5LL #369: Perpetrators, The Nakba, Superiority, Coal, Bonds
The Atrocity Exhibition: On Perpetrators
Richard Seymour, Salvage
Israeli society is weary but has not yet been divested of its cruel fantasies.
How My Grandmother Remembers the Nakba
Tareq Baconi, The Nation
In 1948, my family fled Palestine when Zionists took over. I pieced their story together from a box of letters and diary entries.
We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves
Benjamin Moser, Equator
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide.
The Making of a Coal Boycott
Andreas Malm and Maxy Guedes, Jewish Currents
Inside the campaign to break the toxic relationship between Colombian mining and Israeli militarism.
Paying for It
David I. Backer, The Baffler
This is what awaits the Democratic nominee if he wins: a cabal of capitalists holding out the municipal finance straitjacket.