Board of Peace, Machinery of War

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

We live in an attention economy, and it’s important to look at how ours is being squandered. Take Gaza: nothing screams caring for the people of Gaza like holding your meeting about their future in their holiest month, without them. And yet this is precisely the moment when Trump’s “Board of Peace” held its initial meeting. And it is precisely the moment when conscientious Americans must refuse to be distracted.

More than two million Palestinians...