Last week an indigenous student at my local high school was suspended for an Insta post strongly criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Read & sign if you think the school has no business policing students’ political views (or language on social media…) openletter.earth/petition-to-...

The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza by Robin Anderson is now available for pre-order. Co-published with the Institute for Palestine Studies with an introduction by Rashid Khalidi orbooks.com/catalog/the-... @palestinestudies.bsky.social

This is the first time that I have even seen a death toll for Sudan.

The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a communication with the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, providing details of 24 individuals allegedly responsible for the killing of Hind Rajab, 6 members of her family, and two Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/her-na...

An AD Middle East feature on Palestine is Everywhere www.admiddleeast.com/story/new-bo... @silver-press.bsky.social

In 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed saving the Nasrallah family's Gaza home. In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild. proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...

Such a lovely and uplifting testimony to @soasuni.bsky.social , film, books, and love in a time of genocide from Film and Screen Studies Professor Lindiwe Dovey youtube.com/shorts/sHLUR...

a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it. their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.

Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.

Hope is the Pencil a Child Grips: Dispatches from Lujayn in Gaza medium.com/global-liter...

Read this extraordinary review of Abdellah Taia's oeuvre by Anna Learn medium.com/global-liter...

Nasser Abu Srour is on the latest list of prisoners to be released and a Palestinian friend says that he is now free! samidoun.net/2025/10/list...

Basem Khandaqji, author of the Arab Booker award winning A Mask the Color of the Sky, is on the list of Palestinian prisoners to be released. May he see freedom soon! His book is forthcoming in English @europaeditions.bsky.social www.europaeditions.com/book/9798889...

Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould on Iranian writer & lexicographer Ali Akbar Dehkhoda medium.com/global-liter...

"I wrote about embroidery as a form of hope, not merely a craft. When I threaded my first stitches, they were not just threads—they were a message, whose words declared: We are still here, dreaming and striving to make our dreams come true."

If some VCs don't resign over this, I don't know when they will.

Statement from Lujayn on learning tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) and witnessing the destruction of Gaza City. "I have always walked through my small town, Gaza City, as if it belonged to me. As if its streets knew my name and its sidewalks awaited my passing." palestineiseverywhere.tba21.org

Statement from Lujayn on learning tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) and witnessing the destruction of Gaza City. "I have always walked through my small town, Gaza City, as if it belonged to me. As if its streets knew my name and its sidewalks awaited my passing." palestineiseverywhere.tba21.org

I condemn the global mainstream media for failing to cover the credible accusations, Greta Thunberg has been abused, beaten, humiliated and mistreated in Israeli custody. It is absolutely essential that the media focus on this story, to put pressure on Israel. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... 1/6

The Encampments is streaming for free on the Palestinian film platform Watermelon+ @watermelonpictures.bsky.social through 8 October watch.watermelonpictures.com/the-encampme...

Bristol now, calling for an end to the siege and genocide in Gaza and in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla

Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza is out on 30 October. My review coming soon. Clearly an essential read orbooks.com/catalog/comp...

Leigh Evans, a retired nurse & Gaza medic from Swansea is on-board intercepted Abd Elkarim Eid (boat 1) of the #Flotilla to bring aid to Gaza. Leigh is part of the Lift The Ban campaign and a friend to humanity. He and the flotilla must be allowed to proceed. 🎥 filmed on Aug 9

A new issue of Diacritics (52.3) is out! With contributions by William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, and Nina Farizova. Featuring art by Misha Wyllie, with an interview by Philip Glahn. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55662

Yes, fully agree - as we’ve argued repeatedly, and thanks for the heads-up. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Not even close to enough but nice to see the Palestinian flag flying in front of Bristol City Council @bristolcouncil.bsky.social @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social (I just wish the wind was better and the flag stayed permanently).

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Came across this timely piece of research 👇 "What does free speech have to do with Palestinian liberation? On resisting genocidal epistemicide" doi.org/10.1080/0143...

Israel has killed yet another Palestinian journalist, Mohammed al-Daya, in a strike on his displacement tent in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. His death brings the toll of journalists killed since October 2023 to 252. 🎥 Video via Anadolu Agency (@anadoluajansi)

I thought it might amuse @rrgould.bsky.social to see the books in my sandwich stack this weekend. :)

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

In August, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification classified Gaza as having reached phase 5, meaning Gaza was deep into a famine. Despite this, Israel's denial persists as Western media reinforces misleading narratives, argues Rebecca Ruth Gould 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/west...

Check out our new blog post from @rrgould on Ibn Faḍlān’s Mission to the Volga, Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead, and The 13th Warrior! wp.me/p48OqK-1qu

We're speaking for Medium Day about Empowering Palestinian Voices Through Mentorship (1:30 GMT/ 8:30AM ET). Join us by registering here: events.zoom.us/ev/Av7REBItl...

#OtD 15 Sep 1983 Michael Stewart, a 25-year-old Black student, was beaten to death by 10 NYPD officers after being caught painting graffiti. The medical examiner then helped them cover up the murder. No officers were convicted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8745...

⭐️ Drop Site News, with @unmutehumanity.bsky.social, has launched the Gaza Journalist Fund to help 29 vetted reporters evacuate Gaza City and survive displacement in the south. Please give: givebutter.com/gazajournalists

The @soasuni.bsky.social Department of Media Studies welcomed Palestinian journalist & @aljazeera Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh for a lecture on Monday. The lecture ended with a standing ovation. Here is the recording: youtu.be/xa9T9cGO8Rw?...

THE NEW ARAB: Western media's pre-existing condition? Gaza atrocity denialism www.newarab.com/opinion/west... @thenewarab.bsky.social @rrgould.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism

Important book on Gaza from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social colleague Dina Matar, scheduled for publication by Saqi Books in November: Archiving Gaza in the Present Art, Memory and Erasure Edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter saqibooks.com/books/saqi/a...

❝ Despite the IPC confirmation of Gaza’s famine, Israel's denial persists as Western media reinforces these misleading narratives ❞ — Rebecca Ruth Gould

Please read, sign, and share! International Legal & Human Rights Academics Call for the safe passage of the Global Sumud Flotilla and Distribution of Aid in the Gaza Strip. twailr.com/internationa...

“When governments fail, we sail.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-f...

Solidarity and safety to my @osgoodenews.bsky.social colleague and friend Heidi Matthews who has just set sail aboard the Shireen, the legal support boat of the Global Samud Flotilla, from which she will provide IL expertise for fellow vessels aiming to break the siege in Gaza. May peace come.

For @thenewarab.bsky.social I wrote about famine denialism as an aspect of genocide denialism. With reference to the scholarship of Alex de Waal, Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social & Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social

Israeli President Herzog signed an artillery shell before it was fired into Gaza He’s been named in the ICJ order which found Palestinians at “imminent risk” of genocide Today Starmer is rolling out the red carpet for him - instead he should be arrested for war crimes

Awaiting arrest for holding a placard in support of Palestine Action protestors read, Selected Political Writings by Ghassan Kanafani, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé, Late Facism by Alberto Toscano Wilding by Isabella Tree among other books

So, to recap, a few days ago, I saw someone I respect heavily promoting this conference, "The People's Conference for Palestine" and someone else I respect sending me a screenshot of a number of genocidal being listed as co-organizers & collaborators. Lets learn more about them🧵

Hey BlueSky friends, next Sunday I’m running my first ever half marathon to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social. I would be super grateful for any donations or reposts. Thank you! ❤️

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.