Literature won't stop genocide in Gaza

Children are dying. Children are being killed. That isn't complicated to grasp. It isn't morally ambiguous. People. Lives. Families. Civilians. Obliterated by the Israeli war machine with the vociferous support of our government.

Books will not end this war. Literature will not stop genocide in Gaza. No novel will return a parent to an orphan and no poem will end the thirst, hunger or pain of a people under total blockade. The words Palestinians need are yours:

End the siege.

End the occupation.

End collective punishment.

Stop the genocide in Gaza.

Say it louder, call for it with conviction:

End the siege.

End the occupation.

End collective punishment.

Stop the genocide in Gaza.

And again. And again and again to anyone who will listen and especially those who wont until they stop killing our babies and shredding our humanity: End the siege. End the occupation. End collective punishment. Stop the genocide in Gaza.

Books will not end this war. Just like they didn't stop it from happening in the first place. They may help us understand it and how to fight it, they may be the weapons of empathy that shore up the fractures in our discourse. So yes, if you need books, we have books.