The Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) is a cultural initiative committed to the creation of language and ideas for combating colonialism in the 21st century.
The festival was created as an act of cultural solidarity with Palestine by a group of international cultural figures brought together by Founding Chair, Ahdaf Soueif, in 2008. Since then PalFest has run an annual festival in which international authors combine with their Palestinian counterparts for free, public events in cities across Palestine. During the daytimes, visiting authors are taken to sites of historical and political relevance and meet with artists, authors and activists.
Our hope is that the experience of visiting Palestine with PalFest expands authors’ vocabulary and imagination, that they will draw connections between their own work and the various processes of control ongoing in Palestine.
I cannot read or listen to this poem without crying. Come November 5, here in the God-forsaken "United States" - a country without a name - I will write-in Rafaat Alareer for President and Aaron Bushnell for Vice President, and Hind Rajab for Senator. At least I have a real living decent politician, Summer Lee, to vote for House Representative.
This is an insane leap and its pathetic that people believe the other side can say anything they want about Jews or Israelis but we cant say anything in return.
I have been following dozens of Palestinians on multiple platforms, I check them every day and I have yet to hear or read statements as hateful as the ones I’ve been hearing from Israelis. I have never seen a Palestinian Telegram account celebrating the death of an Israeli baby or mocking the dead bodies of children for instance, but I stopped counting how many times I came across Israelis doing just that. And even if Palestinians did talk about Israelis the same way Israelis do, it still wouldn’t be comparable anyway because the oppressed hating on their oppressor isn’t the same as the oppressor hating on the oppressed.
I couldn’t hold my tears, I cried profusely. What an amazing story of injustices that palestinians have have suffered for decades, what a resilience! We have witnessed thousands of Nadia. Hind Rajab and thousands of children 😢
Not a genocide on Oct 7. That doesn’t happen in 1 day. Israel murdered their own people when they enacted the Hannibal Directive. And since then up to 186k people killed by Israel. That’s a genocide
I placed the RU-vid video of this panel on my Facebook page yesterday and today Facebook removed it saying it looks like I was using spam to get likes? This is outrageous.
I wish Id known about this at the time. The vacuousness of Hollywood representation, the silence on Palestine, on imperialism needs sharpened contradictions so liberals get off the fence and take a f*cking stand.
Noura Erakat is a professor who justified war crimes committed by the Hamas terror organization on October 7, 2023. Erakat has also expressed support for terrorists, promoted incitement, celebrated intifada and spread hatred of Israel. Erakat is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
MORGAN, YOU ARE A REAL HÉROE. GOD BLESS YOU FOR EVER. I M A JEW ANTI ZIONIST TOO. I ALWAYS REFUSED THAT PSICOPATIC GENOCIDE. ZIONIST DICTATORIAL GOVERMENT, WE ARE TELLING ALL OF YOU, THAT NO KILL PALESTIANS PEOPLE IN OUR NAME. DONT MAKE OCCUPATION LANDS IN OUR NAME, WE ARE NO MURDERS NEITHER ROBBING LANDS NO IN OUR NAME.
AT LAST, SOMEBODY SAYS THE TRUTH. MORGAN FROM NOW I M YOUR FANS, YOU R A HÉROE YOU HAVE A GIGANT HEART, YOU ARE BRAVE AND GREAT HUMAN BEEN, THANK YOU AD INFINITUM. FOR DEFENSE INNOCENTS PEOPLE. WE LOVE YOU MORGAN.❤❤❤❤❤
"When we try to dictate who is and who isn't mournable mournable, who can we and who can’t we grieve with when we emphasise the death of women and children as though the death of our men is not heart-breaking" - Mohammed el-Kurd, and many more of his words will echo inside me.
Rashidi Khalidi, accused President Biden of being a prostitute or whore.Then he apologized to sex workers. Well, I would say that Rashidi Khalidi pimps Africa
You have a lot of nerve, talking about Izvestia or Pravda. You talk of Western imperialism. However, , Khalidi , does iNOT , mention Russian Communist imperial support for Arabist empire colonial state-ism. Then you talk of McCarthyism. So, you accuse us of Western imperialism,. Then you accuse us of McCarthyism. Well, we are just supposed to just kiss your feet?
Powerful and poetic monologue.... And elegiac and political was the reference to Palestinian men murdered as their children and women, who apppear as to have lost their right to be mourned and remembered - and so their children and women have lost their right to mourn and remember their men.
