Tears once a year
3 min readPasquale Liguori critiques the hypocrisy of Western media and audiences who consume award-winning images of Gaza's genocide as emotional tokens, void of political consequence or moral action.
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The prize awarded to this photograph, like last year’s award for the so-called “Pietà of Gaza”, is plausibly a token gesture, a facade of political charity. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)
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