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Global solidarity collective. https://t.co/3svSeyNTUY IG:@publishers4palestine #ReadPalestine #ReadPalestineWeek
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International Publishers call for a boycott of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history.
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Read Palestine Week: Nov. 29-Dec. 5. Read books by Palestinian authors and books about Palestine all week, starting on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. #ReadPalestine #LirelaPalestine #اقرأ_فلسطين
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Live from the Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair, outside Frankfurt Book Fair
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With more than 5,000 signatures in 24 hours, and more names of authors, publishers, and book workers added every few minutes, the overwhelming support for this public commitment to boycott makes clear that the literary world says no to genocide.❤️🔥.
Heeding the call made by the absolute majority of Palestinian civil society more than twenty years ago, the signatories of this declaration are taking a collective, sector-wide stance for Palestinian liberation. Press release here:
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We continue to add to this page. Zines, Books, and More: Free Reads for a Free Palestine.
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Today we announce the launch of Poems for Palestine: Recent poems by nine Palestinian poets & actions you can take to stop genocide now. Please read and share as widely as you please!.
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The Free Palestine Reading List is now live:.
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This Monday--40 days after Refaat Alareer's death--don't just #ReadPalestine but #ReadPalestine in public. Read where people will hear you. Disrupt business as usual. Read for Refaat. #ReadAndResist #ShutItDownForPalestine #ReadForRefaat
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A year ago, Israel assassinated Professor Refaat Alareer, Palestinian poet, editor, and educator. Here are 40+ translations of his poem "If I Must Die." Read it in public, refuse business as usual, demand an end to the genocide & the occupation
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In November, Publishers for Palestine asked readers around the world to #ReadPalestine. Now, we’re calling on you to #ReadPalestine again. But this time we're asking you to read out loud and in public for a Global Day of Action. 1/3.#ReadForRefaat #ReadAndResist #LetItBeATale
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We're adding more to our Free Palestine Books list every day. Thanks to participating publishers, we now have ebooks in 6 languages: Palestinian fiction, poetry, memoir, politics, culture, history, solidarity & more. 📚List will go live Nov 29. More: .
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Publishers for Palestine stands in solidarity with writer Kagiso Lesego Molope, who courageously spoke the truth in the face of genocide-supporting silence at the recent The Politics and the Pen Gala and was then thrown out of the event. @kagisokeo .
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Please let us know about your #ReadPalestineWeek events, so we can add them to the calendar.
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@pubforpalestine has launched a censorship tracking project to document crackdowns on Palestinian solidarity and the silencing of Palestinian voices in the book publishing industry. #censorship #ReadPalestine
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Hundreds of International Publishers Demand Frankfurt Book Fair Cut Ties with Israel.
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Reminder: . During READ PALESTINE WEEK 2024 (November 29 - December 5), our member publishers will be sharing a list of ⭐️free ebooks for a free Palestine🍉. Also, you can get our new publication for the week, an anthology of new Palestinian work, mostly from Gaza -- now.
In time for READ PALESTINE WEEK 2024 (and thanks to the amazing work of @arablit), we are releasing a new *FREE* chapbook of powerful new poetry by Palestinians: "And Still We Write: Recent Work by Palestinian Poets & Actions You Can Take to Stop Genocide Now." #ReadPalestineWeek
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"I know that the prize is a life-changing amount of money for the author who is going to win it, but I don’t believe that anything could really be worth that level of complicity with what is happening to the Palestinian people."
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Publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests. via @lithub.
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Read Palestine Week 2024 is over, but find a list of books that are still free, then visit our "take action now" page for suggestions on what more you can do.
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Our Free Palestine Reading List, for #ReadPalestine week, is now available on our website. Find more than 35 books in nine languages free & available for download here:.
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While #ReadPalestine week is over, there are still a lot of books available free as an act of solidarity. Read & share widely:.
