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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs Jul 30

Nothing to celebrate in the third summer of genocide.

Too many lives lost, many more devastated. And it continues.

We must persevere.

Stop the Genocide.

End Occupation.

End Apartheid.

Ahmed Eldin @aseisfree Jul 28

@FranceskAlbs new book – a NYT bestseller – is about what it actually costs to look at a war directly, in real time, while everyone else is scrolling past it.

Here’s the thing: We’re living inside the exact moment this book is describing, right now. The bodies keep getting counted. Doctors keep dying in Israeli custody. The UN keeps putting out statements that change what, exactly? Nothing on the ground. The news cycle moves on before the grief even has time to land.

Francesca wrote this because she wasn’t going to let that happen to the people in these pages. She gave them names. Memories. Mornings. Fear. Dignity. Things the news cycle doesn’t.

That’s what makes her so dangerous. She doesn’t ask you to have the right opinion. She asks you to sit with one person until you can’t continue looking away anymore. And then she asks what you’re actually going to do about it.

Read this book. Not to feel informed. To feel implicated. In the good way. The way that actually moves you into feeling, and into action.

I’m grateful to call her a friend. To learn from a mind that holds this many dimensions at once and still finds a way through with grace. The way she navigates this moment has become something I measure my own against.

While the World Sleeps, by Francesca Albanese.

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