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The article pointed below may help.

Vashti published: "Sarah Aziza, through a stirring mix of personal reflection and philosophical reckoning, disabuses the Western witness of its self-gratifying power, instead – amid Israel’s openly broadcast yet unimpeded march towards genocide in Gaza – unmasking the impotence, deceit and hollowness that witnessing currently entails. More than a collective indictment or last-gasp scream of defiance into the void, Aziza’s own testimony guides the reader towards a form of witness no longer elevated in angelic, uncompromised distance, but instead manifest in the embodied, intimate, ego-displacing position of “sacrifice, mourning and resisting.”"

jewishcurrents.org/the-work-of

Jewish CurrentsThe Work of the WitnessThree months into a livestreamed genocide, we must ask—what does all this looking do?

Per #BBCScotland another sadder than sin story re protests in the #UK

“Ms Mumford said this is the biggest I've seen for a long time in #Edinburgh.

"It is growing as people are realising that we are #witnessing absolute horrific #warcrimes, the #bombingofrefugees, the bombing of #hospitals, the bombing of refugee #camps and #children.

"That is one of the most #powerfulthings about this #protest, the amount of children here talking about how #everychild should have a #right to life." 1

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Withnessing: multispecies approaches to extinction, testimony, and bodies of water.

… In reading two creative projects by lutruwita / Tasmanian artist Selena de Carvahlo I present strategies for “withnessing” both in water and in search of water alongside the nearly extinct Sepia apama (Australian Gian Cuttlefish), the endling Prasophyllum taphanyx (Graveside Leed Orchid), and the eventually extinct (homo sapien). In reflecting on the capacity of the more-than-human to witness their own extinction (van Dooren, 2017), I also argue that the soon-to-be extinct are able to provide testimony for the death of their witness, the human.