Letter

In response to A worldwide anti-Israel movement

If only the Sudanese were fighting Jews

If only the Sudanese were being attacked by Jews they might have some Australians protesting. More than 150,000 Sudanese have been killed and more than 14 million displaced in the second Sudan War. The situation in el-Fasher is dire. The UN is pleading for support to help 30 million in desperate need in what the world body says the world’s largest hunger crisis.

This doesn’t deflect from the atrocities in Gaza and leaders from Ireland taking a stance, but it highlights how the public and the media select which issues to care about, and it’s not massacres and starvation of millions of Africans.

Pearls & Irritations has rightly covered the Gaza war in detail, yet published almost nothing about a situation the Sudan Doctors Network describes as “a true genocide”.

African civil wars are ignored because black lives don’t matter and most people are either too racist or ignorant to differentiate between perpetrators and victims.

— Simon Tatz from Melbourne