The genocide in Gaza is reaping no end of collaboration. Israeli settlers have been blocking humanitarian aid from reaching Palestinians, purportedly in protest at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not doing enough to secure the hostages’ release from Gaza. Yet the protest is not eliciting any response from the Israeli government, which portrays another aspect of State and settler complicity in genocide. Governments, on the other hand, are calling attention to the plight of starvation without pointing towards genocide, and the US recently embarked upon humanitarian assistance airdrops into Gaza – 38,000 meals for over a million forcibly displaced Palestinians. Not only did the US illustrate how humanitarian assistance always falls short in comparison to the scale of need, US President … Continue reading The inhumanity of humanitarian aid