I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.
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i am fine, the handbasket is more than fine, i stand by everything i wrote, it’s just something i clocked and made me go huh this topic will be seen as controversial no matter what, even if the evidence is incontrovertible
jul 24, 2025, 2:47 am • 1,745 44 • view
Please receive my gratitude for speaking truth to power. This was an important piece. I'm thankful that you wrote it, despite the pain it caused you which is apparent in the writing. Humanity needs to rally to the cries of our fellow human beings.🙏🏽
jul 24, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep bearing witness, anyway. Not a subscriber yet (because cash flow), but fwiw I didn't click through on that one simply because I find the whole thing so maddening/depressing. My govt (Canada) hasn't been as bad as the US or the UK in its response, but... not great either.
jul 24, 2025, 10:10 am • 0 0 • view
Like other trending topics, people don't want to acknowledge that someone/something they support has committed atrocious acts. Denial is a lot easier to deal with.
jul 24, 2025, 1:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Thank you for you reporting. I just subscribed.
jul 24, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Please persist
jul 24, 2025, 4:21 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you for reporting on Gaza and what's going on.
jul 24, 2025, 3:42 am • 2 0 • view
Uh, for most, it's not about denial of evidence. Left leans already know what's happening. It's about the anger and frustration of the topic. Of knowing the best chance of at least lessening the immense suffering was shit all over by those claiming "best interests" of Gazans but still in denial.
jul 24, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
It hurts to read what is going on. It also angers & breeds frustration because there is little most readers can do to help. It's been almost 2 years & a barrage for the past 5 months; I guess some people are tired to read about it, but that does not diminish the monstrosity or make it less true.
jul 24, 2025, 2:59 am • 16 0 • view
I just donated as well. Thank you for bringing this Org to my attention!
jul 24, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
A lot of people genuinely believe fascism is good when Israel does it. Especially in and around DC.
jul 24, 2025, 3:42 am • 3 0 • view
I love your work.
jul 24, 2025, 3:30 am • 1 0 • view
This caused people to unsubscribe…?
jul 24, 2025, 3:00 am • 2 0 • view
A lot of people are embarrassed and horrified
jul 24, 2025, 2:54 am • 1 1 • view
The fact that genocide is even controversial is mind boggling. And one day, everyone will always have been against it…
jul 24, 2025, 2:49 am • 22 2 • view
This is some of the best in writing/journalism I've gotten in a while. My sub stays put, cause I agree with every word.
jul 24, 2025, 2:52 am • 6 0 • view
You’re the best!
jul 24, 2025, 8:25 am • 0 0 • view
I agree with and value your reporting - you are keeping an eye on an atrocity and documenting current failures for history. I am also reading about other historical failures. From a hundred or 50 or a thousand years ago. It’s all heartbreaking rather than controversial. 🙏
jul 24, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
ICYMI lithub.com/on-gaza-assi...
jul 24, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Especially if the evidence is incontrovertible.
jul 24, 2025, 2:55 am • 1 0 • view
Fwiw I didn't open it because I'm doing what I can and am guarding against desensitization. But also I didn't know you checked that, so I will
jul 24, 2025, 3:19 am • 9 0 • view
Murdering children shouldn’t be controversial. I truly don’t understand how anyone can support Israel after this. It’s despicable.
jul 24, 2025, 4:20 am • 5 0 • view
I appreciate you! Thank you for writing this!!!
jul 24, 2025, 3:35 am • 3 0 • view
the responses to this have been heartening and generous. but this is not about me—this is about the people being starved in gaza. to that end, i’ve donated $500 on behalf of the handbasket community to the sameer project, a group doing critical work on the ground. chuffed.org/project/1132...
jul 24, 2025, 1:17 pm • 778 49 • view
I just donated too! Thanks for the resource. I was looking for an organization that could actually help the Palestinian people.
jul 24, 2025, 5:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ve supported as well. I’ve never felt so helpless and disgusted watching this unfold. I don’t have influence in the world, but I do have some dollars to give. If that’s what I can do, that’s what I’ll do.
jul 24, 2025, 2:43 pm • 1 0 • view
my understanding is that there isn't so much a lack of 'food aid', it is an almost complete inability to supply it to those in need
jul 24, 2025, 1:21 pm • 3 0 • view
TY, Marisa. I've been looking for a place to give.
jul 24, 2025, 1:42 pm • 6 0 • view
Only $15 as I’m pretty broke, but wanted to add to it for Palestinians.
jul 24, 2025, 1:52 pm • 11 0 • view
I will be honest and say that I did not read it. Not because I don't believe there's a genocide, but honestly because my heart can't take it. There's just so much suffering.
jul 24, 2025, 1:38 pm • 7 0 • view
The Sameer Project is doing essential, life-saving work! I’ve donated several times and have deep admiration for what they do. I also support UNRWA and WFP, they’re helping people survive while the world looks away. Thank you for sharing this. Let’s keep lifting up those risking everything to help.
jul 28, 2025, 9:38 pm • 6 0 • view
This donation link is what I’ve needed. Over the last few months, I have donated to vetted individuals. However as prices rise, I have been wondering how effective that now is. We need a bigger, better strategy.
jul 24, 2025, 2:45 pm • 3 0 • view
I think many of us are acutely aware of what’s happening, but feel powerless to read more about it without knowing how to help. Your link helps.
jul 24, 2025, 2:45 pm • 4 0 • view
jul 24, 2025, 2:48 pm • 2 0 • view
I’ll say it since nobody else says it: HCR and her ilk are genocide deniers. Her writings in particular will be studied as Zionist propaganda. I’m not wrong, just early. Your integrity and your humanity is in tact. It is about you, and your colleagues. Keep up your great work✌️
jul 24, 2025, 1:29 pm • 5 0 • view
You've just supported South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water by The Sameer Project - South Campaign Chuffed.org Date: 26-07-2025 Donation to South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water GBP £100.00 Your optional contribution to Chuffed GBP £20.00 Total GBP £120.00
jul 25, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
thank you for sharing this. Donated!
