The British physicist, Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of a “God Particle” has passed away at the age of 94 & was a Nobel Prize laureate.

He refused to fly to Jerusalem to accept the Wolf Prize as he was against Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.

Rest in peace.

In 6 months of abusive messages from strangers and implicit threats from senior figures in our industry, my 3 bosses at Literary Hub & Grove Atlantic (who have all been publishing 🇵🇸 voices for years) have never been anything but steadfast in their support, in both public and private.

Ghassan Kanafani—the Palestinian resistance writer and revolutionary politician who produced some of the Arab world’s most celebrated works of fiction before he was assassinated in 1972—was born on this day in 1936.

Here is a brief remembrance:

Literary Hub

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Daniel Day Lewis visiting Gaza for the first time in 2005.

He wrote of his experience in The Times. In the article he says:

“This is a state of apartheid. It's taken me less than a week to lose impartiality. In doing so, I may as well be throwing stones at tanks.”

And so the creatures watch me watching you watching the doctor and his wife. bit.ly/4aN9Ay9
Taxidermy by Tom Vowler #FlashFriday

Hard to recall the last time a “lesser of two evils” did quite this much evil.

I wrote a (small) story about harbingers... thanks Fictive Dream for publishing.

The UN Security Council has finally voted for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. It must be implemented, now.

It is a stain on humanity that it took the deaths of more than 30,000 people to bring this about. We will continue to campaign for peace, justice, and a free Palestine.

What’s being done to Gaza is the greatest moral atrocity of our lifetime. It is impossible to read the facts and watch the videos and come to any other conclusion. To be silent, to equivocate, to deny, is to tacitly endorse an act of generational evil.

It will not be forgotten.

Israel’s annihilation of #Gaza is erasing International norms, and killing democracy and human rights globally.
Rogue states are exploiting western complicity with Israel as both a license and as inspiration to further their fascism.
Kudos to Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein, Hisham Matar, Maaza Mengiste, & more Withdraw From the PEN World Voices Festival

“In the context of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, we believe that PEN America has betrayed the organization’s professed commitment to peace and equality for all.”
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1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

Super chuffed to win Third Prize in the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize. Read my story 'Numbers' 👇

... how on earth did we get to this point?

Back by popular demand, my dynamic short story course. Includes offering of 1 supported place. Feel free to share.
tomvowler.co.uk/courses.html

The Zone of Interest is a brilliant, chilling film about those who choose to tune out the horrors of a genocide happening next door- so it is unsurprising that those who are actively invested in averting our collective gaze away from Israel’s genocide in Gaza are losing it.

I refute the hijacking of my Jewish identity and the Holocaust by an occupation that has caused conflict for countless innocent people.

I am proud of my Jewish heritage and identity, proud to be the grandson of an Auschwitz survivor, and proud to stand against the occupation.

Charlotte Church could have gone the way of a lot of self obsessed stars and thought only of herself, but she chose to use her platform for good. Well done her. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Yma O Hyd #FreePalestineFromlsrael 🇵🇸

Enjoying a lovely little hate march in the no-go area for Jews. #FreePalestine #london #gaza

With Lise Mayer and Talal Karkouti (beige tick)