What does it mean to spill ink on dispelling conspiracy theories about non-existent children being murdered, while actual children are being murdered? At what point does the labour of debunking right wing wackjobs also do the shadow-work of supporting the liberal-center orthodoxy?

Matthew looks at how with QAnon, the liberal-center press criticized irrational responses to imaginary traumas, with a great sense of urgency. But on Gaza, they criticize rational responses to actual traumas, and imply that protesters are asking for too much, too fast. 

What happens downstream of denials, minimizations, and contradictions? What are the social and mental health implications of moral injury? Are these not some of the same social conditions that generate conspiracism?

Content warning: discussion of children, genocide

Show Notes

Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? New Report from BU School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic Lays Out Case 

Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza | UN News 

Dems Gave the 'Uncommitted Movement' Space to Talk About Gaza — Just Not on TV

First-Ever DNC Panel on Palestinian Rights: We Need to “Restore the Soul of the Democratic Party”  

“Stop Arming Israel”: Meet the DNC Delegates Who Unfurled Banner During Biden Speech 

201: Librarians Are Not Groomers (w/Heath Umbreit) — Conspirituality 

What I Saw Was “Unfathomable”: Doctor Who Worked in Gaza Speaks Out Against U.S. Arming of Israel 

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential - The Lancet 

Clearing Gaza of almost 40m tonnes of war rubble will take years, says UN 

Israel Has Killed 2,100 Babies Under 2 Years Old in Gaza, Rights Group Says | Truthout 

NYU barricades benches 

College Administrators Spent Summer Break Dreaming Up Ways to Squash Gaza Protests 

The Black Mark on the Democrats’ Big Party | The New Republic 

Amnesty International Warns of U.S. Complicity in War Crimes in Gaza 

Christian Wiman | Yale Divinity School

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