By Ethan Floyd
How Palestinian truth-telling on social media and the rise of independent media inspired this Aussie student journalist, artist and activist to join the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Gaza has forced a generation to confront the widening gap between what we are witnessing on our phones and what we are meant to politely and quietly accept. And I won’t.
For many young Australians, this is the first time mass man-made destruction has unfolded not as something we will encounter years later in textbooks, but as a daily feature of our social media feeds. Entire apartment blocks levelled by Israeli airstrikes; dead families pulled from rubble; journalists filming their own final dispatches knowing their colleagues have been shot by Israeli snipers or killed in the bombing of civilian infrastructure.
