5LL #308: Hospitals, Bombing, Scholars, Judaism, Fascism
Inside One of the Last Hospitals in Gaza
Sophie Hurwitz, Mother Jones
When their universities were destroyed, these medical students became volunteer “frontline doctors” at Gaza European Hospital.
“I Couldn’t Ask if She Was Still Alive”: A Girl, Her Mother, and a Bloody Night In Gaza
Lujayn, The Nation
In April, we published “The Bulldozer Kept Coming,” a dispatch by Lujayn, a 14-year-old from Gaza. Months later, Lujayn is with her family in Rafah, and she is still writing.
Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide
Huda Fakhreddine, Literary Hub
How difficult and treacherous our paths are, always, within this country and its institutions.
Acting Jewishly During a Genocide
Charlotte E. Rosen, Spectre
In the end, Tablets Shattered engages in offensive religio-ethnic purity tests, bizarrely attempts to (re)smuggle a Völkisch pro-Israel politics into US leftist organizing, and offers a set of conclusions that knowingly misreads Jewish history.
Fascism Late, Early; Fascists Now, Then
Jasper Bernes, The Brooklyn Rail
While apartheid, settler colonialism, white nationalism, and other terms may function well enough in particular contexts, using fascism for all of these manifestations allows us to see the continuity between the contemporary far right, interwar fascism, and the pre-fascism of the nineteenth century.