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Announcing the upcoming publication of our new book
THEIR BORDERS, OUR WORLD: BUILDING NEW SOLIDARITIES WITH PALESTINE
For more:
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Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.
Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.
This was the last poem he published.
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Mohammed al-Qudwa is a young poet trying to get his family out of Gaza.
He performed his poem, LONGING FOR HAIFA, at our last festival.
Today, Mahershala Ali, reads it for you - asking everyone to click the link in our bio and contribute to Mohamed's GoFundMe.
#FreePalestine
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In support of South Africa’s historic ICJ case against Israel major actors have come together to read the case file.
Over the coming days we will present over 50 clauses of the comprehensive case South Africa lays out, charging Israel with genocide.
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Clause 3: On the obligations of State parties to the Genocide Convention.
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One time only event coming up in NYC this Wednesday November 1st.
Spread the word.
See you there.
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ii) Causing Serious Bodily & Mental Harm to Palestinians in Gaza
Clause 51:
White phosphorous, agonizing injuries and no functioning hospitals.
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Walid Daqqa, Palestinian poet and political prisoner, died yesterday in an Israeli prison.
Last year at one of our events in Ramallah the director of the Sakakini Center, Hossam Ghosheh, read one of Daqqa's poems. Mohammed El-Kurd then read Dalia Taha’s English translation.
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Clause 53:
The impact of repeated exposure to conflict and violence on children.
"The amount of suffering is just something . . . incomparable."
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We want to introduce you to some young poets in Gaza.
Through the genocide, they have not stopped writing.
Most have been made homeless.
All want to escape.
They need all of our help, so we want to tell you about them. 🧵
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Clause 45:
i) Killing Palestinians in Gaza 1
The numbers already killed.
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Clause 44:
Statements of senior United Nations officials.
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Dr.
@GhassanAbuSitt1
has just returned from Gaza to the UK.
Join us to hear first hand from one of the most important voices speaking from the frontlines of Israel's assault. In conv w
@kamilashamsie
Tickets on sale later today but please start sharing:
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Clause 52:
Extreme levels of bombardment and lack of safe areas causing severe mental trauma in Palestinian children.
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Clause 43
Opening section of "The Facts: Genocidal Acts Committed Against the Palestinian People".
In which 8 types of genocidal acts that Israel is engaging in are established.
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Clause 46:
i) Killing Palestinians in Gaza 2
Nowhere is safe.
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Clauses 47 & 48:
i) Killing Palestinians in Gaza 3 & 4
Blast radius of bombs; a "war on children."
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Clause 49:
i) Killing Palestinians in Gaza 5
The killing of doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, journalists, UN staff, and civil defense workers.
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In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature in 2008, John Berger gave a moving reading of Ghassan Kanafani's 'Letter from Gaza', written in 1956
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Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar, Isabella Hammad, Maaza Mengiste & more have "signed a damning open letter to PEN America in which they announce they will not participate in this year’s World Voices Festival due to the organization’s inadequate response to the…
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At least 70 authors have now dropped out of
@PENAmerica
events in an unprecedented act of solidarity with Palestinian writers.
Today we are announcing an alternative event to mark this collective action, to hear from these authors and from writers from Gaza.
Join us at Judson…
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Clause 60:
Israel has damaged or destroyed 60% of the entire housing stock in Gaza.
Read by Maxine Peake.
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An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature: "After so many years and so many deaths we must all, together, say this has to end, and that it can only end with a free Palestine."
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The venue for tomorrow's NYC event will be 3041 Broadway.
Doors at 6.15pm for a 7pm start.
Tickets are free and entry will be first come, first served.
Livestream will be here:
See you tomorrow.
One time only event coming up in NYC this Wednesday November 1st.
Spread the word.
See you there.
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Clause 56:
On Israel's 'evacuation orders'. Not compatible with international humanitarian law; "tantamount to a death sentence” for hospital patients.
Read by Susan Sarandon.
