how many Palestinian deaths it would've taken to bump the synagogue attack off the front pages and become the main story.
Since learning that only one person was actually killed by the Manchester synagogue attacker I've been wondering how many Palestinian deaths it would've taken to bump the synagogue attack off the front pages and become the main story. At least 57 Palestinians died that day, but that didn't make a blip in the news.
So how many deaths would it have taken? How many Palestinians would have needed to be murdered for it to have risen to the level of interest and attention from western politicians, pundits, and news reporters that we saw them giving to the violent death of one western Jew?
A hundred deaths? Definitely not. A thousand? I doubt it. Ten thousand? Maybe. Maybe if Israel had actually deployed a tactical nuclear weapon in Gaza and killed thousands of people, maybe that would have eclipsed the one single death in the Manchester synagogue attack in the eyes of the western world. Maybe.
It's an interesting question to contemplate. It's just so incredible seeing how little value is assigned to Palestinian lives in the glaring disparity between the attention given to these easily quantifiable and comparable death tolls. Westerners really do think the lives of their house pets matter more.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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