Really fascinating video by @simkern.bsky.social about the history of Jews and color: youtu.be/M6--Qzplaeo

Hi hello the Venezuela stuff is entirely about oil, both in Venezuela and in Guyana (where Venezuela is laying claim to the oil in what is now Exxon’s largest oilfield, which Chevron has also bought into). It is the bidding of US oil majors and it’s not remotely subtle.

Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation by @simkern.bsky.social: a powerful and engagingly written book that connects the histories of anti-Jewish hate, Zionism, empire, white supremacy, and capitalism. bookshop.org/p/books/geno...

🌈 🎧📚 📖 The Free People's Village by Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social When justice comes knocking, will you be brave enough to answer? Affiliate Link libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook

Genocide Bad is a PW Best Book of 2025!

Too many grownups have lost their humanity. #FreePalestine #GenocideBad @simkern.bsky.social @lindsayellis.bsky.social youtu.be/Fq-6VpmPtAg

arguably the most successful and widespread strike in us history is also largely forgotten. The slave strike during the civil war, slaves emanncipated themselves and crossed union lines. disrupting the slaver economy and war effort. when slavers asked general butler for the return of their property

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Posting this today. @simkern.bsky.social znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

Look what arrived today 😃 I was incredibly lucky and won these two signed copies from @simkern.bsky.social Would anyone be interested in reading along with me? I was thinking of a very flexible, read at your own pace, and discuss in a Discord as and when able read-a-long.

We raised $30,000+ this week in direct aid for 10 families in Gaza City who needed transportation south and funds for tents and essentials, due to the IOF invasion. Help us double that amount to help 10 more families evacuate, including two pregnant moms: chuffed.org/project/gaza...

Gaza City faces invasion. Every $3k raised in this fund goes directly to a family so they can arrange transportation south and the purchase of a tent. If you read GENOCIDE BAD, you’ll want to know that baby Elena is one of these families. Please donate & share widely: chuffed.org/project/gaza...

“That’s why they scare little kids with stories about burning for eternity just for having a backbone.” - The Free People’s Village by @simkern.bsky.social #bookquotes #booksky #quote

We’re back!!! After a summer hiatus, Saffana Monajed & I will be live-streaming this Sunday, exposing the rhetoric elites use to sell us our own death, doom, and destruction. Join us as we pick apart the manipulation behind the headlines: lu.ma/ebdxjrau

I'm proudly supporting The Sameer Project this month with a FANimation of THE FREE PEOPLE'S VILLAGE by @simkern.bsky.social . Join my fundraiser for a chance to win bookish prizes while supporting direct aid for Palest1nians surviving famine and horrific violence. How to participate?

Books by indie presses rarely become bestsellers, let alone anti-Zionist books about Palestine. @sarahprager.bsky.social asked @simkern.bsky.social & @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social, co-owner of @interlinkbooks.bsky.social, how GENOCIDE BAD became a bestseller. prismreports.org/2025/07/29/g...

I'm leading a community read (I call it a Big Read) of "Genocide Bad" by @simkern.bsky.social in my Patreon group. My membership wall there is not a paywall for equity reasons, but is meant to create a place where we can talk bravely. #FreePalestine #DefundGenocide www.patreon.com/posts/130269...

@simkern.bsky.social spoke to Mother Jones about their latest book, "Genocide Bad." "This is where being Jewish is relevant to me. I just feel like “genocide bad” was so drilled into me from a young age. It was the first historical political lesson that I was ever taught."

Recommended reading about the roots of the Holocaust in larger systems of oppression: Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation by @simkern.bsky.social Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory by Solomon J. Brager

Monday, 7PM, IG LIVE, I’ll be chatting with the magnificent hala.n.alyan about writing, parenting, and bringing children and books into a world on fire, and discussing her new, achingly beautiful memoir I’LL TELL YOU WHEN I’M HOME.

Thank you @simkern.bsky.social for being so vocal and not letting up on this.

I feel this too, as a reader. Witnessing a live-streamed genocide has fundamentally altered my priorities and worldview. Any escapist book I try to read, or any not deeply concerned with universal human rights, feels like salt in a wound. Only books that confront empire head-on will do.

I finally realized the reason I was having a hard time concentrating on reading is that I was trying to read the WRONG BOOKS. Thanks so much to @simkern.bsky.social and the folks at @interlinkbooks.bsky.social .

Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, 'Genocide Bad' dismantles Zionist propaganda and maps a course towards collective liberation in ten unapologetic essays. 📚⚠️ @simkern.bsky.social @interlinkbooks.bsky.social

Seeing a lot of proud selfies of a lot of people who never protested genocide, for 18 long months, show up at last to protest …a parade. And I get that the parade is symbolic. Of fascism. But fascism is bad because it leads to GENOCIDE.

