Since the world around us is a horrible place, marked by genocidal wars in Gaza and Ukraine, there is plenty of convenient alienation from the stories and realities we face today: like putting one’s head in the sand or refusing to face one’s own reflection. Our local academics excel at avoiding any risk (or much work), alienating themselves from local realities to instead ponder how bad it is for Israel to commit genocide.
In Malta, speaking about Gaza has become the emblematic refuge of those who stand for nothing, or of those who refuse to address the immediate issues that concern both themselves and their compatriots
We have just had a case of a migrant worker who was killed by a reckless driver and the ongoing focus of many in society is more inclined to protect reckless driver and his identity instead of actually addressing the fact a 17 year-old was driving an expensive car with his friends and ended up killing a father of three on his job.
To their credit, the only entity in Malta which strived and worked for the rights of third-country national workers in Malta are the General Workers’ Union: pity they don’t have the courage to admit that the government is to be blame for their bad working conditions.
In the most recent Gaza-inspired deviation from reality, we had Newsbook which turned the introduction of the European Media Freedom Act into an issue about Gaza. The EMFA now obliged Newsbook like other media press outlets to disclose their government funding.
Gaza has become the co0nvenient excuse to say nothing and stand for nothing and by now it is sounding like a hallow diatribe of a villager railing against his neighbour to distract from the filth in his own home
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