Mo Salah, Bono and how language became the spearhead of a genocide

Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

“If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.” These words were published on Anas Al-Sharif’s X account after his death. Sharif was a journalist with Al Jazeera and he was killed by Israel while in a tent for journalists outside a hospital in Gaza.

The headlines said that ‘global outrage’ was mounting over the killing of Sharif and six others, but what does that mean?

How is that outrage has become so pointless, lacking as it does nothing but the weasel words of support from western governments?

On Free State today, Dion and Joe ask if words can help at this point? They look at the post on X from Mo Salah and the impact it had and they consider the statements from Bono and U2.

Why does one have the power to make a difference and the other does nothing except salve the conscience of a rock star activist who has stayed silent for too long?

Why do the words of Anas Al-Sharif haunt us and the words from Bono remind us of how the west has failed?

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