York Times has deemed such images too graphic ([link removed]) to print. Too horrific, in other words, to run alongside reporting that suggests, implies or outright states that those deaths are justified, make sense or, minimally, are not worth stopping eating your buttered toast about.
As media critics, we look to Palestinians to represent Palestinian views, but it’s crucial that we not see the present moment as something happening to Other People, Somewhere Else. The repression ([link removed]) of simple anti-genocide calls, the censorship ([link removed]) , the firings ([link removed]) , the disinformation ([link removed]) , the malforming ([link removed]) of concepts like "antisemitism"—these are problems for all of us, about all of us, that will influence all of us forever.
Defending Rights & Dissent ([link removed]) has started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert ([link removed]) , which is going to come out every other Wednesday. Chip Gibbons is policy director at Defending Rights & Dissent, a journalist, a researcher and a longtime activist. He led a successful campaign ([link removed]) to defeat a proposed unconstitutional anti-boycott bill in Maryland.
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