We cannot turn away from suffering, but I can no longer watch the news coverage from Israel and Gaza | Simon Jenkins

Right now we have tabloid television, not broadcast news, offering a ghoulish voyeurism and simplified spectacle

For the first time in my adult life I cannot watch – or read – the news. Its presentation makes me profoundly upset. For over a week I have not read, heard or watched the news from Israel/Palestine. I am afraid doing this has made me feel better. I have asked around and many other people are doing the same.

I would normally consider it shocking to not know what is going on elsewhere in ...