GENOCIDE BAD has gotten its first trade review, and it’s a star from PW: “A bracing account…a bold challenge to accepted American narratives about Israel” www.publishersweekly.com/9781623716363

Went to my favorite bookstore on Earth today, The Bookstore in my hometown of Lenox, MA, and found @simkern.bsky.social's book right in front. And even though I have a signed hardcover, I bought another copy. @interlinkbooks.bsky.social @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social #FreePalestine

Must read book for any human. Great thanks and appreciation to Sim Kern for being an exemplary human 👏🏼❤️ @simkern.bsky.social

THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE was spotlighted by TJ Klune in the New York Times today

Yesterday I finally grabbed a copy of gncd bad by @simkern.bsky.social and I discovered a new independent queer book shop in East London @scarlettletters.co.uk 🌈 what a win!! ✨✨

Started a new book! Thanks @simkern.bsky.social & FabulosaBooks.com in SF. I thought I’d have to order it, but they had it in stock. Only three pages in and loving it.

"Genocide Bad" by @simkern.bsky.social has hit Brisbane, or, certainly, my copy has! (huzzah!) & completely off-topic: behind my fat head, resting on what is probably a tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) branch, is a Common Crow butterfly (Euploea corinna) enjoying the midday Winter sun.

@simkern.bsky.social 's book is one of those books that will blow away everything you thought you knew about this topic. An absolute must read! @interlinkbooks.bsky.social #booksky

Just finished ch 8 of Genocide Bad by @simkern.bsky.social . The myth that this chapter addresses is: "Criticizing Israel is Antisemitic." The history laid out here is FASCINATING! Like any good education about history, it makes me want to learn even more! Already added 5 cited books to my TBR. 📚

Counterpoint Radio airs Mondays 8-9:30pmET WPKN.org 89.5 FM Bgpt #CT: @liaholland.bsky.social‬ of @fightforthefuture.org on GOP Trump bill to remove tax-exempt status from nonprofits that it says support terrorism & bestselling author @simkern.bsky.social‬ on his new book, "Genocide Bad."

I'm slowly but surely working my way through @simkern.bsky.social's book 'Genocide Bad' and just learned about Israel's 'Hannibal Directive'. I'm floored. What chance do Palestinians have of self determination under a government that plans to shoot it's own citizens. #freepalestine #freeisrael

I’m only 44 pages into this book and normally wait till I’m done to recommend but it’s just so well researched and written, getting down to the facts about the history, the use of propaganda, systems supporting this @simkern.bsky.social shows readers just why we should all be saying GENOCIDE BAD

Look what just arrived! My deluxe edition of Genocide Bad by @simkern.bsky.social I'm so excited to read this! @interlinkbooks.bsky.social

I read Genocide Bad by @simkern.bsky.social recently, and am now in the middle of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El-Akkad. I highly recommend reading them together - they complement each other so well.

It just arrived! It's such a beautiful book! I've been reading the softcover which I'll donate to my library. Thank you @simkern.bsky.social and Hannah and everyone else @interlinkbooks.bsky.social #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Just got my copy and can’t wait to read it. @simkern.bsky.social is super insightful and absolutely brilliant . #freepalestine

@simkern.bsky.social #booksky #read #history

Now just waiting for the postman to leave me a present! "Genocide Bad" by @simkern.bsky.social. #BrisbaneAustralia youtu.be/LLK9QNwF6ss

My signed copy of @simkern.bsky.social's Genocide Bad arrived today. Thanks to @interlinkbooks.bsky.social and @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social for making it happen, and to Sim for writing it. I wish we didn't need it, but since we do, I'm glad it exists. #FreePalestine #GenocideBad

"[W]hen it comes to the Shoah, we must learn to see it in a historically accurate context - not as some uniquely evil aberration, but as one genocide among hundreds that European colonizers inflicted upon Indigenous peoples around the globe." - Genocide Bad by @simkern.bsky.social

@simkern.bsky.social yay, it’s arrived!

Interlink Publishing has their first New York Times bestseller in 20 years!!! We couldn’t be more grateful for our author, community, booksellers, and staff who made this happen. The people have spoken and they say: GENOCIDE BAD. @simkern.bsky.social

GENOCIDE BAD is a NYT and USA Today Bestseller!!! In 40 years of publishing, indie press @interlinkbooks.bsky.social, the only Palestinian-owned press in the US, has faced severe censorship and hate. I am so honored to have worked with them on this book!

If you haven’t read any other book on this subject, this is an awesome one to pick up. Please go directly to the publisher and not through a secondary outlet and encourage your local library to do the same! interlinkbooks.com/product/geno...