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In time for READ PALESTINE WEEK 2024 (and thanks to the amazing work of @arablit), we are releasing a new *FREE* chapbook of powerful new poetry by Palestinians: "And Still We Write: Recent Work by Palestinian Poets & Actions You Can Take to Stop Genocide Now." #ReadPalestineWeek
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On Monday, January 15, don't just #ReadPalestine-- read where people will hear you. Read to disrupt. #ReadForRefaat. #ReadAndResist #LetItBeATale #PoetryProtest #ShutItDownForPalestine
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On Monday, hundreds of authors will launch a collective position to refuse to cooperate with Israeli institutions complicit in the dispossession and oppression of Palestinians. Authors and book workers everywhere: join the pledge on Monday, when it will be published on @LitHub.
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Join @pubforpalestine and @PeoplesForumNYC Nov. 30 for "From Lebanon to Palestine: Land, Memory and Liberation" with Dr. Jamila Ghaddar, Rania Khalek, Dr. Rami Zurayk, Ghadi Francis, Dr. Rana Sukarieh and Dr. Manal Hamzeh. 11am NYC; Livestream at
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Reports have come in that Israeli forces have just raided and destroyed two Palestinian publishing houses in the West Bank. This violent practice is nothing new.
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Added a new work to our list of free Palestinian zines and books:. Longer list here:
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We have several translations of our Publishers for Palestine statement on the website ( but the most beautifully designed is definitely the Japanese. 🍉
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Join @MayworksToronto @pubforpalestine @wawog_now for a discussion on the destruction of knowledge and information, censorship, repression, and solidarity. With Tam Rayan, Anais Salamon, Pacinthe Mattar & Pamela Arancibia Feb 22 6:30pm ET
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We're calling for a week of action for Nakba Day, May 14-21. Honour the memory of the Nakba. Join the resistance. #EndtheNakba
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Our Free Palestine Reading List will go live on our website at 10:00am Gaza time. It includes more than two dozen free ebooks from @CityLightsBooks @fernpub @arablit @SaqiBooks @sadpresspoetry @memoiredencrier @Ecosociete @SembraLlibres and more.
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Ahead of #ReadPalestineWeek, @worldkidlit looks at five books for young people, from picture books to YA.
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On Jan 15, read a poem by Refaat Alareer in public. Read at work, at school, on the bus, in the mall, in the street. Read with a group or as a demo. Read loudly, read disruptively, and refuse to be silenced. No business as usual during genocide. 2/3.#ReadForRefaat #ReadAndResist
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This book is available free to download at we've also added it to the larger list at:.
Words fail us when we need them the most. I don’t know how to begin describing something that has consumed my life so immensely, so incredibly in these past two months. When and how this became a book is a mystery to me, and proof that we are ineffably led and guided in a way we
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Find out more about #ReadPalestine Week at our website, Starting Nov 29, we'll have more than two dozen Palestine/Palestinian ebooks in 6+ languages, with more coming in, that will be free Nov 29-Dec 5. Several award-winners (Shehadeh, Khalifeh++).
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The Radical Books Collective (@WARSCAPES) will join the week of events for Refaat with a "Read for Refaat" event on Jan 21. More here:.
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Thank you all for joining us for #ReadPalestine Week! Tens of thousands of people downloaded ebooks from our Free Palestine Reading List and so many of you posted about Palestinian writing that moved your soul. We know this means that. 1/3.
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#ReadPalestine in public means not just bookshops & libraries, but:. *At work.*In schools & universities.*In malls.*On the street. Share your #ReadforRefaat. This is Gazan poet Basman Dirawi talking about Refaat & reading a poem he wrote for Refaat.
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Starting Nov. 29, check out our Free Palestine Reading List of e-books for free download
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"A literary organization more afraid of losing corporate sponsors than of losing authors has failed to understand something fundamental about what it means to write. 'Writers are people whose job it is to say what it means to be human,' says El Akkad."
