Amplify Palestine

Solidarity Fest Solidarity Fest is a one-day festival on Jan 3rd at JACK in Brooklyn, New York which galvanizes artists and cultural workers to build intersectional solidarity.

NYC 1/3: Join Theater Workers for a Ceasefire & friends for a day of radical art and cultural organizing for Palestine. Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley, Rashid Khalidi, Ismail Khalidi, Naomi Wallace, Brooklyn Nomads & more.

Proceeds support MECA & the Sameer Project
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Alphabets on the Sand In Gaza, language is insufficient to describe the magnitude of our loss, but I write anyway.

"In each interval of calm, I feel time slowing down—as if the world outside Gaza moves forward while we remain stuck inside the same unfinished sentence trapped between survival and meaning."

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Street Dabke & La Mama Theatre – spontaneous and improvised, influenced by hip hop and freestyle movement. With Samer Karaja from El Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe. For advanced dancers. Tuesday 4 Nov 1–3 pm, Friday 7 Nov 4–6 pm. La Mama Community Art space, 74 East 4th st [NYC]. Three overlapping photos – Samer jumping high in the air, Samer demonstrates a step dabke stick in hand, a line of dancers holding hands and arms raised with the middle dancer jumping as though lifted by the line of dancers.

NYC – If you missed El-Funoun's fall workshops or just want more, Samer Karaja is coming back to lead advanced workshops on street dabke Nov 4 & 7!

"The fear now among people here is that the [Israeli attacks] are endangering an already fragile ceasefire across the Strip."

Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud reports on the wave of Israeli air attacks across Gaza after Israel accused Hamas of ceasefire violations.

For your GRAMMY (r) consideration – Best Alternative Jazz album. Cover art for Amplify Palestine's Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol. 3, with three wide-awake eyes against a background of green on the left and ont he right, shades of purple and abstract lines, and circles. Overlaid with a gramaphone. image.

Let's amplify Palestine at the GRAMMYs!

Today's the last day to vote in first-round Grammy Awards nominations.

If you're an academy member, vote for Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol 3 in the Best Alternative Jazz category – and spread the word!

8 pm tonight and 4 pm tomorrow at La MaMa in NYC

Registration is closed but there will be some spots available, so come on out for this truly special program

Everything left in this city hurts.
Even the autumn breeze it hurts.
The moonlight it hurts.
The swaying palms they hurt.
The sea, with its endless blue stretch
it hurts.
And these dry tears,
salty,
they hurt.

Come early and get in the standby line for entry if you missed the window to register!

Watermelon + Stories that break the silence.

Watermelon Pictures is streaming The Encampments and Boycott free (no subscription required) for the next week
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European broadcasters to vote on expelling Israel from Eurovision 2026 European Broadcasting Union says vote required after several nations threaten potential boycott

No more artwashing Israel's genocide!

European broadcasters to vote on expelling Israel from Eurovision.

The vote comes after broadcasters from Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland & Slovenia said they would boycott if Israel was allowed to take part.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I came to UK from Gaza seeking hope. Instead, I found complicity After a lifetime under Israeli siege and shelling in Gaza, Saher Safi built a life of his own. He expected Israel’s cruelty, but not the UK’s indifference.

Please read this amazing essay by my dear friend Saher Safi, who discusses his childhood in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza, and the pain of now witnessing genocide. Saher worked for months on this essay, which was a difficult process for him. He ended up producing some exceptionally powerful writing.

Mahmoud Khalil and Nan Goldin in conversation Mahmoud Khalil’s detention for his part in the pro-Palestine campus protests at Columbia was a chilling watershed moment for free speech in the US. Here, he talks to Nan Goldin about his ordeal, advoc...

Icymi, Mahmoud Khalil and Nan Goldin in conversation in @dazeddigital.com

"The fact that they’re going all this way to criminalise our speech, to criminalise dissent, means that what we’re doing matters and is making change."

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El-Funoun in NYC 2025 — Amplify Palestine Learn about dabke and cultural resistance from members of Palestine's premiere dabke troupe, El-Funoun.

