“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.”

- Chairman Fred Hampton

As we watch peaceful protesters brutalized and arrested, we must realize what it is we are witnessing.

This is what we’re all grappling with. The constant whiplash of hearing abt “discomforting phrases” then real time images of children being crushed & unsuccessfully resuscitated while B!b! shouts “onwards!” while B!den is on your screen defining violence as broken windows, while-

Don’t give that gross New Yorker essay clicks, read this sharp retort instead!

It’s not war, it’s ethnic cleansing.

It’s not war, it’s genocide.

If a ceasefire is reached right now, the UN estimates that we would need a century to rebuild the Gaza Strip. A century to undo what Israel has done. 100 years. That’s 3 generations of Palestinians trapped in this genocide, even after reaching a ceasefire.

Seeing photos from the Met Gala between the corpse of a young girl with her throat ripped open and a doctor picking up pieces of skin and intestine to throw into a body bag with the rest of a mangled body and thinking that not a single thing about this world can remain as it is.

Between Zadie Smith and Ocean Vuong, can we kill the idea of the writer as a sage observer dislocated from actual struggle? Can we dead the notion of the witness whose 'objectivity' is derived from non-participation? Struggle in our midst or just be silent, please.

The fact that Zadie Smith shot to fame with White Teeth writing about Bengalis, and somehow still has the gall to equivocate about a genocide. 🤯

Today a Palestinian MA student from the destroyed Al Azhar University successfully defended his MA thesis in a tent in Rafah. The student now plans to do a PhD in Education.

If you're willing to echo Palestinian demands, speak everywhere: Libraries, churches, community centres, set up a table in the market, write an oped, get on the local news, organise a reading group or a study get-together, call your reps. All very retro, and still so important.

This is my second time washing chemical weapons deployed by the Cville police out of someone’s eyes, which should be 0% of my practice as an ID doctor

People always sending me pictures of my dad going to protests alone. He said if the youth are risking everything then we have no excuse to not show up.

To fully understand Mohammed El-Kurd’s writing you have to understand how uniquely insane his experience has been. His family became the center of a big legal battle/in’lt media spectacle when he was a little kid, and a court moved a Jewish-American settler *into his house*.

“According to the report, Hamas was guaranteed by the U.S. for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and that Israeli forces will not continue fighting once the hostages are released. An Israeli official told Haaretz that 'Israel will, under no circumstances, agree to end…

It bears repeating: it is unacceptable to respond to peaceful campus demonstrations with violent repression.

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I feel like a lot of you didn't see

the man crushed by the tank
the girl shredded in half
the multiple people carrying their family in bags
the doctor who had to amputate his daughter's leg
the bodies left out to rot

cuz ur talking about property