5LL #267 - History, Empathy, Seeds, Shifts, Ideology

No Human Being Can Exist
Saree Makdisi, n+1
How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite?
The Palestine Double Standard
Hala Alyan, The New York Times
Palestinians continue to be cast paradoxically — both terror and invisible, both people who never existed and people who cannot return.
The Second Week
Palestinian Youth Movement, The New Inquiry
The people of Gaza have shown us courage; we must be courageous now too.
Tectonic Shifts
Darryl Li and Dylan Saba, The Baffler
Over the weekend, I spoke with Darryl Li, who teaches anthropology and law at the University of Chicago, about the unfolding crisis in Gaza and some of its wider implications for the Palestinian struggle and the solidarity movement.
Propaganda, Disinformation, Ideology
Erik Baker, The Drift
If propaganda is like a lie, ideology is like the language in which the lies are told.
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