"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

Everything left in this city hurts. Even the autumn breeze it hurts. The moonlight it hurts. The swaying palms they hurt. The sea, with its endless blue stretch it hurts. And these dry tears, salty, they hurt.

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...

The Gaza Biennale comes to NYC, Sept 10–14. "Recess is honored to be the first North American site hosting the Gaza Biennale, a global exhibition shaped by Palestinian artists who have been creating throughout the genocidal war in Gaza." www.recessart.org/events/394-g...

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Saeb. Saeb is 25 years old and was pursuing a doctorate in nursing. He’s worked for free as a nurse in Gaza during the past 2 years. He is helping his siblings Youseff, 27, Salah, 20, Tala, 18 and Muhammad, 6 as well as his little cat, Simba.

#GAZA: Photos editors from the @apnews.com curated photos by Mariam Dagga. She was often based at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Israeli strikes that hit the hospital Monday killed at least 20 people, among them Mariam and three other journalists. apnews.com/photo-galler...

⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️Again and again and again, I’m being reached out my people asking if the following account is my Bluesky. Not it is not. It is a scam asking people for money. Please do not interact with them. Please all of you do me a favor and share this.

Thank you, @crackmagazine.bsky.social, for featuring BDS Mixtape Vol. 3 and curator-contributor @sonnysingh.bsky.social 💜 www.instagram.com/p/DNlRAJUNPZn/

Free poetry office hours continue at Open Books: A Poem Emporium this September, this time with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha! Upcoming dates: 9/12, 9/24, and 9/26. Sign-up for an appointment in person (on the sheet outside the Parlor door) or try your luck at a drop-in ✨

The Bendigenocide Festival. It seems Australian arts and cultural institutions haven’t had their fill yet of humiliating themselves, trashing their reputation, and harming their relationships with staff, authors, and audiences all to satisfy Zionists who are mass murdering kids every day.

Join us on September 7 for a Craft Fair Fundraiser for Gaza. Proceeds will support mutual aid projects in Gaza. If you would like to table at the fair, you can fill out this application by 8/22: forms.gle/s7A5yZ21UpJx...

Thinking about when @brian-goldstone.bsky.social and I were amplifying memorials for Palestinian journalists being held in Atlanta and Chicago in fall 2023, the number murdered was about 65. It has now increased by more than 200 (to about 270).

"I once studied under a lamp. I read books. I dreamed of life. Now, the glow of my phone makes me flinch. A candle is a target. A match, a betrayal." Abdullah Hany Daher writes from Gaza. jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...

Israel kills 5 journalists of Al Jazeera and the New York Times decides to publish a piece explaining why Israel doesn’t like Al Jazeera and how AJ is controversial.

Israel intentionally kills journalists in Gaza so as to prevent real-time professional reporting on its crimes; 200 murdered since Oct-2023. Here are their names: aje.io/4susdf. Shame on the media who stay silent instead of standing for truth, solidarity, press access.

A small group of us is planning a craft fair fundraiser for Gaza on September 7. Some of you have already generously reached out to offer a craft to us to sell at the fundraiser. We now have a form with details for anyone who wants to contribute a craft: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - thank you.

Media blackout on the eve of an invasion the whole world has condemned, by a state that’s been willing to do a genocide on livestream. What do you think comes next? Hearing reports of intensive bombardment. They’re leveling whatever is left.

READ: PEN America says it defends free speech. But when one of their own staffers spoke up for Palestine, they fired her. Kori Davis exposes how PEN weaponized “anti-discrimination” to silence anti-Zionist speech, while Gaza is being starved to death. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/pen-...

Easier-to-click link for this important report from IPS on Palestinian cultural resistance in al-Quds (Jerusalem) from Oslo to the present www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Artists are with Palestine. As BDS Mixtape curator & contributor @sonnysingh.bsky.social says: "It is our responsibility as musicians to get louder. We refuse to live in fear, we refuse to be silent, we refuse to be complicit in genocide." www.amplifypalestine.org/bds-mixtape-...

Israeli forces have raided and demolished the Palestinian seed bank in occupied Hebron, West Bank. They used heavy machinery to destroy the seeds and the equipments required to store them. Israel’s war is against Life itself. More here www.instagram.com/p/DMyWONPujY6

Beloved teacher and activist Awdah Hathaleen (Odeh Hadalin), who helped film the Oscar-winning No Other Land, murdered by an Israeli settler. truthout.org/articles/act...

NYC this Tuesday ⤵️ with post-screening conversation with poet and novelist Sinan Antoon, writer and poet Dina Abdulhadi, and curator Nick Kouhi

"Do not underestimate the aid and support you provide even if it only helps us hold on for a little while"