jul 24, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
I donated in October of last year and I fear it made no difference, heartbreak 💔
jul 24, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
I just donated. Thank you for the link.
jul 25, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
Just made sure you got the better part of $80 for your troubles. Thanks for doing what you do
jul 24, 2025, 1:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you so much for doing this. ❤️
jul 24, 2025, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Netanyahu has much higher approval among US Republicans than he does among Israelis
jul 31, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
❤️❤️❤️❤️
jul 24, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I donated the other day, inspired by you and @prisonculture.bsky.social !
jul 24, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I've done what I can with $50. Thanks for the link. Hoping the UN figures out how to stop this. What is their friggin' purposes not this?
jul 24, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Hello @marisakabas.bsky.social , can you help me ❤️🩹 We are living in Gaza, a severe famine in addition to death and destruction 💔
jul 25, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
thank you.
jul 24, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
you walk the walk. thank you.
jul 24, 2025, 1:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks for posting the link!
jul 24, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for your work I just came here to share info about the Sameer Project
jul 24, 2025, 1:19 pm • 1 0 • view
📌
jul 24, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
starvation of any people is controversial? truth is truth and this must be stopped. thank you for covering this.
jul 24, 2025, 3:02 am • 8 0 • view
The Dem establishment took one look at Gaza and turned the cognitive dissonance up to 11.
jul 24, 2025, 3:02 am • 13 1 • view
sorry for the hit you’re taking for telling the truth
jul 24, 2025, 2:52 am • 1 0 • view
I wish I didn't see so many starving babies, people and pets but it's reality. I bet a lot of the ppl who unsubscribed claim to love debate and demand multiple perspectives, except when conforted with basic accountability. it's so gross that this is happening in 2025 or ever
jul 24, 2025, 4:48 am • 4 0 • view
You are 100% spot on. I did not open because I don’t want to acknowledge it.
jul 24, 2025, 2:50 am • 3 0 • view
did you open it after this
jul 24, 2025, 4:44 am • 0 0 • view
Yes😢
jul 24, 2025, 12:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you for what you do
jul 24, 2025, 2:48 am • 68 0 • view
It’s just another sign of how the knee-jerk reaction jerks that much harder when the discomfort grows. People don’t wanna face why they’ve reflexively turned away in the past—and I say this because I’ve been guilty of it too—so instead they just get angrier and double down on the denial
jul 24, 2025, 5:50 am • 3 0 • view
Which is why it’s important to have people with integrity like you reporting on stuff like this! Some things need to be said regardless of whether people like it or whether it makes them uncomfortable.
jul 24, 2025, 3:52 am • 2 0 • view
The people on the right side of history stand behind you in condoning this horrific genocide.
jul 24, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s just Project Ether working exactly as it was intended. Unfortunately.
jul 24, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
So sorry. I hope you will gain new followers by continuing to follow your convictions.
jul 24, 2025, 4:40 am • 3 0 • view
MURDER in plain sight!
jul 24, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
reading now
jul 24, 2025, 5:04 am • 0 0 • view
It is hard
jul 24, 2025, 5:04 am • 0 0 • view
marisa this piece is so important, regardless of the reception it is so valuable to have. thank you for writing it.
jul 24, 2025, 5:13 am • 0 0 • view
Stay the course!!!
jul 24, 2025, 9:43 am • 0 0 • view
This piece—and others—prompted me to a) donate to Gaza Soup Kitchen and b) contact my (Republican) congressman today. It’s been easy for me to use helplessness as an excuse to look away. I credit journalists who’ve committed to the beat for shaking me out of my complacency.
jul 24, 2025, 2:48 am • 60 2 • view
bsky.app/profile/mari...
jul 24, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
THANK YOU! This agonizingly horrible ugliness perpetrated on suffering families should be at the TOP of the news! STOP THIS NOW
jul 24, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
You're on the right side of history which isn't always an easy place to stand. Sadly, there is often a price to pay for speaking the truth. Your conscience is clear. One can't put a price on a clear conscience & you will always have it. Those that colluded with genocide will live with it forever.
jul 24, 2025, 5:30 am • 3 0 • view
Yes.
jul 24, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, they are and it’s inhumane and heartbreaking 💔. Israel can certainly let WHO come in and feed these starving people and provide water and healthcare. Babies are dying of starvation. This has to stop ✋🏻
jul 24, 2025, 3:27 am • 3 0 • view
Biafra on the Mediterranean
jul 24, 2025, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
I think it’s bc the only way to help is w money which most ppl do not have rn. At least that’s why I avoid it. It sucks to not have any funds beyond your bills & groceries, it makes it so you are useless when the only solution is money.
jul 24, 2025, 3:54 am • 11 0 • view
Not really. For who's trying to stop the genocide - Israeli NGOs particularly - even a follow here or on X helps. It says "you're not alone". (I'm of an NGO still operating in Gaza, small donors have been generous but there's little food left our staff can buy...)
jul 24, 2025, 12:28 pm • 2 0 • view
I only just noticed this, as it went into my Spam box, and was marked as "phishing." I've not had that before. 😣 It's an excellent piece and should be ready. Will signal boots. Grateful always for your insights and truths, no matter how uncomfortable they may be.
jul 24, 2025, 9:17 am • 8 0 • view
The unopened rate is not necessarily genocide denial. It could be self-preservation. At least that's how I am finding myself reacting. I've been talking about this genocide for a year or so (I don't even remember anymore) IRL. What is the point of getting another confirmation of the horrors ...
jul 24, 2025, 9:57 am • 4 0 • view
... that are unfolding when all you are met with when you talk about it is a shrug. Isn't it self-care at this point not to want another load of distressing photos in my brain? I'm still advocating where I can, but I don't need to get yet more upset when I'm already upset enough. It's a ...
