Leigh Brosnan: In Gaza we are witnessing war on consensus reality

Palestine is the canary in the coal mine of how true the ideal of equality is on the global stage

Karen Moynihan, Caoimhe Butterly, and Leigh Brosnan on board legal support boat Shireen, holding images of Palestinian female journalists, from left, Shireen Abu Akleh, Bisan Owda, and Hind al Khodary.

I am sailing to Gaza on board the Shireen, a legal support boat that is accompanying the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. I am joining this boat because as a legal practitioner, I hold true to the fact that law must be used to right the wrongs of oppression we see globally in the 21st century.

Our boat is named after Shireen Abu Akleh, the assassinated Palestinian journalist, with the blessing of her family.