Turning leaders into symbols of evil makes intervention easy to justify and its consequences easy to ignore.
Somdeep Sen
Somdeep Sen is the author of Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial. He’s a Research Associate at the Center for ... Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria.
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