Dangerous coronavirus advice as part of the larger pattern of intellectual poverty within Gaza - by Adam Levick

The Palestinian sermon we highlighted is important because history has surely shown that bad ideas almost always result in bad choices and, often, horrible individual and societal consequences – and that we ignore them at our peril.

Adam Levick..
UK Media Watch..
23 March '20..

We’ve posted frequently on the media’s insistence on blaming Israel for the economic and social crisis in Gaza, and their failure to assign responsibility for such woes to Gaza leaders – a pattern on display in a recent Guardian’s article on the first coronavirus patients in the coastal strip.

However, there’s another societal crisis that’s rarely reported on, one which Gaza political and religious leaders are solely responsible for:

This report by MEMRI is a case in point:

Imam in Hamas TV Friday Sermon a Day before Coronavirus Cases Confirmed in Gaza: This Virus Is a Soldier of Allah; Muslims Are the Least Affected pic.twitter.com/Ww5PII9Dv0

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) March 23, 2020

This is extremely dangerous coronavirus advice for sure – suggesting that Muslims are somehow less prone to catching COVID-19. But, it’s also part of a larger pattern of intellectual poverty within Gaza, where such counter-factual ideas are often the norm.

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