let’s be very clear about what’s going on in this cover because I think it so aptly captures the incredibly subtle and strategic reactionary politics of the @NewYorker ⬇️
NYer loves to claim a progressive politics but in the same stroke erase and defang those politics. The Student Intifada has been explicit: this is about Palestine. But what’s missing in this image: keffiyehs, Palestinian flags, the actual politics putting these students in cuffs
