Why do we insist people we admire must have a view on every unfolding global crisis?
A woman stands in a heavily damaged house following an Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Palestinian lives seem to mean less than nothing to many in the western world, writes Megan Nolan. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty ImagesI have long been fascinated by the vanishingly thin veneer of radicalism that certain institutions adopt and discard at will.
It is often interesting to note how the arts react when a sudden political or humanitarian crisis occurs – one can feel the panic in the rushed responses that sometimes emerge, desperate to be seen to act in the correct way.
It was an absurd, hateful decision, one which reeks of the self-interested need to appear rather than to be or to do good.
When the news of the massacre of Israeli citizens emerged I did not post about it. I don’t have an audience because of my political insight, I have one because of my novels and mostly personal and cultural journalism. Many terrible things take place in the world that I don’t publicly comment on; in fact I comment on hardly any of them.
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