IAIN CHAMBERS: The Ghosts of Gaza (Video Abstract)

Writer and independent scholar Iain Chambers introduces “The Ghosts of Gaza,” published in Media Theory 8.2.

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Transcript

The Ghosts of Gaza. It involves this article. It involves a series of observations that are modified translations of articles published originally in the Italian daily il Manifesto between October 2023 and September 2024 and subsequently published on the blog of Media Theory.

So these short pieces—newspaper articles—are now collated into a single article and they seek to engage with the genocide of the inhabitants of Gaza by the Israeli state and consider its implications in uncovering questions of colonialism, rights, democracy, historical memory and responsibility in the heartlands of the West itself.

So, given that they were originally written a newspaper articles, this explains some of the repetitions in the argument as I try to drive home specific points largely absent from the unilateral mantra of mainstream media, political pronouncements and public discourse.

The article, therefore, tries to pose a critical attempt to provide other coordinates for which to map and conceive the colonial constitution of the present and the deafening silence of the hypocritical West and its so-called values in the face of the atrocities occurring in the eastern Mediterranean.

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IMAGES (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)

WAFA in contract with APAimages (2023, October 8). Palestinians inspect the ruins of Aklouk Tower destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 8, 2023. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Damage_in_Gaza_Strip_during_the_October_2023_-_12.jpg
WAFA in contract with APAimages (2023, October 8). Palestinians inspect the ruins of a building destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis in the southern of Gaza strip, on October 8, 2023. Wikimedia Commons.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Damage_in_Gaza_Strip_during_the_October_2023_-_16.jpg
WAFA in contract with APAimages (2023, October 10). Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Damage_in_Gaza_Strip_during_the_October_2023_-_26.jpg
Hickson, A. (2023, October 14). [Protesters wave a Palestinian and Pakistani flag Oct. 14, 2023, at Trafalgar Square in London]. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pro_Palestine_Protesters_and_a_Helicopter_Above_Trafalgar_Square_(53261885875).jpg
Keely, H. (2019, May 17). The 910 ton printing presses at the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper were the largest in the world when installed in 2000. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_910_ton_printing_presses_at_the_Las_Vegas_Review-Journal_were_the_largest_in_the_world_when_installed_in_2000.webm
Peacearth (2024a, May 15). Pro-Palestinian protest at MIT, May 15 2024. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20240515_pro-Palestinian_protest_at_MIT_03.webm
Peacearth (2024b, May 15). Pro-Palestinian protest at MIT, May 15 2024. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20240515_pro-Palestinian_protest_at_MIT_04.webm
WAFA in contract with APAimages (2023, October 10). Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Damage_in_Gaza_Strip_during_the_October_2023_-_27.jpg#globalusage

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