For many, the spectacle of those in power rioting on behalf of sadistic thugs evinced the “deep moral deterioration” of a nation already deemed barbaric by much of the world – ghastly proof, writes Nesrine Malik, that despite rulings and protests, the war “has found its place, nestled within the status quo” of an apartheid Israel where there are no innocents in Gaza and “the most abject Palestinian suffering (is) normalized as just a part of life.” This “dissolution (of) a fundamental human law…seems to say: Yes, this is the world we live in now. Get used to it,” says Malik. “What does getting used to it look like? It looks like accepting that there are certain groups of people who can be killed…That it is, in fact, reasonable and necessary that they should die in order to maintain a political system (built) on the inequality of human life, (where) we exist and deserve freedom from hunger, fear and persecution (and) others have demonstrated some quality that shows they are not owed the same.””Justice, justice shall you pursue,” Judaism teaches. In Genesis 18:19, “We are called to be just and righteous.”God, if She’s implausibly watching, weeps.

Unspeakable: We Are Swimming In A Pool of Blood