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Moral abdication: How the World Failed To Stop the Destruction Of Gaza
[Paperback - 2025]
didier fassin
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Publisher: Verso Press | ISBN: 9781804299678 | Pages: 128
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How most Western governments and elites have supported the destruction of Gaza and silenced voices calling for the rights of Palestinians

Providing a record of the first six months of the war waged by the Israeli army after the 7 October attacks and drawing on a rich range of international sources, Didier Fassin examines how most Western governments have acquiesced in and often contributed to the destruction, by the Israeli army, of Gaza, its homes, infrastructures, hospitals, institutions of education, and civilian population. To justify their support and prevent criticism, they have provided an official version of the events, adopting the Israeli narrative. It was largely taken up by mainstream media, which ignored the experiences and perspectives of Palestinians. Dissenting voices were silenced. A policing of language and thought was imposed. Censorship and self-censorship became normalized. To call for a ceasefire or to demand the respect of humanitarian law was enough to prompt the ever-ready accusation of antisemitism. Exploring the multiple dimensions of the extreme inequality of lives between the two sides of the conflict and analyzing the complex geopolitical, economic and ideological stakes that underlie it, Fassin intends to constitute an archive of this moral abdication. In his view, the abandonment of the values and principles proclaimed by Western elites to be foundational will leave a deep scar in the history of the world.

About the Author

Anthropologist, sociologist and physician, Didier Fassin is a professor at the Collège de France, where he holds the chair Moral Questions and Social Issues in Contemporary Societies, and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is also a director of study at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has conducted research in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and France. He is the author of twenty-three books, which have been translated into nine languages. A recipient of the Gold Medal in Anthropology and the Nomis Distinguished Scientist Award, he is a member of the American Philosophical Society and a former Vice-President of Médecins Sans Frontières.

Gregory Elliott is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author of Althusser: The Detour of Theory and Labourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?.

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