From Post-Truth to Post- <i>Ṣidq</i> : Gaza and the Covenantal Crisis of Politics

This article reinterprets the contemporary ‘post‑truth’ condition through the genocide in Gaza, framing it as a crisis of post‑ṣidq (post‑truthfulness) and of the covenants that bind politics to truth and responsibility. Rather than treating Gaza as a case of digital disinformation or media failure, it argues that the genocide exposes a deeper covenantal rupture in which the destruction of testimony structurally precedes and enables the destruction of bodies. Drawing on Taha Abderrahmane’s Trusteeship Paradigm, this study shifts analysis from facts and cognition to witnessing, entrustment, and the ethical constitution of political subjects. It shows how violations of Mīthāq al‑Shahāda (Covenant of Testimony) and Mīthāq al‑Amāna (Covenant of Entrustment) generate corruptions of reason and will in contemporary political life. Gaza is examined through three operations – the shredding of the UN Charter as secession from testimonial obligation, the erasure of Palestinian witnessing through the killing of journalists and digital apartheid, and the weaponization of ‘Hamas lies’ as absolute calumny that strips Palestinians of standing as witnesses. In dialogue with Edward Said’s ‘permission to narrate’, the article advances a politics of ṣidq grounded in Taha’s covenantal ontology, emphasizing the protection of witnesses and the rebuilding of discursive conditions under which testimony can bind.