A serendipitous conversation months ago led me to a group of women united by their overwhelming need not to remain silent in the face of what will surely go down in history as the most unconscionable immorality of our lifetime.
Not only are the people of Palestine undergoing what is widely considered a genocide, but in the words of Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh it is the first “in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time.”
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, an Irish-born lawyer, is a special adviser in South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
The women I met came together a month into this live-streamed genocide with a growing sense of exigency both to bear witness and to take some kind of action for Gaza, for Palestine, for Palestinians. ….more