Celeste Marcus
@Celestemarcus3
My book about Chaim Soutine will appear this October! preorder at link below Managing editor @readliberties cohost of @notadialoguePOD 🇮🇱🇵🇸
I spent two weeks in Israel earlier this spring doing research for this essay. It made me literally sick for weeks afterwards -- I'd come into direct contact with something damned, something evil, alive and raging in a country and amongst a people I love.
Abu Majdi is the latest victim of Israel's deliberate famine in Gaza Children are 1st to starve to death b/c they have low fat storages When healthy adults die by hunger, it means we're deep in famine territory 1kg of body fat = 7,700 calories, which burns over 9 days (in…
It took me almost a year to write this long essay on Manto, Bombay, the Indian Partition, Modi, the "inordinate responsibilities of history" (and me?), just published in the summer issue of @readliberties . Really excited for you to read this! libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-b…
unavoidable evidence of organized evils and of the US government's complicity in them (complicity to come extent shared by US citizens)
Having access to photographic evidence of the effects of genocide constantly available, indeed unavoidable, is a unique feature of contemporary life. It’s hard to fathom that there are humans living through this whose response is to justify or even mock it.
Israel’s leading human rights organization, B’Tselem, has joined international and Palestinian human rights groups in concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It sounds inconceivable. But it’s the truth. Israel is taking deliberate, coordinated action to destroy the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Explicit statements by Israeli officials, combined with a consistent policy of destructive attacks…
Having access to photographic evidence of the effects of genocide constantly available, indeed unavoidable, is a unique feature of contemporary life. It’s hard to fathom that there are humans living through this whose response is to justify or even mock it.
“I saw a baby die in front of me. He didn’t even cry – he didn’t have the strength.” – Testimony from an American officer at a GHF food site in Gaza. This is not a humanitarian crisis. It’s a military policy. Intentional starvation. A war crime.
זו בית חאנון, העיר הצפונית ביותר בעזה. עיר בת 35 אלף תושבים. זאת אומרת, זו היתה בית חאנון. העיר כבר לא קיימת. עיר שלמה שהושמדה לחלוטין. אין בית אחד שנותר קיים בבית חאנון. אין תשתית שנותרה קיימת. עיר שלמה שהושמדה, והיא לא היחידה. איך אפשר לטעון שההשמדה היא לא מדיניות מכוונת?
BREAKING: Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calls Netanyahu “morally bankrupt” for allowing any aid into Gaza — and openly demands full starvation of Palestinians. This is not a society that can be redeemed.
טרור המתנחלים מחלחל לכל פינה בגדה המערבית במליון דרכים. אחת החביבות עליהם הם "סיורים" בתוך מתחמי מגורים של משפחות רועים פלסטיניות. הנה דוגמה חמה מהתנור מדרום הר חברון. המאחז הקרוב נמצא כ-3 קמ' מדרום לנקודה הזו. אה, כמעט שכחתי, תודה על הטרקטורון שסמוטריץ נתן להם במתנה מכספכם/ן.
Israeli airstrikes around the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza continue—explosions shook the church during today’s mass.
I really cannot stop thinking about how completely debilitating it must be for Palestinians watching from outside helpless to have to argue with trolls about whether or not their people deserve this. It’s so, SO inhuman watching these conversations unfold. I think it’s corrosive.
Egypt doesn't control its border with Gaza. Israel does. IDF is positioned on the border from the Gaza side. Nothing and nobody can come in from Egypt without Israeli permission
Why doesn’t Egypt open its border with Gaza?
Imagine if ghettoized Jewish communities were blocked from food entry - imagine! As if that’s never happened - and our oppressors said “has a nation ever been forced to feed an enemy population?” While images of emaciated baby Jewish corpses circulated on the internet
You could take Gaza out of the picture entirely—what’s happening in the West Bank alone is grounds enough to sever all ties with Israel and deploy an international force to liberate the Palestinians.
Settlers and soldiers rolled into At-Tuwani today—the Masafer Yatta village featured in No Other Land—assaulted residents, including Oscar winner Basel Adra, and drove off with three stolen sheep. The people in this community are the kindest I’ve ever met. This world cannot go on