For Gaza's children : Black, Brown and Jewish writers and poets speak out / Marc Lamont Hill, Haki R. Madhubuti and Keith Gilyard editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, Marc Lamont, contributor, editor.

Madhubuti, Haki R., 1942- contributor, editor.

Gilyard, Keith, 1952- contributor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel-Hamas War, 2023-.

Israel-Hamas War, 2023---Poetry.

Children and war--Gaza Strip.

Children and war.

Genre:

poetry.

Essays.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 196 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

distributed by Ingram Publisher Services

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Third World Press, a project of Third World Press Foundation, [2025]

Summary:

"We firmly believe that our children are the stewards of our liberation. When we prioritize our children, we are also prioritizing a world shaped by peace, safety, love, and justice. When we protect our children, we are also protecting our most beautiful legacies and coveted traditions. When we invest in our children, we are also investing in our most audacious freedom dreams and our most impossible future worlds. The children of Gaza, and indeed all of Palestine, are no different. Driven by this commitment, we have decided to assemble an anthology that prioritizes children. We hope to contribute to the present moment of radical resistance and revolutionary possibility by placing the lives, experiences, conditions, feelings, perspectives, and stories of the region's children at the center of our social, cultural, moral, legal, and political analysis. For this anthology, we have chosen to exclusively spotlight the voices of Black, Brown, and Jewish American writers. In foregrounding Black, Brown, and Jewish identities, including those writers who identify as both Black and Jewish, we hope to refute several dangerous myths about Black, Brown, and Jewish Americans on the question of Israel/Palestine."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Marc Lamont Hill, Haki R. Madhubuti and Keith Gilyard

I. The denial of Palestinian childhood / Marc Lamont Hill ; Dare to accurately name the horror of Gaza: genocide / Haki R. Madhubuti ; Where are Palestinian children's human rights? / Lara Friedman ; Rafeek (for Paul & Nada) / Brian Gilmore ; Whose children? What futures? The selective vocabulary of war and peace / Julianne Malveaux ; Genocide in Gaza

save the babies / Herb Boyd ; Confronting dehumanization: Palestinian youth and the leviathan of Zionism and western imperialism / Jason Cohen ; The weapon of truth / Molefi Kete Asante ; The inhumane situation in Gaza: a commentary / Edmund W. Gordon ; L'dor v'dor: our sacred obligation to generational time / Rabbi Alissa Wise ; Lamentation: how can a Jew not weep for the children of Gaza? / Jonathan Tilove ; On parenthood and genocide: a new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza / Heba Gowayed

II. The secrets of the victors (the only fair fight is the one that is won

Anglo-Saxton proverb) / Haki R. Madhubuti ; Gaza suite / Tony Medina ; BG / Mursalata Muhammad ; Circle of fifths for Gaza / Gabriel I. Green ; Look how they blame the hungry for swallowing their anger (after Tariq Luthun) / Gabriel I. Green ; Her people named her / Ezra Hyland ; Ayat Akhras, 16 / Aneb Kgositsile ; Possession dance visiting the occupied territories / Aneb Kgositsile ; Genocide in the name of peace / Michael Simanga ; Talking to Hamas / Alice Walker ; The slain children of Palestine hold council in Paradise / Alice Walker ; Hope / Alice Walker ; You ask for a poem / Marilyn Kallet

III. Births of two nations: global gaslighting and reproductive injustice for Palestinian, Black and Indigenous families / J. Raya Bell ; 'The memories cannot be brought back': implications of the destruction of libraries and archives on young people in wartime Gaza / Tracie D. Hall ; The sin of neutrality or The tail of the mouse / Talib Kweli ; Killing hope / Dave Zirin ; First writing since... / Zahra Ali ; There can be no moral high ground unless we stop war on children / Ezra Hyland ; If we must live: a talk from teachers / Sabina Vaught, T. Elon Dancy, and Christopher M. Wright ; Gaza's children's lives matter: a prophetic and theological treatise / Rev. Dr. Marshall Elijah Hatch, Sr. ; And Palestine, its people and their children will prevail: praising and supporting their radical refusal to be defeated / Dr. Maulana Karenga ; A prayer for the children of Gaza / Rahiel Tesfamariam

Addendum I. 1948: Israel, South Africa, and the question of genocide / Robin D.G. Kelley

Addendum II. ...And how are the children? / Paul Hill, Jr.

Addendum III. Might say, 10/14/2023 / Keith Gilyard.

Notes:

Essays and poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780883784372

0883784378

OCLC:

1484904815