gaza

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My public posts right now are going to be about mostly Gaza because there are very few other places where I feel like I can post safely about it and without posting a million disclaimers. So it's going to be mostly a bunch of links to things that I think people should read and/or watch. You can skip them if you like. The other thing is that you should just assume trigger warnings apply to all of them as they discuss war crimes, genocide, people suffering in many different ways. As of today, I think we're up to maybe 24 members of Congress supporting a ceasefire, and neither of them include Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, which is a huge disappointment to me as someone who's long admired them both. They're calling instead for a "humanitarian pause". 

An American nurse who just returned from Gaza describes her experience to Anderson Cooper.

Watch on YouTube

Palestinian children in Gaza plead for the bombing to stop. This is a Youtube link, so just know that you will be faced with children pleading for their lives if you click on it. 

One concrete way to help Gazans on the ground is to purchase eSim cards for them so they can connect with their families and friends. 

Amid death, Gaza's journalists dream of home-cooked meals. 






Conservative fault lines revealed over Israel - Tucker Carlson isolationist view vs Ben Shapiro supporting a pro-Israeli viewpoint. 

On Jewish action for Palestinian liberation

What It's Like to Take Over the Statue of Liberty - Hundreds of Jewish Voice for Peace members calling for a Gaza ceasefire occupied the pedestal of the statue. This is how it happened.

I Feel a Human Deterioration - The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t. 

This idea of people saying: Condemn this, condemn that. I don’t want anybody to condemn anything. I say, be human. You see somebody in pain, try to see that pain. Later, there’s enough time to figure out whose fault it is. I speak to people, also in Israel, who say, “After what we’ve been through, after I lost my sister, I don’t care how many people die in Gaza.” And I say to people: When you do that, you’re hurting yourself. You’re hurting yourself. You are basically saying: “I’m downgrading myself. I want to be something that is less than what I used to be.” It’s the inability to say: I don’t know. I don’t understand. I’m confused. I have feelings, but I don’t have a structure around them. And it’s OK.

Unexpected, but celebrity gossip subreddit fauxmoi has been keeping track of what all the celebs have been saying about Israel and Gaza on their social media.