I don’t have a big audience or write here often, but it feels necessary to try to reach a few people here and ask that you consider advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza now. I find it difficult to understand the unpopularity of wanting an end to the suffering we’re seeing every day: civilians (many of them children, many of them infants) dying and starving, refugee camps and hospitals bombed in broad daylight, just completely unimaginable violence. Our tax dollars are funding this, what more do we have to see before we demand that it stops? It’s truly not complicated to say that what Palestinians are facing is unjust — it’s humane and simple.
I’ve found these pieces and posts helpful to read:
In N+1, ‘No Human Being Can Exist’
In the first week of the round-the-clock bombardment, the Israelis said they had dropped 6,000 bombs on Gaza, a number equivalent to about a month of bombing at the peak of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—countries many, many times larger than the Gaza Strip.9 (Iraq is over a thousand times the size of Gaza.) They also claimed to have dropped over a thousand tons of high explosives; by the end of week one, we were, in other words, already into the kiloton measurements of nuclear weapons, and weeks two and three are upon us.
In Jewish Currents, ‘We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other’
Fariha Róisín, ‘My heart, oh, Palestine’
Jessica DeFino, ‘When War Sells Serum’
Sam Adler-Bell in New York Magazine, ‘War of the Statements’
Tasbeeh Herwees on not looking away