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It's clear what Israel’s western-facilitated genocide has done to Gaza. But what has it done to us? Palestinians are the “canaries in a coalmine”, the Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada tells me. “We’re screaming of a major warning of what’s about to come your way. When you have a media-political class that’s relishing, delighting in the murder of our children, do you think they’re going to care about yours?” The price paid by #Palestinians is beyond our imagination. But what price will we pay? The west has dehumanised itself, just as a far-right movement that sees #Muslims and the left as enemies within is on the rise. After the #US bombed #Venezuelan boats allegedly smuggling drugs, the US attorney general promised “the same approach with antifa: destroy the entire organisation, from top to bottom. We’re going to take them apart.” “#Antifa” – or #antifascism – is a phantom, a bogeyman that can be applied to any leftwing dissidents. Do not expect the violent dehumanisation and dystopian military technologies perfected in #Gaza to remain there. Our dark history tells us otherwise. What a pity we did not heed its lessons. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/14/horrors-gaza-west-history-empire