Literature Must Fall

Oh good a letter. After 14 months of death, destruction, ethnic cleansing, starvation & shooting children in the head, I’m sure a letter is going to make all the difference.

"I’m not anti-Semitic at all, but I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe they have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns on biblical injunction." Remembering James Baldwin, who passed away on this day in 1987

Our second piece for December comes from Kavita Bhanot, who speaks about Sathnam Sanghera's Empireland and other colonial anti-colonial histories: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Genocidal liberalism will never defeat genocidal fascism.

Honey, if you are silent on women being killed, forced to watch their babies shredded into pieces, starved and forced to live in unhygienic conditions, your feminist takes on hijab don’t mean shit.

"Neutrailty" by the definition of mainstream Western society and institutions is a genocidal position.

@SkyNews Hey Sky News. You probably shouldn't use an image of an Israeli attack on Gaza to illustrate an Iranian strike on Israel.

They’ve been burning men, women and children alive for a year. Last night wasn’t an anomaly, it was just captured so explicitly on camera. The Israelis & Americans have been incinerating, shredding, crushing and gunning down entire families for over a year.

What is happening in Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza is nothing but a genocidal extermination of a people. Yet our Labour government sees no evil and hears no evil. Israel has the green light from Biden and Starmer to murder with impunity. The current slaughters rank among the most horrifying instances in the genocide so far.

The strongest and most lethal power in the world gave Israel the green light to commit genocide for over a year now, and it also gave it the weapons, technology, and intel to achieve this end. In an ideal world, Biden, Harris, and Blinken, among others, would already be on trial.

A rock thrown in the direction of the occupying enemy carries more moral weight in it than all of your political institutions, all of your magazine essays, all of your academic articles. And I will never condemn those who throw. وما رميت إذ رميت ولكن الله رمى

Half the world is in mourning, women, men and. Children slaughtered every day, starving, historical sights obliterated, and this woman with huge influence is fighting.. Butlins. What a bankrupt, souless ideology she has.

Are you going to name all of the Palestinians that have been murdered? What about the names of those that were burnt alive in their tents last night?

So when you guys say, “it will be worse under Trump,” do you mean worse than burning people alive in their hospital beds?

Please please do not let this become normalised. every time you see an image or video of a screaming child, a burning woman, a man crying because he lost everything, sit with it. Take it in and let it fill you with grief and rage, and let that move you to demand an end to this.

I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. —W.E.B. Du Bois

Earlier this year, Arundhati Roy also wrote this. The orientalist trope of the irrationally violent Muslim is definitely present.

We're ESPECIALLY open to writers who work normal working class jobs, are out of work, or can't work cos of disabilities. Too much short fiction is written by the professional managerial class and caters to centrist liberal sensibilities. We've really got to change it man.

ALL EYES ON JABALIA! Stop #GazaGenocide