Nothing justified Oct 7. Does Oct 7 justify everything?*
Ta-Nehisi Coates travels among Palestinians. A US policy veteran sums it all up
Oct 7, 2024
*The framing of this headline comes from a remark I heard on the BBC’s Broadcasting House programme on Oct 6, 2024. The programme brought together Mohammed Ghalayini, a British Palestinian with family in Gaza, and Sharone Lifschitz, a London-based film-maker and academic whose parents were taken hostage on Oct 7.