Rebecca Ruth Gould
@rrgould.bsky.social
Global poetics+politics @SOAS |author Erasing Palestine @versobooks.bsky.social |The Persian Prison Poem |Writers & Rebels |🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist also on Substack rgould.substack.com
rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
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October 7, One Year Later
Palestinians and Israelis on 365 days of slaughter, devastation, grief, and resistance.
www.thenation.com
Honored to share this brilliant story from my friend Lujayn in Gaza in @thenation.com "this war isn't just a war against Gaza. It is a war against the very essence of humanity, one that every person w/a conscience is enduring & fighting in every corner of the earth"
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Hunger strike in British jails and no one bats an eyelid.
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it
THE Palestine Action hunger strike is on track to become the largest since the 1981 Irish republican protest led by Bobby Sands, yet campaigners say it has faced a “mainstream media blackout.”So far, ...
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Hunger strike in British jails and no one bats an eyelid.
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Please let’s get the word out.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
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Reposted by Rebecca Ruth Gould
Tomorrow marks two years since the Israeli military killed beloved Palestinian professor, writer, and activist Refaat Alareer in an airstrike on his sister’s home.
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Tomorrow marks two years since the Israeli military killed beloved Palestinian professor, writer, and activist Refaat Alareer in an airstrike on his sister’s home.
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60-150,000 people. Jesus Christ.
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
60-150,000 people. Jesus Christ.
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Liron Mor declines the Modern Language’s Association Scaglione Prize due to the organization’s failure to allow a discussion of BDS. More of this please!
Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
MLA and BDS 9: Letter Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Liron Mor declines the Modern Language’s Association Scaglione Prize due to the organization’s failure to allow a discussion of BDS. More of this please!
Liron Mor declines the Modern Language’s Association Scaglione Prize due to the organization’s failure to allow a discussion of BDS. More of this please!
Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
MLA and BDS 9: Letter Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Liron Mor declines the Modern Language’s Association Scaglione Prize due to the organization’s failure to allow a discussion of BDS. More of this please!
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How the UK Destroyed Palestine. A review of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza, by Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD.
How the UK Destroyed Palestine
A review of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
How the UK Destroyed Palestine. A review of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza, by Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD.
I enjoyed speaking about my book Erasing Palestine, the Gaza
genocide and famine and forced starvation for the Savage Minds podcast
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
genocide and famine and forced starvation for the Savage Minds podcast
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
Rebecca Ruth Gould
S5E23
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I enjoyed speaking about my book Erasing Palestine, the Gaza
genocide and famine and forced starvation for the Savage Minds podcast
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
genocide and famine and forced starvation for the Savage Minds podcast
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
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My review of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza @orbooks.bsky.social
Shorter version originally published in The New Arab; expanded version below.
medium.com/global-liter...
Shorter version originally published in The New Arab; expanded version below.
medium.com/global-liter...
How the UK Destroyed Palestine
A review of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza
medium.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My review of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza @orbooks.bsky.social
Shorter version originally published in The New Arab; expanded version below.
medium.com/global-liter...
Shorter version originally published in The New Arab; expanded version below.
medium.com/global-liter...
My review of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza @orbooks.bsky.social
Shorter version originally published in The New Arab; expanded version below.
medium.com/global-liter...
Shorter version originally published in The New Arab; expanded version below.
medium.com/global-liter...
How the UK Destroyed Palestine
A review of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza
medium.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My review of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza @orbooks.bsky.social
Shorter version originally published in The New Arab; expanded version below.
medium.com/global-liter...
Shorter version originally published in The New Arab; expanded version below.
medium.com/global-liter...
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Palestinian Author Nasser Abu Srour's prison memoir ("written inside the walls of the Israeli prisons where Abu Srour spent 33 years") wins 2025 Prix de La Littérature Arabe. @oliviasnaije.bsky.social for @arablit.bsky.social
arablit.org/2025/11/20/p...
arablit.org/2025/11/20/p...
Palestinian Author Nasser Abu Srour Wins 2025 Prix de La Littérature Arabe
The awards ceremony for the 2025 Prix de la littérature arabe — held at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on November 18 — was an emotionally charged affair.
arablit.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Palestinian Author Nasser Abu Srour's prison memoir ("written inside the walls of the Israeli prisons where Abu Srour spent 33 years") wins 2025 Prix de La Littérature Arabe. @oliviasnaije.bsky.social for @arablit.bsky.social
arablit.org/2025/11/20/p...
arablit.org/2025/11/20/p...
Very useful article for anyone interested in Palestinian prison literature open.substack.com/pub/artpoetr...
Palestinian Writers & Poets Freed From Prison
In October, there was a release of Palestinian prisoners as part of an exchange deal. Bassem Khandaqji and Nasser Abu Srour, two important writers, tasted freedom after decades in occupation prisons.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Very useful article for anyone interested in Palestinian prison literature open.substack.com/pub/artpoetr...
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i think before the uk can start taking jewellery from refugees it needs to return the asante gold, benin bronzes and all the gold and jewels making up the royal collection to the places it stole it from 🥰
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
i think before the uk can start taking jewellery from refugees it needs to return the asante gold, benin bronzes and all the gold and jewels making up the royal collection to the places it stole it from 🥰
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Heavy winter storms flooded Gaza’s tent camps on Friday, collapsing shelters and soaking families already displaced by Israel’s war. Streets in Gaza City turned into rivers of mud and rubble as rain poured into...
