Media RoundupIsn’t It Our Time to Take a Break from Death? – The Gazan poet Haidar Al Ghazali writes, in this essay translated by Batool Abu Akleen, about how grief makes a constitute pursuit of him in Gaza: “Memories are arrows that burst our illusions. They are tears that shape planets of sorrow in my chest, taking me to cemeteries, to friends who didn’t say goodbye. Over the marble, their cold names are sleeping, covered with dust and oblivion. Wait, there are still some spaces in my heart where grief and anguish have not yet tread. There are still poems that would be much more beautiful if they climbed the lips of those who are sleeping below ground.” Rewriting Gaza: Narrative as Control – Jwan Zreiq examines how Western media institutions have strategically recalibrated their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, isolating Netanyahu as the problem to dodge the structural problem of the settler-colonial state and its foundational violence. These Journalists Saw Israel Kill Their Colleagues. But They Refuse to Be Silenced. – Ali Skaik profiles three Gazan journalists – Ayman al-Hassi, Mohammed Qita, and Mohammed al-Sharif – who, caught “between grief and duty,” have committed themselves to ensuring that the coverage continues. A Map to a Place That No Longer Exists – Abdullah Hany Daher writes of the disorientation he experienced upon returning to his home in June 2025, only to find it gone, “scraped from the earth as if it had never stood there.” Disarm Israel – As nearly 900 people are arrested in the UK for demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine Action, Peter Hallward offers an extensive chronicle of the UK’s ongoing and deeply-rooted complicity in the current genocide in Gaza. Trauma After Gaza – Joelle Abi-Rached wonders about the utility of psychoanalytic frameworks for meaningfully addressing the psychic scars that Israel’s genocide is leaving on survivors in Gaza. The New Israeli Map Proposing to Annex 80% of the West Bank, Explained – Qassam Muaddi analyzes how the Israeli government has been planning for years to settle the West Bank, highlighting the support that they are receiving from the US government to do so. In the West, It Is a Crime to Deny One Holocaust and Dangerous to Name Another – Noting that Holocaust denial is a criminal offense in much of the West, Mouin Rabbani shows how Gaza genocide denialism is a matter of polichy for Western governments and media institutions, even as international legal bodies move to call Israel’s bombardment of Gaza a genocide. Writers Unbound – Yara Rodrigues Fowler of Fossil Free Books examines how Baillie Gifford and other private equity firms invested in fossil fuels, weapons manufacturing, and the genocide in Gaza came to bankroll UK literary festivals,events, and prizes; and she shows how writers organizing as workers have succeeded in ending these partnerships as well as the sense that they are the only way to fund the arts. The UN's Special Rapporteur on Food, Michael Fakhri, on Gaza – Lina Mounzer interviews Michael Fakhri about “whether international humanitarian law still has any meaning, if the UN has outlived its usefulness, [and] why the General Assembly has still not voted Israel out.” Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital – Abdel Qader Sabbah reports from the only hospital in Gaza that still provides pediatric care, which is operating at 300% capacity with exhausted staff and extremely limited supplies and medications, even as the toll of starvation continues to mount among Gaza’s children. Amid Death and Destruction, Palestine’s Baseball Dreams Survive – In the wake of Israel martyring Mustafa Ahmad Tafesh, one of the members of the Palestine national baseball team, Christin El-Kholy writes about the sport’s burgeoning popularity in Palestine and the failure of international sporting bodies to address Israel’s killing of Palestinian athletes. Is God Listening? with Munther Isaac – The Makdisi brothers speak to Reverend Munther Isaac from Bethlehem to discuss Palestinian Christianity in the context of the Gaza genocide, the politics of witnessing, and the theological underpinnings of American empire.
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