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#ReadForRefaat today. If you can't read Refaat's poem in public, call your gov't representative and read it to them. Call the Secretary or Minister of Defence. Call the White House. Call Trudeau or Sunak. Tell them to stop the genocide. #ReadAndResist #FreePalestine #LetItBeATale
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Shout out to all the amazing indie booksellers who have been speaking out against genocide and standing up for Palestine! #ReadPalestine @AnotherStoryTO @MassyBooks @WildfiresBooks @Lighthousebks @Bookmarks_books @redemmas @bluestockings @SpartacusBooks @CaltonBooks 1/2
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Freedom to Read Palestine: A Community Read-In, Tues. Feb. 20, 7-9pm at @AnotherStoryTO,. During Freedom to Read Week, join @pubforpalestine, @wawog_now, @Librarians2Pal, and @farzanadoctor for a community read-in of "Poems for Palestine." #ReadPalestine @freedomtoreadwk
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Spotted at the Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair, Frankfurt
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Tomorrow, Dec 5 is the final day of #ReadPalestine week. Over 40 FREE ebooks in 9 languages from.@VersoBooks.@haymarketbooks.@SaqiBooks.@arablit.@InterlinkBooks.@7StoriesPress.@PlutoPress.@Sefsafapub.@DarajaPress. so many more.
Read Palestine Week: Nov. 29-Dec. 5. Read books by Palestinian authors and books about Palestine all week, starting on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. #ReadPalestine #LirelaPalestine #اقرأ_فلسطين
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More than 400 publishers and publishing organizations have now signed our statement of solidarity! In the first two days of #ReadPalestine Week, thousands of readers around the world have joined us to put Palestinian authors and books about Palestine in the spotlight!🙏🏾🇵🇸📚✊🏾.
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Posters, graphics, and printable poetry sheets for #ReadForRefaat coming soon on our website. Stay tuned for more info about this Global Day of Action and Week of Events. 3/3 #ReadAndResist #PoeticProtest #DisruptiveReading #FreePalestine.
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Download your free copy of "And Still We Write: Recent Work by Palestinian Poets & Actions You Can Take to Stop Genocide Now" here. Print it and share it. Make it part of your #ReadPalestineWeek actions Nov. 29-Dec. 5. #ReadPalestine #FreePalestine
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We have learned that authors and publishers have been harassed and threatened for signing our boycott letter and opposing Israel's genocide. Please report instances of such censorship of Palestinian solidarity on our website. We will not be silenced.🍉📚✊
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For booksellers & librarians who would like to participate, we've added A3 & 11x17 posters to download here:. Also for bookstagram / bloggers, there are square images to share as well. Free ebooks for #ReadPalestineWeek will be available Nov 29-Dec 5.
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For more on how you can participate in the #ReadforRefaat DAY OF ACTION (Jan 15) and WEEK OF EVENTS (Jan 15-21), visit our website:. You'll find translations of Refaat's poem into 30+ languages here:.
The Radical Books Collective (@WARSCAPES) will join the week of events for Refaat with a "Read for Refaat" event on Jan 21. More here:.
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Which book about Palestine are you reading today? Will you be reading it in the streets? Just don't forget to watch where you're walking.🇵🇸🪧📢🍉✊🏾✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽 #ReadPalestine #FreePalestine #ShutItDown4Palestine
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Join @pubforpalestine, @Librarians2Pal, @wawog_now, and @MayworksToronto for an online discussion on censorship, repression, and solidarity. With Tam Rayan, Anais Salamon, Pacinthe Mattar & Pamela Arancibia Thurs. Feb 22 6:30pm ET #ReadPalestine
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Irish Senator Eileen Flynn @Love1solidarity's tribute to Dr. Refaat Alareer during a motion which passed the Seanad with unanimous support. The motion called for the passage of the Occupied Territories Bill and the immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement
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If you are facing punishment for your solidarity with Palestine in the spheres of writing, publishing, or bookselling, or if you have witnessed censorship of Palestinian voices and solidarity in the book industry, please document this and let us know. #censorship #ReadPalestine
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📣“Read Palestine!"📣 What are you reading for Read Palestine Week? Post cover images. Quote from your favourite authors. We refuse to let Palestinian voices be silenced. We refuse the censorship of those who stand with the Palestinian people. #ReadPalestine #FreePalestine
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Don't stop talking about Gaza. If you have friends and family who say that they don't know enough to speak up, please send them to our Free Palestine Reading List this week for free ebooks by Palestinian authors and about Palestine. #ReadPalestine #CeasefireNOW #FreePalestine.
