Selective Empathy : The West through the Gaze of Gaza / Roberto De Vogli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Vogli, Roberto, author.

Series:

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 348.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 348

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology.

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

Interdisciplinary Sciences.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The West through the Gaze of Gaza

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Selective Empathy: The West Through the Gaze of Gaza , Roberto De Vogli takes you deep into the greatest moral crisis of our time: the Gaza genocide. Blending sharp political critique with psychological insight, and filled with haunting testimonies, suppressed facts, and fearless indictments of Western leaders, journalists, and intellectuals, this book reveals a civilization that reserves compassion for some while ignoring others. Gaza has become the West’s mirror - and our moral litmus test. Will humanity survive its own indifference? De Vogli challenges prevailing assumptions and calls for a new global solidarity grounded in universal empathy, justice, and emotional decolonization.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Prologue

Chapter 1 The Gaze of Gaza

1 A Denied Genocide

2 A Genocide Foretold

3 "Nowhere Is Safe"

4 The War on Children

4.1 "We Are All Complicit"

4.2 The Highest Number of Child Amputees Per Capita in the World

5 History as if It Began on October 7

6 The West's Heart of Darkness

Chapter 2 Selectively Empathic

1 Empathy and Its Discontents

1.1 Crimes of Solidarity

1.2 The Dark Sides of Empathy

2 Compassion for Some

3 35 Minutes and 300 Hours of Silence

Chapter 3 Why We Fail to Feel

1 State of Collective Psychopathology?

1.1 "The Most Moral Army in the World"

1.2 The Cabinet

1.3 The Public

2 Selectively Indifferent

2.1 Our Brain on Nationalism

2.2 The Long Shadow of the Holocaust

3 The Banality of Complicity

4 When the West Incites Genocide

Chapter 4 The West and the Rest

1 Partners in War Crimes

2 Western Civiliesation

2.1 Genocidal Legacies

2.2 Year 533: the Conquest Continues

2.3 Superiority Complex

3 When the Perpetrator Plays the Victim

4 Emotional Decolonization

4.1 Pedagogy of the Oppressors

Chapter 5 Manufacturing Exclusive Compassion

1 Israel's 9/11: Hamas's Crimes against Humanity

2 "Lied into Genocide"

3 "Have You Condemned Hamas?"

4 The Engineering of Selective Indignation

4.1 Hostages and Prisoners

4.2 "They Look So Much Like Us"

4.3 The More You Read, the Less You Feel

5 When Will the Night End?

Chapter 6 The Herd of Free Thinkers

1 "Inescapably Genocidal"

1.1 As If There Were No Humans

2 Believing the Unbelievable

2.1 Algorithmic Gaslighting

2.2 "Anti-Semitic" Evidence

3 Jewish Voices for Truth and Justice

4 Stenographers of Power

4.1 Selective Silence.

5 When Your Enemy Is the Truth

Chapter 7 The World's Conscience

1 Conscientious Protesters

1.1 Not in My Name

1.2 US Elections 2024: "I Can't Vote for Genocide"

2 Medics in Gaza's Last Hospitals

3 "Stop the Genocide!"

3.1 Students Teaching the World a Lesson

3.2 The Academic Witch-Hunt

4 Just for a Cause

4.1 Poetic Injustice

Chapter 8 On the Brink

1 A Crisis of Selective Humanitarianism

2 Vital Crossroads

2.1 89 Seconds to Midnight

2.2 No Environmentalism without Pacifism

2.3 War and Peace: Cooperation or Annihilation?

3 Between Good and Evil

3.1 Born To Be Selective

3.2 Fair Instincts

4 Imagine There Is No Other Land

4.1 We Are the World

4.2 Just Epiphanies

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74828-8

9789004748286

OCLC:

1564841608

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004748286 DOI