jul 24, 2025, 9:57 am • 1 0 • view
... bit different calculation for the media, because you guys shape public perceptions. And I also acknowledge that supporters staying switched on is important. But there is also such a thing as too much, where it becomes a net negative because it can tip people over into depression and giving up.
jul 24, 2025, 9:57 am • 2 0 • view
I can see why you were frustrated. Perhaps a more optimistic take is that people can get information about Gaza from many other sources. Readers may see you as source for one topic, and while it might not be the only topic you (or they!) care about, it's the one that many readers look to you for.
jul 24, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I was going to counter the unsubscribes with my subscribing admittedly single voice, but then I learned I already subscribe. Keep up the good work. I'd say keep doing God's work but then as we all know, the God ship sailed long ago.
jul 24, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Heartbreaking.
jul 24, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
These horrors are due to Hamas desperately hanging on to power and Islamic fundamentalism. These are the same people who refused to live with Jews and chose war.
jul 24, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Shut the fuck up.
jul 24, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
yeah you should probably just go fuck yourself
jul 24, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/jaco...
jul 24, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I no longer fault Israel for refusing to live next to Hamas. It's just long term self defense. Hamas refuses to relinquish power. Instead they sacrifice their women and children for sympathy. It's all a tragedy, but I blame the Islamic fundamentalists and their belief that God wants a caliphate.
jul 24, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Even if that were true, which it’s not, that still doesn’t justify Israel starving children to death. Nor shorting people queuing for food. There is nothing Hamas is doing that forces isreal to do that.
jul 24, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Hamas refuses to surrender and give up power. They disappear into their civilian population and purposefully put their citizens at risk. Israel is clearly fine with killing them if that's what it takes to eliminate Hamas. Hamas purposely gets women and children killed for political sympathy.
jul 24, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Huh, it actually made me Venmo you for the first time
jul 24, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Increasingly, people are psychologically ill-equipped to process the mounting toll of grief. Humanity is *severely* emotionally stunted. Acknowledging this story here means being inundated with desperate requests for assistance most of us are unable to meet. Incomprehensibly tragic at every level. 💔
jul 24, 2025, 3:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Not certain if people not opening emails is why this continues, or that guilting people into reading your work is the best approach. But I applaud you for helping draw attention to the genocide. Keep on keepin on.
jul 24, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I donate monthly to WCK and their email updates about this are heart-breaking. 😞
jul 24, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Truth isn’t a warm blanket. I’m glad you’ve taken this as validation rather than a warning
jul 24, 2025, 5:44 am • 5 0 • view
Every night I tune in to PBS Newshour (also worth donating to, btw) and they run a story about the latest atrocities in Gaza. Not only are the Gazans starving, but so are the aid workers. And they are all at risk of being needlessly killed at the whim of the IDF. It is horrific.
jul 24, 2025, 1:18 pm • 2 0 • view
A tough, heartbreaking read.
jul 24, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
😞 stop this madness! Children are starving to death in their parents arms. This is unacceptable no matter what your religion is. Stop!
jul 24, 2025, 4:08 am • 0 0 • view
That’s really frustrating to hear. But it makes me glad then, that this piece is what helped me decide to become a paid subscriber. I suspected that this wouldn’t be the easiest piece to publish and I wanted to make sure to thank you for doing it. That and all the other great work you do!
jul 24, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
appreciate you 🙏
jul 24, 2025, 2:48 am • 2 0 • view
I applaud you👏👏👏👏👏 My friends are aghast at me. Israel is unable to walk and chew gum at the same time.
jul 24, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view
Subscribed.
jul 24, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I thank you for writing this piece. Your experience mirrors the years and years of conflict I've had with friends and family on this subject.
jul 24, 2025, 3:59 am • 1 0 • view
The horrors persist, indeed. I think it's telling that the most unsubscribes and lowest open rate coincided with the most avoidance. Silence can be deafening, but in this case, it's a loud scream that we're not talking about it.
jul 24, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
I hadn’t opened it yet because I have been meaning to read it. Thank you for the nudge. You do amazing work and I’m still subscribing.
jul 24, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
thank you for writing this.
jul 24, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for covering this catastrophe.
jul 24, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
It is so difficult to read these stories; it's just awful and horrible and we are complicit. I subscribed just now.
jul 24, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
A few weeks ago I saw the updated Google earth images… it is horrific.
jul 24, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
It was such a good piece — thanks for writing it
jul 24, 2025, 2:57 am • 5 0 • view
My theory is that most of us that subscribe were ahead of the curve in our anger towards Netanyahu and the IDF going back to early last year. It’s hard to continue reading about the atrocities in Gaza because it’s the same thing over and over.
jul 24, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Being a moral rebel means saying/doing the hard thing and weaker men resenting you for it History will be kind to you
jul 24, 2025, 4:13 am • 1 0 • view
If only the press wasn’t preoccupied with the Epstein show to broadcast this every hour of every day.
jul 24, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
Really? Even of your readers? That’s so upsetting. Thank you for all that you do.
jul 24, 2025, 11:21 am • 3 0 • view
Thank you for continuing to speak up!
jul 24, 2025, 11:58 am • 0 0 • view
Would love to see you and @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social team up to continue to speak out against genocide. She supports an organization that is helping people in Gaza.
jul 24, 2025, 4:25 am • 1 0 • view
What can we do?
jul 24, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
I don't think that people are avoiding it b/c they don't care. They're avoiding it b/c they know that there's nothing they can do about it.
jul 24, 2025, 3:21 pm • 18 0 • view
reading about it, caring about it, is doing something about it.
jul 24, 2025, 3:37 pm • 10 0 • view
It’s not. It literally makes no difference. The most important lesson of the past ten years is that being an informed, empathetic, responsible citizen means fuck all. Unless you’re capable of assassinating Netanyahu and the senior leadership of Likud, you can do nothing about Gaza, period.
jul 24, 2025, 3:54 pm • 8 1 • view
Especially when the leaders elected because they condemned it during the election fall silent as soon as they take office. That's what happened to me up in Canada.
