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Alice Rothchild: Zionist Fragility

The time is long overdue for liberal Zionists to find the courage to take a long hard look at their uncritical support for the actions of the Israeli state as it becomes increasingly indefensible.

January 16, 2025 · 4 Comments

Sara Hegy: Even the Longest Winters End

Winter in a Refugee Camp, Gaza

January 14, 2025 · 3 Comments

American Friends Service Committee: New York Times rejects Quaker ad for calling Israel’s actions “genocide”

Many human rights organizations, legal scholars, genocide and holocaust scholars, and UN bodies have determined that Israel is committing genocide or genocidal acts in Gaza.

January 10, 2025 · 12 Comments

Ramzy Baroud: ‘We Lost Everything, But We Are Still Standing’ | Letters from Gaza

None of those who communicated with me throughout the war have ever questioned their faith, and have often, if not always, begun their messages by checking on me, and my children.

January 8, 2025 · 21 Comments

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.

December 16, 2024 · 7 Comments

Joy Gaines-Friedler: Guest Appearance

In the end, grenade pins sparkled in the desert sun
outside the packed then blown-to-pieces shelters,
miles of machine gunned cars,
(drivers plastered against glass & rubber),
babies killed in their cribs & bunk beds

December 13, 2024 · 8 Comments

Adam Patric Miller: How (Not) to Wear a Keffiyeh to School

Fold the keffiyeh in a triangle, lift it to your face, lift your arms about your head holding the ends of the longest edge, then wrap it so the triangle covers your face, tie the long ends together behind your head, letting the patterns drape over your shoulders.

December 9, 2024 · 13 Comments

Majid Naficy: Ruthless Gods

I detest the world
Which has given its heart
To ruthless gods

November 21, 2024 · 6 Comments

Madison Bannon: This activist group chat has been blocking a weapons shipment to Israel for weeks

There is an African proverb: If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.

November 9, 2024 · 4 Comments

Emily De Ferrari: Mark the Day

measure the time
since the last poem
since the lost word

October 27, 2024 · 8 Comments

Jewish Voice for Peace: Divest from death. Invest in life.

You can tell what a society’s priorities are by how it spends its resources.

October 22, 2024 · 17 Comments

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. 

October 10, 2024 · 8 Comments

Mosab Abu Toha: Shrapnel Looking for Laughter

Shrapnel flies in the dark,
looks for the family’s peals of
laughter hiding behind piles of disfigured
walls and bleeding picture frames.

October 8, 2024 · 22 Comments

Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi (second gathering)

We are dying in the longest nightmare in the history of humanity, with the most disgusting and immoral generation in human existence, witnessing the most human abusing and destructive period.

October 8, 2024 · 5 Comments

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