Organize your own actions for READ PALESTINE WEEK, November 29 – December 5. Let us know about them so we can share and amplify.

Share on your social media accounts using: #ReadPalestineWeek, #ReadPalestine, #LirelaPalestine, #اقرأ_فلسطين, #LeerPalestina

If you have a community space, organize an event: A reading, a book discussion, a moment of shared community. Make a book display. Print out poems by authors in Gaza.

Print copies of our new zine featuring writers from Gaza, And Still We Write. Get the files here. Distribute widely for free, or sell and donate all funds to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund or another trusted source of support for Palestinians in Gaza: https://gascf.org/

Be in the streets and pressuring your governments; attend demonstrations, rallies, and other Palestinian solidarity events. Call, email, and sign petitions that place pressure on your government officials who are breaking international law by upholding trade, military, and diplomatic relations with Israel.

Refuse to give your labor to Israeli literary institutions that are complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights. Find out more here.

Amplify Palestinians, and Palestinians in Gaza especially, through online platforms, and engage as much as possible with their content in order to boost visibility.

Support an encampment or court case near you. Donate to bail funds for those unjustly arrested or persecuted for Palestine solidarity. 

Boycott the war machine and the apartheid state. Learn more about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement at bdsmovement.net, and the PACBI, the cultural boycott component of BDS, at bdsmovement.net/pacbi.

Call out the media. Write to your local media outlets and pressure them to insist on coverage of unfolding events in Palestine. Insist that they use Palestinian sources and center Palestinian lives. Ask that they use active language when describing the killings of Palestinians. Demand that the media work to interrogate and analyze the intentions behind their government’s actions, and attempt to understand the workings of international law. Ask the media to report on protests, collective actions and boycott movements.

And remember: “Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it’s a handful, throw it. If it’s a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw.”–Rasha Abdulhadi