5LL #291: Columbia, Racialization, UNRWA, Retribution, Literature
Inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University
Lara-Nour Walton, The Nation
Hundreds of peaceful protesters began occupying the campus on Wednesday to demand that the university divest from Israel. The next day, the school sent in the NYPD to arrest them.
“Nothing Is Immutable”
Claire Schwartz, Jewish Currents
Literary scholar Saree Makdisi discusses Zionism’s structures of denial, imperial racial logics, and the horizon of coexistence.
Assistance as Containment
Laura Robson, The Baffler
A historical take on defunding the UNRWA.
Persecution Terminable and Interminable
David Markus, Parapraxis
Zionism’s circuit of retributory violence.
Review: On Zionist Literature, by Ghassan Kanafani
Dylan Saba, Protean
Although the revolutionary moment of the 70s faded, Kanafani’s insights into the ideological structure of Zionism and his call for a radical form of Palestinian storytelling remain an acute threat to the state, even 50 years after his assassination.