I think I would be lax as a disabled blogger if I did not direct everyone to this horrific story this morning. It was the first thing I saw when I turned my computer on a few minutes ago, but it was too tragic and troubling for me to ignore: according to the BBC, a man with Down’s syndrome in Gaza has been attacked by an Israeli Defence Force dog and left to die. The report goes into quite a bit of detail, and doesn’t make for easy reading at all; but you have to wonder how such things could be allowed to happen. At the top of their article, the beeb warns us that some readers may find some of the details below distressing, but given that it informs us all of something which is essentially a war crime, I think that’s rather an understatement. While it may not be anyone’s fault as such, surely things like this cannot be ignored by those of us who are concerned about things like minority rights and social justice.