While everyone is busy talking about the ceasefire, East Rafah is being massacred right now, and israel is dropping flare bombs there

Balancing the news of invasion, bombing + mass exodus of refugees in Rafah

whilst learning that MIT has threatened students to end peaceful encampments immediately or risk suspension and even homelessness

is truly sickening + will go down as a shameful day in MIT history.

600,000 children in Rafah. 600,000. Do you understand?

Columbia University is letting in press right now, but not their own student press. We’re being refused access to our own campus for the third day in a row.

UN experts are 'horrified' at the mass graves unearthed in the Gaza Strip -- 390+ bodies at Nasser & Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, 'many reportedly showing signs of torture & summary executions' and potentially 'people buried alive.” ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

“Current administrators should follow this historical precedent [Princeton University] and renounce policing and criminal sanctions as a response to student sit-ins.”

—Keith Wailoo, Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs

dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/0…

in about eight minutes, columbia is set to announce the winners of this year's pulitzer prizes at the exact same time it is clamping down on the press freedom of its own students. you couldn't make it up

I am besieged by land and air and sea and language.

—Mahmoud Darwish
▪︎ Palestinian poet ▪︎

“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”

—Bertolt Brecht

How long is our life? How long does an eyelash flutter?

—Mirza Ghalib

To news agencies reaching out: No, I do not want to be interviewed about my “feelings” on commencement being cancelled when we just woke up to the news that a Rafah invasion is imminent.

Dozens of us, faculty and staff at the University of Chicago, are on the steps of Levi Hall asking the administration to return to bargaining with our students.

Israel's current regime is committing genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, & torture / starvation / famine / non-stop bombings of a trapped population of 2.3 million people (1 million alone are children) in area of land about the size of Detroit. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

We are refugees in our own lands with no safe place to go, we have been escaping from death to death for 7 months now

We are tired of moving to new places every time, and every new place has its own sufferings and challenges to deal with

Large segments of the population in Rafah right now have an average of one liter of water per person per day. Now Israel is threatening them to 'evacuate' to areas that have been obliterated and where no humanitarian infrastructure exists.

Israel’s #Rafah evacuation order is a declaration to attack the 600K children & their families, to attack the remaining infrastructure sustaining life & possibility of a future. Racist-colonial logic makes this a “policy debate” rather than a siren warning of genocidal massacres.

“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”

—Anna Akhmatova

I have changed the numbers on my watch...

—Brian Patten (British poet)