Maybe as artist we shouldn't be bestowed as having special moral authority and wisdom to speak to the human condition, human rights and abuses. That we have the key to reach into the depths of the soul to shake its moral barometer. Speak the truth to power, show society the ugliness that underlies it all by holding up mirrors if so many in the art world and photo world can stay almost dead silent on the first genocide of the 21st century in high definition screened and screamed streaming on our phones 24/7.

 The real test of an assimilation and falling in line with fascism is not Donald Trump it’s Israel’s genocide on Gaza. Trump is easy to resist, he’s child’s play. It’s frightening yes there are children who do want to play happily with him. Excusing almost all hospitals being bombed, mass graves, the propaganda of ‘infants are only being executed in people’s arms because Hamas is holding them as they pint the gun at the bare IDF who does not want to kill anyone’, people eating grass, tens of thousands of people dead, organs stolen, people in mass graves whose heads are found decapitated, surgical tools reused, no anesthesia, doctors executed, the stop flow of humanitarian aid. If you are on the side making excuses for Ella this you wouldn’t last a day resisting under a real fascist regime. You’d fall in line.

Jonathan Glazer speech at Oscars 2024 calling out the genocide in Gaza

* (new link as prior one video is private though wonder if also being taken down threats)