Has the Flotilla finally exposed the West’s moral double standard?

The image that ricocheted across the world was not a missile strike, nor another skyline collapsing into Gaza’s dust. It was far quieter than that. Dozens of civilians — aid workers, doctors, parliamentarians, students and activists from 44 countries — kneeling on the deck of a seized flotilla in the eastern Mediterranean, hands bound behind their backs, surrounded by armed Israeli personnel. Then came the video posted by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir himself: taunting detainees, waving a flag, reducing human vulnerability into spectacle. For many watching from Canberra to Ottawa, something fundamental appeared to rupture. The interception of the Global Sumud flotilla in May may ultimately be remembered not simply as another Gaza confrontation, but as a geopolitical […]