Three days before our Leeds launch of Magma Poetry the Underworld issue 💫💫💫 An amazing line-up of poets including Jason Allen-Paisant Zaffar Kunial Yvonne Reddick #MattHoward Rachel Bower #LindaFrance Get your free tickets here 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-magazi…

Bias?! Pro-Israel political interference to remove the poem 'If I must die' by Refaat Alareer - who was assassinated by Israel - from a display in a public library. I'm a Jewish Torontonian who grew up in and learned so much from Toronto libraries. Not in my name Toronto Public Library

‘The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases”’—This NYT memo was issued in November and has been regularly updated since. It shows that despite all the criticism, they are resolutely anti-Palestinian and committed to this genocide.

This makes extremely grim reading. The terms 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' may conceivably be open to debate, but the term 'Occupied Territory' simply reflects the legal status of Gaza and the West Bank in International Law. The New York Times is siding with extremists like Ben Gvir &…

Please share this. And please do not stop calling for a #CeasefireNow .

This precious little soul, Zain Orouk, survived an Israeli massacre that killed his family, only to be killed by a falling 'aid' package.
I'm out of words for the sick evils of this genocide.
Rest in peace & freedom, Zain.

“I want to step on their heads like they did to me.”

The child Nimr, who was released from the occupation prisons today, recounts the details of the occupation soldiers’ assault on him while in detention.

The Palestinian child Zain Orouk survived the bombing of his family’s home in Gaza by Israeli warplanes, but was killed this morning when an airdropped aid box fell on him.

One day, they will tear down the entire apartheid wall.

Since October 7th, Israel has murdered 460 Palestinians in the West Bank. I have never seen a single article on the BBC about any one of them.

A reminder that Israel has dropped 70,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza killing 34,000 people - inc. 14,000 children - and displacing 85% of the population. None of the bombs (many of which were dropped with the support/funding/sales from US govt & UK companies) were intercepted.

Someone explain it to me like a PHD in International Security how Israel striking Iran didn't start WW3 but Iran retaliating does?

Please explain which countries or people around the world do & which countries or people don’t have a right to defend themselves?
Is it fluid?
Does someone decide? If so, who?
Is there a list?
Does list change?
Is there a pie chart, colour chart or graph? If so, please share.

Britain releasing statements for those with an iron dome protecting them and bunkers whilst Palestinians have been decaying under the rubble of their homes/on their streets for months. Literally running to support tight security mansions but ignored those shivering in soggy tents

On the eve Seamus's birthday, we're delighted to announce the PEN Heaney Prize, a new poetry prize in partnership with our friends English PEN and Irish PEN. More details here: englishpen.org/prizes/pen-hea…

A slap in the face for the Biden administration and its orbit

#GenocideJoe

Eugenia Leigh Maya Binyam kxh rasha abdulhadi Ghassan Zeineddine Adrian Minckley Parisa Saranj Nick Mandernach بسنت عماد الدين عبدالمنعم محمود مطر Writers Against the War on Gaza Zaffar Kunial PEN America United Zaina Arafat Susan Muaddi Darraj 📚✒️

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I ask you to imagine: a Jewish student makes a statement about a Jewish holy day as well as about an attack on a synagogue, for example.

Then the professor grabs the student around the neck, engages in a tug of war, and her husband yells at the student to leave their house.

She is one of thousands ya Allah. Israel kills over 70 children per day and what’s left out of that staggeringly evil fact are the thousands of kids who are alive, starving, and injured—with all the hospitals destroyed and no pain relief. Help her. Help every one of them.

I just returned from #Gaza for Medical Aid for Palestinians.
The scale of the suffering and humanitarian catastrophe inflicted by Israel is vast and horrific.
What is being done to the Palestinians of Gaza is a disaster for humanity.
History will judge all who are complicit.
#CeasefireNow

I have just returned from a medical mission to Gaza. I am sharing my experiences with you to raise awareness of the level of destruction these people are enduring. The hospital corridors, entrances, lobby were all full of patients, their family and displaced people.