5LL #324: Networks, Surveillance, Workers, Weapons, Elias Khoury
Trees, Trade, and Text Messages: Scenes from a Palestinian Spatial Politic
Hanna Barakat, Logic(s)
As Palestinian land and life are asphyxiated, the relationships between trees on a farm, people moving through space, and group chats on social platforms comprise a Palestinian spatial politic—a continued way of life that we have always embodied, the creation of space amid fragmentation.
Theater of Warning
Zeead Yaghi, The Drift
The surveillance tactics now being unleashed on Lebanon have long been deployed against the people of Palestine.
As Long as It Takes and Then Some
Editorial Collective, Long-Haul
If the struggles of proletarians across borders appear as isolated, the task we set for ourselves should be oriented toward making connections visible and recognizable wherever possible.
On Being a Weapon: Jewishness 431 days into a Genocide
Benjamin Balthaser, Political Theology Network
In being used as a weapon, American Jews—even those who resist state power—find ourselves imbued with a power we did not want, playing a role for which we did not audition. Rather than gifted with a second sight, we are caught inside a hall of mirrors.
Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea
Sasha Frere-Jones, 4Columns
The late Lebanese author Elias Khoury’s trilogy about a Palestinian refugee during and after the Nakba in 1948 explores the entangled relationship between trauma and storytelling.