"In Gaza, the wounded care for the critically wounded; the exhausted carry those who can no longer stand." @rrgould.bsky.social writes about one Gaza community’s ongoing struggle to care for the orphaned, wounded, and the displaced amid Israel’s genocide: dawnmena.org/israel-attac...

Few artists have been as intertwined with a struggle & so beloved by the people fighting as Sliman Mansour. Sadly, he has passed at age 79. In 2023, he told @hyperallergic.com: "Our fight now is to tell the world that we are full human beings…We are not less than any other people in the world.”

Sliman Mansour, Painter of Palestinian Hope and Humanity, Dies at 79

"Our fight now is to tell the world that we are full human beings," Mansour told Hyperallergic in 2023. "We are not less than any other people in the world.”

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If you read one thing about Jason Arday (RIP) and the vicious media onslaught against him, make it this. “His rise and fall expose the moral bankruptcy of a system that wants the appearance of racial progress without the work of structural change.” open.substack.com/pub/paulddf/...

Who Killed Jason Arday?

Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a...

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This morning a boat named Kate set sail for Gaza from Bristol’s Harbour as part of the Freedom Flotilla. May they reach their destination! www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea... youtube.com/shorts/6MpFo...

I found the racism of my black Irish childhood embarrassing. Now it has given way to fear. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I found the racism of my black Irish childhood embarrassing. Now it has given way to fear

Growing up in Waterford, I naively believed Ireland might sidestep the entrenched divisions of its near neighbours

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If you read one thing about Jason Arday (RIP) and the vicious media onslaught against him, make it this. “His rise and fall expose the moral bankruptcy of a system that wants the appearance of racial progress without the work of structural change.” open.substack.com/pub/paulddf/...

Who Killed Jason Arday?

Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a...

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It says a lot about which academic stories get media coverage that multiple non-academics I know asked me about the Jason Arday story, but no one I know outside of the academy had heard about the University of Minnesota paying $250,000 for rescinding a job offer to Raz Segal due to donor pressure.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2w ago

Man, I only just caught with this story. What a tragic ending. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/afdfd24...

I wrote about how medical & rescue workers in Gaza must care for others even when they are wounded themselves. The incidents described here took place in July. Just yesterday, the same rescue worker was attacked again. The genocide continues. “Ceasefire” is a lie open.substack.com/pub/rgould/p...

In Gaza, Even Broken Ribs Are Not Enough Reason to Rest

How the wounded kept caring for the displaced when Israel attacked Gaza’s Abu Asi Orphan Camp

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I wrote about how medical & rescue workers in Gaza must care for others even when they are wounded themselves. The incidents described here took place in July. Just yesterday, the same rescue worker was attacked again. The genocide continues. “Ceasefire” is a lie open.substack.com/pub/rgould/p...

In Gaza, Even Broken Ribs Are Not Enough Reason to Rest

How the wounded kept caring for the displaced when Israel attacked Gaza’s Abu Asi Orphan Camp

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@rrgould.bsky.social : In Gaza, Even Broken Ribs Are Not Enough Reason to Rest 💔 medium.com/global-liter...

In Gaza, Even Broken Ribs Are Not Enough Reason to Rest

How the wounded kept caring for the displaced when Israel attacked Gaza’s Abu Asi Orphan Camp

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For the last 2 years, I've been directing a secret project, helping Raja Shehadeh safeguard the diaries he has written daily since teenage - literally millions of words, going back six decades. It's quite a story. Join us: > Thu 3 Sep > 3pm UK time > Free to register: llc.ed.ac.uk/raja-shehadeh

From Palestine to Scotland: Celebrating the Raja Shehadeh Archive | Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World | Literatures Languages and Culture

Join internationally acclaimed Palestinian writer, lawyer and activist Raja Shehadeh on 3 September 2026 as he marks the accession of his extraordinary personal archive to the University of Edinburgh'...

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Those who ran the Abu Asi Orphan Camp knew their circumstances were abnormal. "Yet genocide is anything but normal," writes @rrgould.bsky.social in @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social's Democracy in Exile, sharing the story of those who kept 3,000 families sheltered, fed and alive. dawnmena.org/israel-attac...

Israel Attacked Gaza's Abu Asi Orphan Camp. The Wounded Kept Caring for the Displaced. - DAWN

When Mohammad returned to their shelter in the Abu Asi Orphan Camp in Al Bureij, central Gaza, in June 2025, Sara knew her brother would not listen to her plea for him to rest. Only hours earlier, Isr...

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Eighteen years ago today, Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s national poet, passed away. Through his poetry, he gave voice to exile, identity, memory, and belonging, becoming one of the most influential figures in modern Arabic literature. Read his biography on #PalQuest: www.palquest.org/en/biography...