NYC! Members of Palestine's premiere dance troupe, El-Funoun, will be in town Oct 9–13.

Register today for their presentation Tawasol – "a living archive of memory, identity, and the enduring spirit of dabke" – and/or a dabke workshop

Details ⤵️
www.amplifypalestine.org/el-funoun-2025

Tix for the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival are now available.

The festival opens Oct 9 with a live performance from Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, followed by three days of award-winning films, discussions with artists, a culinary workshop & a children's program dcpfaf25.eventive.org/schedule

A Defiant Gaza Biennale Opens in New York City “From Gaza to the World” at Recess in Brooklyn, the show's first North American stop, brings together works by 28 Palestinian artists.

Nearly all of the art at New York’s Gaza Biennale had to be digitally reproduced — though not as simple “copies,” in the words of the organizers, but rather “displaced objects … signs for a message that has traveled across borders and the siege.”

We're immensely honored to welcome Palestinian American physician, poet, and translator Fady Joudah to the store for a reading and conversation with writer, organizer, scholar and dear friend of the store Eman Abdelhadi this Saturday, September 20th at 6 pm.
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No Music For Genocide cargo.site

BREAKING: hundreds of artists and labels announce their refusal to let their music be streamed from Israel.

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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Maha. Maha is 23 years old, she was hoping to complete her studies in English translation. Her family is trying to survive including her siblings Nour, 27, Israa, 19, Ayman, 17, Heba, 14 and her nieces and nephew Hour, 7, Shams, 5 and Majd, 3.

Hannah Einbinder Declares 'F-ck Ice and Free Palestine' While Winning Emmy Award Hannah Einbinder used her Emmys win for 'Hacks' to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and condemn ICE, wearing an Artists4Ceasefire pin onstage.

"Fuck ICE, and free Palestine”

Hannah Einbinder knows how to accept an Emmy award ❤️‍🔥

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Netherlands is latest to threaten to boycott Eurovision if Israel participates The Netherlands has joined several countries urging the Eurovision Song Contest to exclude Israel due to its actions in Gaza.

"The Netherlands added itself Friday to a list of countries pressuring organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest to drop Israel from the contest."

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Photo by John Chan from todays cultural workers march #London demanding an end to cultural complicity, censorship and for arts organisations to stand up for Palestinian rights

TAKE ACTION: www.theculturalintifada.com

Last day for to see the full Gaza Biennale exhibition in NYC.
(An abbreviated version will show 9/18 – 12/20.)

Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt A Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023

A new report from @prismreports.org reveals how mainstream newsrooms across the country have been silencing journalists—particularly those who are Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim—in their reporting of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

If you’re in Seattle, stop by @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social & sign up for POETRY OFFICE HOURS. I’ll be in the store on Fri 9/12 12:30-2:30 & look forward to talking about that poem you’ve been working on, sharing a prompt to get you writing again, or offering reading recommendations. See you there! 📚

Multiple A-list filmmakers, including actors, are pictured, alongside headline text that says: “BREAKING: In a historic declaration, 1,200+ film workers launch pledge to not work with Israeli film institutions implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

Film Worker Pledge to End Complicity: “As filmmakers, actors, film industry workers, and institutions, we recognize the power of cinema to shape perceptions. In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror. The world's highest court, the International Court of Justice, has ruled that there is a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza, and that Israel's occupation and apartheid against Palestinians are unlawful. Standing for equality, justice, and freedom for all people is a profound moral duty that none of us can ignore. So too, we must speak out now against the harm done to the Palestinian people.”

“We answer the call of Palestinian filmmakers, who have urged the international film industry to refuse silence, racism, and dehumanization, as well as to "do everything humanly possible" to end complicity in their oppression. Inspired by Filmmakers United Against Apartheid who refused to screen their films in apartheid South Africa, we pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions-including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies-that are implicated* in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people. *Examples of complicity include whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.”

