5LL #325: Action, Lessons, Archaeology, Incarceration, X-rays
A Consensus Is Emerging: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza. Where Is the Action?
Nesrine Malik, The Guardian
It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning.
What the Palestine Solidarity Movement Learned in 2024
James Greig, Dazed
There may be nothing to celebrate while the genocide continues unabated, but the movement has made some significant progress. We spoke with activists and organizers to find out what needs to happen next.
In Ruins
Jasper Nathaniel, The Drift
With the world’s focus on Israel’s multi-front war across the Middle East and its continued destruction of Gaza — a place with relatively little religious significance for Jews — the most extreme right-wing cabinet ministers in Israel’s history have kept their eyes on the true prize: “Judea and Samaria.”
A Prison the Size of the State, A Police to Control the World
Marisol Lebrón, Public Books
Weber and Go, through their focus on incarceration and militarized policing respectively, show how the US has functioned as a carceral archipelago, comprised of sites across the country and around the world that together work to maintain and facilitate racial hierarchy, capitalist extraction, and territorial expansion.
Radiant Security
J.D. Schnepf, Parapraxis
In its bid to control the U.S.– Mexico border and the people and commodities crossing it, the U.S. has securitized the atmosphere and with it the full spectrum of radiant energy by determining where radiance is targeted, how it is captured, and what it makes visible.