Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
Arabs are forced to question our place in the world (Abdelrahman ElGendy / Washington Post)
The harmony of the day’s gathering was suddenly interrupted by a yelp — my wife’s. I turned in time to see that a bulky and bald White American man had knocked her and several other protesters over. He raised his middle finger as a stream of insults poured out of his mouth. A clutch of protesters eventually surrounded him, pushing him toward the on-site police. More than anything else, it was the look in his eyes that I will never forget. Not the hatred, not the violence — that, I could stomach — but the lack of hesitation, the assuredness that he would never be labeled a “terrorist” or “barbaric.” Only we would ever face those charges.
Trump’s Killing Spree: The Inside Story of His Race to Execute Every Prisoner He Could (Asawin Suebsaeng, Patrick Reis / Rolling Stone)
By 9:27 p.m. Bernard was dead. In that moment, he became the ninth of 13 people executed in the final six months of the Trump administration — more federal executions than in the previous 10 administrations combined. Of the 13, six were put to death after Trump lost the election, his Justice Department accelerating the schedule to ensure they would die before the incoming administration could intercede. Before Trump, there had been only three federal executions since 1963; in January 2021, Trump oversaw three executions during a single four-day stretch.
“If you fail to call this a genocide that is on you, it is a sin and a darkness you willingly embrace.” (Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac)
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