“Oh fierce and mighty IDF, I remember thinking later, do you not know how much tenderness you breed?”

Take 10 minutes to read this achingly beautiful piece by Ben Ehrenreich over at Literary Hub today

“Sometimes you hear an echo of a sound that has not yet been voiced, of a shot that has not yet been fired.” Thanks to Literary Hub for publishing this piece—which first ran in itsflaminghydra— and for their exceptional courage these last six months lithub.com/premonition-in…

The attack on the Iranian consulate was an absolutely transparent attempt to make sure Biden didn’t stray too far from Netanyahu’s genocidal policies. As it obviously would, it worked.

Since Israeli forces left Al-Shifa Hospital, 381 bodies have been recovered from in and around the hospital.

TODAY: @arwam on living a 'productive' life during a genocide. 'Everything feels indecent. Writing emails, walking the dog, watching spring flowers bloom, buying groceries, living a normal life.' flaminghydra.com/issue-47/#how-…

The troubling persistence of the 'myth of race' in western societies' DNA continues to go largely undetected.

If you think that, for instance, Israel bombing the Iranian consulate in Damascus is something happening far far away that won’t affect your and your children’s ability to live out your lives in something like peace I have bad news.

The only way to understand Israel's actions here is through the statements of its leaders, specifically about 'turning Gaza into a tent city' (October 12), and of 'thinning out Gaza's population to a minimum' (November 30).