It's been exactly 100 years since we lost Kafka

5 readings of Susan Bernofsky's Metamorphosis, to mark the centennial, today, of Franz Kafka's death

Sheinbaum will be working out of the centuries-old viceroyalty building, which ran Nueva España. That empire had expelled Jews from Iberia in 1492 and prohibited them from migrating to the Americas. That ban lasted centuries. Now Sheinbaum is sitting in the viceroy’s chair.

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It is not 'pro-Israel' to help Netanyahu address Congress while knowing that since October 7, he has not found the time to meet with ANY of the Israeli communities invaded by Hamas under his watch / Amir Tibon אמיר תיבון
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BREAKING: For the first time in the history of the WHO General Assembly, Palestine's seat moves from the back rows to its position among countries in alphabetical order.

A warm applause for the delegation of Palestine by those present at the closing session of the 77th General

Pro Israel groups aren’t just supporting withholding food aid from Palestinians in Gaza, they’re now withholding food aid from fellow Americans.

No words.

We're delighted to announce Faber Books as a new partner and sponsor to support the annual PEN Pinter Prize over the next three years.

The Prize celebrates courage in literature, recognising the powerful intersection between art and human rights.
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Claudia Steinbaum, expected to be elected first female and first Jewish president of Mexico today, wrote this in an editorial during Israel’s previous war with Hamas, in 2009, in which the death toll of civilians in Gaza was very high. May she act on this view as a head of state.

'Some Black Americans found irony in Trump railing against the injustice of his own conviction in a courthouse where five Black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted in a case Trump supported so vociferously' -- the Central Park Five case. apnews.com/article/trump-…

“Most children under five in Gaza are spending entire days without eating anything at all.” theguardian.com/world/article/…

I thought it was still worth fixing this NYT headline covering it from 6 years ago. The media whitewashing Israel’s crimes is nothing new.

Murió Edgardo Cozarinsky, y es como si se fueran en él muchas personas. Era escritor, cineasta, dramaturgo, actor, milonguero, un tipo inteligente, amable y talentoso. Acá su película documental 'Carta a un padre': youtu.be/-DF--wLqXx4?si…

pieces from Palestinian artist Dana Barqawi’s 2018 series “a land without a people”

Qué triste. Murió Edgardo Cozarinsky
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🧵Sharing a list of scholarships available for Palestinian students who are seeking to study abroad. Thanks to Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) for compiling this list. Please share it with your networks. (please add any that you my know of)

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Ridiculous & distorting to both-sides the prosecution of a private citizen, who’s never sought nor held public office, for an offense of no political content or consequence by placing it on hallucinated balance beam with Trump’s 34 felony convictions for fraud to swing election.

Weird how much more honest Israeli press is about what it would take to actually end the “war” than US press or the President’s many apologists

Absolutely 100% accurate. Many of the divinity school and theological students studying all the major religions are participating in these campus protests. One of the most moving things I saw & heard about at Harvard were the Friday prayers of Muslim students, surrounded by a

The incredible tracking shot in Mikhail Kalatozov's SOY CUBA from 1964. This is insane.