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@PalFest
Palestine Festival of Literature
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BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history. https://t.co/SGewfi4DYn
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@asoueif
Ahdaf Soueif
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Near the Freedom Theatre, Jenin, now. @PalFest
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شبكة قدس الإخبارية
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دمار هائل قرب مسرح الحرية في الحارة الغربية لمخيم جنين، حيث دمر الاحتلال أكثر من 10 وحدات سكنية وشق طريق جديد بالحي.
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@PalFest
Palestine Festival of Literature
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Nour Elassy was one of the very lucky few to be evacuated from Gaza and has just arrived in Paris. This crowdfunding campaign to cover her studies at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris only needs €2,000 more. https://t.co/64DHfjl3pZ
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      Nour Elassy est une écrivaine et journaliste palestinienne. Née en septembre 2002 dans le quartier d'Al-Tuffah, au nord de Gaza, elle a vécu avec sa famille jusqu'à leur déplacement forcé en...
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@DanielSeidemann
Daniel Seidemann
3 months
It's endless and bottomless.
@LPJerusalem
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem
3 months
بيان صحفي أولي من البطريركية اللاتينية - Press Release of Latin Patriarchate
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@WARSCAPES
Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social
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Absolutely stunning package in the mail today from The Palfest Bookshelf @PalFest Two books about the one and only Ghassan Kanafani. Importantly, really moved and grateful to have Anni Kanafani’s lovely book about her husband who was taken so soon and so brutally. The PLO
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@arablit
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social
6 months
Read & share.
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@Lama_writes4u
Lama
6 months
@SidhePress just released an anthology on Grief titled “To Lay Sun Into a Forest”. I have contributed a poem “My Father, A Refugee” All proceeds from the sales of the anthology will be sent by Sidhe Press to @sameerproject in Gaza. To order: https://t.co/yRgFcWPqXq
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@sharifkouddous
Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس
6 months
While most attention is on Gaza and less so on places like Jenin, Israel is also driving Palestinians off their land in the Jordan Valley in occupied West Bank through bureaucratic restrictions, denial of access to resources, & increasing settler violence https://t.co/e5G5uMTJLG
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In the occupied West Bank, Israeli restrictions on movement for Palestinians, denial of access to resources, and settlement expansion have all ramped up over the past 18 months.
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@MosabAbuToha
Mosab Abu Toha
6 months
Artist Deem Zurub who drew the martyrs got killed an hour ago.
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@AbubakerAbedW
Abubaker Abed
6 months
Israel is literally bombing everywhere: Gaza, east Gaza, north Gaza, central Gaza, Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, Rafah, and Al-Mwasi. It’s getting sharper every day, with no reduction at all.
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@MouinRabbani
Mouin Rabbani
6 months
Mark Zuckerberg is yet another self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, a typically fraudulent moniker which in practice translates as DEI and a container ship of steroids for me, but none for thee: "The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by
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@EyeonPalestine
Eye on Palestine
6 months
An Israeli air strike hits the headquarters of the Deir Al Balah municipality, central Gaza Strip.
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@jeremyscahill
jeremy scahill
6 months
Statement from the Diocese of Jerusalem on Israel's bombing of Al Ahli Hospital. The Israeli attack also damaged St. Philip's Church https://t.co/V0sf7Dggj1
@MuntherIsaac
Munther Isaac منذر اسحق
6 months
Palm Sunday in Gaza: Al Ahli Hospital attacked
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@ezzingaza
Dr. Ezzideen
6 months
Do you know what unsettles me most about this war? Not just the bombs. Not just the starvation. Not just the cold, calculated siege of two million souls. It’s the silence. It’s the choking, complicit silence of a world that once branded the 20th century as the “century of
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@gazamaps
Gaza Maps
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Medical facilities overlayed over the IDF designated kill zone map. Many are now off-limits to Palestinians. 62.3% of Gaza (227.5 sq km) is IDF designated kill zone.
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@gazamaps
Gaza Maps
6 months
Places Israel ordered emptied of Palestinians since it restarted the mass-killing, includes both the buffer zone as well as forced displacement orders. Israel ordered over 60% of Gaza off-limits to Palestinians. Note: Does not yet include 2nd displacement order from today.
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@PalFest
Palestine Festival of Literature
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An important project - support it if you can.
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@gazanotice
Gaza Notifications
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🚨Update :The Israeli army killed Judge Amjad Sharab, a judge at the Gaza Court of First Instance, along with his daughter Jumana, in a strike that targeted the vicinity of the Public Service Hospital in central Gaza City.
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@bulaqbooks
Bulaq
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In this episode, author, commentator and human rights advocate Khaled Mansour joins us to talk about how reading Arab women’s memoirs can help one gain a new understanding of the region’s collective history. With a focus on Leila Khaled's memoir: https://t.co/df33lN64Zl
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@MustafaBarghou1
Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti
6 months
The 8 little Palestinian children massacred in a single Israeli attack on Shujaiya yesterday .
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