jul 24, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 0 • view
You can go to the chuffed dot org link above and donate for food, medicine, shelter. Even a tiny amount can help.
jul 24, 2025, 4:36 pm • 8 0 • view
It’s heartbreaking and those of us who want to stop do not see anything we can do to fix it. Help us with that part.
jul 24, 2025, 6:39 am • 3 0 • view
AFP piece was brutal. Theres so much horror. It feels like w this fascist govt we are a powerless to stop it. Greta Thunbergs crew bravely tried to bring food, look what happened then. I hope the Epstein files & midterms kick the felon out & a new govt stops the genocide. I hope its not too late...
jul 24, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 1 • view
That is disappointing to hear.
jul 24, 2025, 11:46 am • 0 0 • view
UN and ICC should be sanctioning and investigating Israel right now.
jul 24, 2025, 4:29 am • 0 0 • view
I literally feel like I can do nothing to fight it. And I can’t afford to cross an ocean, abandon my work and volunteer or read about it everyday. I sure as shit wouldn’t allow tax dollars to be earmarked for war if I had a choice. I think a lot of us feel this way. Everything is demoralizing.
jul 24, 2025, 3:43 am • 1 0 • view
Donation ✔️ Don't ever stop writing about this genocide. 👏
jul 24, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Subscribed 💙
jul 24, 2025, 3:10 pm • 1 0 • view
You are doing great work!
jul 24, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for standing for the truth! It is what the world needs now.
jul 24, 2025, 11:01 am • 4 0 • view
Starving civilians is a war crime. You and your fellow courageous journalists are essential in delivering the truth to the people. Thank you Marisa!
jul 24, 2025, 2:50 am • 69 0 • view
I have to say I'm one who can't find it in me to immerse myself in the horrid details. I'm very appreciative of you and others who are willing to do the reporting, though. It's just so heart-breaking and frustrating in that we (I) feel helpless to stop it happening. It's horrific to see our pols >
jul 24, 2025, 7:06 am • 5 0 • view
greet Netanyahu and pose for photo ops with big smiles, etc. It literally made me nauseous.
jul 24, 2025, 7:07 am • 3 0 • view
It’s horrific to watch these unfathomable horrors and it is very painful to see it being ignored by world “leaders” and the media. Thank you for writing it.
jul 24, 2025, 2:53 am • 0 0 • view
The worst part is that Palestinians weren’t living the best life before all of this and it’s just gotten worse exponentially.
jul 24, 2025, 4:42 am • 1 0 • view
I shared it to my social media to sounds of silence.
jul 24, 2025, 2:34 am • 7 0 • view
The truth is abhorrent.
jul 24, 2025, 2:56 am • 2 0 • view
Many people sympathetic to the cause are—unfortunately *realistically*—afraid of eventually being locked up by our government just for being subscribed to anything Team Trump calls anti-Israel. ("Disapproval of Netanyahu" qualifies.)
jul 24, 2025, 2:37 am • 2 0 • view
They're not trying to avoid the sad reality, they are often immigrants facing the fact that overnight, we've become literally worse than North Korea.
jul 24, 2025, 2:38 am • 1 0 • view
I will never be quiet as long as Palestinians get genocided
jul 24, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Anyone who doesn't see Isreal as a terrorist state also thinks America is doing great.
jul 24, 2025, 3:47 pm • 2 0 • view
This newsletter, unlike others, is one you have to gear up to read. You might flag it to read later then never read it. Thanks for the nudge to read it, even though it’s just as heartbreaking as I expected it to be.
jul 24, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
For what it’s worth, I subscribed.
jul 24, 2025, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
How pathetic and cowardly of them. I just had a read and it was a very solid representation of what I am hearing from friends in Gaza.
jul 24, 2025, 8:18 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for refusing to go along with the cover up.
jul 24, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
All the more evidence you done good, kid.
jul 25, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for writing it.
jul 24, 2025, 2:48 am • 28 1 • view
My dad had JUST sent me a text to “look up the GHF” as proof Israel is trying to feed Gazans. Thank you for reminding me of this article of yours I bookmarked (and of course for writing it)!
jul 24, 2025, 10:56 am • 23 0 • view
It is frustrating when people we have relationships with tell lies, spread information, and try to align us against the values they taught us.
jul 24, 2025, 3:02 pm • 6 0 • view
The Guardian had an eye opening line in an article about the famine. July 22nd was GHF's 58th day operating in Gaza, but in that time they had only brought in enough food to sustain the population for 2 weeks, if it was distributed equally, which it hasn't been.
jul 24, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
They want to absolve themselves and their friends of being a party to genocide.
jul 24, 2025, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
FWIW, speaking solely for myself, there’s a desire to avoid them because it’s something we a.) know is happening, b.) know is unspeakably horrible, & most importantly c.) feel absolutely powerless to do anything about it. At which point reading details about it feels like a form of self-punishment.
jul 24, 2025, 2:05 pm • 20 1 • view
Empathy burnout is why I have started muting accounts that post about Gaza. Not denial. Not minimization. But simple desire to be able to exist without being at the deepest depths of my depression. Our brains aren't wired to handle this level of hell.
jul 24, 2025, 4:37 pm • 9 0 • view
💔
jul 24, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
On the other hand, some of us shared the piece with others...
jul 24, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
Actually it mostly means ppl don’t want to be force-fed disturbing images and subjects, in order to try and move the needle on an issue. They are human, they only have so much bandwidth, and they’re just trying to get through the week.
jul 24, 2025, 10:13 am • 0 0 • view
What would me reading your newsletter do to stop it?
jul 24, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
If the truth hurts them so much, then good riddance.
jul 24, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
People feel powerless and are withdrawing, we can't even keep our own house in order and affecting something in another country feels impossible when we can't even get our country to stop funding genocide
jul 24, 2025, 3:47 am • 2 0 • view
I definitely have said “I’ll get to that piece later when I can handle it” several times today. It’s tough—and I’m grateful to do it!—to reconsider those choices through this lens and face how right you are.
