Who Sees Gaza? | The Editors

Bill Peace, writes: “These images of prosthetized amputees and walking wheelchair users—taken as a representative of disabled people—make for a highly problematic case of a tokenism that insists that disability is something to overcome, something to eliminate, something that is simply a medical problem and not a social one.”

” Unfortunately, it may be that war photography of any real power is already dead. In the past few wars in which the USA was involved, photographers were not allowed access to the conflict, but became the mere transmitters of military propaganda. In a way, this is proof of photography’s potency; it must be powerful if the military takes such great

Himmler and his SS were among the most evil people in human history, yet even they had sought to cover over their crimes. Here, in 2023, in the form of Hamas, were people who were boasting of their crimes, were proud of their crimes, and indeed wanted to broadcast their crimes for all the world to see.1

To censor pictures that are too strong, indecent or obscene was to make decisions for the reader that were not theirs to make.

Captured Iraqi soldiers were paraded before cameras and then gunned down in open pits. Suspected apostates were murdered in the streets, and priceless Babylonian artifacts—a source of cultural pride for generations of Iraqis—were smashed into powder. Such acts were welcomed by small numbers of religious conservatives whose views aligned with those