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LIVE UPDATES: Gaza buries remains of 75 Palestinians recovered from rubble of homes destroyed by Israel

Victims, including women and children, recovered from destroyed homes in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood

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    • Gaza: On the ground

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        Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 22 July

        MEMO spoke to Motasem A Dalloul, a survivor of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in the first of a new series of regular updates from the ground. Dalloul describes the daily struggle to survive: hunger, cold, the collapse of healthcare, and ongoing Israeli violations despite the so-called ceasefire. WATCH:  Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 08 July

    • MEMO in conversation

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        MEMO in Conversation with Benjamin Moser

        In this episode of MEMO Conversations, we speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Benjamin Moser about his book Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History. We explore one of the book’s central arguments: Jewish opposition to Zionism has a long history, yet many of the people who voiced it have been written out of the story. We also discuss the history of Arab Jews and what it reveals about the idea that Jews and Arab have always been in conflict. Our conversation asks what this history can teach us at a time when opposition to Zionism is often conflated with anti-Semitism. MORE >>> MEMO in Conversation With

    • Reviews

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        If You Cannot Say Genocide: Essays on Conscience and Witness

        “What task is left to art when words are turned into weapons?” Yahia Lababidi’s If you Cannot Say Genocide: Essays of Conscience and Witness explores the depth of this question impressed upon the reader in the preface. For the author, who is a Muslim of Palestinian descent, the question is pondered from a position of distance as an “inheritor of family dispossession”.  Written between 2023 and 2026, this collection of essays leans upon memory, literature, experiences, observation and reflection, through which disillusion exposes reality. While there is no chronology in Lababidi’s reflections, the preoccupation with words and meaning is persistent. For example, Lababidi writes of his posting as a speechwriter for the UN office in Cairo, where he encounters the […]

    • Palestine This Week

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        ‘Peace Requires Justice’: Why Washington and Tel Aviv Want Neither | Palestine This Week

        In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine why Palestinian elections have been postponed again, plans for AI surveillance in Gaza’s classrooms and CNN’s findings linking a majority of hostage deaths in captivity to Israeli military actions. We also discuss the suppression of US diplomatic reports critical of Israel, the backlash against Navi Pillay, US sanctions on the ICC and a leading rabbi’s challenge to Zionism, alongside divisions within the Palestine solidarity movement and the Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia.     WATCH: Three Years of Genocide: What Gaza Has Exposed | Palestine This Week

Islam Race and Rebellion in the Americas: Transatlantic Echoes of the West African Jihads

‘Peace Requires Justice’: Why Washington and Tel Aviv Want Neither

Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas’s Foreign Policy

MEMO in Conversation with Benjamin Moser