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.

Petition: Create a Palestinian Family Visa Scheme for Palestinian people affected by war petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

Beautiful:

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Glad to be among those signing this letter in support of Jonathan Glazer. To honour the past we must resist dehumanisation in the present.

Palestinian children were terrorized while visiting the graves of their parents by the gunfire from Israeli occupation forces near the cemetery in Gaza.

There are without doubt people conscious under the rubble today in Gaza, dying slowly, buried alive, praying someone would come and dig them out . No tools to help them out are allowed in. The silent slow murder of civilians buried alive. Speak up. Do not stay silent.

During the aid efforts amidst the Israeli war in Gaza, a musician plays the oud to bring solace to displaced Palestinian children residing in tents in Rafah.

In the early weeks of Israel's assault Palestinian journalists were filling social media with footage of Israeli atrocities in Gaza. We're seeing far less footage now because the journalists have been killed and access to the internet made far more difficult and Palestinian…

“This is our house, I was very sad to see it like this. This is our land, it was full of olive trees, there’s nothing left.”
Abdullah Al Majaida, a Palestinian child, shared a video of himself seeing his destroyed home for the first time since he had to leave.

‘This is our house’ comment by the angry Berkeley law prof, against a Muslim Hijabi student, makes me think of this poem - from
Zaffar Kunial ‘s Faber poetry book, ‘Us’ - which touches on hospitality in Muslim countries (in this case, two Afghan refugees arriving in Kashmir)

Eid Mubarak in my book […]
What is inside the air/ we are inside

I had the honour of reading with beautiful poet and soul Zaffar Kunial at Medicine Unboxed last year. We read poem-to-poem and it felt like making song. You can watch the reading here... 🤍

Zaffar Kunial

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This is the eve of Eid in 🍓.
There are no candies for the kids.
There are no kids.

In 8 days this needs to get 20k more signatures to force a vote in parliament:

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