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With poetry from: Refaat Al-Areer, Fady Joudah, Hiba Abu Nada, Olivia Elias, Samer Abu Hawwash, Maya Murry, Ahlam Bsharat, Basman Aldirawi, Ghassan Zaqtan.
Today we announce the launch of Poems for Palestine: Recent poems by nine Palestinian poets & actions you can take to stop genocide now. Please read and share as widely as you please!.
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One day left of #ReadPalestine Week! Download free ebooks from our Free Palestine Reading List. Post about your favourite book. Refuse to be silent about Gaza in any language. Arabic: #اقرأ_فلسطين.French: #LirelaPalestine .Indonesian: #BacaPalestin .Catalan: #LlegeixperPalestina
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If you are in publishing and have experienced censorship of Palestinian literature, and literature in solidarity with Palestine, please report it here:.
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2024 #ReadPalestineWeek is over; we encourage you to continue to read and take action to end genocide year-round. You can find a list of books that remain free here:.
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If you're in publishing and have been affected by the silencing of Palestinian voices, let us know:
@pubforpalestine has launched a censorship tracking project to document crackdowns on Palestinian solidarity and the silencing of Palestinian voices in the book publishing industry. #censorship #ReadPalestine
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Ahead of our global Day of Action January 15, Palestinian poet Olivia Elias reads Refaat's "If I Must Die" in her own French translation:.
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Today's the final day of #ReadPalestineWeek! Make sure to check out our genre-spanning selection of free ebooks, as well as events, and ways to take action #ReadPalestine.
The Free Palestine Reading List is now live:.
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The firing, contract terminations, removal of books from publishers’ lists, and other forms of silencing of book industry workers and authors is inexcusable. The vilification of Palestinian solidarity and resistance will not go unaccounted for. #censorship #ReadPalestine
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Report incidents of censorship of Palestinians and Palestinian solidarity in the book industry to @pubforpalestine.
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"I think of what the Palestinian poet Rasha Abdulhadi said about anything you can do to throw sand in the gears of genocide, you should do it."
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Join @pubforpalestine, @Librarians2Pal, @wawog_now, and @MayworksToronto tomorrow night for an online discussion on censorship, repression, and solidarity. With Tam Rayan, Anais Salamon, Pacinthe Mattar & Pamela Arancibia Thurs. Feb 22 6:30pm ET
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#ReadPalestine Week continues until Dec. 5. Keep posting about your favourite books by Palestinian authors and about Palestine. Download free ebooks from our Free Palestine Reading List. #LirelaPalestine #BacaPalestin #LeerPalestina #LiesPalästina #luepalestinasta.#اقرأ_فلسطين
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Just added another title to the free ebooks for #PalestineReads week. There are now more than 30 books in nine languages donated by publishers all around the world. Poetry, fiction, memoir, history, organizing, photography, & more. Find them tomorrow:
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📚🍉Just added two more books a minute ago. Find them here:
We are adding more books to the Free Palestine Reading List every day! But if you decide to buy your next book, please support your local indie bookseller. Some great ones who have been vocal about their support for Palestine are listed in this thread. #ReadPalestine #BDSMovement.
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🚨NOTE: "Our priority for now is to expand our reach to the east and the global south, and translate the texts into languages like Swahili, Mandarin, Russian, Turkish, Hindi, Urdu, and so on. Volunteers are welcome to get in touch with us at gazapassages@gmail.com .".
More about Passages Through Genocide (, an online project that collates and disseminates texts written by Gazans living through the current Israeli assault, today on ArabLit:.
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We are adding more books to the Free Palestine Reading List every day! But if you decide to buy your next book, please support your local indie bookseller. Some great ones who have been vocal about their support for Palestine are listed in this thread. #ReadPalestine #BDSMovement.
