Jean Chen Ho
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Author of FIONA AND JANE ππͺ·π not a poet, not yet a novelist (she/her/tΔ)
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Pro-Israel counterprotestors started tearing down UCLA encampment barriers and screamed 'Second nakba!' referring to the mass displacement & dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Per Los Angeles Times Safi Nazzal on the scene with another video:
They killed Refaat Alareer Refaat in Gaza π΅πΈβ daughter, the one to whom the poem βIf I must dieβ was dedicated to. His entire bloodline being wiped out. This is genocide. May we all fly kites in their honor, reaching the heavens. πͺ
700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style
For authors still wondering if your voices matter, $75,000 will now be donated to the The PCRF (Palestine Children's Relief Fund) because of the dogged work of Writers Against the War on Gaza and the moral courage of dozens of writers of conscience who spoke out in solidarity with the people of Gaza.