jul 24, 2025, 3:13 am • 1 0 • view
I'm guilty of not opening your emails sometimes because I often prefer your summaries due to lack of time, and am happy to be a supporter in general, but I made a point of reading this one thoroughly. Thank you for your great work, as usual.
jul 24, 2025, 3:34 am • 1 0 • view
Makes me wonder about the apathy overlap of Good Americans re: Gaza & gestapo creeps disappearing people from US streets.
jul 24, 2025, 7:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I appreciate your work. Thank you for being honest
jul 24, 2025, 4:29 am • 0 0 • view
I picked up a couple blocks within minutes of sharing this. It happens every time I share something related to Palestine
jul 24, 2025, 2:13 pm • 6 0 • view
My question of the day: “If genocide is not the right word to describe what is going on in Gaza, what is the right word?”
jul 24, 2025, 4:07 am • 5 0 • view
I am wondering why folks refuse to engage on this question. Although we’ve got a lot of stuff going on in our country, I submit that we cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza.
jul 24, 2025, 5:10 am • 2 0 • view
Death of heredity & the end of humans
jul 24, 2025, 6:07 am • 2 0 • view
Tears
jul 24, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 0 • view
They're not avoiding hearing about starving people. They're embracing the idea of starving them to death. We're a nation of horrible, horrible people.
jul 24, 2025, 2:45 pm • 3 0 • view
There's a point at which staying informed and bearing witness to the horrors begins to consume me, when rather than moving me to action I am unable to function. If I move on without reading it is not because I desire ignorance but that I'm at my limit and need to preserve enough capacity to continue
jul 24, 2025, 1:50 pm • 80 0 • view
I feel that way, too. I know someone whose family is trapped there. Her brother was killed the night before one of the "ceasefires." Sometimes I just can't read about it any more, for my own sanity. I know that's an enormous privilege.
jul 24, 2025, 2:00 pm • 39 0 • view
My heart breaks for you and those you know. You are right, it's important we recognize both the need to preserve our mental health and also the privilege we have in being able to adjust the dial of exposure. I think honoring both is how we do the most good.
jul 24, 2025, 2:34 pm • 13 0 • view
Same boat. There's nothing I can do for Gaza and I know all the bad things are happening and it breaks my heart. The fact that we have effectively no control is a big issue, there's nothing we can do but bear witness and it's rough. And that's in a nation of horrors ala US concentration camps
jul 24, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
my favourite word in the English language these last say ten years: compartmentalise it helps keep me informed, engaged and active
jul 24, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for writing
jul 24, 2025, 2:47 am • 75 0 • view
Yes. Thank you for writing. It’s important
jul 24, 2025, 2:47 am • 44 0 • view
If the current administration is good at anything, it's making us turn our heads from constant unbearable atrocities...
jul 24, 2025, 4:34 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for your essential work. I finally just became a paid subscriber. Twice, accidentally, because of a fumble on my end. I'll drop one of the two next month, but until late August I'll just read everything twice.
jul 24, 2025, 3:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Jewish solidarity, combined with the Dem Party's terror of losing a core constituency, has killed any chance at a real moral reckoning on Gaza. The Dems need to bite the bullet and risk their current coalition for one that is unafraid of embracing universal civil rights.
jul 24, 2025, 4:34 am • 12 0 • view
Hey, Marisa. I too am Marisa but White, former Evangelical, & 66 years old. My worldview was shattered/reshaped in 10th grade, learning about the Holocaust, watching the same news reels you did, and reading Night. I'm here to encourage you to keep writing. I NEVER turn away. Elie Weisel did that!
jul 24, 2025, 3:59 am • 1 0 • view
2. I believe in the Power of One. I think of images from around the world that are burned into my soul. Individual protesters, a small child washed up on shore trying to escape violence, a White Helmet hero in Syria, an online friend in Sudan (a helper) suddenly gone. Too much. But Elie taught me...
jul 24, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
3. I am a witness. What I read about, learn, hear about matters. I may feel helpless. I am not. I can take a short break but I don't get to opt out. Or stop learning. So keep writing. Keep learning. Read as much as you can from as many different worldviews as you can. What you write matters!
jul 24, 2025, 4:13 am • 1 0 • view
I don't understand it Children are children
jul 24, 2025, 3:03 am • 2 0 • view
FWIW, my quote post of this essay got more likes & follows than anything I’ve ever posted. You’re doing brave, necessary & inspiring work - thank you!
jul 24, 2025, 1:14 pm • 24 0 • view
"If I cannot see it I do not know it's happening" Isn't that what the Germans said?
jul 24, 2025, 10:21 am • 2 0 • view
I read and shared. Thank you for reporting in a humane and just way on an extraordinarily complex situation. You’re doing the work that our paper(s) of record ought to be doing.
jul 24, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
Keep up the good work.
jul 24, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
NGL that is a hard read. But thank you for writing it. New annual subscriber here.
jul 24, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
you can thank Hamas for this
jul 24, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
😢
jul 24, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
I can't speak for the unsuscribers, but as to newletter open rates--your headline says all we need to know in order to form an opinion on Gaza and make demands on our elected representatives. Beyond that, it's just subjecting oneself to really gory details that are emotionally exhausting.
jul 24, 2025, 2:26 pm • 3 0 • view
it needs to be said
jul 24, 2025, 3:39 am • 1 0 • view
You got my follow
jul 24, 2025, 2:54 am • 0 0 • view
Anyone who cannot admit that Israel is, itself, a terrorist state engaged in genocide right now is not honest and doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.
jul 24, 2025, 3:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Serious question: what do we do? Is there anything we can do other than contact our reps in congress?
jul 24, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Donate to aid orgs. Of course, with incomes plummeting in relation to inflation, this is becoming progressively more difficult.
jul 24, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
But the aid isn’t even getting inside Palestine’s borders, right? There is food available but it’s stuck in a warehouse.
