Martin Luther King jnr knew the moral universe only bends towards justice if wrenched into shape by the oppressed. Photograph: AP
Over the last two years, through all the cultural and political convulsions that have arisen out of Israel’s destruction of Gaza – a campaign of mass slaughter carried out with the more or less steadfast assistance and support of powerful western governments – a particular expression has come to characterise the response of those of us who have opposed this moral monstrosity.
Again and again, in all manner of contexts, people speak of this or that person being on either the right or wrong side of history. Francesca Albanese is on the right side of history; Ursula von der Leyen on the wrong side. Palestine Action is on the right side of history; Keir Starmer the wrong side. So on and so forth.
I understand the impulse to speak and think in this way.
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