5LL #371: Destruction, Victors, Evictions, Grief, BBC
After the Genocide, the Genocide
Saree Makdisi, n+1
How to express the human meaning of the destruction Israel has inflicted?
Victors’ History
Raymond Geuss, New Left Review
The future is unknown, but we can be reasonably sure that whoever eventually writes the history, the Israeli wish to expunge the very name ‘Palestinian’ from the record will not be fulfilled.
The Eviction Kings
Thomas Birmingham, The Nation
One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.
The Dining Table and the Drone
Wassila Abboud, Parapraxis
The conclusion I can draw is that Gaza, today, has shattered the illusion that stability in Lebanon, the region, and the world can exist within an order sustained by capital accumulation.
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco
Daniel Trilling, Equator
At each of these moments, many of us had the same thought: we can all see what’s happening, so why can’t they say it?