Marianne Dhenin: Educators Worry Palestine Censorship Could Reshape Public Education Entirely
New efforts to shut down honest discussion of Palestine could restrict everything from literature to science classes
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl: The Cries of Isaac and Ishmael
We can feel brokenhearted for the suffering of the children of Isaac and of Ishmael. We must.
Naomi Shihab Nye: A Palestinian Might Say
What?
You don’t feel at home in your country,
almost overnight?
Emanuel Fabian: Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank
US State Department said it was “aware of reports of the death of a US citizen in the West Bank.”
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.”
Naomi Shihab Nye: The Words Under the Words
My grandmother’s days are made of bread,
a round pat-pat and the slow baking.
She waits by the oven watching a strange car
circle the streets. Maybe it holds her son,
lost to America.
Nasser Rabah: The War That Just Won’t End
In wartime the heart expands, becomes a boat for little kids.
An hour of peace and quiet is pure heaven for writing.
Craig Mokhiber: The UN’s Settler-Colonial Bloc
A UN grouping anchored by the Anglo countries, Israel, and European states wields disproportionate power to undermine human rights and international law.
Angele Ellis: Love in a Time of Genocide | In Palestine Wail, Yahia Lababidi seeks the redemption of the human soul
Tell me, what steel entered your heart,
what fear made you rabid,
what hate drove out pity?
George Yancy: The Violent “Othering” of Palestinians
Anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and political racism overlap in othering of Palestinians, says Palestinian scholar Yasmeen Daher.
Naomi Shihab Nye: Different Ways to Pray
There were the men who had been shepherds so long
they walked like sheep.
Under the olive trees, they raised their arms—
Hear us! We have pain on earth!
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.
Joanne Durham: Becoming Educated
No one spoke
of their exodus, how they fled homes
stolen or burned
