Justice for Palestine

Two Poems from Gaza, April 2025

Two Poems from Gaza, April 2025

FOOTSTEPS RUNNING AWAY FROM THEMSELVES Rapid under the feet of children whogrew up too soonand changed their shoesand their featuresin a hurry Time was rushinglike the ambulancesstruggling to run after explosions In the streets that tear their clothesand the birds that change their shapes There is death on both sidesand death is . . .

Read More
Starvation, Resistance, Love

Starvation, Resistance, Love

Photo courtesy of the Author Something that makes me fall in love with Gaza even more each day is the unspoken I-have-little-you-have-little-let’s-share-it attitude that thrives among households. I have a neighbour, a wife and mother of five, whose financial situation is visibly difficult. Yet from the very first day I moved into . . .

Read More
Oxford Union President on the Israel-Palestine Debate

Oxford Union President on the Israel-Palestine Debate

Photo credit: Oxford Union In my final week as President of the Oxford Union, former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf – the first Muslim to hold the office – began his address in the House Chamber to me with these words: “You’ve not had the easiest time as president, and I’m saying . . .

Read More
An Open Letter from Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil

An Open Letter from Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/SWinxy. This letter was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil from ICE Detention in Louisiana to his lawyer over the phone. My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and . . .

Read More
On Eavesdropping During the “War”

On Eavesdropping During the “War”

These days—the days of the genocide on Palestinians—I go to coffeeshops. Instead of reading a book, I scroll through my phone and witness in real time the death and destruction of Palestinians and Palestine. My people and my homeland. At times, when I hear the word Palestine, I start to eavesdrop. After the news . . .

Read More
A New Generation is Emerging, and Gaza is their Compass

A New Generation is Emerging, and Gaza is their Compass

Lecture by Rashid Al-Khalidi at the University of Vienna, May, 2024. Photo courtesy of Sofia Bempeza Let me tell you a story about how working on knowledge production about Palestine in Austria is walking on a minefield. You can (and will) encounter a wave of ignorance and hatred that may explode your . . .

Read More
No Longer

No Longer

Photo by Hosny Salah, from Pixabay The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip, which is a war crime.                                                                                                     . . .

Read More
Why Doesn’t the Sky Love Us?

Why Doesn’t the Sky Love Us?

Lisa Suhair Majaj in Amman, Jordan, circa 1968.Photo courtesy of the author. Through the tent flap the child saw bomb-lightstreak the sky, heard the drum of thunderthat was not thunder. She should have beentoo young to grasp the proximity of death,but this was Gaza. She asked her mother pensively, What if I . . .

Read More
Who Are Universities For?

Who Are Universities For?

Leyla Moushbeck and friends at the protest on May 7. Photo courtesy of the author Around midnight on May 7, 2024, I was arrested on the UMass campus alongside over 130 students, faculty and fellow community members. Up until the moment of my arrest, I’d been sitting on the ground, singing protest . . .

Read More
June Jordan on Israel and Lebanon: A Response to Adrienne Rich

June Jordan on Israel and Lebanon: A Response to Adrienne Rich

I was born a Black womanand nowI am become a Palestinianagainst the relentless laughter of evilthere is less and less living roomand where are my loved ones?        —June Jordan, Moving Towards Home Editor’s note: June Jordan wrote this poem in 1982, after Sabra and Shatila. This week, as the world marked . . .

Read More

Search the Site


Search the Archives

Sign up to stay in touch

Get the latest news and publications from MR delivered to your inbox.