5LL #283: Hospitals, Rafah, PR, Immediacy, CIO
Israel Has Created a Medical Apocalypse in Gaza
Mary Turfah, The Nation
The hospital system is barely functional. Disease is running rampant. Medical workers are being kidnapped, tortured, and killed. And the world is letting it happen.
“The Scenes in Rafah Are Straight From a Nightmare”
Zak Haniyeh, Ahmed Totah and Sameera Wafi, Jewish Currents
Three displaced Palestinians describe unlivable conditions in a city bracing for imminent Israeli invasion.
Decolonizing Israel
Steven Salaita, The New Inquiry
The BDS movement is enjoying success because even at home, Zionists are beginning to lose the PR battle.
Everything Everywhere All at Once All of the Time
Bruce Robbins, The Baffler
Immediacy is what Kornbluh proposes as the signature effect of our period, her candidate to replace postmodernism as the key to what’s wrong with our very bad times.
Fragile Juggernaut
Andrew Elrod, n+1
What was the CIO?