Sara Yasin
@sarayasin.bsky.social
palestinian-american raised on a steady diet of hummus and fried chicken. editor-in-chief, the key (a palfest production) www.sarayasin.com
I hope you read this vital, powerful writing from @reproutopia.bsky.social in today's edition of The Key: "This is what it looks like when a society has settled the question of who counts as rapeable – which is to say, who counts as human." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...
“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide
The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.
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I have a major piece up today at The Key. It's about Israel, parsing the rape baked into Zionism's core grammar. I speak of trained dogs; Screams Without Words; Sde Teiman; the Tomer-Yerushalmi affair; and the Palestinian Feminist Collective on sexual violence's centrality to reproductive genocide.
1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
Abdullah Al-Arian wrote for us about Palestine as a phantom presence at the World Cup: “If one were to look beyond the carefully curated and sanitized scenes that surround every global mega-event, Palestine was everywhere.” www.thekeymagazine.com/p/world-cup-...
Palestine at the World Cup: Everywhere and Nowhere
FIFA and its hosts erased Palestine from the tournament, but fans and players made it impossible to ignore.
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"Here, your heart is an alarm steeped in salt. And if it beats violently, do not threaten it with calm." "Guidelines for Life in a City Howling by the Sea" - Mariam Al Khateeb www.thekeymagazine.com/p/new-poem-m...
Guidelines for Life in a City Resounding Against the Sea
Guidelines for Life in a City Resounding Against the Sea
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We can finally share the Arabic version of Ibrahim Matar's "Notes From A Doctor Witnessing The Genocide In Gaza" (beehiiv back end is not friendly to Arabic, unfortunately 😭) www.thekeymagazine.com/p/genocide-g...
مذكّرات طبيب شاهد على الحرب من مشافي غزة
"سمعت أصوات الفاقدين وهم يصرخون بأقوى ما يقدرون حتى تنجرح حلوقهم"
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so many powerful quotes in this profile (w/phenomenal photos by Maen Hammad), but I was most struck by this www.thekeymagazine.com/p/walid-daqq...
Issue 010 is live! Sanaa Salameh sits down with The Key to talk about carrying her husband's legacy, the prison movement, and the release of his first major posthumous work, "The Ticket Seller" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/walid-daqq...
Walid Daqqa Is Still Here
A conversation with Sanaa Salameh about preserving her husband's legacy, the prison movement and the release of "The Ticket Seller," Daqqa's
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It was a great honor to have this portrait of Mona Khalil in this publication. And please do subscribe to The Key, an incredible resource from @palfest.bsky.social
Sara Yasin@sarayasin.bsky.social · last mo.If you have The Key in your inbox, you also received this beautiful portrait of Mona Khalil, drawn by @djolder.bsky.social
If you have The Key in your inbox, you also received this beautiful portrait of Mona Khalil, drawn by @djolder.bsky.social
Can I drink water polluted with history? Can I drink the earth’s memory? My brother stares into me holding his cupful, saying “We all drank.” I reply, “I have had enough. I already drank my history.” Maryam Qawwash in The Key www.thekeymagazine.com/p/maryam-qaw...
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Why does polling data show support for Israel amongst ordinary Nigerians? The answer lies in the politics of oil, the power of the pulpit, an inadequately resolved civil war and its aftermath, plus a left that no longer exists www.thekeymagazine.com/p/nigeria-is...
Why the Giant of Africa Loves Israel
How did Nigeria – a country that’s half Muslim – become one of the most pro-Israel nations in the world? The answer lies in oil, the pulpit, a civil war, and a left that no longer exists.
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Issue 007 of THE KEY is live now with: - A photo essay from Ahmed al-Bazz on the erasure of Palestine. - 2 new poems from Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. - A profile of political prisoner, Umer Khalid. - Zena Hashem Beck on living through Israel's bombardment of Lebanon from afar. www.thekeymagazine.com
Zeina Hashem Beck writes, in this stirring piece from Issue 007 of The Key, about how Israel's assault on Lebanon ripples across space and time. Read it here: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/zena-hashe...