Signed, Adam Bakri / Adam McKay / Aimee Lou Wood / Aki Kaurismäki / Alana Hadid / Alex Winter / Alia Shawkat / Alyssa Milano / Amanda Seales / Ambika Mod / Angeliki Papoulia / Annemarie Jacir / Arian Moayed / Asif Kapadia / Ava DuVernay / Ayo Edebiri / Bassem Yousef / Beatrice Dalle / Benedict Wong / Boots Riley / Brian Cox / Brian Eno / Carice Van Houten / Caveh Zahedi / Cherien Dabis / Crystal Moselle / Cynthia Nixon / Deborah Eisenberg / Debra Winger / Denise Gough / Emma Seligman / Eric Cantona / Esther Acebo / Eyal Sivan / Fernando Meirelles / Gael García Bernal / Gbenga Akinnagbe / Geeta Gandbhir / Hannah Einbinder / Hany Abu Assad / Harriet Walter / Ilana Glazer / Indira Varma / James Wilson / Janicza Bravo / Javier Bardem / Joe Alwyn / Joel Kim Booster / Josh O'Connor / Joshua Oppenheimer / Julie Christie / Juliet Stevenson / Kathleen Chalfant / Ken Loach / Khalid Abdalla / Lena Headey / Liam Cunningham / Lolly Adefope / Lukas Dhont / Mahdi Fleifel / Mai Masri / Marcia Cross / Mark Ruffalo / Maxine Peake / May Calamawy / Melissa Barrera / Mike Leigh / Miriam Margolyes / Morgan Spector / Nan Goldin / Natasha Rothwell / Olivia Colman / Olivia Williams / Paapa Essiedu / Paul Laverty / Peter Kosminsky / Peter Mullan / Poppy Liu / Rebecca Hall / Rebecca O'Brien / Richard Eyre / Riz Ahmed / Rob Delaney / Robyn Slovo / Ronan Bennett / Saleh Bakri / Samuel West / Sara Driver / Seamus McGarvey / Shirin Neshat / Susan Sarandon / Swann Arlaud / Taraneh Alidoosti / Tatiana Maslany / Terence Nance / Tilda Swinton / Tobias Menzies / Tracey Seaward / Tunde Adebimpe / Wallace Shawn / Xavier Dolan / Yorgos Lanthimos / Zawe Ashton... among many, many others. To join the pledge and see the full list of signatories, go to filmworkersforpalestine.org

Breaking! Film workers
across the globe are answering the call of our Palestinian colleagues, who urge the film industry to "do everything humanly possible" to end our complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Film workers: Join the call, sign the pledge: filmworkersforpalestine.org
#endingcomplicity

The World Has Failed to Stop Israel. Our Only Choices Now: Leave or Die. I soon face the possibility of never being able to return to Gaza City.

Woke up this morning to see the Israeli defense minister tweeting that the “bolt is now being removed from the gates of hell in Gaza.” Soon after, we received this dispatch from @truthout.org contributing writer Shahad Ali in Gaza City. I have no words for this level of horror.

Iman urgently needs funds to survive.
I talk regularly to Iman. She is a real person. She is an extremely lovely human being who just wants her kids to live.
Please learn more at bit.ly/help4iman

Voices For Gaza • The Town Hall <p>Join writers Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Seema Jilani for an evening of readings and conversation in solidarity with Gaza, emceed by Aasif Mandvi, and f...

NYC 9/21: Voices for Gaza fundraiser with @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, @mosababutoha.bsky.social, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Seema Jilani & John Freeman.

Plus Aasif Mandvi, Resistance Revival Chorus & a film by Nan Goldin. 💜

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Gaza Biennale (in English and Arabic) 2025 Above the Arabic calligraphy, an image of a phoenix-like bird, wings spread wide taking flight

The Gaza Biennale comes to NYC, Sept 10–14.

"Recess is honored to be the first North American site hosting the Gaza Biennale, a global exhibition shaped by Palestinian artists who have been creating throughout the genocidal war in Gaza."

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