Why has abuse of [Global Sumud] flotilla activists drawn more condemnation than the Gaza genocide? (Tamam Abusalama | The New Humanitarian, 2026-05-28)

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026/05/28/abuse-flotilla-activists-drawn-more-condemnation-gaza-genocide
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>> The answer has a name: white supremacy …

>> The flotilla activists understand that their relative privilege as Western passport holders, politicians, journalists, academics, and so on functions as both a protection and an amplification device. Israeli violence against them attracts attention and carries a different cost than violence against Palestinians, precisely because of the supremacist hierarchy …

>> The flotilla coverage is not wrong. The outrage is not misplaced. But outrage that does not extend – consistently, urgently – to the more than 72,000 women, men, and children killed in #Gaza, to mass detention, to occupation, and enforced statelessness, is not humanitarianism. It is selectivity…

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