5LL #290: Language, Innocence, Resistance, Return, India
Crimes Against Language
Sarah Aziza, The Baffler
The moral truth of Israel’s war against Gaza is not difficult to grasp.
End of Innocence
Frédéric Lordon, New Left Review
Sometimes incomprehension is not a weakness of the intellect but a trick of the psyche: its categorical imperative.
Diagnosing Resistance
Hannah Zeavin, Bookforum
What Aaron Bushnell’s death says about power, protest, and pathology.
The Principle of Return
Adam HajYahia, Parapraxis
One must decipher the Zionist time regime to understand the logics of Palestinian resistance and what it has put forth (or brought backward).
Labor and the Bibi-Modi “Bromance”
Michelle Buckley and Paula Chakravartty, Boston Review
The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture.