5LL #314: Ruptures, Commitments, Life, Impunity, Poetry
A Rupture in Time
Sarah Aziza, The Baffler
It seems almost meaningless to mark this temporal passage—what does the moral indictment of one year of genocide mean that one hundred days of genocide or six months of genocide did not?
One Year
Palestinian Youth Movement, The New Inquiry
Zionism thinks it has broken our spirits, but all we see around us are people who will fight forever.
For Life’s Sake
The Editors, Parapraxis
We must not learn life simply from Palestinian abjection, but from the revolutionary insistence on life, the militant struggle of existence for life’s sake, and the anti-imperial humanisms that refuse fortifications of the political theologies that enclose Palestinians.
Israel Invaded Lebanon Because the United States Let It
Séamus Malekafzali, The Nation
The leveling of Lebanese border towns is the continuation of Israel’s Gaza policy: total destruction and ill-defined objectives.
Poetry Against Imperialism
Porsha Olayiwola, Mosab Abu Toha, Safia Elhillo, José Olivarez and Jake Skeets, In These Times
Mosab Abu Toha, Safia Elhillo, José Olivarez and Jake Skeets discuss the power of poetry in genocidal times.