The truth about Palestine is definitely not coming to a theatre near you.

Belén Fernández is the author of Inside Siglo XXI: Locked Up in Mexico’s Largest Immigration Center (OR Books, 2022), Checkpoint Zipolite: Quarantine ... in a Small Place (OR Books, 2021), Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World (OR Books, 2019), Martyrs Never Die: Travels through South Lebanon (Warscapes, 2016), and The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work (Verso, 2011). She is a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine, and has written for the New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, Current Affairs, and Middle East Eye, among numerous other publications.
The truth about Palestine is definitely not coming to a theatre near you.
For those trying to reach the US on foot, the deadly winds of Tehuantepec are just one among myriad existential threats.
Death follows the journeys of people desperate to reach safety across militarised borders.
American journalists like Jake Tapper mince no words in justifying the Israeli annihilation of the Palestinian people.
The brutal Israeli war on Gaza is aimed at devastating Palestinian bodies and minds alike.
Cutting off the Palestinians of Gaza from the rest of the world is a modern twist on the crime of forced disappearances.
As we’ve just seen with the UN chief, not even the slightest diversion from Israel’s counter-reality is permissible.
The 20 trucks of aid that entered Gaza are just a distraction from Israel’s murderous war on the Palestinians.
Selective empathy is not empathetic at all.
Washington, DC is a fitting microcosm of the general state of emergency in the US.