Whilst there have been an increasing number of articles that have addressed what for me has been a growing discomfort with the limits of discourse around the Israel and Hamas conflict. A recent speech by the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek1 at the opening ceremony of the 75th Frankfurt book was perhaps, despite the philosophers’ usually verbose approach one of the clearest encapsulations of this emergent dynamic. A moment subsequently made all the more poignant by the subsequent prohibition of pro-Palestinian protests2. Opening with a straight forward condemnation of Hamas, and the events of the 7th of October and an acquiesce...