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July 24, 2026

International Humanitarians Seem More Interested in Defeating Israel Than Helping Palestinians

A thought experiment.

Looking at the international “community of nongovernmental organizations, activists, experts, scholars, and even a few formal intergovernmental bodies united by loosely overlapping commitments to global and transnational justice,” which he dubs “Humanitarians,” Shany Mor does a thought experiment. He imagines four possible Humanitarian responses to the Gaza war. In the first, Humanitarians would be entirely neutral; in the second, sympathetic only to suffering Palestinians. Then there are the other two options:

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