Weekend... links?
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highlyeccentricI haven't got the energy to do a full WAYWR post. I'm avoiding kittens (I hope they're not screaming the house down and annoying the neighbours...), and things are just. A Lot. But here are some links, in the meantime.
Peter Beinart (Guardian UK), A Jewish case for Palestinian refugee return. Includes a properly-cited debunking of the 'Arab leaders told them to leave' argument - which was being presented in my high school history textbooks as an open question as late as 2005! I think I knew about Khalidi's argument (not by name) but not that Israeli military intelligence as far back as 1948 established the low influence of Arab institutional instructions.
Marta Vidal (Middle East Eye), How the world's oldest masks tell a story of Palestinian dispossession.
Meg Ellison (own site), Poor in tech. Oof.
Did you know the Trans Journalists Association have a Style Guide? You do now.
Thomas Morcomb (History Workshop), The Cerne Abbas Hermit. I really enjoyed watching this theory unfold on Twitter. A+
Ben Smee (Guardian AU), Racist? Coercive control laws could harm indigenous women in QLD, advocates warn. They've since passed. The unwillingness of white women, including Jess Hill (whose book on domestic violence has been on my TBR for a while) to listen to Indigenous women's groups on this has... knocked several pegs off my esteem for a number of people.
Eliza Kostelanetz Schrader (Guernica), Embracing Butch: essay in appreciation of Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues.
This fascinating thread of people saying when they consider the end of the Middle Ages to be
Anne Helen Petersen (own blog) The millennial vernacular of fatphobia. This is both familiar and fascinating to me, because while I recognise the media landscape, it... definitely did not dictate who was or was not popular in my school or church groups. I knew girls who thought they were fat, certainly, but no one who was on extreme diets, or... any of the things apparently endemic in my age group. Not sure if I was oblivious, or if in pre-broadband days the degree to which these things filtered to regional Australia was lower.
Page Turner (own blog), Study says any mental health effects from social media device use don't seem to be getting any worse. Good to know.
Grace Sharkey (Archer Magazine), Porn as Sex Education.
The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi debunked this claim as early as 1959. In a study of Arab radio broadcasts and newspapers, and the communiques of the Arab League and various Arab and Palestinian fighting forces, he revealed that, far from urging Palestinians to leave, Palestinian and Arab officials often pleaded with them to stay. Zionist leaders at the time offered a similar assessment. Israel’s intelligence service noted in a June 1948 report that the “impact of ‘Jewish military action’ … on the migration was decisive”. It added that “orders and directives issued by Arab institutions” accounted for the evacuation of only 5% of villages.
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