Riz Ahmed has spoken out about the Israel-Gaza conflict in a lengthy new post on social media.Earlier this month (October 7), Hamas launched an early morning attack on southern Israel that has gone on to trigger an Israel-Hamas war.
At the time of writing, 1300 Israeli citizens have died in the attacks, while Gaza’s health department says more than 2215 Palestinians have now died.Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Ahmed said: “As storytellers we out ourselves in other people’s shoes and ask audiences to go on that journey with us.
The reason this works is because underneath our differences, we feel the same fear, joy, grief, and hope. Stories work because there is no “us” and “them”.
There is only “us”. Any story that says otherwise, that some people aren’t like is, aren’t human, is a lit.”He continued: “We are told that there are two sides to what is happening in Israel and Palestine.
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