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On The Atlantic’s “The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense” (06/05/24)

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Beatrice, Abby and Phil discuss a recent article by The Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood that went viral for its assertion that, in the context of the genocide in Palestine, “it is possible to kill children legally.” We take a close look at the piece and how the rest of the surrounding argument uses a veneer of data “objectivity” to mask its underlying idea: that Palestinian death statistics cannot be trusted simply because they are collected by Palestinians themselves. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/atlantic-gaza-statistics Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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So I'm Beatrice Adler-Boltan, and I'm here today with two of my amazing co-hosts, Phil Rocco.

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Hi.

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And today the three of us are going to be breaking down an article in the Atlantic

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that went pretty viral for arguing that in the context of the

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settler colonial genocide of Palestinians in Gaza that, quote, it is possible to kill children

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