On June 13, 2025, Israel launched a surprise attack on Tehran. For 12 days, grassroots mutual aid networks helped evacuate students, deliver groceries, & more. Alex Shams (@alexshams.bsky.social) spoke to Iranians who turned despair into solidarity. 🔗 thepublicsource.org/tehran-solid...

Israel's war on Lebanon has been out of int' headlines since the cessation of hostilities agreement in Nov 2024. Since then, Israel has violated the agreement 100s of times and killed 100s of people. Even less reported on is its systematic war on fishermen: thepublicsource.org/fishermen-le...

In our latest Long Read, journalists Habib Battah (@habibbattah.bsky.social) and Christina Cavalcanti unpack the ethics of military embeds. ⬇️ thepublicsource.org/media-ethics...

In October 2024, journalists from some of the world’s largest and most influential news organizations — @wsj.com, @nytimes.com, BBC, & others—piled into armored vehicles & Jeeps. The Israeli military was about to take them for a ride: a guided tour of occupied southern Lebanese villages.

Amidst the war, Iranian visual artist Golrokh Nafisi writes to Palestinian writer Mohammed el-Kurd about burying her 99-year-old grandmother - whose anti-colonialist convictions mirrored his grandmother Rifqa's resistance. Read the letter here: https://thepublicsource.org/nafisi-letter-el-kurd

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In this historical investigation, author Jo Kelcey traces a century of colonial repression and Palestinian defiance, documenting how the right to learn is central to the struggle for liberation. 🔗 Read the piece on The Public Source: thepublicsource.org/scholasticid...

As Lebanon marks 50 years since the war began on April 13, she traces how its legacy still shapes her present. In Mounzer’s moving testimony, she reflects on life in the malja’, and growing up in the long shadow cast by Lebanon’s now 50-year old civil war.

One of the most important pieces we've recently published. Part oral history devoted to preserving the memories of our elders, part storytelling, and ultimately a huge part of setting the historical record straight & passing it down—so that the old can die knowing that the young will never forget.