Summary
US President whose description of Hamas’s October 2023 mass murder of Israeli civilians as “an act of sheer evil” Segal gives as Western reinforcement of dehumanizing rhetoric that justifies the destruction of Palestinian lives (A Textbook Case of Genocide, line 72).
Details
- Segal: leaders in the West reinforced Gallant’s racist rhetoric by describing Hamas’s mass murder of Israeli civilians — a war crime under international law in Segal’s own words — as “an act of sheer evil”, in the words of US President Joe Biden. Segal argues the assertion of “evil”, in its absolutism, elides distinctions between Hamas militants and Gazan civilians and occludes the broader context of colonization and occupation (line 72).