I read Mohammed El-Kurd’s piece in the Guardian and it hit me.

We’re losing the social justice marathon.

“After the ceasefire, the world’s attention has moved away. The reality for Palestinians, however, has not changed.” Mohammed El-Kurd, The Guardian, July 28, 2021

I work in research communications. At work, the notion that “people have a limited attention span” is a given, thrown around as…