5LL #332: Rebuilding, Victims, Authoritarianism, Violence, Recognition
Gaza Must Be Rebuilt by Palestinians, for Palestinians
Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker
Palestinians returning after the ceasefire confront the destruction of their homes and the horror of President Trump’s proposal to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” by committing ethnic cleansing.
Looking the Palestinian in the Eye
Nicki Kattoura, Literary Hub
Mohammed El-Kurd’s nine chapters clarify how attempts to convince the world of Palestinian humanity counterintuitively contribute to our dehumanization and distract us from the daily violences of military occupation.
The Boomerang Comes Back
Noura Erakat, Boston Review
How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.
Grist of Empire
Anna Krauthamer, The Baffler
In the mouths of elected officials and in the mainstream press, evidence of sexual violence often becomes part of the justification for interfering in states that are variously positioned as incapable of protecting women on their own, or else barbaric, weak, or dysfunctional.
I to I
Mary Turfah, Bookforum
Imagine the violence of a world that kills tens of thousands of children—with one-ton bombs and butterfly bullets and disease and starvation—and defines as “well-adjusted” those who do not blink.