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Today’s newsletter is coming out a little later than usual. I have been thinking a lot about the continued discourse surrounding Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech, Zoe Kazan’s recent Tweets on it, her own family’s industry history, and how political agenda’s destruction of art and industry. I wrote a little more than usual across a few sections.
If you can, consider making a donation to UNRWA today: Here
This week, the US made a decision to effectively defund the UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in operation since 1949, and the only real aid lifeline to Palestinians. Just hours ago, Israel told the UN it would deny any UNRWA aid and food convoys into Northern Gaza. Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini simply referred to it as a “man-made famine.”
You’re watching two countries effectively starve the very people they’re bombing. It’s sinister plan ensuring that aid (*FOOD*) will only be delivered on their terms, maybe through still-unconstructed piers or islands, maybe never, to whoever is even alive by then. I don’t know what donating will do, knowing there’s no where for it to go, but that’s all I got.
Please also continue to donate e-sims to ensure stories get out.
Appreciate yall —
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