Shout out to all the amazing indie booksellers who have been speaking out against genocide and standing up for Palestine! #ReadPalestine @AnotherStoryTO @MassyBooks @WildfiresBooks @Lighthousebks @Bookmarks_books @redemmas @bluestockings @SpartacusBooks @CaltonBooks 1/2
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Many thanks to @StrikePoster for their incredible poster and logo designs created for us in record time!.
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🚨Publishers! Join us on 20 September to talk about Palestinian literature. @SaqiBooks, @InterlinkBooks, @commapress, @arablit.
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"When Palestinians are stripped of their history and fixed in a colonial gaze that subjugates them, deeming them inferior and cultureless, cultural production is an act of resistance and it is inherently political. What I’ve called the process of. 1/2.
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A thread:.
Palestinians salute the more than 5,500 writers and book workers worldwide refusing complicity with Israeli publishers, festivals and other literary institutions.
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We are deeply disturbed that as @kagisokeo was booed, heckled, and ejected from an event dedicated to political non-fiction because she spoke up about starving children in Gaza, other writers and cultural workers remained silent and then carried on eating their dinners.
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Thanks to @MsMagazine for including "Poems for Palestine: Recent poems by nine Palestinian poets & actions you can take to stop genocide now" (free on the P4P website), on their Best Poetry of ’23-’24 list! #ReadPalestine #FreePalestine
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Just one more day until Read Palestine Week begins. Help us spread the word in every language! #ReadPalestine #LirelaPalestine #اقرأ_فلسطين #BacaPalestin #WythnosDarllenPalesteina #LlegeixperPalestina #LeeporPalestina
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#ReadPalestine .#اقرأ_فلسطين.#LirelaPalestine.#BacaPalestin .#WythnosDarllenPalesteina.#LlegeixperPalestina.#LeerPalestina .#LeiaPalestina.#LesPalestina.#LéighanPhalaistín.#LiesPalästina.#OlvasdPalesztinát .#パレスチナを読む.#팔레스타인읽기.#קראו_פלסטין
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Jan. 15 Day of Action: #ReadForRefaat. Honour the life, work, and resistance of Refaat Alareer. Recite one of Refaat's poems in public - in your workplace, your school, in the mall, on the bus, in the street. Read with a group or as a demo. #ShutItDownForPalestine #ReadPalestine
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"This open letter is written both in grief and protest. To both our government and the government of Israel, we say no more weapons, no more death, no more voices under the rubble begging to be heard. CEASEFIRE NOW.".
Dozens of indie booksellers have signed an open letter in support of Palestine.
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The #ReadPalestine book stacks on twitter are beautiful. #ReadPalestine & refuse to let Palestinian voices be silenced.
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Looking for new novels to add to your summer reading list?.
🚨BREAKING: Twenty authors have withdrawn their books from consideration from the Giller Prize, Canada’s largest literary award, until it drops its sponsors complicit in genocide: Soctiabank, Indigo, the Azrieli Foundation and Audible.
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But the books provided during #ReadPalestine Week are simply a starting point. What will you do next to change the plot? Do not be quiet in the face of injustice. We only live, and survive, in solidarity. #ShutItDown4Palestine #EndTheOccupation 3/3.
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"I’m afraid of those attempting to erase this story from the map because if it is erased, it can happen again and again. And then how does our story end? Because make no mistake, it is one hundred percent our story." --Kagiso Lesego Molope @kagisokeo #FreePalestine.
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📚Another title we've added to our list of free books for a free Palestine:.
.@anankemag presents the eVersion of Koi Hai,an anthology of letters, notes, poetry, translations & illustrations from #Pakistan & the diaspora reinforcing the message of love & in solidarity with Palestine.Print version published by Zuka Books .@mfhusayn.
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. many readers are now more informed about Palestinian history and culture, will more confidently speak up about the attack on Gaza, and will join others in the streets demanding a cease fire and an end to the occupation. As booklovers know, reading can be revolutionary. 2/3.
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More on #ReadforRefaat: A Day of Action on January 15: . . And find translations of his #LetitBeaTale into 37 languages (and counting) at
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