Photo Essay: Until Every Homecoming Maen Hammad reflects on photographing the moment of liberation for hundreds of Palestinian political prisoners.

In honor of Palestinian Prisoners Day please take a moment with this incredible photo essay by Maen Hammad from the crucial new publication The Key, edited by @sarayasin.bsky.social

“Save Us From Death, We Live in Graves” A human rights lawyer's testimony about the terrifying conditions inside Israel's prisons for Palestinian prisoners.

“Save Us From Death, We Live in Graves”

Khaled Mahajna, a human rights lawyer, gave a searing testimony about how Israel’s genocide is carried out against Palestinians behind bars
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Review: “The Foundations of Zionism” Sabri Jiryis’s magisterial book illustrates how the stories that Zionists tell of themselves, to themselves, are often the most damning indictments of Zionism.

Sabri Jiryis’s magisterial book, "The Foundations of Zionism," illustrates how the stories that Zionists tell of themselves, to themselves, are often the most damning indictments of Zionism, writes Nicholas Glastonbury www.thekeymagazine.com/p/review-the...

Four New Poems by Zena Agha Zena Agha navigates two parallel but overlapping ruptures: the birth of a child and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Four new poems by Zena Agha which "navigate two parallel but overlapping ruptures: the birth of a child and the ongoing genocide in Gaza" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/zena-agha-...

Photo Essay: Until Every Homecoming Maen Hammad reflects on photographing the moment of liberation for hundreds of Palestinian political prisoners.

Maen Hammad on photographing moment of liberation for Palestinian political prisoners: "What those weeks gave me was an understanding — from every embrace I photographed — of the daily weight of years of waiting, of absence, of carrying someone inside a prison" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/photo-essa...

Issue 004 of The Key is dedicated to Palestinian Prisoners' Day:

A House of Poetry Huda Fakhreddine writes about her family home in South Lebanon, in a village that now lives under the terror of Israel’s bombs.

I am proud to publish this essay by Huda Fakhreddine about her family's home in southern Lebanon; first destroyed by Israeli rockets in 2024 and now under threat again in light of Israel's full-scale attack on her homeland
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For April & May's Bookshelf we have @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY - an epic history of the Jewish movement that refused Zionism's pressure to colonise and subjugate another people.

Subscribe now at www.palfest.org/bookshelf and get an original artwork postcard too

Thanks Perry!

This @sarayasin.bsky.social essay launching "The Key" is excellent. This line captures so much. "It just takes far too much effort to make these stories happen." She means the necessary, moral, honest stories, like calling a genocide a genocide. Must-read. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

Amazing! Thank you Susan :)

No problem! Let me know if you have any issues ♥️

Hey Pauline, have you signed up? There's part of it that's open without a subscription, but more of it to read if you sign up for The Key

The Key: I've been thinking a lot about that time period in light of this rise of Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene as right-wing figures who are being very vocal about Palestine- Ta-Nehisi Coates: They're talking about Israel. That's a very important correction. The Key: Yeah. Ta-Nehisi Coates: I'm sorry, I don't want to be too- The Key: No, it's fair. I'm just curious how you're thinking about this in the present tense. What's the through line between what happened then and what's happening now? Ta-Nehisi Coates: First of all, it's really bad. I emphasize the Israel part because my support for Palestine, my support for Palestinian life, it's not about support for Palestine and Palestinian life per se. Just like-and it took me a while to get to this-my support for Black life and for Black people is not for Black people or Black life per se. I just believe human beings are entitled to certain dignities and certain things in their lives. It's a pretty baseline thing for me.

Unfortunately, some of the people with the loudest, most cutting critiques of Zionism and of Israel right now don't share that baseline belief. I think it's really important to say this. These people will turn on you in a second. But to answer your question, there's an obvious moral problem here. Again, I saw it at the DNC. You watch these people get up 60 years after Fannie Lou Hamer's delegation was not allowed to be seated-and they won't let Palestinians talk. They think they can kill this critique, but the critique is true. The only control you have is whether the critique comes out of a place of humanism-of shared values and the significance and importance of human life-or whether it's allied with one of the oldest evils in the history of the West. You're not going to suppress this stuff. The days of doing that are over. There are people in the Democratic Party-which I think is a separate thing from the movement, and certainly from my own politics-who, to this day, and it sounds insane, think they can get away with telling you that the Earth is flat and supporting a system that is designed around that logic. It's not going to work. People aren't dumb.

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Oh god, thank you!

"There are people in the Democratic Party–which I think is a separate thing from the movement, and certainly from my own politics–who, to this day, and it sounds insane, think they can get away with telling you that the Earth is flat and supporting a system that is designed around that logic."
—TNC

Ta-Nehisi Coates on what it will take for Democrats to actually shift on Palestine: "It’s like any other issue; they’ll have to be forced."

(Please sign up to read the whole thing! It's very illuminating)
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A graphic sharing that Ravenous raised $48,884 of $160,000 (30% to their fundraising goal). The text reads, “Help us launch Ravenous, a new worker-owned food culture media company. Subscribe & donate now: weareravenous.com.” At the bottom there’s the Ravenous raven logo stating there are “29 days left.”

We’re stunned. In just day 1 of our subscriber drive, we’ve raised $48,884! 🎉 That’s 30 percent of our goal of $160,000 to support the launch of Ravenous. We’re blown away by the love and support we’ve received from YOU.

So we can't control the reading time (it's auto-generated by the CMS), but I am wondering if you subscribed? Because the entire thing is restricted to subscribers (free and paying)

thanks!

This is really good and you should support The Key!

Ravenous Is a New Worker-Owned Food Culture Media Company For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.

We are Ravenous — food media with teeth. Ravenous is worker-owned food and culture media company founded by @francesdoingthings.bsky.social, @aemccarthy.bsky.social, @jayasaxena.com, @shokdiesel.bsky.social, and
@thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tucker Carlson and other right-wing figures vocally criticizing Israel: "These people will turn on you in a second" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-...

A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates On the Black and Palestinian experiences, the aftermath of the US election, the boycott movement and more.

We don't normally publish on a Tuesday, but this is a special one-off: A big interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates where we cover the aftermath of the 2024 election, the boycott movement, Black and Palestinian experiences in the US and more www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-...

If you’re in London, come by this Thursday to see me and others talk privacy, check out some art, and have a drink!

our logo for THE CITY but our pigeon has a cupcake and our C is wearing a birthday hat

[[earnest alert]] THE CITY has been publishing for seven whole years as of this morning.

very proud to be one of the originals. journalists working independently on a nonprofit model without a paywall are endangered species these days, so each year we make it, I thank my lucky stars www.thecity.nyc

Hey everyone! The Ta-Nehisi interview will most likely go out on Monday. Still ironing out our publishing flow and hope to be consistent in the future. Sorry about that ♥️

"Open up this huge cage!
Open it — blow it up"

from The Cage
by Nasser Rabah

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Home | The Key The Key is a new online magazine brought to you by the Palestine Festival of Literature.

In Issue 003:

- A first look at @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's new book, an epic social history of the Bund

- A profile of Haykal, an incredible Palestinian rapper (ft. our first photo shoot)

- A Nasser Rabah poem

- An extensive Q&A w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates, out tomorrow

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