For 15 months, meaningless statements and idle talk kept the genocide in Gaza going. It is time to put an end to them.

Adnan Mahmutović came to Sweden from Bosnia as a war refugee in the 1990s. He is a professor at Stockholm University in literature and creative writin... g. He published five monographs and edited volumes in postcolonial studies, world literature, and comics studies. His books of fiction are: Thinner Than a Hair, At the Feet of Mothers, and How to Fare Well and Stay Fair.
For 15 months, meaningless statements and idle talk kept the genocide in Gaza going. It is time to put an end to them.
Or why the old name of a water fountain in Bosnia fights for survival.
In Gaza, as in Bosnia, a genocide is denied only to be glorified.