UntoldMag selection of some of the best journalistic pieces on Palestine during the ongoing attack on Gaza and the West Bank.
The Nation
The Right to Speak for Ourselves | The Nation
By Mohammed El-Kurd
Mohammed El-Kurd’s speech criticising and dissecting the politics of appeal, and explaining which Palestinian is humanised, who is allowed to speak and why Palestinians must be given, or must take, the authority to narrate.
The Guardian
By Nesrine Malik
Trust in the ‘international community’ will never be the same after the war on Gaza, writes Nesrine Malik, and that the lesson to be learned is human rights are not universal and international law is arbitrarily applied.
Intelligencer
Witnessing Gaza through Instagram
by Zaina Arafat
A new generation of storytellers based in Gaza document on Instagram and Tik Tok what is happening. This contributed to giving Palestinians a recognizable face with which audiences can create a connection. The author describes this phenomenon, but also what it means navigating this media content while at the same time trying to live as a working mother in New York.
Al-Jazeera
By Anealla Safdar
Eight BBC journalists sent an exclusive letter to Al-Jazeera denouncing how the British broadcaster failed to tell the true face and crimes of the Israeli operation in Gaza, to the detriment of thousands of civilians who died under the bombs. Once again the Palestinians have not been humanised in the media narrative, BBC in primis.
Rusted Radishes
Can the Palestinian Mourn? – Rusted Radishes
By Abdaljawad Omar
Abdlajawad Omar reflects on Judith Butler’s “The Compass of Mourning” asking how Palestinian mourn in a space of relentless revulsion that erects barriers, redefines boundaries, desecrates bodies, and takes lives arbitrarily.
Mada Masr
Jabaliya, a vanishing image: Of faces and homes | MadaMasr
By Omar Mousa
A piece by Omar Mousa about the Jabaliya refugee camp, on how “the camp is vanishing right before our eyes”. The article was written and edited, but minutes before it was due to run Omar’s home and his family had been made to vanish.
The Electronic Intifada
The evidence Israel killed its own citizens on 7 October | The Electronic Intifada
By Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada publishes Israeli testimonies, such as those of a retired Israeli army major and a survivor of Kibbutz Be’eri, confirming that Israel was responsible for the deaths of numerous civilians during the Palestinian offensive.