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Clause 54:
Large numbers of Palestinians arrested, blindfolded, undressed and taken away on trucks; medics and first responders being held incommunicado; hundreds rounded up in a stadium.
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Clause 57:
Israel has bombed designated evacuation routes.
Read by Sepideh Moafi and Wallace Shawn.
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iii) MASS EXPULSION FROM HOMES AND DISPLACEMENT OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA
Clause 55: 85% of the population have been forced from their homes.
Read by Adam Bakri.
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Clause 59:
Israel bombed a refugee camp on Christmas Eve, killing 86 people.
Read by Maaza Mengiste.
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Tonight's book launch will not go ahead after the Metropolitan Police contacted the host organisation and asked that it be cancelled "due to security concerns."
We're pleased to be co-presenting this London event to mark the publication of A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA by Nathan Thrall in Conway Hall on October 12th.
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Clause 65:
The food infrastructure in Gaza was already considered “no longer functional” by November 16.
Read by Khalid Abdalla.
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Clause 64:
Most of the Palestinian people in Gaza are now STARVING, with levels of starvation rising daily.
Read by Alia Shawkat & Harriet Walter
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A new poem by Haidar al-Ghazali from Gaza.
You can support him and his family here:
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iv) DEPRIVATION OF ACCESS TO ADEQUATE FOOD & WATER TO PALESTINIANS IN GAZA
Clause 61:
"The conditions for the effective delivery of humanitarian aid no longer exist"
Read by Tobias Menzies & Morgan Spector.
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PEN America's silence on the genocide in Palestine caused so many authors to reject the organisation that its Literary Awards ceremony has been cancelled.
The largest prize, the Jean Stein award, will be given to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the instruction of her…
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Breaking: Israeli police have raided the offices of Yabous - our partners in Jerusalem and one of the most important cultural centres in Palestine.
Israeli police today stormed two Palestinian-run cultural centers in the occupied city of Jerusalem, seized documents, and detained directors.
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NYC showed up for Palestine last night. You can watch the whole event with all the incredible speakers online here:
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Paragraph 66:
Israel has cut off water to the north of Gaza and "the damage from Israeli airstrikes and shelling has also rendered most of the water system inoperable"
Read by Peter Mullan
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The Palestine Festival of Literature is back!
Join us from May 20 to 25 for conversations, book launches, film screenings and dramatic readings across historic Palestine on the theme of: PALESTINE & THE GLOBAL SOUTH.
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Solidarity with student groups establishing Popular Universities for Gaza on the campus grounds of Columbia, Yale, NYU, MIT, the New School, WashU and UNC; and to the students protesting censorship at USC.
Students at Rutgers also overwhelmingly voted to divest from Israel and…
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Final poster for tonight with all relevant information.
See you later, New York.
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China Miéville, best-selling author & historian, has rescinded his acceptance of prestigious German residency, DAAD.
"I have watched with horror as the political atmosphere in Germany has grown more and more poisonous, the repression of solidarity with Palestinians more and more…
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"It is important to place the acts of genocide in the broader context of Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians during its 75-year-long apartheid, its 56-year-long belligerent occupation of Palestinian territory and its 16-year-long blockade of Gaza."
Clause 43
Opening section of "The Facts: Genocidal Acts Committed Against the Palestinian People".
In which 8 types of genocidal acts that Israel is engaging in are established.
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A message from Michael Palin, remembering his time in Palestine with us back in 2009 - and plugging our London October event!
Tickets on sale now:
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Powerful statement from South African author, Zukiswa Wanner, returning her Goethe Medal in protest at the German government’s support for Israel’s genocide.
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London: Omar Barghouti, Mohammed El-Kurd & Morgan Bassichis are coming to your town.
Tickets now available
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@PENAmerica
announced today that they have cancelled this year’s World Voices Festival that was scheduled to be held May 8 - 11 in New York City and May 8 - 18 in Los Angeles.
The move came after dozens of authors withdrew from PEN America events in an unprecedented act of…
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Part 3-C-viii) of South Africa's dossier charging Israel with genocide.
