I get it—you’re frustrated, and honestly, I understand. But let’s not pretend there’s no global outrage. This issue dominates headlines. There are lawsuits like the Hindi Rajab Foundation, constant UN discussions, street protests, statements from EU MPs and US congress members, journalists reporting daily—if that’s not outrage, I don’t k…
I get it—you’re frustrated, and honestly, I understand. But let’s not pretend there’s no global outrage. This issue dominates headlines. There are lawsuits like the Hindi Rajab Foundation, constant UN discussions, street protests, statements from EU MPs and US congress members, journalists reporting daily—if that’s not outrage, I don’t know what is. If you’re hearing about something consistently at least twice a week, across months, from major institutions, then yeah, that’s a global outrage. Maybe it’s not the form you expect, but it’s real.
Now, to put things in broader context—not to relativize suffering in Gaza, but to offer some perspective—let's talk about Sudan. In the last 16 months, over 150,000 people have died, and more than 14 million have been displaced. There are documented genocidal acts, ethnic cleansing campaigns, mass sexual assaults, and even reports that women are forming death pacts to avoid capture, rape, and being burned alive by RSF forces. This is real. It’s happening. And yet it receives maybe 1% of the coverage Gaza does.
You know, the Nakba was an awful event—about 700,000 Palestinians were displaced, and roughly 10,000 died. But at the exact same time, between 12 to 14 million Germans were ethnically cleansed from Eastern Europe. Between 500,000 and 2 million of them died, and they were never even given the status of refugees. You probably never heard much about that.
Or Rwanda. Most people know about the 1994 genocide. But far fewer know what happened after: when the Tutsis returned, they played the UNO reverse card and massacred Hutus across Eastern Congo—some of the worst massacres in modern African history.
These aren’t outliers. These are normal chapters in human history.
That’s why it matters who gets to frame the narrative. The humanitarian salience of an event—how visible, how morally weighted, how talked-about it is—isn’t a reflection of the raw suffering. It’s a reflection of who is putting energy and resources into keeping it visible. That doesn’t mean it’s fake or manufactured—but it does mean there are many tragedies happening all the time, and only the ones someone fights for will be seen.
I get it—you’re frustrated, and honestly, I understand. But let’s not pretend there’s no global outrage. This issue dominates headlines. There are lawsuits like the Hindi Rajab Foundation, constant UN discussions, street protests, statements from EU MPs and US congress members, journalists reporting daily—if that’s not outrage, I don’t know what is. If you’re hearing about something consistently at least twice a week, across months, from major institutions, then yeah, that’s a global outrage. Maybe it’s not the form you expect, but it’s real.
Now, to put things in broader context—not to relativize suffering in Gaza, but to offer some perspective—let's talk about Sudan. In the last 16 months, over 150,000 people have died, and more than 14 million have been displaced. There are documented genocidal acts, ethnic cleansing campaigns, mass sexual assaults, and even reports that women are forming death pacts to avoid capture, rape, and being burned alive by RSF forces. This is real. It’s happening. And yet it receives maybe 1% of the coverage Gaza does.
You know, the Nakba was an awful event—about 700,000 Palestinians were displaced, and roughly 10,000 died. But at the exact same time, between 12 to 14 million Germans were ethnically cleansed from Eastern Europe. Between 500,000 and 2 million of them died, and they were never even given the status of refugees. You probably never heard much about that.
Or Rwanda. Most people know about the 1994 genocide. But far fewer know what happened after: when the Tutsis returned, they played the UNO reverse card and massacred Hutus across Eastern Congo—some of the worst massacres in modern African history.
These aren’t outliers. These are normal chapters in human history.
That’s why it matters who gets to frame the narrative. The humanitarian salience of an event—how visible, how morally weighted, how talked-about it is—isn’t a reflection of the raw suffering. It’s a reflection of who is putting energy and resources into keeping it visible. That doesn’t mean it’s fake or manufactured—but it does mean there are many tragedies happening all the time, and only the ones someone fights for will be seen.