Anima Adjepong (Photo courtesy of the author) IN HER ACCEPTANCE SPEECH for the DNC’s nomination, Kamala Harris promised to secure the nation’s borders and to advance U.S. security and values abroad. She assured voters that under her leadership, America will have “the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.” The expansion . . .
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It is ludicrous that keynote speakers for a party campaigning on freedom and democracy would be silent about the genocide in Gaza, where Palestinians are being subjected to daily bombardment and unimaginable suffering. It’s infuriating that the DNC would ignore the children of Gaza, who are being starved at the fastest rate . . .
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I have crossed an oceanI have lost my tongueFrom the root of the old oneA new one has sprung Epilogue, Grace Nichols (Please donate to the Grenada Disaster Fund) Caribbean hybrid identities are characterized by survival and creativity out of monumental loss, including various languages from Arawakan, to Patois to Kreyòl. But very rarely are Caribbean people . . .
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The UMass4Palestine press conference in front of the Eastern Hampshire County Courthouse in Massachusetts, July 17, 2024. Photo: courtesy of UMass FJP. On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a member of the US Air Force, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest the U.S. . . .
Read Moreschutzbunker she says sternly facing us on tagesshau public television paid with our taxes both parts of this untranslatable german noun a blatant lie there is no bunker in gaza for the maimed, hurt, terrorized, killed, abandoned, starving, crazy with terror and fear palestinian all-gender people and their children nor is there . . .
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Willy-Brandt-Platz, Frankfurt, 03.02.2024. Banner reads: “Stop the criminalisation of Palestinian resistance and solidarity” Attribution: conceptphoto.info, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vogliamo Tutto Since I wrote “Staatsraison: Dispatch From Germany” six months ago, Germany has seen an avalanche of staatsraison attacks, supported across the political spectrum. These attacks have often been mobilized and . . .
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Photo: Free Derry/ Palestine (crop), by Ktoma. CC BY-SA 3.0 When the Tree rises up, the branchesShall flourish green and fresh in the sunThe laughter of the Tree shall leafBeneath the sunAnd birds shall returnUndoubtedly, the birds shall return. —Fadwa Tuqan, from “The Deluge and the Tree” The very title of Adam . . .
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“What killed my son Abboud wasn’t just an American missile fired by an Israeli pilot. What killed my son was a regime whose very existence is defined by and built on expulsion and genocide.” – Ahmed Abu Artema, co-organizer of Gaza’s Great March of Return Gaza is asking all of us: . . .
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I met Haya Abu Nasser in January 2024 under the auspices of We Are Not Numbers, a youth-led literary mentorship program founded in Gaza in 2015. We Are Not Numbers, or WANN as it is called by its members, pairs young Palestinians who are writing in English with international mentors. The goal is . . .
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(Repressive State Apparatus in action 5/7/2024, FJP photo) I have been a history professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for twenty years. On May 7, I was one of a handful of faculty members arrested for standing in support of hundreds of students who were engaged in nonviolent protest of university . . .
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