RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project Join me in buying a blanket to help someone in Gaza survive another winter of displacement. chuffed.org/project/1491...

“All we hear are warplanes in the sky, and there is a constant threat of a military operation in Jenin” Update from Rawand Arqawi TAKE ACTION https:// theculturalintifada.com MAYDAY >>> #Jenin #JeninUnderAttack #Palestine #Theatre #جنين #Mayday http:// artistsonthefrontline.com/mayday

The Compelling Artistry of Marah Khaled #Gaza baladimagazine.com/the-compelli...

A small but concrete task for today: Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm. Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?

The Palestinian filmmaker Mohammad Bakri, who directed the documentary “Jenin, Jenin”, has passed away aged 72. Read Suha Arraf’s piece from 2021 on how Israel stifles Palestinian filmmakers like Bakri, and how they continue to resist through their art. Suha Arraf www.972mag.com/censorship-m...

Majda has a brand new fundraiser which are very hard to raise on- you can see the conditions she is living in on her chuffed- it’s really hard for her family ❤️

Books as Breath: Gaza’s Living Story Salah and Abdullah's small bookshop in Nuseirat is a testament to the power of literature. A model of Palestinian endurance.

Over 600 artists have signed an open letter to Live Nation urging the company to cut ties with its Israel subsidiary.

"We cannot stay silent while Live Nation Israel glorifies the genocidal Israeli military that has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza." 600+ musicians and music workers call on Live Nation to drop Live Nation Israel musiciansforpalestine.net/live-nation/

Palestinian singer, flutist, and composer Nai Barghouti on re-imagining Palestinian folklore through a blend of jazz, blues and tarab styles tarwida.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities. lithub.com/you-can-help...

Poet Ahmad Ibsais’s “Threadbare in Rafah” narrates the steadfastness of Palestinian children against the unimaginable terrors of Israel’s genocide. proteanmag.com/2025/12/10/t...

Not only is Eurovision welcoming Israel (while banning Russia for the same reasons), but they’re willing to let go of Spain, Slovenia, Ireland and the Netherland, countries that have not committed war crimes. Eurovision is willing to self-destruct just to protect Israel. Boycott Eurovision.

Musicians and music lovers! Join @bdsmovement.bsky.social and @pacbi.bsky.social in their new campaign to pressure Live Nation Entertainment to drop its subsidiary Live Nation Israel, which openly supports the genocidal Israeli military and artwashes apartheid. bdsmovement.net/pressure-liv...

Iceland joins the boycott

BDS WIN! In the last two weeks, $26.7 million have been divested from Israel bonds, and will no longer serve as unrestricted loans to the Israeli military and government.

Israel allowing exists from Gaza but no reentry is ethnic cleansing & history repeating. It’s the script of the Nakba — massacre people & then leave them with the awful decision between their children’s lives & their land and then lie that those who chose the former voluntarily departed. So sick.

Despite Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, the European Broadcasting Union has voted to allow Israel to participate in Eurovision. Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and Slovenia have all pulled out of the competition in protest.

NYC tomorrow (12/6)! MENA Creative Collective X Friendly Strangers Studios X Balady Film Club present Yalla Parkour, a film by by Areeb Zuaiter, plus three shorts Dinner provided by BK JANI Proceeds support families within the Parkour Community in Gaza givebutter.com/yallaparkour...

"What kind of ceasefire is this, when the fire never truly stops?" New dispatch by Dalia Abu Ramadan in Gaza, writing for @truthout.org

Streaming now, on this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People:  24-hour global reading for freedom of expression and solidarity with Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...

NYC 1/3: Join Theater Workers for a Ceasefire & friends for a day of radical art and cultural organizing for Palestine. Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley, Rashid Khalidi, Ismail Khalidi, Naomi Wallace, Brooklyn Nomads & more. Proceeds support MECA & the Sameer Project events.humanitix.com/solidarity-f...

"In each interval of calm, I feel time slowing down—as if the world outside Gaza moves forward while we remain stuck inside the same unfinished sentence trapped between survival and meaning." jewishcurrents.org/alphabets-on...

NYC – If you missed El-Funoun's fall workshops or just want more, Samer Karaja is coming back to lead advanced workshops on street dabke Nov 4 & 7!

"The fear now among people here is that the [Israeli attacks] are endangering an already fragile ceasefire across the Strip." Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud reports on the wave of Israeli air attacks across Gaza after Israel accused Hamas of ceasefire violations.

