5LL #316: Journalists, Self-Defense, Fantasies, Heba Abu Nada, Rachel Corrie
“The Israeli Army Martyred My Father”: What Gaza’s Journalists Have Endured
Ruwaida Kamal Amer, Anas Jamal Al-Sharif, Nour Swerki and Osama Al-Kahlout, The Nation
Three Palestinian journalists describe what it is like to report from the middle of a genocide.
Against Self-Defence
Robert Knox, Legal Form
To contest the imperial violence in Gaza, then, is to contest the very conception of an abstract right to ‘self-defence’.
Don’t Believe the U.S.–Israel Fantasy for Lebanon
Séamus Malekafzali, The Intercept
Israel and the United States are already speaking about a Lebanon post-Hezbollah. They’re getting way ahead of themselves.
Somaia Abu Nada Remembers Her Slain Sister, Heba Abu Nada, Palestinian Poet and Novelist
Somaia Abu Nada, Literary Hub
One year on from Heba’s death, Somaia Abu Nada pays tribute to the life and work of her beloved sister.
Rachel of Olympia, Rachel of Rafah
Laura Kraftowitz, Protean
Every spring, I mark the distance from the day Rachel Corrie stood in the sand in front of a pharmacist’s home in Rafah, hoping that the Israeli bulldozer that had come to raze it would stop before it killed her.