5LL #366: Genocide, Americans, Victims, Diaspora, Assata
Ash to Ashlaa’
David Lloyd, Communis
Ashlaa’ is a material signifier of the ongoing genocide that may allow us to identify the specific characteristics of Israel’s two-year genocide at a time when the concept of genocide and its legal and political applications continue to be constrained by the apparent singularity of the Holocaust.
A Hill to Die On
Jasper Nathaniel, The Paris Review
I was in the nation’s capital along with a small delegation of American families who were grieving loved ones killed or abducted by Israeli settlers and soldiers.
Against the Wound
Jake Romm, Los Angeles Review of Books
Liberation is a vital act; the people must live so that they can carry it through.
On Restlessness
Yasmin El-Rifae, Parapraxis
What does it take to resist pacification, when the psychological agonies of the genocide—the scale of our grief, our shame, our anger—are what they are?
Assata Is Welcome Here
Orisanmi Burton, Protean
The best way that we can honor Assata’s memory is to support liberation struggles and political prisoners.