Gazology: How Gaza Became The West's Moral Obsession

🚨 Missed the latest webinar?! Watch it NOW at the link below! Since October 7, the war in Gaza has increasingly become more than a geopolitical event. It has emerged as a symbolic lens through which broader questions about morality, power, colonialism, victimhood, and even Western society itself are being filtered and understood. Why has this conflict come to occupy such a uniquely central place in global discourse? What happens when journalism shifts from reporting events to reinforcing moral narratives? And how has the modern media environment contributed to the flattening of complexity into emotionally simplified stories of oppressor and oppressed? To explore these questions, HR Canada Charitable Organization was honoured to be joined by Matti Friedman, award-winning journalist, author, and columnist for The Free Press. Through both his reporting and essays, Matti has become one of the clearest and most incisive voices examining the international media environment surrounding Israel and the broader narrative frameworks shaping contemporary public discourse. The conversation was moderated by Tristin Hopper, columnist at the National Post.