god, "mass clearance" is just about as close as you can fly to the sun on euphemisms for ethnic cleansing. these fucking ghouls.

This photo from London in 1973 feels just as sadly relevant today. Housing is a fundamental human right, not a commodity to be used for profit - yet the interests of wealthy speculators are time and again put ahead of our right to a place to call our home.

Let Cornell University be known as the university that deported a student for opposing a genocide!

This short book by Isabella Hammad publishes later this week, and it is very, very good. I’ve read it twice in the last few days

this Sister Helen Prejean quote, always

Imagine yourself, 6 months from now, receiving in the post a book you do not recognise because you ordered it before there was even cover art and yet, as future-you turns the pages, realising what a fantastic person past-you was. (Please preorder my book!) penguin.co.uk/books/321273/c…

All the blues 💙🤍 I am completely engrossed. The jackets come off when I travel with my hardbacks. Can’t risk them getting ratty in my tote.

A true yearning

Sally Rooney will always have my heart for her unequivocal support for Palestine. As we are learning in real time, it takes a lot to be a decent person in the west right now. Here she is at Southbank Centre tonight, before beginning her reading.

So dystopian to watch Bisan, a young Palestinian journalist and filmmaker win an Emmy when she is still trapped in the midst of a genocide.

A very big deal on multiple levels. Lahiri, unlike some other writers, usually does not make major public political statements like this. And she’s been in the most elite tiers of the literary establishment since she got a Pulitzer at 33. Very happy she did this. 🙏🏽❤️💐🧿

mary oliver

These Just Stop Oil actions are part of a noble history of protest. The Suffragettes are lauded today with statues in Parliament Square, but at the time they were regarded with contempt, and they didn't throw soup on paintings protected by glass, they slashed & damaged them.

I don’t think some people realize the severity of the situation when the head of emergency doctor says the bodies have EVAPORATED

You never hear Western officials say: “Lebanon has a right to self defense” “Palestine has a right to self defense” “Iraq has a right to self defense” “Iran has a right to self defense” How is it a “right” if it only applies to Israel and they can attack anyone they want?

I’m utterly disgusted by the analysts & researchers who have built entire careers on Lebanon & the Middle East & who’ve enjoyed the warmth & hospitality of our countries, and yet today can’t seem to see Lebanese & Palestinians & Arabs as equal human beings deserving of respect.

you’re raised to think colonalism is a thing of the past and then you sit here and realize…. none of it has ever stopped

I will never regret going hard for Palestine.

I think about this scene all the time