Susan Abulhawa

Acts of love and hero­ism con­tin­ue amid Is­rael’s car­nage in Gaza.

The sto­ry of the six Pales­tin­ian po­lit­i­cal pris­on­ers should in­spire hope and ac­tion, not throw us into de­spair.

He is no dif­fer­ent from his pre­de­ces­sors. He has just not masked his cru­el in­stincts.

Colum Mc­Cann’s lat­est nov­el mys­ti­fies the coloni­sa­tion of Pales­tine as a ‘com­pli­cat­ed con­flict’ be­tween two equal sides.

By im­bu­ing Gazans with myth­i­cal brav­ery, the left is fail­ing to recog­nise Pales­tin­ian hu­man­i­ty.

Al­ice Walk­er’s real ‘of­fence’ is not anti-Semi­tism; it is her un­wa­ver­ing sup­port for the Pales­tin­ian cause.

Is­rael’s new ‘na­tion-state’ law fol­lows in the foot­steps of Jim Crow, the In­di­an Re­moval Act and the Nurem­berg Laws.

Or how af­ter a racist in­ci­dent, Star­bucks chose as a part­ner an or­gan­i­sa­tion with a track record of racist ac­tivism.

Is­rael in­vent­ed the word Mizrahim to strip Arab Jews of their his­to­ries as they tried to do with Pales­tini­ans.

Or how Won­der Woman turned from a hero to a war crimes sup­port­er.