So many reasons I feel strongly about this. But setting moral and political specifics aside and just focussing on the question of what issues are and are not within the remit of Society of Authors I am grateful for this clarification of the facts from yara rodrigues fowler and Sarah Bernstein:

Does anyone else remember Kent State? Thinking about it, listening to Neil Young’s ‘Ohio’.

I hope we never forget this depravity. And I hope we never forget that when we had the opportunity to speak out against this depravity, we did not hide behind “objectivity” and our privileged positions in the world.

Sarah Bernstein & I have written a short article for Verso Books about the vote on supporting a ceasefire at the Society of Authors EGM on the 2nd May.

Now is the time for us - as writers - to unite for Palestine & make sure our union represent us

versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

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Openly Jewish people marching in London.

FOR IMMEDIATE CIRCULATION
Statement on the Arrest of Hebrew University Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Around 5 pm on Thursday, April 18, 2024, Hebrew University professor and internationally renowned feminist scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested by Israeli police…

If you support a genocide, you can be a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

But if you are a vocal opponent of a genocide, you cannot be a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem because you are 'inciting to violence.'

Can't make this shit up. Welcome to Israel.

Both the Times and the BBC continue to employ this deranged, hate-filled racist. Shameful.

76 years ago today, Zionists carried out a massacre at Deir Yassin. youtube.com/watch?v=NE7TAd…

“After six months of war, I fear we may lose Palestine completely” -
Raja Shehadeh’s article in the The Guardian today:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Ghassan Kanafani—the Palestinian resistance writer and revolutionary politician who produced some of the Arab world’s most celebrated works of fiction before he was assassinated in 1972—was born on this day in 1936.

Here is a brief remembrance:

Literary Hub

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Miriam Margolyes speaks for me. Maureen Lipman doesn’t.

Latest reports:
Children killed in #Gaza ? 13,800
Say it slowly. Latest reports are that Thirteen Thousand Eight Hundred CHILDREN have been killed.
Enough!
Ceasefire.

Ousman Noor UN Human Rights Palestinian women power!! Go go go!

#AlshifaHospitalMassacre in reply to Alon Mizrahi I without equality there's no freedom - I agree with you, Alon, that the Zionist state is begging for help in the same way that a serial killer mutilates bodies in a ritualistic way, leaving behind clues that will inevitably cause them to be caught. At the core of…

Dr. Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian (U of Exeter):
“The reason (for Israeli Jews’ lack of compassion toward the atrocities in Gaza) is that the nature of Zionism is settler colonialism, and [this is] the precondition for genocide in human history. Settler colonialist movements[1/4]

This tribute to the WCK aid worker killed by Israel in Gaza is so moving.

This should factored into the international response. This was no accident. 3 strikes on aid workers. Most states would face immediate sanctions

Of course Israel deliberately killed World Central Kitchen workers and of course the kitchen will halt its operations in Gaza. That’s exactly what Israel wants….to further starve Palestinians.

Saif Abu Taha the Palestinian who was the driver for the World Central Kitchen team that was murdered tonight by Israel. Make sure to say his name even if he didn't have a passport to write it in.