jul 24, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Join a group that's working for Palestinian liberation in your area, and find a way you can plug in, whether that's showing up to actions, making banners and signs, providing jail support, etc. So many people are already doing this work - find the ones who are local to you and join them.
jul 24, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
There might be a chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace in your area, or Palestinian Youth Movement, or BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions). There might also be a location-based group- for example, here in the Boston area, we have Somerville for Palestine, Malden for Palestine, etc.
jul 24, 2025, 1:29 pm • 3 0 • view
One caveat: I recommend avoiding PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation), which has a history of abusive behavior: linktr.ee/PSLflags
jul 24, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 1 • view
Thanks!
jul 24, 2025, 1:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh also, two more things you can do: Follow and boost groups that are trying to break the siege and get aid into Gaza, like @freedomflotilla.bsky.social - the more eyes on them, the better.
jul 24, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Donate to Palestinian-led mutual aid groups on the ground in Gaza, like the Sameer Project and the Gaza Soup Kitchen. This isn't enough, as these groups are limited to buying food and other supplies that already exist within Gaza, and those stores are running dangerously low. But
jul 24, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
in the short term, it helps distribute whatever supplies are left in Gaza to the most vulnerable people.
jul 24, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, the Palestinian Youth Movement is having national days of action today and tomorrow: www.instagram.com/p/DMbmqZ9gZWk
jul 24, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
You're welcome!
jul 24, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for putting a spotlight on this horrible situation in Palestine
jul 24, 2025, 2:34 am • 26 0 • view
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the unsubscribes were not due to people wanting to avoid the horrors you wrote about. I'm betting that people subscribed to you for different reasons, but as soon as you wrote something that was pro-Gaza, they assumed you were anti-Israel/anti-Semitic.
jul 24, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Labeling anyone who says anything remotely critical of Israel as antisemitic is a form of avoiding those horrors, though
jul 24, 2025, 4:35 pm • 5 0 • view
That's true. I was reading what she said as people avoiding those horrors because they don't want to face how horrific it is, kinda like how people say they don't follow the news because it's depressing or it's all bad. But you're right; some people do use the anti-Semitism label for that purpose.
jul 24, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Why is Israel in Palestine and not Bavaria? Palestinians didn’t do anything to the Jews. The Germans did. Give them part of Germany. Why on Earth did they take something away from anyone other than the Germans?
jul 24, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I think part of it is how helpless we feel in this situation. We know what’s happening but we’re powerless to get the Israelis to let the trucks through. People don’t like being reminded how powerless we all, ultimately, are.
jul 24, 2025, 2:36 am • 27 1 • view
Gaza is a torture chamber. A concentration camp. Anyone who looks away today would have looked away 80 years ago too.
jul 24, 2025, 2:45 am • 21 3 • view
Really unfortunate, but thank you for your work
jul 24, 2025, 3:11 am • 2 0 • view
I deeply appreciate your work to tell the truth about what is happening. It keeps me awake at night, honestly.
jul 24, 2025, 2:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Back in the aughts I had a very small political newsletter. Maybe 40 people, and almost literally no response/feedback. And then I wrote a thing about Israel and AIPAC. Suddenly people wanted off my newsletter, negative responses etc, and I was shunned by some pool buddies. Very enlightening.
jul 24, 2025, 4:10 am • 14 0 • view
Thank you for this. I think one of the things we're seeing, in addition to ignorance, is learned helplessness. It's literally the suppressive effect of the so-called reasonable stewards of world order encouraging a holocaust in plain sight. For those still engaged, though, your work is essential.
jul 24, 2025, 9:55 am • 12 0 • view
Starving, they’re getting shot when they come for food. The Israeli’s want that land now. They’ve blasted the crap out of Gaza. For them, the problem is the Gazans living on that land. Maybe they’re trying to eradicate them. In the past, Jews often starved. Now they’re the ones doing the starving.
jul 24, 2025, 10:52 am • 3 0 • view
Well I subscribed now.
jul 24, 2025, 11:54 am • 4 0 • view
I subscribed because of it. (I too am the granddaughter of Survivors.)
jul 24, 2025, 2:45 am • 28 0 • view
means a lot 🫶🏻
jul 24, 2025, 2:48 am • 15 0 • view
Thank you for speaking (writing) out. 🖤
jul 24, 2025, 4:00 am • 5 0 • view
thank you for doing what you do
jul 24, 2025, 4:44 am • 2 0 • view
that’s so kind, thank you
jul 24, 2025, 12:22 pm • 4 0 • view
Deliberately starving children to death, and shooting their parents when they queue for food. Now a controversial issue on whether it is bad to do.
jul 24, 2025, 10:35 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you for writing this!
jul 24, 2025, 2:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Acknowledging this probably makes people confront themselves, and people don't like that
jul 24, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 0 • view
I read it and I'm likely to subscribe, now. Mass murder is mass murder and deserves condemnation and the killers pursued.
jul 24, 2025, 2:48 am • 0 0 • view
Subscribing, keep up the amazing work!
jul 24, 2025, 6:14 am • 0 0 • view
I've been slow to subscribe because of money issues but now I can't not subscribe. Fair warning, I may have to unsub again in the future but it will be entirely due to finances.
jul 24, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s horrifying
jul 24, 2025, 4:12 am • 0 0 • view
The evil that is done in Gaza is also a grievous act of self-harm by Israel, devastating the country's reputation abroad and enabling anti-Semites everywhere. It does, however, keep Netanyahu out of jail for a while longer.
jul 24, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
🔥
jul 24, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
Wow. That’s wild. I totally agree with you on what you wrote.
jul 24, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
“I got closer to death that day than a piece of bread” will haunt me.
jul 24, 2025, 3:07 am • 3 0 • view
Thank you for writing about it. I wish more journalists would. No matter how people want to bury their heads in the sand or capitulate to the Zionists screeching antisemitism whenever anyone talks about the horrors they are committing, it still NEEDS to be talked about & SHOWN.