Let's amplify Palestine at the GRAMMYs! Today's the last day to vote in first-round Grammy Awards nominations. If you're an academy member, vote for Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol 3 in the Best Alternative Jazz category – and spread the word!

8 pm tonight and 4 pm tomorrow at La MaMa in NYC Registration is closed but there will be some spots available, so come on out for this truly special program

Come early and get in the standby line for entry if you missed the window to register!

Watermelon Pictures is streaming The Encampments and Boycott free (no subscription required) for the next week watch.watermelonpictures.com watch.watermelonpictures.com/videos/the-e... watch.watermelonpictures.com/products/boy...

No more artwashing Israel's genocide! European broadcasters to vote on expelling Israel from Eurovision. The vote comes after broadcasters from Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland & Slovenia said they would boycott if Israel was allowed to take part. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Please read this amazing essay by my dear friend Saher Safi, who discusses his childhood in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza, and the pain of now witnessing genocide. Saher worked for months on this essay, which was a difficult process for him. He ended up producing some exceptionally powerful writing.

Icymi, Mahmoud Khalil and Nan Goldin in conversation in @dazeddigital.com "The fact that they’re going all this way to criminalise our speech, to criminalise dissent, means that what we’re doing matters and is making change." www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

NYC! Members of Palestine's premiere dance troupe, El-Funoun, will be in town Oct 9–13. Register today for their presentation Tawasol – "a living archive of memory, identity, and the enduring spirit of dabke" – and/or a dabke workshop Details ⤵️ www.amplifypalestine.org/el-funoun-2025

Tix for the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival are now available. The festival opens Oct 9 with a live performance from Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, followed by three days of award-winning films, discussions with artists, a culinary workshop & a children's program dcpfaf25.eventive.org/schedule

Nearly all of the art at New York’s Gaza Biennale had to be digitally reproduced — though not as simple “copies,” in the words of the organizers, but rather “displaced objects … signs for a message that has traveled across borders and the siege.”

We're immensely honored to welcome Palestinian American physician, poet, and translator Fady Joudah to the store for a reading and conversation with writer, organizer, scholar and dear friend of the store Eman Abdelhadi this Saturday, September 20th at 6 pm. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/47885

BREAKING: hundreds of artists and labels announce their refusal to let their music be streamed from Israel. nomusicforgenocide.net

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Maha. Maha is 23 years old, she was hoping to complete her studies in English translation. Her family is trying to survive including her siblings Nour, 27, Israa, 19, Ayman, 17, Heba, 14 and her nieces and nephew Hour, 7, Shams, 5 and Majd, 3.

"Fuck ICE, and free Palestine” Hannah Einbinder knows how to accept an Emmy award ❤️‍🔥 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

"The Netherlands added itself Friday to a list of countries pressuring organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest to drop Israel from the contest." apnews.com/article/euro...

Photo by John Chan from todays cultural workers march #London demanding an end to cultural complicity, censorship and for arts organisations to stand up for Palestinian rights TAKE ACTION: www.theculturalintifada.com

Last day for to see the full Gaza Biennale exhibition in NYC. (An abbreviated version will show 9/18 – 12/20.)

A new report from @prismreports.org reveals how mainstream newsrooms across the country have been silencing journalists—particularly those who are Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim—in their reporting of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

If you’re in Seattle, stop by @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social & sign up for POETRY OFFICE HOURS. I’ll be in the store on Fri 9/12 12:30-2:30 & look forward to talking about that poem you’ve been working on, sharing a prompt to get you writing again, or offering reading recommendations. See you there! 📚

Breaking! Film workers across the globe are answering the call of our Palestinian colleagues, who urge the film industry to "do everything humanly possible" to end our complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Film workers: Join the call, sign the pledge: filmworkersforpalestine.org #endingcomplicity

Woke up this morning to see the Israeli defense minister tweeting that the “bolt is now being removed from the gates of hell in Gaza.” Soon after, we received this dispatch from @truthout.org contributing writer Shahad Ali in Gaza City. I have no words for this level of horror.

Iman urgently needs funds to survive. I talk regularly to Iman. She is a real person. She is an extremely lovely human being who just wants her kids to live. Please learn more at bit.ly/help4iman

NYC 9/21: Voices for Gaza fundraiser with @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, @mosababutoha.bsky.social, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Seema Jilani & John Freeman. Plus Aasif Mandvi, Resistance Revival Chorus & a film by Nan Goldin. 💜 www.thetownhall.org/event/voices...