AMPLIFY PALESTINE RESOURCE ROUND-UP

last updated Nov. 1, 2023

Some Palestinian voices on social media

@JehadAbusalim * @4noura * @m7mdkurd * @MariamBarghouti * @YousefMunayyer * @remroum * On the ground in Gaza: @MosabAbuToha * @byplestia * @omar_gaza * @MahaGaza * @WhateverInGaza * @shawajason * @MaramGhaza * @alMezanCenter * @MushtahaW * @GhassanAbuSitt1 * @Hind_Gaza * @MohammedZaanoun * @azaizamotaz9 * @wizardbisan

Artist and writer statements

Writers Against the War on Gaza, Statement of Solidarity – October 26, 2023

Kehlani, Anoushka Shankar, Sandra Oh, Michael Stipe et al., Statement, Artists for Ceasfire

Nan Goldin, Kara Walker, et al., Open Letter from the Art Community to Cultural Organizations – Artforum, October 19, 2023

Sally Rooney, Jonathan Lethem, Viet Thanh Nguyen et al., Open Letter on the Situation in Palestine – London Review of Books, October 18, 2023

Tilda Swinton, Charles Dance, Maxine Peake et al., 2000+ Artists Call for Gaza Ceasefire – Artists for Palestine UK, October 17, 2023 

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Molly Crabapple, Natalie Diaz, Maaza Mengiste, Solmaz Sharif, et al., An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature – New York Review of Books – October 14, 2023

Readings (short list)

Saree Makdisi, No Human Being Can Exist – n+1 Magazine, October 25, 2023
if you read only one piece, read this from Saree Makdisi

Craig Mokhiber, letter of resignation as Director of the NY Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights – October 28, 2023

Hala Alyan, Why Must Palestinians Audition for Your Empathy? – New York Times, October 25, 2023

Noura Erakat in conversation with Deborah Chasman, The Crimes Are Plenty – Boston Review, October 13, 2023 

Stefanie Fox, A Jewish Plea: Stand Up to Israel’s Act of Genocide – Boston Review, October 13, 2023 

Raz Segal, A Textbook Case of Genocide – Jewish Currents, October 13, 2023

Additional readings

Angela Davis, Saul Williams, noname et al., Black Solidarity with Gaza – #CeasefireNow – Black for Palestine, October 30, 2023

Neve Gordon, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank – London Review of Books, October 30, 2023

Dionne Brand, prologue for now – Gaza (poem) – Jewish Currents, October 27, 2023

Esmat Elhalaby, Our Siege Is Long – Public Books, October 27, 2023

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Nick Estes, Krystal Two Bulls et al., Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine – October 27, 2023

Rashid Khalidi (interview), A Desperate Situation Getting More Desperate – the Drift, October 24, 2023

Hala Alyan, Some Thoughts, October 11, 2023 

Google and Amazon Workers in the #NoTechforApartheid Campaign, statement – October 10, 2023

Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba, What Preceded the Killings in Israel and Gaza Was Not “Peace” – It Was Apartheid – Truthout, October 10, 2023

Noura Erakat, The Violence of Demanding Perfect Victims – Jadaliyya, October 10, 2023

Gideon Levy, Israel Can’t Imprison 2 Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price – Haaretz, October 9, 2023 (non-paywalled repost)

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze (Haymarket, 2022)

Kaleem Hawa, review of Rashid Khalidi’s The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 – the Nation, August 10/17, 2020

Mizna – Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America – Free Palestine Issue, Vol. 19.2, 2018