We're incredibly relieved that Alaa Abd el-Fattah has finally been released from prison. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who has supported Alaa and his family over these difficult years. www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

When a Palestinian scholar of Arabic literature in Haifa tells me they have been disinvited from a conference in an Arab country that has no diplomatic relations with Israel because the organisers feared criticism from BDS, something is very screwy. "Should I be boycotting myself?" the scholar asks.

President Trump has just announced that Princeton University PhD student Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023 and held by Kata'ib Hezbollah has been released and is now at the American Embassy in Iraq.

Look what's in close proximity to Israel's illegal attack on Doha, at least 2 nurseries, 3 schools, 6 embassies, a petrol station, a public park. This all happened in the middle of the afternoon, when schools are ending and children engaging in extra curricular activities

Live on KALW radio San Francisco with Mahmoud Muna and Juliette Touma, talking about Gaza & taking listener calls Thursday Sept 4 10a PDT, 1p EDT, 6pm UK, 8pm Palestine www.kalw.org/show/your-call

31 Aug 2025. The International Association of Genocide Scholars: Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide; Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

It’s all so stupid and evil, developed by the worst people for the worst reasons.

By Adam Olearius. Within 15 years of writing this, "they" had become "we"...

Or Nairobi, Jakarta, Dublin, Tokyo…

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Never forget Dr. Hanan Ashwari’s words, “Now, we have settlers in the WH.” “Former WH senior adviser Jared Kushner was reportedly behind his father-in-law..Donald Trump’s plan, announced yesterday, for the US to take over Gaza and clear it of Palestinians." www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Exactly this, and all polling has made this clear for a long time. While there’s a 10-20% group who back any and every draconian idea, few of that group are likely to vote Labour, and most other voters anxious about immigration are responsive to specifics and context (eg deporting to Taliban is bad)

Not seeing a downside here

No, with respect, the buck stops with him. He's the leader. Not McSweeney, not the comms guy. He sets the strategy, tone and values. He is responsible. Either Starmer and his whole crew are ousted and are replaced by something very different or its Vichy Labour from here until doomsday.

“Written with passion, precision, honesty and courage. Essential reading on how American myopia, bias and hypocrisy set the stage for Gaza” — David D. Kirkpatrick “The world needs this book, now more than ever.’ — Fida Jiryis Pre-order America’s Middle East www.hurstpublishers.com/book/america...

A great review of our book DAYBREAK IN GAZA by Razmig Bedirian for @thenationalnews.com here, quoting Mahmoud Muna and @juliettetouma.bsky.social: www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture...

Rarely been this excited to read a 24-page booklet…

#BookHistory folk, file under books as cultural symbols that aim to signal being learned and cultivated. Ofc, it works less well when the curtain is not straight 😂

Coming up: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

At last. It’s taken the British news media almost two years to reach this point of unequivocation

I keep thinking about this essay, and this conclusion. "In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Out this week

Edinburgh - this Book Fringe chat with Mahmoud & Matthew about Gaza and Palestinian culture is Tuesday 12th, 1pm, and it is FREE, join us! (or watch online! Because yes, it'll be livestreamed like all our Book Fringe gigs!) lighthousebookshop.com/events/stori...

Russell Vought and Elon Musk, funded by bad Coors beer, have in 6 months destroyed everything I worked for in my half-century career, of promoting and institutionalizing international understanding

3 Gaza book talks in Scotland: 11/8 Edinburgh festival: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... 12/8 Edinburgh fringe @lighthousebks.bsky.social: lighthousebookshop.com/events/stori... 13/8 Dundee Palestine Solidarity: www.eventbrite.com/e/daybreak-i...

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

When people who know tell you that starvation is imminent & you do nothing, responding with tears or fury at images of starvation exposes your immorality, not morality. It identifies you as the cause, a problem not a solution. Needing to see suffering to comprehend suffering is sadism and moral rot

Professor Rashid Khalidi has withdrawn his fall course at Columbia in protest of the university’s deal with the Trump administration & adoption of the IHRA definition. He calls it a surrender of academic freedom and complicity in genocide. His open letter: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

@simonvarwell.bsky.social hi Simon, just in case you can make this… but it’s Dundee, so still not exactly close… www.eventbrite.com/e/daybreak-i...

This thread names slightly less than one percent of them

Btselem—Israel's leading human rights group—has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. www.btselem.org/publications...

It ain’t something but it’s not nothing

Breaking News: Israel and the U.S. are withdrawing from Gaza cease-fire talks with Hamas.

Huge congratulations to the editors Mahmoud Muna, @matthewteller.com, Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia.

Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Palestine Book Awards! www.palestinebookawards.com/news/item/an...

Hi friends & followers. I'm unusually quiet on here just now. Partly because I've earned it (over the last 15 years I've done more social media than anything else, and change is good). Also, I'm focusing on writing books & talking about Gaza. Gaza changes everything. I can't post like I used to.

Don’t forget to remember

Publishing 🙄 So much winning

2m Palestinians in Gaza have been pushed to 18% of the Strip's total area - the white areas on the map. Source: www.cccmcluster.org/sites/defaul...

Could not be prouder that our book DAYBREAK IN GAZA has been longlisted for the Palestine Book Awards @saqibooks.bsky.social www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250620-pba...

Aussie mate who's never done any kind of political protest about anything in his life before is out on the streets today in London, marching for Palestine

Don’t use AI to factcheck. It consistently makes “mistakes” ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Over? In their dreams

This is called a hijacking when other people do it, but when Israel does it, it weirdly becomes 'diverting'. & all of us are old enough to remember the other times Israel has done this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Any day now tho. techpolicy.press/austerity-in...

Bit pathetic, really

Mood

I’m quiet on here because I’m writing a book. I’ll tell you about it later in the year. Still checking in here in the meantime though. Also, ceasefire now.

Last few tickets ⬇️⬇️⬇️