Goodbye Gaza, or Claiming the Language of History

Blacks Genocided in America!!

They Still Haven’t Been Brought to Justice, though the Memory of the Outrage is Dulled

You have to be careful. Words have power. Use the wrong ones, even though accurate, and you are banned, diminished, or lightly pushed out of the public sphere. That word now is genocide.

It’s the same as for decades. No matter how much truth I amplify and reveal in my minor way, trying to boost the real reporting done by many of the heroic press or journalists in Gaza seems futile. Many journalists in Gaza have been targeted and killed, one of them just a week after an interview I saw with him. The silence in the mainstream and even online is deafening. But this is the silencing.

It’s happening now and has already started. It’s how outrage fades over atrocities, then dims, and when it ends, the remembering begins, but with a distance and without the damning of those who contributed, were complicity, and committed it.

Bernie Sanders criticized the current Israeli ethnic cleansing on the floor of the Senate, May 8, 2025, rightly, justifiably so. It is a cleansing that is extremely obvious to those of us tracking the Israel ethnic cleansing inflicted in the last 18 months in Gaza, that expanded into the West Bank and Syria, where there is no “October 7th” justification for the Western powers tolerating those invasions. He importantly acknowledged American…