We asked one of the most eminent human rights lawyers in the world, Geoffrey Robertson KC, to write about the sentencing of the "Elbit Four" as terrorists and the dangerous precedents being set by the Starmer government. 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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NEW: 92NY was set to host a celebration in honor of Allen Ginsberg's life, but had to quietly cancel it after two of the biggest names on the bill withdrew over the venue's pro-Israel stance www.thekeymagazine.com/p/92ny-israe...
“We should be having memorials to our own lack of conscience.” New York’s 92NY Loses Ginsberg Centennial After Authors Withdraw.
How artists' rejection of US empire and Israeli genocide is redrawing New York City's cultural geography.
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Today in The Key we have a blistering critique on terrorism sentences from Geoffrey Robertson KC, the founding head of the law firm that built Keir Starmer's career 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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An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
“You wouldn’t know if the reason is that we have a different sense of how cinema works or we have a different sense of what genocide is.” @alexnpress.bsky.social on Hollywood's invisible blacklist: lareviewofbooks.org/article/holl...
Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist | Los Angeles Review of Books
Perfecting the art of the blacklist.
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So honored to publish this with @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social + @economichardship.bsky.social ♥️🙌 bsky.app/profile/sara...
Sara Yasin@sarayasin.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe genocide in Gaza has hit Hollywood as a political issue, but it has also played out as a labor question–making it difficult for workers to know if vanished opportunities reflect retaliation or simply an industry in free fall. @alexnpress.bsky.social reports www.thekeymagazine.com/p/hollywood-...
The genocide in Gaza has hit Hollywood as a political issue, but it has also played out as a labor question–making it difficult for workers to know if vanished opportunities reflect retaliation or simply an industry in free fall. @alexnpress.bsky.social reports www.thekeymagazine.com/p/hollywood-...
Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist
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Great conversation with @sarayasin.bsky.social, editor in chief of The Key, about leaving the LA Times/legacy media and exploring the difficult dynamic of changing an institution from within. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
A New Path For Reporting On Palestine ft. Sara Yasin
Podcast Episode · The Study Hall Podcast · May 18 · 44m
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Billionaires are propping up right-wing media mouthpieces with no real organic audience. Bezos bankrolled an (embarrassing) new Post opinion desk, Ellison shelled out for Bari Weiss, and is looking to again with Katie Miller. It’s obvious why. My latest @status.news www.status.news/p/katie-mill...
Subsidizing MAGA Mouthpieces
Billionaire media owners are pouring money into little-watched MAGA-friendly podcasts and video ventures in hopes of currying favor with the administration.
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LA news outlets have done a really poor job covering Pratt’s mayoral campaign and history of junk claims. Here’s TMZ breaking the news that Pratt has actually been living in a Bel Air hotel and not the trailer as he claimed in the viral ad www.tmz.com/2026/05/13/s...
Spencer Pratt Staying at Bel Air Hotel, Not Airstream Trailer
8:31 AM PT -- We asked Spencer if he has ever lived in the trailer, and he said no, adding, "I have never told anyone I lived there." However, in the campaign ad, he says squarely, "This is where I li...
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I had the honor of being in conversation with with my great friend, the scholar Tareq Baconi, about HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY everythingispolitical.com/readings/mol...
Molly Crabapple In Conversation with Tareq Baconi
When artist and writer Molly Crabapple set out to research the Eastern European Jewish Labor Bund–the revolutionary, socialist, and unapologetically anti-Zionist movement that swept through Eastern Eu...
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Issue 005 of The Key is here! Today we have the honor of publishing Husam Maarouf's profile of Omar Hamad and the newly-opened Phoenix Library in Gaza www.thekeymagazine.com/p/phoenix-li...
Gaza’s Phoenix Library Rises
Omar Hamad saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them.
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