IMPOSING MEASURES TO PREVENT PALESTINIAN BIRTHS
"Two mothers are estimated to be killed every hour in Gaza."
Here is the introduction, read by Susan Sarandon.
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Today we added three more paragraphs on Israel’s systematic destruction of cultural, intellectual and religious life in Gaza.
Tomorrow we will release this series’ last batch of collected evidence before the ICJ decision is announced on Friday.
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Israel has damaged or destroyed an estimated 318 Muslim and Christian religious sites so far in Gaza.
Read by Carice van Houten.
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In 1993 Edward Said made an hour-long TV special called THE IDEA OF EMPIRE and it's just been put online.
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The internationally respected author Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian has been arrested by Israel.
Breaking news: Palestinian professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian has been arrested for "suspicion of incitement." Jerusalem's Hebrew University suspended her last month after she said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. She told Democracy Now! her personal safety was at risk.
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Tomorrow the International Court of Justice will issue an order based on evidence presented by South Africa that Israel is committing genocide.
SA defined 8 categories of genocidal acts, then cited multiple examples.
You can click each one in the thread below for full detail.
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Tobias Menzies (The Crown, Game of Thrones) reads posts by
@MosabAbuToha
- a brilliant Palestinian poet in Gaza.
You can watch the full video here:
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New from Sally Rooney:
"Our Government can bask in the moral glow of condemning the bombers, while preserving a cosy relationship with those supplying the bombs."
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Paragraph 67:
The lack of water is severely impacting lactating women.
Young mothers — unable to breastfeed - have been forced to use contaminated water to prepare formula.
Read by Sepideh Moafi.
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Our friend and colleague, the internationally renowned, prize-winning poet, Mosab Abu Toha. . .
Mosab Abu Toha - essayist, poet - has been kidnapped by Israeli army in Gaza as he was fleeing with his family.
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New online: Omar Barghouti's rousing AND practical speech from our London event in which he outlines the peaceful forms of advocacy and mobilisation offered by BDS to end complicity in genocide.
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10 years
47 authors
44 essays
17 poems
1 anthology: THIS IS NOT A BORDER
Out in the US today
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If you're appreciating our series on South Africa's ICJ case against Israel, please help us by:
1. Liking and commenting the YouTube versions, which are being attacked:
2. Share & DM from Instagram, where people are reporting they can't share:…
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Here is the letter in full:
March 13, 2024
Each of us was invited to take part in this year’s PEN World Voices festival in New York City, as speakers, moderators and as an honorary co-chair. We have decided not to participate. This letter explains why our conscience leaves us…
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Today we have added the clauses from
iii) Mass expulsion from homes and displacement of Palestinians in Gaza (p. 37-39)
Featuring Susan Sarandon, Adam Bakri, Sepideh Moafi, Wallace Shawn, Maaza Mengiste & Maxine Peake.
In support of South Africa’s historic ICJ case against Israel major actors have come together to read the case file.
Over the coming days we will present over 50 clauses of the comprehensive case South Africa lays out, charging Israel with genocide.
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Today we are adding paragraphs from South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide at the ICJ concerning:
Deprivation of access to water to Palestinians in Gaza.
Paragraphs 66-70 are read by Peter Mullan, Sepideh Moafi, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Kathleen Chalfant and Cynthia…
In support of South Africa’s historic ICJ case against Israel major actors have come together to read the case file.
Over the coming days we will present over 50 clauses of the comprehensive case South Africa lays out, charging Israel with genocide.
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A collective of Palestinians from Gaza and migrant justice advocates in the UK are working for a family visa scheme that builds on the Ukraine Family Scheme model. They need to get 100,000 signatures on this petition to trigger a debate in the UK Parliament. Sign here:…
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Paragraph 80:
At least 570 Palestinians have been killed IN hospitals and healthcare centres in Gaza.
Read by Kendrick Sampson.
