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

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

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

Publishing Resources for Young Palestinian Poets and Writers in Gaza (Status: 4.9.26)

Created by Gemini based on the post title A shoutout to Andy Pring and Creative Writing for Social Change. This page is for young Palestinian poets, writers, students, and storytellers in Gaza who want to share their work with the world. It includes literary magazines, youth publications, Palestinian platforms, anthologies, and media outlets that may … Continue reading Publishing Resources for Young Palestinian Poets and Writers in Gaza (Status: 4.9.26)

Sanaa’s Story

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UL9Bril7OLo Take a minute to watch this video of Sanaa Alsaidi walking with her son through the rubble that's Gaza. She tells the story of everyone there who is enduring the hell on earth that is Israel's slow-motion genocide. Look at the collapsed buildings and rubble and remember who did this. Also, remember those countries … Continue reading Sanaa’s Story

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