5LL #307: Refaat Alareer, Starvation, Centrists, Language, Biden
The Unpublished Genocide Diaries of Refaat Alareer
Refaat Alareer, The Electronic Intifada
The following pieces by Dr. Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet, professor and beloved mentor who was murdered in an Israeli airstrike on 6 December 2023, have not been published previously.
Stone and Seed
Mira Mattar, Vittles
To describe the famine in Gaza as a ‘humanitarian disaster’ is to position it as a crisis outside history.
Stop Using the Term ‘Centrist’. It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian
If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy, wrote Orwell. That applies today more than ever.
Genocide and the English Language
Alberto Toscano, In These Times
The disjunction between our political language and political reality reveals the vacuum of thought in the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Hollow Man
The Editors, n+1
It is hard not to observe, however tentatively, that Biden’s diminishment coincides with his overseeing of the genocide, as if the unceasing violence were an expression of an altogether different kind of hollow President.