Ms. Rachel: “It’s Genocide. Say It.”
When Ms. Rachel calls what is occurring in Gaza genocide — she is challenging the whole celebrity culture which claims to be neutral while children are being killed. She has been making this point for months: if you have a platform and yet fail to speak out when families are being bombed, starved and trapped, then you are choosing comfort rather than the truth. Silence is not apolitical; silence is a form of permission.
That is the reason her remarks about Ed Sheeran have such an impact. Although he keeps saying that he is "not political", this is not true; he spoke in support of Ukraine and…
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