The Massacre of Gaza Today Is Due to the Western Silence of Yesterday: It Is Colonialism, Baby

by Rosamaria Fumarola The consideration that images return the real and are sufficient on their own to arouse feelings of adhesion or distance in those who observe them has been widely denied by history on more than one occasion. It is in fact the use of images to produce reactions. It is the story that uses images to decree the type of response from the public. The Roman princess as Trajan or Constantine knew it well, as well as Goebbels or Mus…