jul 24, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view
There is nothing Jewish about ethnic cleansing. Netanyahu and IDF aren’t “healing the world,” but the exact opposite.
jul 24, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
Then you must be on the right track!😉
jul 24, 2025, 3:07 am • 0 0 • view
I don't understand how people can be so freaking cruel. These people are starving to death, frankly it's terrifying how cruel society has become.
jul 24, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for speaking up @marisakabas.bsky.social! The silence on Palestine is deafening! Thank you for breaking that silence.
jul 24, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
“AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024,” the Editorial Committee’s statement from Monday began. Shocks the conscience. Heroic work by them and thanks to you for writing this.
jul 24, 2025, 3:37 am • 3 0 • view
That piece broke my heart and needed to be said. Sadly we have confused anti-Semitism with calling out really bad behavior. Can't be critical and be a good Jew, I guess.
jul 24, 2025, 10:07 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for writing this and drawing attention to these horrors
jul 24, 2025, 2:01 pm • 32 0 • view
It's because the Gaza crowd voted for this. Why should I feel bad for Gaza if palenstinians who knows better than me voted for this
jul 24, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Could not agree more.
jul 24, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
People are in denial due to propaganda. See what Walter duranty did at the nyt during the holodomor for which the nyt got a fucking Pulitzer.
jul 24, 2025, 3:07 am • 0 0 • view
The food crisis is being engineered by Hamas and the "aid" agencies in order to save Hamas from defeat. It's the next logical step after using their own children as human shields. Starve your own population and then accuse your enemy of being inhuman.
jul 25, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
It could also be Marisa that when people read over and over about the situation in Gaza they become overwhelmed by rage, anger and a sense of individual helplessness at not being able to do anything to stop the situation..or is that just me...I can't deal with my own inadequacy to help them
jul 24, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The willingness of so many regular people to engage in genocide denial has, for me, been the most gut-wrenching awakening of my adult life, bar none. The feeling of desolation when reckoning with this continues to overwhelm me.
jul 24, 2025, 8:55 am • 177 12 • view
This has low-key been obvious in my country as we have grappled (or not, as the case may be) with the findings of our national inquiry into MMIWG, but to see it in real time and at such scale is even more shocking and heartbreaking
jul 24, 2025, 11:04 am • 8 0 • view
Covid taught me that an overwhelmingly large amount of people can't be bothered to care about things they can't feel. If it doesnt impact them personally, it doesn't exist - nor should it matter. They get irritated they even need to be reminded of it.
jul 24, 2025, 1:43 pm • 90 1 • view
The corollary is: “Screw you, I got mine. You’re on your own.”
jul 24, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes. Covid was the defining crisis that woke me up to what my neighbors are really about.
jul 24, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
It's US rugged individualism. "It doesn't impact me, so why the fuck do I care?" It's why everyone hates Medicaid...until they need it. Everyone hates FEMA...until they need it. Everyone hates gay rights...until their child is gay.
jul 24, 2025, 2:03 pm • 68 4 • view
Well said. Couldn't agree more and it doesnt need to be this way. And it's not just an American problem sadly.
jul 24, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
No, it's not exclusive to the US, but as someone who has traveled extensively it's not as prevalent in Europe and especially Asia.
jul 24, 2025, 2:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh for sure. America is the worst example of it right now. I have long been envious of the culture Japan, for example, has. Very respectful, feels like a big community. And that respect travels with them, it doesn't stay at home.
jul 24, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
So true. I had an older woman working in a store in Tokyo stop sweeping her floor and walk me two blocks down because I asked for directions. She just left her store completely unattended to help me find a tourist trap I was going to, then SHE thanked me!
jul 24, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
"Toxic" individuality (As much as that term may trigger a certain subset)
jul 24, 2025, 2:21 pm • 22 0 • view
This is the flaw in all of the DOGE nonsense; government is supposed to cover the things that don't make sense for someone to pay, until they need them. See this newsletter from Feb - open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
jul 24, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, government isn't a for profit business. Government is supposed to provide essential services to everyone.
jul 24, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup this is what I realized as a teen dealing with (very lately diagnosed) PTSD from circumcision. People are moral npcs. Their beliefs are largely dictated by their culture and their oblivious belief in the just world fallacy. They will support anything.
jul 25, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
And any trauma that exists outside of them and their close friends/family may as well be a myth. That's pretty much the default human attitude toward anything upsetting or bad.
jul 25, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed. Pop of Palestine: 5.6M humans Call it out: Mass murder Ethnic cleansing Extermination Massacre Slaughter Pogrom Holocaust Annihilation Democide Atrocity
jul 24, 2025, 9:21 am • 1 0 • view
Compare US/World response to Milosovic in Bosnia in the 90’s: 100K Humans slaughtered; 2M displaced.
jul 24, 2025, 9:21 am • 1 0 • view
Yup
jul 24, 2025, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Have you learned any history of Black people in this country? It’s what they do…
jul 24, 2025, 9:11 am • 0 0 • view
I'm not American, but yes I have.
jul 24, 2025, 9:26 am • 1 0 • view
Well, now you know…
jul 24, 2025, 9:30 am • 0 0 • view
He literally said "yes I have" and you still felt the need to drop a "well now you know" as if you did ANYTHING. Insufferable.
jul 24, 2025, 1:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Shut your mouth Neanderthal
jul 24, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
They are painful things to see
jul 24, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
You’re on point with this regardless of what the unsubscribers might think.
jul 24, 2025, 3:09 am • 43 3 • view
I've come to acknowledge this, but avoid it because I'm one among 8.2 billion, and nothing I can say or do will stop this. At some point I have to preserve my own sanity so that I can function in the circles where I can make a difference.
jul 24, 2025, 2:54 am • 4 0 • view
Not really. You can preserve your sanity & call your political representative, sign petitions, keep Western leaders "concerned". it's already working: 40 World Food Program trucks were allowed in Gaza 3 days ago (a drop, I know, but hope too).
