Fred Johnston: The Summer Before We Were Killed in the War
We’d double scull the river, splitting the river
Like a scalpel through silk
Mandy Fessenden-Brauer: Distorted Dreams About Palestine
I wrote this seventeen years after I’d lived in Gaza, because people didn’t seem to understand when I tried to share what it was like to live there…
George Yancy: Protesters Show Courage for Gaza as Leaders Show Cowardice
Amid a growing movement, there’s hope that a liberated Palestine will exist within our lifetime, says Alexandra Aladham.
Abby Zimet: To See Our Humanity
Israeli forces just dropped U.S.-made bombs on displaced Gazans, mostly women and children, sleeping in a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 40 and injuring hundreds in yet another massacre of innocents that “contradicts all human values.”
Laurence Musgrove: Surely
wondering what we’d
have to do, to leave behind,
to lose, to grieve without stopping
Jamie Beran: Open Letter to Joe Biden on Behalf of Jewish Americans | Stop Sending Israel Offensive Weapons
The violence will increase the heart-wrenching death toll, increase the number of calls for a ceasefire, and decrease your poll numbers — straight through the election.
Naomi Shihab Nye: Everything in Our World Did Not Seem to Fit
Once they started invading us.
Taking our houses and trees, drawing lines,
pushing us into tiny places.
David Vine and Theresa (Isa) Arriola: The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All
Freeing Ourselves from the Monster Destroying Our Planet and Our Futures
Camille Tinnin, Magdalen Weiss-Vopat: Carrying on Kent State’s legacy of antiwar organizing, students press for divestment
Students at Kent State won disclosure of the university’s investment portfolio, but the fight to divest from the war industry is just beginning.
Ed Harkness: Transplanting Tomatoes Amid the Rubble of a Bombed School
I’ll plant Tamatim here
as an experiment
to treat the wounded ground,
Dane Cervine: The Jeweled Net of Indra
the coal that fumes the electricity that plunges
the needle drifts in air that circles a globe that warms
the icecaps that melt into sea that shifts the current
that loves the wind
Brett Wilkins: New ICC Complaint Over Journalists Killed by Israel in Gaza
Reporters Without Borders says it has “reasonable grounds for thinking that some of these journalists were deliberately killed and that the others were the victims of deliberate IDF attacks against civilians.”
Rachel Wahl: 6 ways to encourage political discussion on college campuses
Students in fact want to have difficult conversations across divides, but they need support from faculty and other facilitators in order for these discussions to go well.
Mandy Fessenden-Brauer: Funeral in Gaza
I’d been in Gaza only a few days when I attended a funeral with my husband who was working with UNRWA. Outside the wake house, soldiers were revving up their … Continue reading
