"The wars in southern #Lebanon and #Gaza are exceptional in the degree to which #Israel has been directly targeting medical infrastructure—not to strain it but to literally flatten it. In Gaza this pattern was noted early on: Israel dropped its bombs closer and closer to medical facilities, then switched to carrying out direct strikes with impunity." - #MaryTurfah

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/06/24/safety-is-when-theres-no-one-dying-lebanon-children/
https://archive.ph/sfayI
#Palestine #SouthLebanon #warCrimes #colonialViolence #violenceAgainstChildren

"For Foucault, racism—the basis of Zionist supremacy—naturalizes the logic of war (that some must die for others to live) and turns it biological. It is not simply out of necessity that #Palestinians must be killed. It’s right, and it should feel rewarding to do what’s right; Israeli soldiers ring in the new year by firing machine gun rounds at random at Palestinian homes, laughing." - #MaryTurfah

I'm Not Done With You

https://thebaffler.com/latest/im-not-done-with-you-turfah
#Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #colonialViolence

"Jiryis is a scholar; he witnessed the start of the Nakba and its consequences, and is not writing for those who won’t listen. If the anomalists appease the colonizer as they demean the colonized, Jiryis faces the colonized as he dissects the colonizer."

#MaryTurfah reviews the first English edition of #SabriJiryis's #TheFoundationsOfZionism

https://thebaffler.com/latest/given-this-reality-turfah

#Palestine #PalestineQuestion #Gaza #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

"Imagine looking at a photo of an injured or killed child and thinking—at all, even subconsciously—that it makes you look bad. Now imagine that you see nothing beyond how it makes you look, and you have our #mainstreamMedia’s current approach concerning #Israel’s genocide, set to damage control mode until it becomes time to admit hard truths." - #MaryTurfah

The Rest Is History

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-rest-is-history/

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaCoverage #USmedia #media #USpol #colonialViolence @palestine @israel

"You can’t disprove intention. #Iran has to prove it doesn’t want a nuke, and the more it is attacked, the less convincing its assurances will be. So, ironically, the more #Israel attacks Iran, the more justification it has to do so in the minds of Israel and the propagandized American public." - #MaryTurfah

https://thebaffler.com/latest/youll-see-turfah
https://archive.ph/Masth

#MiddleEast #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #NPT @iran @israel @palestine

"To call for peace after an act of aggression is to endorse the aggression. It’s to say that one party gets to act, and the other has to take it. This is the basic logic of supremacy."

Politics as Usual: #MaryTurfah writes on #Iran

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/politics-as-usual/

#Israel #MiddleEast #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy @iran @palestine @israel

"People in #Lebanon and elsewhere—people who mostly experienced the south through The New York Times, who had not been displaced, who had not lost a person—spoke of 'Pyrrhic victories,' condemning sacrifices that were not their own. Sacrifices they didn’t understand."

#MaryTurfah's powerful account of her December 2024 visit to #SouthLebanon

"Points of Entry"

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/points-of-entry/

#WarOnLebanon #LebaneseResistance #ColonialViolence @lebanon @israel

The Most Moral Army

#MaryTurfah examines Israeli officials’ weaponization of language, particularly that of medicine, in an attempt to reframe their ongoing #GenocideInGaza.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-most-moral-army/
#WarOnGaza #Gaza #oPt #Palestine #Palestinians #hasbara #propaganda #IDF @palestine @israel