The scene recurs every week or almost. There are hundreds, thousands of them in the street. Saturday, the meeting is in front of Montreal city hall.
In unison, they denounce the tragedy of Gaza. The crime of innocent people killed, of children mutilated by bombs.
This time, we will be careful not to invite Adil Charkaoui or to tolerate too much openly anti-Semitic slogans.
But the criticism remains the same. The blood of the children of Gaza would count for less than that of the charred children of Israel’s kibbutzim at the hands of Hamas.
The accusation is becoming more and more persistent, that of a genocide against the Palestinians.
However, this conflict, as appalling, heartbreaking and inhuman as it may be, above all reveals the immense hypocrisy of the international community.
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Indeed, not all civilians, not all children sacrificed by war are equal.
Africans are even less so than Palestinians.
Genocide
There is a potential genocide going on in the world right now.
It started last April.
It made the headlines for just a few days, the time it took to evacuate our nationals.
But the fate of these millions does not mobilize international attention.
And yet, for some 230 days, the largest humanitarian crisis affecting children has raged in the world.
There are some 3 million people fleeing in total insecurity. By the thousands, they are mutilated and killed. A campaign of systematic rape, sexual violence and trafficking of young girls, sometimes literally chained, is underway.
Nineteen million no longer go to school. Seven hundred thousand are at risk of dying from malnutrition.
But no one walks the streets against the horror these women and children suffer.
The UN has not even managed to finance 24% of the humanitarian aid needs to alleviate the crisis.
Archive photo, AFP
What humanity?
Now, why would the fate of these women and children be less tragic? Less unfair?
Why don’t they deserve our collective outrage?
No one would dare assert that the tragedy of an African child who sees the men of his village massacred with machine guns and the women raped and then mutilated is less intolerable than that of the Palestinian orphan in the rubble of his bombed apartment. parents.
And yet, this is how the international community reacts.
For what? Because the rubble of the Gaza apartment and the wounded children are broadcast on TV every evening, while the villagers of El Geneina determined to bury their dead under sniper fire are condemned to do so in the indifference.
What do you want, this human catastrophe is happening in Sudan, in Darfur more precisely.
This is Africa.
The conflict pits the army against rebels. Muslims against Muslims.
The victims are a little-known ethnic community, the Masalit.
The Masalit do not have an organized lobby in all capitals and university campuses. They do not have an ultra-effective propaganda organ to propagate the horror of their fate.
Not all Arab diasporas have raised their voices for decades.
In Sudan, there is no Jewish state to blame for cloaking itself in the anti-colonial struggle.