Hello, we've heard over 18 weeks now of the horror which has been imposed on Gaza by the Israeli state with the active support of Western states who have armed and back Israel.

Its leaders in the process have made a series of statements which I think if they were

issued by any other state we wouldn't have any problem having a consensus on calling

them genocidal nature.

Israel, of course, now has been placed on trial by the highest court on earth,

the International Court of Justice,

for alleged genocide because of the case presented by South Africa.

Why are I stating these facts?

I think it's important to state these facts because there has been quite the gulf

between the reality of what has happened to Gaza,

the blood, the death, the mayhem, the mass destruction,

mass displacement, and the huge numbers

of quite obvious war crimes which are often posted by Israeli soldiers for the amusement of Israeli

domestic opinion on Tik-Tock and the way the media has framed what has happened.

And someone for me throughout this has been like coming up for air just in terms of shining a light on the double standards of the media, the failure to frame what's actually happening and to hold perpetrators to account.

No one's done a better job than Asal Rad who is a Middle East expert and also an author, for example of state of resistance, politics,

cultural and identity in modern Iran. And the reason Assals' tweets keep going viral is the excellent, but she's put in a huge amount of work.

She must take quite a lot of emotional labour of looking at often headlines and how they're often completely misleading,

how they don't assign responsibility for horrors which are happening and how they contrast, for example, with coverage of other atrocities,

for example, Russia's invasion of Ukraine. So with that extremely long and rambling introduction,

hello Assel, it's great to see you.

How you did?

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