Gaza

 A couple of months ago, Arwa Mahdawi one of The Guardian's American correspondents wrote this passionate and heartbreaking article on the plight of Gaza. 

Strangely after a day or two, and no reader comments permitted on  it, it seemed to disappear, along with its author. Was Mahdawi serving some kind of suspension? Had she been fired? The answer, thankfully seems to be 'none of the above.' 

Still, her article deserves to be better known and shared, which is why I'm doing so today. It's excellent throughout, but I found this paragraph a credible and disturbing prediction:

Twenty years from now, when it is far too late for journalism to make any difference, someone will win a Pulitzer for telling the truth about this moment. They’ll be celebrated for unequivocally and unapologetically using the words that people are currently losing jobs or being targeted by hate campaigns for saying: occupation, genocide, ethnic cleansing. Only when every single Palestinian is dead or displaced will it be acceptable to treat us as human.