Adam Patric Miller: The Sound of a Teacher’s Silence
As a person of Jewish heritage I can’t be silent about a genocide. Jews aren’t the only people who’ve been threatened with annihilation.
Molly Fisk: The Northeast Edge of Normal
parents of children
I’ll never meet are gone into the open
arms of the sky and the sea and their
sons and daughters with them how
can this happen again
Carter Dillard, Zahara Nabakooza: How Nations Are Built on the Backs of Disenfranchised Children
True justice begins at birth, not in systems that mask inequality with the language of freedom and hide civil erasure behind institutional power.
Chivas Sandage: The Endless War Begins Again
I tell my wife about the young woman who covered herself in leaves
under a tree, did not move, and barely breathed for hours.
I tell her about the girl who escaped.
Nasser Rabah: We Are Not Iron
We are not iron, O God, so that we can be melted down every year. We are not copper or lead that they fire among the armies and leave behind after the end of the war as mere ammunition and ashes.
Abby Zimet: Let Them Die Alone, and Hungry
The new “conquering of Gaza” formalizes Israel’s plan for the indefinite occupation, forced expulsion and incorporation into “sanitized” Israeli zones of an already long-besieged civilian population “for its own protection.”
Julia Conley: ‘Genocide in Action’ as 60-Day Blockade Plunges Gaza Into Mass Starvation
The two-month-long siege is a “clear and calculated effort to collectively punish over two million civilians and to make Gaza unlivable.”
Alison Luterman: At First
as the days bled into each other and I bore helpless witness
to the plagues rained down in my name on those we called other,
when I saw that the soft bodies of children were the battleground,
the stone began to burn with rage and then shame
Abby Zimet: No One Cares We Grieve When We Bury Our Children
Of over 600 Palestinians killed this week in savage new US-funded Israeli bombings, officials say over 40% were children in the bloodiest few days of a bloody campaign Israeli leaders call “only the beginning.”
Jon Queally: ‘We Have Run Out of Body Bags to Bury the Dead’ in Gaza
A relentless series of assaults in central and northern Gaza by Israeli forces, according to reports on the ground, have killed numerous civilians—including children, rescue workers, and journalists—in recent days with no end in sight.
Richard Hoffman: Looking at Photos of Gaza | November, 2024
I am no longer bewildered by cruelty,
have not been speechless facing suffering,
but I have nothing now to say to anyone
to move them to change their minds.
Tena Thau: Unsanitize the genocide
In 1967, Martin Luther King was moved to break his silence over the Vietnam War (at a time when the war was still very popular among the American public), after seeing images in Ramparts magazine of Vietnamese children with napalm burns.
Brett Wilkins: ‘We’ll Come for You Next’: Israel Threatened to Kill Teen Journalist in Gaza—Then Did
“Western journalists and editors should hang their heads in shame for their outrageous silence in the face of these crimes,” said one professor.
Zeina Azzam: Alive in Gaza
Ahmed spends hours each day trying to find potable water, wood to make a fire, anything for his family to eat.
