The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. -James Baldwin If you sit at a hipster café in Tel Aviv and start talking to a random person, 20 minutes later, this … Continue reading Israel, Thy Names Are Cruelty and Moral Depravity
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GazaIndex: Tracking Gaza
Here's a description of this project: If you need a number on Gaza that you can defend, it should be here. That is the whole purpose of GazaIndex: a sourced, continuous record of the genocide, the killed, the destroyed, the displaced, the price of bread, the trucks that made it through. The numbers have always … Continue reading GazaIndex: Tracking Gaza
Israel Exposed-War Crimes Archive/Live Map of Humanitarian Conflict
We have an incurable malady: hope. — Mahmoud Darwish Screenshot This is new site that is archiving war crimes footage from Gaza and the West Bank. Warning: Below is content from the Israel Exposed - War Crimes Archive website. Warning: The images are highly graphic. Click on this link to enter this site. Thank you, … Continue reading Israel Exposed-War Crimes Archive/Live Map of Humanitarian Conflict
How to Kill a Passionate Intellectual Life
This quote from the great Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist Edward Said reminds me of many people, intellectuals and others, whose silence surrounding the ongoing Israeli-executed genocide in Gaza is complicity. What he advocates is an uncompromising position of moral clarity and commitment that I embraced as a graduate student, one that … Continue reading How to Kill a Passionate Intellectual Life
Digital Advice for People in Gaza/نصائح رقمية لسكان غزة
This is something I think about, especially since I'm in touch with so many people in Gaza via email and chat apps. One obvious issue is that most are using the Israeli telecommunications system (+972), which makes it easier for that country's government to track them. Here are tips from one of my digital friends, … Continue reading Digital Advice for People in Gaza/نصائح رقمية لسكان غزة
Don’t Let Our Imperfections Do the Work That Propaganda Could Not
This is a brilliant essay by Hani Almadhoun, co-founder of Gaza Soup Kitchen (please donate if you have the means!) and vice president of philanthropy at UNRWA USA. (Please donate to one or both if you have the means. They are doing lifesaving work in Gaza.) You can follow Hani on Facebook (click on his … Continue reading Don’t Let Our Imperfections Do the Work That Propaganda Could Not
IDF (IOF) Murder of Sam Fahed Abu Haykal in the West Bank
That is why We ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever takes a life—unless as a punishment for murder or mischief in the land—it will be as if they killed all of humanity; and whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved all of humanity. (Surah Al Ma’idah 5:32, Quran) Last Friday, … Continue reading IDF (IOF) Murder of Sam Fahed Abu Haykal in the West Bank
Alignment as Humanity’s Greatest Strength
Below is a LinkedIn comment by Dominic Morgan, co-founder of the Authentic Leaders Initiative and CEO of ReThink Crisis. It was in response to a post by Bystanders No More about the documentary Planet Israel: A Cautionary Tale. What Dominic describes is the essence of global citizenship, a concept that most international educators pay lip … Continue reading Alignment as Humanity’s Greatest Strength
Planet Israel: A Cautionary Tale
I'm not sure why it's referred to as a war when it's clearly a textbook genocide. This is a LinkedIn post by Bystanders No More. Here are links to the trailer (1:35) and an interview (26 min) with the director Gillian Moseley. Drawing on psychology, history, and lived experience, Planet Israel explores how trauma, identity, … Continue reading Planet Israel: A Cautionary Tale
The Girl With the Water Jug
Photo by Gaza Soup Kitchen This is a LinkedIn post by Hani Almadhoun, Vice President of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA and co-founder of Gaza Soup Kitchen (GSK). Please consider making generous donations to both of these organizations doing life-saving work in Gaza. GSK constantly posts phots of children in Gaza. I try to "love" (emoji) … Continue reading The Girl With the Water Jug
An International Educator in Vietnam 
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