As new enemies replace ‘terrorists’, Westerners will reflect on how one word justified colonial massacres in Gaza—and what, in truth, that word was good for.

May 27’s Q&A farce did not surprise me in the way it could have. I was not surprised by the difficulty of Palestinians to get one voice on the panel, or that the two handpicked questions were from Zionists. I was not even surprised by the lobbyist who described the ‘distress’ of an IDF captain’s dog in a room safe from potential Hamas fire.