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Happy Birthday, Mahmoud Darwish. Thank you for showing the world how to transcend national boundaries, offering a vision of resistance, resilience, and the universal human spirit. Your legacy endures as a powerful voice for both Palestine and all of humanity.
In 1997, he founded and served as editor-in-chief of the literary review Al-Karmel. Darwish passed away on August 9, 2008, in Houston, Texas, due to complications from heart surgery.
Darwish joined the Rakah political party in the 1960’s, studied briefly in Moscow, and then moved to Cairo. He spent 26 years in exile, living in Beirut and Paris, before returning to Ramallah in 1996.
Though he briefly returned to his homeland, he became a "present-absentee," embodying the alienation of Palestinian Arabs within the colonial project.
In his youth, Palestine’s most renowned poet, Mahmoud Darwish, faced house arrest and imprisonment due to his activism and poetry. He was exiled during the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, when he was forcibly removed from his native Galilee.
"... What he speaks has been embraced by readers around the world—his in an utterly necessary voice, unforgettable once discovered.”
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye describes Darwish as the “Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of image that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into the world’s whole heart...
Darwish’s writing captured the pain of displacement, the struggle for justice, and a profound longing for home, while weaving images of nature—anemones, lapis lazuli, gazelles, and olives. His poetry inspired generations, blending personal longing with political resistance.
Today marks what would have been the 85th birthday of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, whose words continue to resonate across generations and borders.
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JVP sends love and care to Jewish communities following Michigan synagogue attack. We commit to keep fighting for a world where all people live with safety and dignity.
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Tell Congress to block weapons that fuel war and genocide:
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The Palestinian people and all people of the region and the world should be in control of their own futures, and not at the whims of U.S. and Israeli warmongering.
The US and Israel are partnering together in an immoral and illegal war on Iran, all while Israel continues ethnic cleansing and genocide. The US must stop arming Israel now, and must immediately stop its assaults on Iran.
This sale was announced as the Israeli military continues to commit genocide against Palestinians, as it kills hundreds in Lebanon, and as it joins the US in deadly airstrikes against Iran. The transfer also included 10,000 500-pound bombs and 5,000 small-diameter bombs.
Over the weekend, Trump bypassed Congress to give the Israeli military 12,000-1,000 pound bombs manufactured in the US by General Dynamics.
Investigative journalist @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social says the Iran war should be viewed as part of a larger fossil fuel agenda.
As chair of the Board of Peace, with a lifetime appointment, Trump determines the council’s membership, chooses the executive board, and has the final say on all things.
BREAKING: The UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the ongoing war. Follow AP’s live updates.
JVP Action, our 501c4 organization, is now doing business as JVP; JVP Lab, our 501c3 organization, continues separately and remains focused on our nonpartisan educational and cultural work
We refuse to stop fighting for Palestine—this is how we build a world that values justice and human dignity.
While the onslaught of violence from the US and Israeli governments feels never ending, we remain clear-eyed. The US-Israeli war on Iran and genocide on Palestine are threats to the entire world.
This weekend, Israeli forces assassinated Palestinian journalist Amal Shamali, who worked for Qatar Radio, while she slept with her displaced family in a tent in Nuseirat camp. The Israeli military has killed at least 271 journalists in Gaza since it began its genocide.
While the Israeli government starves Palestinians, it also continues to ensure there is no coverage of its crimes against humanity.
The Israeli military’s genocidal violence is just as unrelenting in Gaza. The Israeli government has used its war on Iran as an excuse to close the Rafah crossing, again restricting the trickle of food and lifesaving aid to Palestinian families.
@medicalaidpal.bsky.social reports, “Over 15 families have dismantled their homes and tents in preparation to leave their homes after escalating settler attacks in the north.”
Settlers have killed at least eight Palestinians in the time since the US and Israel began war on Iran, marking a sharp escalation in what was an already unrestrained genocidal violence.
In the occupied West Bank, settlers are carrying out daily attacks against Palestinians under protection from the Israeli military. Yesterday, Jewish supremacist settlers lit fire to at least one home in Al Halaweh, Masafer Yatta.
