The new issue of the Royal Society of Literature mag Review is out now, and features Preti Taneja and me chatting about writing, dogs, Israel/Palestine, criticism,
Newcastle, Gordon Burn and more...

🚨 We’ve crossed the 90k mark! 6 days to go!

With your support, we now have fewer than 10k signatures needed to meet the target of 100,000 to trigger a debate in Parliament.

We need a Gaza Family Scheme. Sign and share the petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

Black People Against State Brutality march, 1979. This photo captures 2 of the things that were missing from #Defiance - the role of women as organisers, & African-Asian unity. Holding banner: Jocelyn Wolfe of Brixton Black Women's Group & Amrit Wilson she/her of Awaz Asian Women's Group

> Mona Chalabi

Family unity is a human right. Sign this petition calling for a Gaza Family Scheme to enable Palestinians in Gaza to reunite with their loved ones in the UK until it is safe to return
If we reach 100,000 signatures Parliament will have to debate it 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

#Defiance . My Ma said it was my middle name. For those of us Punjabi kids grown up longing, angry, silenced, hopeful, loving, determinedly making community against violence while living w/first gen trauma, last night brought it all back. Power to the women and men that raised us.

Walid Daqqa, Palestinian poet and political prisoner, died yesterday in an Israeli prison.

Last year at one of our events in Ramallah the director of the Sakakini Center, Hossam Ghosheh, read one of Daqqa's poems. Mohammed El-Kurd then read Dalia Taha’s English translation.

Last week,the first group of Indian workers were sent to Israel in an indenture-like relationship to 'replace' #Palestinian workers in a deal between the Modi govt & the genocidal Israeli regime. I write about it in this policy paper for Institute for Palestine Studies🧵
palestine-studies.org/en/node/1655345

Stories from Black, Asian and Arab communities you shouldn’t have missed this week 🧵

Publishers: #PENTranslates is open for submissions until 31 May!

The award helps UK publishers to meet the costs of translating new works into English – while ensuring translators are acknowledged and paid properly for their work.
englishpen.org/translation/pe…

Western media outlets, like The Independent, banged the beat of the war drum on their front pages in October by publishing flagrant Israeli propaganda lies & failing to adhere to basic journalistic standards.

Publishing on their front page today that enough is enough after…

'The massacre is over, and it is the hour of the crow. The bulldozers are done with the earth: corpulent, corpuscular, corpsy, corpacetic. The killers fertilizing our memory with our ghosts and laughing: that their memory is immune to our ghosts.' proteanmag.com/2024/04/03/hab…

Newcastle artists ❤️ #Gaza #Palestine
On now High Bridge Works: Crowdfunder Art Exhibition, Family Open Day TODAY: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ncamap
11 May: Music Fundraiser Star & Shadow Cinema cinema
starandshadow.org.uk/programme/even…
23 May: 4 Palestinian creatives w/us, Free:
ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/ev…

World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. Read our full statement on the loss of our team members here: wck.org/news/gaza-team…

Al Jazeera journalists have been always targeted. My aunt #ShireenAbuAkleh was killed almost two years ago by an Israeli sniper.
Their aim has always been to silence the truth.

Don't miss today's conversation with Alexis Wright, about bringing Aboriginal notions of story, of time, & of scale to the novel form; about extreme weather events, unchecked white supremacy & the donkey scheme to save the world🌎
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/alexis… Giramondo Publishing

My essay on Anti-Palestinian Racism is out today as the Leading online article of the Financial Times Magazine. It is a big moment for me as Palestinian woman to speak up about this in such a public way. 🧵
'Coming out as Palestinian' on.ft.com/3vIASGO

🚨Calling UK writers, illustrators, and translators! Join the May 2 EGM vote we’re bringing to @thesocietyofauthors, on fossil fuels divestment and the genocide in Gaza! More in comments ⬇️ and in our bio - it’s time to act collectively to make our industry take a stance 🌏🍉

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza , it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”

— Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt at United Nations Human Rights Council.

#HRC55

Huge congratulations to Alexis Wright, whose extraordinary novel Praiseworthy has just been shortlisted for the #DublinLitAward 2024! 💨
dublinliteraryaward.ie