Mahmoud Darwish - Poets (1941 - 2008)

Biography - Mahmoud Darwish was born on 13 March 1941 in the village of Birwa (Acre district) to Salim Darwish and Huriyya al-Biqa‘i. He was the second child in...

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Meanwhile,while no one is paying attention: www.middleeasteye.net/news/cambrid...

Exclusive: Cambridge University backtracks on divesting from arms companies

University investment body quietly shelved plan for at least partial divestment from weapons companies, sources say

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The Gaza Strip concentration camp, nowadays. #neverforget

With the upcoming 89th anniversary of Paolo Iashvili setting an end to his life, on July 22, here my article on why this act matters. (Some will visit his grave, there also will be a reading of his poetry on that evening in Sololaki.) @rrgould.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hansgutb...

Paolo Iashvili and the Writer’s House of Georgia

Reupping an article on one of Georgia's most important poets that has only become more relevant since it first came out. Mark July 22 on your calendars.

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I was honored to endorse Stray Bullet, a collection of 8 poems by Marah Al-Khatib. Buy it and spread the word about this wonderful initiative to support writers in Gaza from Costal Lines Press www.coastallinespress.com/p/stray-bullet

Join us at SOAS as a new Lecturer in Arabic Literature at SOAS (0.4 FTE, fixed term until 31.8.2029) This role involves teaching, advising students of Arabic and supervising dissertations in Arabic literature, Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/910500

We need to protest more to get this doctor released from his Israeli Hell hole.

Oh my goodness looooooook they printed your messages and hung them in Spark Space for the kids to see 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Over 70 folks have sent a hopeful note to students taking exams in Gaza. Submit yours: tiny.cc/sparkstudents

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · 3mo ago

Mkay pals we’re ✨ hopemaxxing ✨ Yall already know Spark, a youth-led mutual aid project in Gaza City. They’re hosting dozens of high school students prepping for exams this month! We’re collecting YOUR notes of encouragement for these amazing kids! Send hope: form.jotform.com/261667705466...

We're just an employee-owned audiobook company, standing in front of readers, asking them to make the switch so they can support their indie bookstore with every audiobook purchase 💓 (We're also a Certified B Corp, offer DRM-free audiobooks, & have 600,000+ to choose from.)

“I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die.” That’s a direct quote from an Israeli soldier to a Palestinian parent, referenced in a new UN report. The report states clearly: Israel’s military is deliberately killing Palestinian children.

Drones and decomposing babies: What's in UN report on Israel's genocide of Palestinian children

Israel has killed over 20,000 Palestinian children since 7 October 2023. The UN has detailed instances of torture, rape and murder in a landmark report

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Do read Mohammad Mhawish’s unforgettable account of life under surveillance during the genocide in @nymag.com. As one of his interviewees says: “It is not death that we fear. It is the terror that comes before it.” nymag.com/intelligence...

Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza

Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.

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Do read Mohammad Mhawish’s unforgettable account of life under surveillance during the genocide in @nymag.com. As one of his interviewees says: “It is not death that we fear. It is the terror that comes before it.” nymag.com/intelligence...

Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza

Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.

nymag.com

Good news! Sang Hea Kil, one of the first professors to be fired from a public university in connection with the protests against the Gaza genocide has won back her job www.kqed.org/news/1208842...

San José State Professor Fired Over Campus Gaza Protests To Win Back Job | KQED

Sang Hea Kil is one of the first full-time, tenured professors to be fired from a public U.S. university in connection with the protests.

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Good news! Sang Hea Kil, one of the first professors to be fired from a public university in connection with the protests against the Gaza genocide has won back her job www.kqed.org/news/1208842...

San José State Professor Fired Over Campus Gaza Protests To Win Back Job | KQED

Sang Hea Kil is one of the first full-time, tenured professors to be fired from a public U.S. university in connection with the protests.

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According to Stop Murdering -journalists site, Israel had killed 324 journalists and other media personnel in Palestine, 322 of them in Gaza, since October 7th 2023. Now the number is 325. stopmurderingjournalists.com?location=gaz...

Stop Murdering Journalists - Databases for Palestine

Israel is on a journalist mass-murdering spree.

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Geoffrey Robertson: “ The Elbit 4 case is larger than they are. The British state has redefined civil disobedience as terrorism – lengthening sentences, stripping prison privileges, and marking dissenters for life – as a result of a finding made in secret” www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...

Punishing Protest as Terrorism

The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest

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Geoffrey Robertson: “ The Elbit 4 case is larger than they are. The British state has redefined civil disobedience as terrorism – lengthening sentences, stripping prison privileges, and marking dissenters for life – as a result of a finding made in secret” www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...

Punishing Protest as Terrorism

The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest

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Here are some thoughts on the new Court of Appeal Palestine Action ruling, written with @alangreene.bsky.social and @colinmurray.bsky.social for @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/palestine-ac...