5LL #284: The Shoah, Aaron Bushnell, The Sea, Solutions, Posters
The Shoah after Gaza
Pankaj Mishra, London Review of Books
The profound rupture we feel today between the past and the present is a rupture in the moral history of the world since the ground zero of 1945 – the history in which the Shoah has been for many years the central event and universal reference.
Burnt Offerings
Erik Baker, n+1
To ask whether self-immolation is good or bad, justifiable or non-justifiable, effective or ineffective is in large part to miss the point, which is that it is an option, whether anyone else likes it or not.
Two Shores, One Sea
Suja Sawafta, The Baffler
I carry in me, at once, grief that I can’t live in Jaffa and guilt that I have managed to visit the city at all, when many of its original inhabitants have never left Gaza and are now facing unconscionable and indiscriminate aggression.
Against Solutionism
Ed McNally, New Left Review
On such overdetermined terrain, there is no reason to think that the Palestinian struggle will conform to neat teleologies or ideal-types.
Put Up, Take Down
Solomon Brager, Jewish Currents
In the US, this is what the obsession with the posters seems to be about: Like the moral panic around reports of campus antisemitism, it provides justification for American Jewish fear.