George Abraham 🍉 جورج إبراهيم @IntifadaBatata
Poet | @NorthwesternU MFA+MA | Editor @Mizna_ArabArt | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (@buttonpoetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (@haymarketbooks) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو linktr.ee/gabrahampoet Chicago, IL Joined May 2013-
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Some tenured faculty members at @BrownUniversity are being threatened with vague disciplinary action after having visited the encampments. They received this email from the Dean of Faculty. I’ve confirmed at least 2, but there are at least 2 more I am hearing about beyond that.
Every writer I seen standing by PEN — none of them surprise me. And if most of us are honest with ourselves, we never expected them to be alongside us. So let them save the banned books who will be read by everyone but the Palestinian people who are being genocided by us.
Every writer I seen standing by PEN — none of them surprise me. And if most of us are honest with ourselves, we never expected them to be alongside us. So let them save the banned books who will be read by everyone but the Palestinian people who are being genocided by us.
the difference is chilling.
The problem with @PENamerica is that they CAN express full solidarity & HAVE. They’ve done it before, condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with their whole chest. Palestine is just the blaring exception. You can’t pretend now to be an org above politics. You just can’t!
The problem with @PENamerica is that they CAN express full solidarity & HAVE. They’ve done it before, condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with their whole chest. Palestine is just the blaring exception. You can’t pretend now to be an org above politics. You just can’t!
Incredible how a so-called free-speech organization didn’t bother to concern itself with Israel’s targeted assassination of hundreds of journalists & poets in Gaza, deeply mysterious This whole thread is an object lesson in hand-wringing complicity & should be studied as such
Incredible how a so-called free-speech organization didn’t bother to concern itself with Israel’s targeted assassination of hundreds of journalists & poets in Gaza, deeply mysterious This whole thread is an object lesson in hand-wringing complicity & should be studied as such
THIS THIS THIS STOP GIVING A PASS TO PEN AMERICA FOR DOING THE BARE MINIMUM WHILE ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN GENOCIDE DENIALISM
THIS THIS THIS STOP GIVING A PASS TO PEN AMERICA FOR DOING THE BARE MINIMUM WHILE ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN GENOCIDE DENIALISM
“Refocus.” In an update from @wizardbisan, she reminds us that the goal of the campus demonstrations is “to stop the genocide in Palestine.”
“Refocus.” In an update from @wizardbisan, she reminds us that the goal of the campus demonstrations is “to stop the genocide in Palestine.” https://t.co/RCF06ZkRUK
Divesting from anything that has anything to do with cop city is not a big ask. It is an opportunity.
I... Do not understand how any of y'all expect to be taken seriously any more.
The only people who are portraying PEN as a zionist and intellectually bankrupt org are PEN leadership themselves. They are the ones showing us whether they are beyond moral rescue. They were given chance after chance after chance.
The only people who are portraying PEN as a zionist and intellectually bankrupt org are PEN leadership themselves. They are the ones showing us whether they are beyond moral rescue. They were given chance after chance after chance.
It is one thing to stay in an org to hopefully make it better, but this thread just turns into a defense of PEN without actually contending with the immense harm—real, active harm—they have done.
PEN did not donate to the PCRF, the Jean Stein estate did. PEN has actively platformed zionists in the middle of a genocide perpetrated by zionists while silencing dissent. PEN continues to spread zionist propaganda. Compare this to their reaction to what’s happening in Ukraine.
PEN did not donate to the PCRF, the Jean Stein estate did. PEN has actively platformed zionists in the middle of a genocide perpetrated by zionists while silencing dissent. PEN continues to spread zionist propaganda. Compare this to their reaction to what’s happening in Ukraine.
Refaat and I were supposed to attend the Pal Writes literary festival at UPenn in September 2023. Refaat very much wanted to travel and take part but he couldn’t attend a visa interview at the US embassy because of the siege and occupation. I went, however, and I attended the…
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Every writer I seen standing by PEN — none of them surprise me. And if most of us are honest with ourselves, we never expected them to be alongside us. So let them save the banned books who will be read by everyone but the Palestinian people who are being genocided by us.
I, too, am deeply in suspense about whether an organization like PEN America, with a budget of $24 million, $45 million in assets, and a CEO paid over $400,000, will "survive." So troubling that people want to hold an org dedicated to "free speech" accountable for its actions.
THIS THIS THIS STOP GIVING A PASS TO PEN AMERICA FOR DOING THE BARE MINIMUM WHILE ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN GENOCIDE DENIALISM
I remain infuriated with the literati/establishment elite doubling down on these "fighting anti-DEI measures" excuses for listening to Palestinians DURING AN ACTIVE GENOCIDE. None of you are serious people. All of you are complicit in pushing us out of your collectives.
This reads like someone who has only been paying attention to headlines. PEN went mask off, and if you choose to stay after that, that is your business. Don’t mischaracterize the entire ordeal to justify your stance. Who was asking you to justify it anyway?
The only people who are portraying PEN as a zionist and intellectually bankrupt org are PEN leadership themselves. They are the ones showing us whether they are beyond moral rescue. They were given chance after chance after chance.
are not as cut and dried as you might imagine, and portraying an organization like PEN as some Zionist or intellectually bankrupt institution beyond moral rescue plays into the very fundamentalist thinking that we all claim to hate. I respect people's decision to walk (12/14)
And yes, despite the good they have done, it is legitimate to say platforming genocidal propaganda and denialism outweighs that good. Your access to books is not more important than a Palestinian’s right to life and freedom. This thread clearly values one over the other.
The fact that the only mention of the ongoing genocide is in reference to access of information is telling. How lovely that PEN helps out in Utah (I barely saw anything from them in rural Idaho). But that does not outweigh the harm they are doing with their *national* platform.
It is one thing to stay in an org to hopefully make it better, but this thread just turns into a defense of PEN without actually contending with the immense harm—real, active harm—they have done.
PEN did not donate to the PCRF, the Jean Stein estate did. PEN has actively platformed zionists in the middle of a genocide perpetrated by zionists while silencing dissent. PEN continues to spread zionist propaganda. Compare this to their reaction to what’s happening in Ukraine.
My peers' boycott of the awards and festival means that PEN created an emergency fund for Palestinian writers, and donated money to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, all of which I applaud and congratulate the protestors for achieving. (7/14)
Let’s try again to donate and circulate for this Palestinian writer and his family gofund.me/fe457f38
Just got word that the last of my remaining family members in Gaza have made it to Egypt after more than 6 months sheltering in a church in the north. I am glad for their safety but it is also tragic: my last familial link to Palestine gone, an exile that began in 1948 complete
@PoetsGaza Everyone is Gaza deserves everything and more. I owe, we owe. Every love, every anger, every grief, every future.🙏🏼🪨🌱
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@PoetsGaza is raising funds to support and evacuate two kids from Gaza. Please share and donate! givebutter.com/NCBSOF @summabis @dahieh48 and I are collecting and transfering the funds like we did for Amal For Palestine.
More tents every hour
THE PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Writers have spoken: WE WILL NOT ALLOW PEN'S COMPLICITY & NORMALIZATION TO CONTINUE. We will not relent until Nossel has resigned; we will not allow this organization to deny the ongoing genocide & pervert its own mission. WE WON.
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