My latest in the Guardian where I argue that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social position on Palestine was not a liability, but that the Palestine movement and its organizers are why he won. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
They're going to destroy the Department of Veterans Affairs, specifically the VA healthcare system. Firing this many employees will render it effectively unusable by increasing patient wait times to the point of uselessness.
The United States is under attack and Senate Democrats are still voting to confirm Trump's nominees
Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care.
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...
Okay, but besides cutting military aid, or conditioning it, or stifling action against Israel at the UN, or the ICC, or the EU, or recognizing Palestinian statehood, or stopping direct military assistance in the Gulf, or enforcing our own laws—what could the US ACTUALLY do?
At some point liberals are going to start saying, okay there was a genocide but it’s really the fault of the left for how annoying they were about pointing it out
Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...
Today marks 300 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her in Gaza.
For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing.
How they’ve responded is shocking.
Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...
Why would you give a quote that's both inscrutable and makes you look bad?
“Academic leaders and campus officials canceled the exhibit due to concerns about guaranteeing the integrity of the exhibit for its duration.” — Indiana University spox
Almost half of the 23,357 Gazans killed by Israel since October 7th have been children.
New column for @thenation.com is about a dubious narrative, provided by the Israelis and needed by Biden, portraying a protracted war on Gaza as deescalation, even as ever more of the Middle East becomes a battlefield.
Is it possible to fly a flag at twice-staff?
"A British-Palestinian surgeon who treated patients at Gaza hospitals estimates that between 700 to 900 children have had limbs amputated since the war broke out."
Teaching incarcerated people as part of the Bard Prison Initiative was one of the more rewarding experiences of my life. Great that NY has started lifting barriers to education in prison. Hope other states follow suit
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/o...
I have resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine. The Israeli state's U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers. The world, the future, our hearts everything grows smaller and harder from from it. This is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is the ongoing devastation of the people of Palestine, people who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture. Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won't write about poetry alongside the "reasonable" tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to unreasonable suffering. No more g
Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”
New FOREVER WARS: The Pentagon confirmed today that 5 US soldiers who died Friday in what was described as a training mission in the eastern Mediterranean were with the super-elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. Their deaths were downstream of Israel's war on Gaza. So I observe,
I hope to raise my kids to be ambitious—not to think about war, missiles, rockets. Every day, I see a fear in their eyes that I can’t do much about. It’s very painful. If you have kids, you know how horrible it is not to be able to comfort them, to ensure they are alright, to make them hope for anything beyond living one more day. We want to live freely like other people—to grow scientifically and economically, to walk in the street without fearing bombardments, to make plans. We want to be able to learn, think, grow, travel, dream—to feel like we are really human. Not to think only about meeting our basic needs. This is what life has always been about for us, and now—I want the world to know—we are being eradicated en masse. This is not what life should look like.
Two weeks ago, Jewish Currents interviewed three doctors in Gaza to show the world the direness of their situation. The story was just updated to reflect one of the doctors was killed by an airstrike in his own home, making this quote even more gutting. jewishcurrents.org/we-have-lost...
"“It is dangerous for us, even the medical staff, to look out the window. We are so afraid of the shooting.”
Staff at Gaza's main hospital told me that they have moved 600 patients and themselves to shelter in the corridors, fearing standing next to windows in case they are shot.
International Humanitarian Law is explicitly clear that hospitals and medical personnel must be protected. Attacks on hospitals are attacks on humanity.
Take action to uphold our shared humanity by demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/canada-must-...
“When Israeli political actors gesture to their founding trauma as justification….they are making this perverse exchange: recognition of their traumas in exchange for political recognition as an imperial nation-state in a late colonial war no one will win”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
"We're on the fourth floor, there's a sniper who attacked four patients inside the hospital. One of them has a gunshot wound directly in his neck, and he is a quadriplegic patient, and the other one was shot in the abdomen."
Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital Gaza.
We need a ceasefire now.
If final tweets are memorials, what happens when they disappear? It's a pressing question as social media posts from Gaza become epitaphs while providing documentation of war crimes
This Public Books essay builds on my book, focusing on the ethical and environmental impacts of the forever cloud
