Status Updates From Gaza Unsilenced

"Instead, the United States puts its thumb on the scales in favor of the stronger party. In this surreal, upside-down vision of the world, it almost seems as it if it is the Israelis who are occupied by the Palestinians, and not the other way around. In this skewed universe, the inmates of an open-air prison are besieging a nuclear-armed power with one of the most sophisticated militaries in the world."

"Knowledge is [isnotreal]'s worst enemy. Awareness is [its] most hated and feared foe. That's why [it] bombs a university; it wants to kill openness and determination to refuse living under Injustice and racism." Refaat Alareer, 2014

In 2014 - "As Palestinians from Gaza who were watching the horror unfold from abroad, we were driven by a sense of urgency, despair, and obligation to curate and edit this book, to be a conduit for voices writing from and about Gaza, as a means for changing the narrative and thereby changing public opinions, which we hope can push the long-standing US policy of blind alliance with Israel... and...let Gaza live."

So heartbreaking…