Kamran Javadizadeh
@kjavadizadeh
I believe in swimming, flying, and crawling, and burrowing.
I wrote about a new edition of Emily Dickinson’s letters—and about what letters can and cannot do—for @NewYorker. newyorker.com/books/under-re…
My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi… via @NYTOpinion
cowardly cowardly shit theguardian.com/education/2025…
Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder…. 1940-2025 A Hymn | The Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…
.@HelenaKennedyKC: ".. where you force people.. into a concentration camp..." Interviewer: "You use the words concentration camp, do you mean that, because our understanding of concentration camps is surely very different from this" "Why?"
The Israeli military has announced that residents of Gaza will face a choice between exile and confinement in a concentration camp. If you accurately describe this policy you risk state persecution in much of the West
Defense Minister Israel Katz tells reporters in a briefing today that he instructed the IDF and the ministry to bring forward a plan to establish a new "humanitarian city" in the southern Gaza Strip, on the ruins of Rafah. The idea of the humanitarian area, according to Katz, is…
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James Elder, @UNICEF spokesperson, on what he saw in Gaza
Today, a war criminal under indictment from the ICC will be welcomed to the White House. Trump, like Biden before him, has aided and abetted the extremist Netanyahu government as it has systematically killed and starved civilians in Gaza. It is a shameful day in America.
Solmaz Sharif. “I don’t tell him / he will be in a poem / where the argument will be // anti-American.”
Every aspect of this bill is sickening, particularly the gutting of healthcare, but I don’t really know how to be catastrophic enough about the expansion of ICE, effectively the president’s secret police force that has spent six months abducting people, by orders of magnitude.
Why is the British parliament involved in an attempt to sanction regime change in Iran?
Why is the British parliament involved in an attempt to sanction regime change in Iran?