"The context here is a quantity of ammunition dropped on #Gaza that is equivalent to more than three times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A high proportion of those bombs were US-made and supplied. Those bombs were not made of language, and they certainly were not metaphors."
powerful text by #IsabellaHammad on the West's hypocrite scribes and their tone-policing for genocide
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/06/13/acts-of-language-isabella-hammad/
https://archive.ph/R524R
#Palestine #StudentProtests #Westsplaining @palestine
Palestine is a land of biblical beauty – of olive groves, grapevines, stone buildings, rolling hills, wadis and cliffs. It is also a land of violence and war. Human rights lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh has lived on the West Bank since his family fled Jaffa in 1948. A peace activist of independent temper, he... <a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://www.orwellfoundation.com/book-title/palestinian-walks-notes-on-a-vanishing-landscape/" title="ReadPalestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape">Read more »</a>
Writer Isabella Hammad: ‘It’s hard to know where we’re going, but it doesn’t look good’
The British-Palestinian novelist on writing from life, the destruction in Gaza and whether artists have a role when catastrophe unfolds.
#books #IsabellaHammad #GazaGenocide #gaza #palestine #israel
https://www.ft.com/content/51236f45-44a4-44d4-8332-78405d3bdf46
"What in fiction is enjoyable and beautiful is often terrifying in real life. In real life, shifts in collective understanding are necessary for major changes to occur, but on the human, individual scale, they are humbling and existentially disturbing." —Isabella Hammad at The Paris Review
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10/27/recognizing-the-stranger/
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