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State of Siege

"Conflict?" No, its Apartheid. Weekly newsletter focusing on Palestine, the Middle East, and Western colonialism across the world. Storytelling to hold truth to power.

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The Targeting of Women to Carry Out Genocide

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The West Bank Is Being Ordered to Die Quietly

WEST BANK DISPATCH: Across the occupied West Bank, armed Israeli settlers are torching homes and mosques, killing Palestinians and emptying communities, offering a preview of the future being proposed

My Mind Has Always Been Occupied

A literary short story of Palestinian Existence

The Political Earthquake $60 Million Couldn't Stop

Thanks Haley Stevens for wasting $30 Million in AIPAC's War Chest & Congrats Dr. Abdul El Sayed

¡VIVA ESPAÑA! A Win for Humanity

How Spain v. Argentina became a Proxy for Palestine and its Genocide

The Genocide of South Lebanon

The Gaza Doctrine Exported in Visions of a "Greater Middle East"

The Prairieland Sentencing and Unequal Justice Under Trump's America

You Have the Right to be Silent, Or You Will be Silenced

Behind the noise of an ‘Iran deal’, Palestine continues to burn

Israel’s war on the Palestinians never stopped; the world just stopped watching.

I Read To Escape the World, but the Villains Keep Following Me

Everything is a reflection of the battles happening in my mind

Israel’s ‘voluntary emigration’ plan in Gaza is its latest attempt to ethnically cleanse Palestinians

Israeli leaders recently announced plans to implement a "voluntary emigration plan from Gaza." This echoes Zionists' proposals since the 1800s to force Palestinians off the land. But they have always

A Reckoning the Democratic Party Cannot Autopsy Its Way Out Of

On what Adam Hamawy's win, Mamdani's New York, and 192 pages without Gaza tell us about a party whose base has moved while its institutions stood still.

The Knicks Are Playing While the World Is Falling Apart, Did You Watch?

On the politics of looking away

The Riot Was Outside, but The Crime Was Inside

Inside Delaney Hall, detainees sleep on the floor, a woman lost her pregnancy alone, and the food contains worms. Outside, ninety people have been charged with riot for standing there.

"Voluntary Emigration" is Israeli For Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Murder

Netanyahu says he plans to control 70% of Gaza's land while supporting mass migration after months of forced starvation

Why Nations Fail

Trump's America and the extractive institutions that destroy societies from within. Where the extraction goes first and what happens when the laboratory comes home.

Before the Bombs Came

A short collection of poetry (4x) rooted in resistance, hope, and grief

Nine People Were Killed on the Eve of Eid While I Was Making Mammoul

Nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes the night before Eid. One of them was a twenty-five-year-old photographer named Fadi Al-Meghair, whose job was to make sure the dying were seen.

What Does It Mean to Graduate Law School When Gaza's Schools Were Destroyed and Its Students Burned

I entered into a profession whose instrument has been used against my people longer than I have been alive.

They Killed Three Men During the Holiest Week of the Year: On San Diego, and what we mean when we say "Islamophobia"

Three men died in San Diego on the first day of Dhul Hijjah. The bullets were the last thing that killed them.

They Wont Be Satisfied Until They Swallow Us Whole

Israel’s Yellow Line in Gaza: Annexation without Legal Burden