The full report by @AbdSabbah91 (X) in Gaza and @sharifkouddous (X) is linked below.
The full report by @AbdSabbah91 (X) in Gaza and @sharifkouddous (X) is linked below.
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Heavy winter storms flooded Gaza’s tent camps on Friday, collapsing shelters and soaking families already displaced by Israel’s war. Streets in Gaza City turned into rivers of mud and rubble as rain poured into...
The full report by @AbdSabbah91 (X) in Gaza and @sharifkouddous (X) is linked below.
The full report by @AbdSabbah91 (X) in Gaza and @sharifkouddous (X) is linked below.
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Last week an indigenous student at my local high school was suspended for an Insta post strongly criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Read & sign if you think the school has no business policing students’ political views (or language on social media…)
openletter.earth/petition-to-...
openletter.earth/petition-to-...
Petition to revoke the suspension of Sunny Picard
openletter.earth
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Last week an indigenous student at my local high school was suspended for an Insta post strongly criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Read & sign if you think the school has no business policing students’ political views (or language on social media…)
openletter.earth/petition-to-...
openletter.earth/petition-to-...
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The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza by Robin Anderson is now available for pre-order.
Co-published with the Institute for Palestine Studies with an introduction by Rashid Khalidi
orbooks.com/catalog/the-...
@palestinestudies.bsky.social
Co-published with the Institute for Palestine Studies with an introduction by Rashid Khalidi
orbooks.com/catalog/the-...
@palestinestudies.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza by Robin Anderson is now available for pre-order.
Co-published with the Institute for Palestine Studies with an introduction by Rashid Khalidi
orbooks.com/catalog/the-...
@palestinestudies.bsky.social
Co-published with the Institute for Palestine Studies with an introduction by Rashid Khalidi
orbooks.com/catalog/the-...
@palestinestudies.bsky.social
Reposted by Rebecca Ruth Gould
Reposted by Rebecca Ruth Gould
This is the first time that I have even seen a death toll for Sudan.
“More than 150,000 people have died across the country and about 12 million have fled their homes, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises.”
This is a genocide in Sudan.
This is a genocide in Sudan.
El-Fasher: Rebel group claims capture of key city in Sudan
The fall of el-Fasher would cement the RSF's control of the west and reinforces a de facto split in the nation.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
This is the first time that I have even seen a death toll for Sudan.
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The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a communication with the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, providing details of 24 individuals allegedly responsible for the killing of Hind Rajab, 6 members of her family, and two Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/her-na...
Her Name Was Hind, Her Foundation Takes her Killers to Court | THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
HRF files ICC complaint naming 24 Israeli soldiers and commanders for the killing of Hind Rajab, her family, and two rescuers in Gaza.
www.hindrajabfoundation.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a communication with the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, providing details of 24 individuals allegedly responsible for the killing of Hind Rajab, 6 members of her family, and two Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/her-na...
An AD Middle East feature on Palestine is Everywhere www.admiddleeast.com/story/new-bo... @silver-press.bsky.social
New Book ‘Palestine is Everywhere’: “We Are Still Here,” Writes 15-Year-Old Gazan Lujayn
An anthology of essays, poems, and letters that amplifies Palestinian voices amid war
www.admiddleeast.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
An AD Middle East feature on Palestine is Everywhere www.admiddleeast.com/story/new-bo... @silver-press.bsky.social
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In 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed saving the Nasrallah family's Gaza home.
In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...
In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...
A Cold Welcome in Egypt • Protean Magazine
Rebecca Ruth Gould interviewed the Nasrallah family—Rachel Corrie died in 2003 defending their house—and the al-Najjars to speak about both families' experience of fleeing to Egypt alongside many othe...
proteanmag.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
In 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed saving the Nasrallah family's Gaza home.
In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...
In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...
Such a lovely and uplifting testimony to @soasuni.bsky.social , film, books, and love in a time of genocide from Film
and Screen Studies Professor Lindiwe Dovey youtube.com/shorts/sHLUR...
and Screen Studies Professor Lindiwe Dovey youtube.com/shorts/sHLUR...
Meet Our Academics: Professor Lindiwe Dovey (Film and Screen Studies)
YouTube video by SOAS University of London
youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Such a lovely and uplifting testimony to @soasuni.bsky.social , film, books, and love in a time of genocide from Film
and Screen Studies Professor Lindiwe Dovey youtube.com/shorts/sHLUR...
and Screen Studies Professor Lindiwe Dovey youtube.com/shorts/sHLUR...
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a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it.
their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
In 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed saving the Nasrallah family's Gaza home.
In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...
In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...
A Cold Welcome in Egypt • Protean Magazine
Rebecca Ruth Gould interviewed the Nasrallah family—Rachel Corrie died in 2003 defending their house—and the al-Najjars to speak about both families' experience of fleeing to Egypt alongside many othe...
proteanmag.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it.
their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
Reposted by Rebecca Ruth Gould
Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons
Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.
Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.
Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons
Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.
arablit.org
October 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons
Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.
Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.
Reposted by Rebecca Ruth Gould
Hope is the Pencil a Child Grips: Dispatches from Lujayn in Gaza
medium.com/global-liter...
medium.com/global-liter...
Hope is the Pencil a Child Grips
Dispatches from Lujayn in Gaza
medium.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Hope is the Pencil a Child Grips: Dispatches from Lujayn in Gaza
medium.com/global-liter...
medium.com/global-liter...