Re: Gaza, and some of the better writing (and listening) I've seen
This post is migrated from the old Wordpress blog. Some things may be broken.
Not everything is technology and its complications. Sometimes the shit show that is the world is just dominating everything. So instead of using the the rare occasion I actually log into this blog to blow off steam about the crappy state of CMSs or my forthcoming mess about AI and content provenance, I’m going to just drop in some links of some of the better pieces regarding the current humanitarian crisis that is Israel’s onslaught of the entire Gaza Strip in the name of “fighting Hamas.”
And even through it should go without saying, yes fuck Hamas. But if you can’t proportionally hold Israel to account for the massive death toll that is now added to the overall body count for which it’s responsible over the entirety of the occupation, then fuck you too.
These may not be the only good pieces out there, but they are some I’ve seen…
(Updated sporadically until it isn’t)
- “I can’t sleep“ by Paul Biggar
- “What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide“ by Omer Bartov (NYTimes)
- “Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so,” by Arwa Mahdawi (Guardian)
- “Memory Voids and Role Reversals,” by Dana El Kurd (New Lines Magazine)
- “Exchange Rate,“ by Eyal Weizman (London Review of Books)
- “Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people,” by 300+ signatories in Ukrainian civil society, and growing (Журнал соціальної критики)
- “How Does International Humanitarian Law Apply in Israel and Gaza?“ by Clive Baldwin (Human Rights Watch)
- “Behind Hamas’s Bloody Gambit to Create a ‘Permanent’ State of War,” by Ben Hubbard and Maria Abi-Habib (NYTimes)
- “Roger Waters Floats Unfounded ‘False Flag’ Claim About Hamas Attack,” by Jon Blistein (Rolling Stone)
- “A Dangerous Conflation,” an open letter from Jewish writers (n+1)
- “A lot of things are true.“ By Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (Substack)
- “The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers,” an interview with Daniella Weiss, a leader in Israel’s settlement movement, by By Isaac Chotiner (The New Yorker)
- “Statement of Free Syrians in solidarity with the Palestinian People,” Signed by a number of people across professions in Syrian civil society (Intersectional Syria)
- “A statement by journalists: We condemn Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza and urge integrity in Western media coverage of Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians.” Signed by about 600 current and former journalists
- “How October 7 has changed us all — and what it signals for our struggle,” by Haggai Matar (+972 Magazine)
- Podcast(!) The Dig, by Daniel Denvir has two episodes with Shaul Magid, “Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism,” which were in part inspired by the U.S. House of Representatives equating anti-zionism with anti-Semitism in light of protests against Israel’s indiscriminate Gaza bombings. Episodes One and Two.
The featured video on this post is an interview by the usually disappointing Piers Morgan of Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian news commentator and comedian.