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Paragraph 68:
Israel has long hindered the creation and repair of water installation and desalinisation plants in Gaza, such that 95% of water from Gaza’s sole aquifer was already unsuitable for consumption prior to 7 October 2023.
Read by Maisie Richardson-Sellers.
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The livestream link for tonight is:
Broadcasting at 7pm EST.
Final poster for tonight with all relevant information.
See you later, New York.
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Paragraph 70:
"Experts are now predicting that more Palestinians in Gaza may die from starvation and disease than airstrikes."
Read by Cynthia Nixon.
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Ahdaf Soueif & Omar Barghouti in conversation - online - tomorrow afternoon.
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Mahmoud al-Shaer is a poet, editor, youth organiser and founder of the cultural space and magazine, 28 MAGAZINE, in Rafah
His infant son is already in Turkey for a medical condition and he is trying to get his other child out
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Part 3-C-viii) of South Africa's dossier charging Israel with genocide at the ICJ.
IMPOSING MEASURES TO PREVENT PALESTINIAN BIRTHS
Paragraph 96: On the suffering being inflicted on pregnant and birthing women.
Read by
@CynthiaNixon
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Mariam al-Khateeb is a poet and oud player, 20 years old.
Her latest poem, THE LONE SURVIVOR, was written just a few days ago.
Her parents are relying on her to use the internet to get them and her three siblings out.
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It is hard to write more. Nearly every day since we announced our program the Israeli Army has killed someone. How do we talk about a "festival", when there are funerals every day? PalFest begins on Saturday. It's not a celebration, it's a search for new language of resistance.
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Jehad Abu Dayya is a medical student and poet. He got among the top high school grades in the country.
From a family of doctors, their home near al-Shifa hospital has been destroyed.
Homeless now in Rafah, he dreams of completing his studies in Cairo.
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A huge line-up has come together for this event:
Esther Allen, Michelle Alexander, Mohammed Arafat, Mahmoud Alyazji, Kay Gabriel, Nicholas Glastonbury, Sabrina Imbler, Kira Josefsson, Nancy Kricorian, Hari Kunzru, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Eugenia Leigh, Nick Martin, Derecka Purnell,…
At least 70 authors have now dropped out of
@PENAmerica
events in an unprecedented act of solidarity with Palestinian writers.
Today we are announcing an alternative event to mark this collective action, to hear from these authors and from writers from Gaza.
Join us at Judson…
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Paragraph 69:
"Environmental experts have warned that [reports of Israeli plan to flood tunnels] “risks causing an ecological catastrophe”
Read by Kathleen Chalfant.
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Featuring:
Khalid Abdalla, Tunde Adebimpe, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Adam Bakri, Kathleen Chalfant, Steve Coogan, Liam Cunningham, Charles Dance, Stephen Dillane, Inua Ellams, Paapa Essiedu, Lena Headey, Aida El-Kashef, Maaza Mengiste, Tobias Menzies, Sepideh Moafi 1/2
In support of South Africa’s historic ICJ case against Israel major actors have come together to read the case file.
Over the coming days we will present over 50 clauses of the comprehensive case South Africa lays out, charging Israel with genocide.
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“The question for us is this: what does it mean to live in a nation that remains attached to a myth with racism at its heart? These last weeks we have seen very clearly the answer to that.”
Kamila Shamsie - EMPIRE: A GHOST STORY - from our recent event in London.
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Today we have added the clauses from
ii) Causing Serious Bodily and Mental Harm to Palestinians in Gaza (p. 35-37)
Featuring Steve Coogan, Khalid Abdalla, Lena Headey and Natalie Diaz.
In support of South Africa’s historic ICJ case against Israel major actors have come together to read the case file.
Over the coming days we will present over 50 clauses of the comprehensive case South Africa lays out, charging Israel with genocide.
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Paragraph 72:
A letter from the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, the UN agency established to support Palestinian refugees.
"More than 130 UNRWA staff are confirmed killed in bombardments, most with their families. The number might rise by the time you read this"
Read by…
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Israel has damaged or destroyed an estimated 318 Muslim and Christian religious sites so far in Gaza.
