The Medium-Term Future of Gaza/مستقبل غزة على المدى المتوسط

An AI-generated image based on this post. I chose a hopeful image because I and millions of others hope, pray, and look forward to day when the Israeli-sponsored genocide ends and the recovery begins. This is the gist of a conversation I had with Rob Wolters, a Dutch friend whose describes himself on his LinkedIn … Continue reading The Medium-Term Future of Gaza/مستقبل غزة على المدى المتوسط

Stop the Genocide in Gaza/أوقفوا الإبادة الجماعية في غزة 🇵🇸

ChatGPT generated this image based on my prompt. This is an AI-generated visual depiction of one of my fantasies about a multinational peacekeeping force in Gaza that protects the people from further Israeli attacks, provides lifesaving supplies such as food, water, and medicine, enables people who need urgent medical treatment to travel overseas, and evacuates … Continue reading Stop the Genocide in Gaza/أوقفوا الإبادة الجماعية في غزة 🇵🇸

Dear Macklemore, My Name Is Ibrahim

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aKvn7Vcsstg This video is making the rounds on social media. I downloaded it from the Instagram account of Shah Hatun, who has 433,000 followers. I hope that Macklemore will repost this on his account with 9 million followers. Ibrahim originally posted this video yesterday on his Facebook account with 58,000 followers. While the video is … Continue reading Dear Macklemore, My Name Is Ibrahim

UN Security Council Testimony About Gaza by Athena Raeburn, Executive Director, AIDA

I created a transcript of Athena Raeburn's 26 August 2026 UN Security Council testimony about Gaza. AIDA is the Association of International Development Agencies. As she mentions in her testimony, it is an umbrella organization that represents ver 100 international development and humanitarian NGOs operating in the occupied Palestinian territories. AIDA's administrative office is located … Continue reading UN Security Council Testimony About Gaza by Athena Raeburn, Executive Director, AIDA

Brooke Barney’s June 2026 Confrontation with Israelis in Danang, Vietnam

This "Free Gaza - Free Palestine" sticker is what triggered, pun intended, the IOF backpackers. Source: Al Jazeera This is a video that went viral in July 2026. It's an ugly scene that's being repeated in many countries that Israelis visit, many of them former IOF soldiers who look forward to some R&R after exhausting … Continue reading Brooke Barney’s June 2026 Confrontation with Israelis in Danang, Vietnam

Selective Humanitarian Messaging in Children’s Media

Exploring Narrative Imbalance, Victimhood, and Anti-Semitic Erasure in the Case of Ms. Rachel (Source: St. John's University) This flyer was created by St. John's University for this "study." Instead of "Help Us Study Ms. Rachel" the request should be "Help Us Slander Ms. Rachel." This is the title of an IRB-approved research study conducted by … Continue reading Selective Humanitarian Messaging in Children’s Media

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

Standing Up for Justice

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. This is the original version of a video that's been making rounds on social media. I created the transcript below followed by a short essay that complements the video and a link to … Continue reading Standing Up for Justice

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