jul 24, 2025, 1:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Lots of people support the genocide but don't dare to say it out loud.
jul 24, 2025, 2:15 pm • 0 0 • view
The truth about people? As long as it’s happening over there, as long as it’s to someone else, a permitted and ‘justified’ target, it’s never real and it’s never as bad as the victim says.
jul 24, 2025, 4:13 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for bringing this to the forefront. People ARE starving in Gaza.
jul 24, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
It's sad, but people turn away from the unbearable. They can't handle it. And it's hard to take in. It's so horrible that it's painful to behold, and some people choose to ignore it.
jul 24, 2025, 4:13 am • 0 0 • view
Partly because they go unreported. American "news" organizations are a complete fucking disgrace.
jul 24, 2025, 6:21 am • 0 0 • view
I'm part of the low open rate, but also as a subscriber I'm thrilled you're covering it even if I haven't had time and emotional bandwidth to read it yet (I will!!). Gonna go join you in donating, and please keep up the great work on hard topics!
jul 24, 2025, 3:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Being anti-Netanyahu and anti "what the Netanyahu govt is doing in Gaza" is NOT "Anti-Semitism"... #marcorubio
jul 24, 2025, 2:40 am • 23 0 • view
Still subscribed. Still grateful to you for doing this and other necessary work.
jul 24, 2025, 2:44 am • 5 0 • view
Guilty. I’m sorry. It’s so hard to absorb the reality of what is happening.
jul 24, 2025, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
Marisa I love your work, but I can't bring myself to read it because I don't feel like I have any power to make anything better...
jul 24, 2025, 2:59 am • 3 0 • view
And the politicians people elected trusting they will stand against a meticulously-documented, active genocide are at best, silent and at worst, complicit. Looking at you, @mark-carney.bsky.social & @coreyhogan.ca
jul 24, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The Daily news cycle becomes like wallpaper. It's in the background of your life and eventually you don't notice it. Not that people don't care, but they have their own daily strife to deal with. So they stroll through and see a piece about Gaza and think, I've read that before or something similar.
jul 24, 2025, 9:18 am • 0 0 • view
Everyone's on the Epstein file now, way more entertaining than a few starving Palestinians being shot at for comiting the crime of wanting to feed their Familly. That's us, that's humanity. We want entertainment.
jul 24, 2025, 9:18 am • 0 0 • view
I used to think US and Israel were the good guys, beacons of freedom and human rights wrt much of rest of the world. Now, ashamed, disgusted, and angry for the past and ongoing horrors in Gaza. Cannot comprehend after the Holocaust how this behavior is somehow justified.
jul 24, 2025, 3:31 pm • 2 0 • view
They also exist because criticizing anything Israel does unleashes a torrent of vitriol and gets you branded as antisemitic and bigoted
jul 24, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I just read and subscribed. I had read the letter from earlier this week, and it’s all heartbreaking. I can’t imagine what it’s like to watch all of this carnage up close. Some days, it feels like all I can do is bear witness.
jul 24, 2025, 4:30 am • 0 0 • view
Deliberately reading and sharing and subscribing just to stick it to the haters
jul 24, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
That's because they dismantled the Biden food pier.
jul 24, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Stands over morality matter. Real morality.
jul 24, 2025, 2:44 am • 5 0 • view
“too many people go to great pains to avoid them.” Avoid it? The story is everywhere, all the time.
jul 24, 2025, 2:59 pm • 4 1 • view
I don’t understand this. It isn’t antisemitism to say that what Israel is doing in Gaza right now is despicable.
jul 24, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
I was heartened to see it in my inbox. We all need to be speaking up, and this was a good reminder (among many others.)
jul 24, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
I'm told that starving children is the consequence of Hamas' policy to destroy Israel. To wipe out the state. I'm finding it difficult to see why wiping out Israel is morally more reprehensible than wiping out Palestinians.
jul 24, 2025, 6:34 am • 1 0 • view
Shut the fuck up.
jul 24, 2025, 3:13 pm • 2 0 • view
I am as convinced as I can be that Israel is perpetuating a horrific genocide in Gaza and am trying to protect myself psychologically by not rubbing my face in it more than that - sorry I am sure the article is great, thanks for your work!
jul 24, 2025, 12:42 pm • 6 0 • view
We are powerless. Interested and concerned but powerless. Mad and angry but powerless. Horrified but powerless. Fighting for our own different type of survival.
jul 24, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
“These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them” feels like the fatal flaw in the human race itself
jul 24, 2025, 10:54 am • 8 0 • view
The Nazi death camp guards said would you like to take a nice warm shower before supper? The death cult Israelis said would you like to come to our distribution point to stock up on some nice fresh foods.
jul 24, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Gaza is similar to the "Warsaw ghetto" atrocity to me. My faith in humanity has never been lower.
jul 24, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for continuing to raise the issue of the horrific starvation of Gaza. It’s maddening that majorities want it to end, yet we haven’t been able to stop this evil strategy!
jul 24, 2025, 11:11 am • 0 0 • view
I read it and it brought me to tears and heart ache. What is wrong with people!!!
jul 24, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
I will NEVER understand seeing people die from starvation and thinking it’s justified. History will not be kind to Israel.
jul 24, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't get it. The world is throwing away genocide denial, but some are doubling down I guess
jul 24, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
It's way past time.
jul 24, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
jul 24, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
whhhhaaaaaaaat? wtf is wrong with people
jul 24, 2025, 3:12 am • 0 0 • view
This late reader is still very much subscribed, and appreciates you bringing this horror to our sheltered lives. It's fucking devastating.
jul 24, 2025, 2:35 am • 19 0 • view
🙏
jul 24, 2025, 2:36 am • 5 0 • view
Subscribed
jul 24, 2025, 1:15 pm • 6 0 • view
My quote and repost has strangely been a hit. I hope people are clicking through and reading your wonderful work. I’m glad I did.
jul 24, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view