Israel’s assault in Gaza marks the beginning of a new world order based on technologically advanced barbarism, the US journalist Chris Hedges said in a lecture at Leinster House.Hedges condemned what he described as Israel’s use of the Holocaust to justify its wars on Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and said the US and Europe, through their support of Israel, have forfeited all claim to speak for democracy and human rights.A prominent voice in US alternative media, Hedges spoke in a function room in Leinster House at the invitation of Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó’Snodaigh. His talk was attended by TDs...