5LL #406: Stupidity, Culture, Heat, India, Revolt
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity
Abdaljawad Omar, Equator
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
Israel Is Trying To Extinguish Palestinian Cultural Life in East Jerusalem
Hala Gorani, New Lines
The authorities are raiding institutions, including a historic bookstore and theater, as they attempt to rewrite the city’s story.
Scorched Earth
Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay, Phenomenal World
This summer’s heat waves have brought new levels of suffering.
Manufacturing Revolt
Rashi Agrawal, New Left Review
In April, a wave of strikes swept through the National Capital Region around Delhi.
Debts to the Dead
Juliana Spahr, Parapraxis
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer is a collection of speeches, transcripts of conversations, polemics, a letter to a dead man, autobiographical vignettes, philosophical arguments, and report-backs from “militant research” in Seattle, New York, and Palestine.