EI livestream: Refaat Alareer live from Gaza
Join us live at 5pm UK time tonight.
Join us tonight for more of our ongoing coverage of the genocidal Israeli war against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip. Timezones:
7 pm Palestine time / 5 pm UK / 6pm CET / 11 am CT / 12 pm ET / 9 am PT
Tonight’s lineup:
Conditions permitting, our colleague Refaat Alareer will join us live from the south of Gaza, to where his whole family has been displaced due to Israeli bombing.
We will be joined by two activists from SOAS university in London, where students are facing severe repression by authorities after expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
We will have our usual incisive analysis from Birzeit University's Abdaljawad Omar, who will join us live from the West Bank and our colleague Jon Elmer.
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Dear Asa and comrades at Electronic Intifada- I have listened every day to your livestream as I renovate a small house in Kansas City, shedding tears into my paint bucket, heartbroken and enraged. When I drive my car to the overflowing hardware store, NPR is a marvel of inconsequential blather. Neighbors and family seem completely oblivious to this monstrous genocide, and become hostile and defensive when the subject is broached. I am deeply ashamed of this country where I was born. Most people here are in such deep denial, sleepwalking through life, whining about the most petty things. They don't want their day wrecked. I pity them. I embrace this pain, and this guilt. This little house is become a palace. This glass of water is delicious. My dog and I are warm, and the air is filled with chirping crickets, not bombs and shrieks of pain and terror. I feel a rich and fabulous gratitude with each breath of sweet air, vibrantly aware that it is not my birthright, not my just deserts, but simply the luck of the draw. It is the most terrible and ironic gift you have given me, my friends. Be assured - Americans have a grave reckoning ahead.