5LL #333: Refusal, No Other Land, Ethnic Cleansing, Denial, DOGE
The Fork in the Road
Mark Greif, n+1
There is everything to be gained from every refusal, from plain unwillingness to fall into line.
“No Other Land” for Whom?
Mary Turfah, MUBI
The Palestinian-Israeli documentary indulges in a familiar kind of wishful thinking.
Trails of Tears
A.S. Dillingham, London Review of Books
As a historian, I understand the perils of comparison. But the similarities between Indigenous peoples’ history of loss and the plight of the Palestinians are too striking to ignore.
Nakba Denial
Esmat Elhalaby, Parapraxis
The relationship of the Palestinian to Zionism and to Israel has always been one of subordination. This relationship, a colonial one, must guide both our politics and our historical methodology.
Speed Up the Breakdown
Quinn Slobodian, The New York Review of Books
The future of government depends on how far the DOGE dynamo spins.