5LL #302: History, Palestine, Death, Cameras, Solidarity
An Unending Genocide
Toufic Haddad and Shireen Akram-Boshar, Spectre
To better understand the dynamics at hand, Spectre’s Shireen Akram-Boshar interviews Toufic Haddad, who speaks about the history and political economy behind the genocide—from Hamas’ October 7 attack to Israel’s strategic objectives in its repeated wars on Gaza, to the failures of the Oslo framework.
Palestinian
Ibrahim Nasrallah, Protean
I was silent and nothing came of it.
Haunted Biden
Nausicaa Renner, Parapraxis
At the same time that his sympathy for American deaths and his kindness toward veteran families seeps from his person, his insensitivity for the loss of the “other” is baffling in its brutality.
Curating Colonization: On Sharing Visuals of the Dead
William C. Anderson, Logic(s)
Cameras are not unprejudiced empty objects; they possess a history of their own.
Is Political Organizing A Criminal Conspiracy?
Astra Taylor, Lux
While the violence unleashed on protesters has been shocking, if not surprising, Cop City has also become a case study for how solidarity itself can be criminalized.