"Many Western states and elites have consented, actively or passively, to the devastation of the Gaza Strip and the massacre of its population by Israel. To reach this conclusion, anthropologist Didier Fassin immersed himself in the analysis of the events that have shaken the region of Palestine since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023.
Professor of ethics at the Collège de France (where he holds the chair of Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies) and at Princeton University, he has just published Une étrange défaite (La Découverte), a book in which he questions the interpretations to which this conflict has given rise. All the while keeping in mind this question that underlies most of his work: is one life worth another?"