De Antisemitische Ratna Pelle

Foto boven: Deze gezichtloze antisemitische vrouw, Ratna Pelle, verdedigt al jaren met haar zionistische propaganda de dagelijkse vernederingen van de Palestijnen.

How to attend to suffering and injustice? There is so much of it. If we move through the world with our ears and eyes open, it is all around us. It seems intractable. We need filters to prevent ourselves from being swamped, classifications to remove our experience of the pain of others to a level of endurable abstraction. By the time we become adults -- if we become adults -- this adaptation has taken place without our much noticing it... there is the pain of distant others, people who live in places we've never been, news of whose suffering arrives through the media, if it arrives at all. It comes as sheer blight, implicating us we know not how. This we either attempt to ignore or treat as an 'issue,' an altogether more tractable entity.

Adam Haslett. A Poet's Brief. 2013