Read by Carice van Houten.
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London, don't miss the launch of Ahmed Masoud's new novel, COME WHAT MAY.
He'll be in conversation with Selma Dabbagh at SOAS on May 4th.
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Mayar Nateel has a large, artistic family.
Their home, full of their father’s artwork, has been destroyed, her brother’s home has been destroyed, they “narrowly escaped death several times,” but her sister still dreams of writing her first novel.
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A new poem from Gaza, by Maryam al-Khateeb: THE LONE SURVIVOR.
Like so many young people, Mariam is trying to use the internet to save her family and pay their way out of Gaza.
Please help however you can, including RTs to spread it round.
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"The Israeli Army is destroying the very fabric and basis of Palestinian life in Gaza."
Liam Cunningham reads the conclusion to Section 3-viii) of South Africa's dossier charging Israel with genocide.
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Haidar al-Ghazali is one of the standout young poets of his generation.
A top student nationally, his university has been destroyed. Every university in Gaza has been destroyed.
He is homeless now amidst the rubble of the north.
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A new poem from our friend and colleague Mohammed al-Qudwa.
Thank you to the hundreds of people that contributed to his GoFundMe campaign. He has not been able to access that support yet, or get out of Gaza.
He asked us to publish this new poem.
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Genocidal Statements by Israeli Officials.
The final chapter of our 12-part series going in depth into South Africa’s dossier charging Israel with genocide at the ICJ.
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Paragraph 79:
311 health workers have been killed, including at least 22 killed on duty.
Read by Indya Moore.
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Ticket-holders to the physical event tomorrow please note there is a THIRD VENUE. You have been emailed details.
Voices and events in solidarity with Palestine are being critically suppressed around the world and it has been a challenge to ensure that this event goes ahead.
Tomorrow night, London:
PALFEST PRESENTS: NAKBA, A CENTURY OF SOLIDARITY & RESISTANCE
This event is 100% sold out.
There will be no tickets on the door.
Due to demand, online tickets now available for £2 / free in Palestine.
Click image for tickets.
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Paragraph 75:
Throughout Gaza, there are acute shortages in, warm clothes, bedding, blankets and critical non-food items; acute shortages of water; soaring rates of infectious disease.
"Everywhere you go, people are desperate, hungry and terrified."
Read by Maxine Peake.
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There are 350 Gazans in the UK now who can’t get their family members out from under Israel’s bombs.
This petition has 8 days left to reach 100k signatures - when a proposed Gaza Reunification Scheme would have to be debated in parliament.
Please sign and share widely.…
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Tomorrow night, London:
PALFEST PRESENTS: NAKBA, A CENTURY OF SOLIDARITY & RESISTANCE
This event is 100% sold out.
There will be no tickets on the door.
Due to demand, online tickets now available for £2 / free in Palestine.
Click image for tickets.
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A major poet of the Arab world, Mourid Barghouti spoke to the entirety of the human condition. But with his prose, I Saw Ramallah, he brought the Palestinian condition to the world.
Here he is at our first event in Ramallah. We mourn a dear friend and a great poet.
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"We, the undersigned artists and writers based in the EU, the UK and the US, are speaking out to demand an end to the violence and destruction in Palestine."
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Published today: THE STONE HOUSE by the brilliant Yara Hawari (
@yarahawari
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Yet another very interesting title from new players
@hajarpress
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v) DEPRIVATION OF ACCESS TO ADEQUATE SHELTER, CLOTHES, HYGIENE & SANITATION
Paragraph 71:
The majority of the 1,900,000 displaced people are seeking shelter in UNRWA facilities, but these locations are not safe.
Read by Maisie Richardson-Sellers.
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Powerful new piece from
@NaomiAKlein
on Jonathan Glazer's ZONE OF INTEREST and how - those at a safe enough distance - must resist Israel's killing becoming "ambient" as genocidal "patterns - the wall, the ghetto, the mass killing, the repeatedly stated eliminationist intent, the…
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