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Sara Yasin

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palestinian-american raised on a steady diet of hummus and fried chicken. editor-in-chief, the key (a palfest production) www.sarayasin.com

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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 13h
The price of new subscriptions to The Key will go up after we hit 1,000 paying members. We are just under 100 subscriptions away from hitting that number. Subscribe before time runs out! www.thekeymagazine.com/upgrade
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We also have a very powerful piece from a writer who left Gaza in August this year, Mayar Nateel: "I try to imagine that quiet death, one that is like drifting into a deep sleep, free from the sound of missiles hunting down my body." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/gaza-genoc...
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Diary from Gaza: “I Dream of an Ordinary Death”
The road to Khan Yunis once passed through familiar streets and landmarks. Three years into the genocide, the journey is marked by destruction.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Key is also excited to share a round-up of some of the exciting books coming out this fall, including Mahmoud Khalil's debut memoir, previously untranslated writing from Ghassan Kanafani, stunning photography and poetry from Palestine and more www.thekeymagazine.com/p/new-forthc...
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16 New Books We're Excited About This Fall
We're seeing an unprecedented number of new books on Palestine, politics, culture, and resistance.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the latest edition of The Key, we have important reporting that shows similarities between what is happening in southern Lebanon today and the process of systemically erasing Palestinian villages during the Nakba www.thekeymagazine.com/p/south-leba...
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“I Couldn't Tell My House From the Rubble”: How Israel Is Wiping South Lebanon’s Homes Off The Map
In a region where ownership is often passed down without documentation, Israel is strategically destroying villages to enable their permanent erasure, experts say.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My introduction to Issue 013 of THE KEY Please subscribe today: thekeymagazine.com/upgrade
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It might not be immediately clear why we paired writing from Mahmoud Darwish and first-hand testimony from a Palestinian student on Columbia University's campus after the genocide, but there's a really important tie between the two. My introduction to this latest edition of THE KEY:
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Also in THE KEY: A Palestinian alum of Columbia University explains why she and other Palestinian students and faculty are suing the university for discrimination www.thekeymagazine.com/p/columbia-s...
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OPINION: Why I'm Suing Columbia University for Anti-Palestinian Discrimination
“The more I protested, the more I mourned my people, the more I made myself a target both from the university and bad faith actors allowed on campus.”
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In the latest issue of THE KEY: Newly translated writing from Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Sinan Antoon) www.thekeymagazine.com/p/mahmoud-da...
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Searching for the Normal in... the Abnormal
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Study Hall @studyhall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Revisit this episode with @sarayasin.bsky.social on a new path for reporting on Palestine. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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A New Path For Reporting On Palestine ft. Sara Yasin
Podcast Episode · The Study Hall Podcast · May 18 · 44m
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Logging off! See you in September.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I hope you read this vital, powerful writing from @reproutopia.bsky.social in today's edition of The Key: "This is what it looks like when a society has settled the question of who counts as rapeable – which is to say, who counts as human." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...
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“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide
The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I have a major piece up today at The Key. It's about Israel, parsing the rape baked into Zionism's core grammar. I speak of trained dogs; Screams Without Words; Sde Teiman; the Tomer-Yerushalmi affair; and the Palestinian Feminist Collective on sexual violence's centrality to reproductive genocide.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Abdullah Al-Arian wrote for us about Palestine as a phantom presence at the World Cup: “If one were to look beyond the carefully curated and sanitized scenes that surround every global mega-event, Palestine was everywhere.” www.thekeymagazine.com/p/world-cup-...
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Palestine at the World Cup: Everywhere and Nowhere
FIFA and its hosts erased Palestine from the tournament, but fans and players made it impossible to ignore.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Here, your heart is an alarm steeped in salt. And if it beats violently, do not threaten it with calm." "Guidelines for Life in a City Howling by the Sea" - Mariam Al Khateeb www.thekeymagazine.com/p/new-poem-m...
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Guidelines for Life in a City Resounding Against the Sea
Guidelines for Life in a City Resounding Against the Sea
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We can finally share the Arabic version of Ibrahim Matar's "Notes From A Doctor Witnessing The Genocide In Gaza" (beehiiv back end is not friendly to Arabic, unfortunately 😭) www.thekeymagazine.com/p/genocide-g...
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مذكّرات طبيب شاهد على الحرب من مشافي غزة
"سمعت أصوات الفاقدين وهم يصرخون بأقوى ما يقدرون حتى تنجرح حلوقهم"
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
so many powerful quotes in this profile (w/phenomenal photos by Maen Hammad), but I was most struck by this www.thekeymagazine.com/p/walid-daqq...
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Issue 010 is live! Sanaa Salameh sits down with The Key to talk about carrying her husband's legacy, the prison movement, and the release of his first major posthumous work, "The Ticket Seller" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/walid-daqq...
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Walid Daqqa Is Still Here
A conversation with Sanaa Salameh about preserving her husband's legacy, the prison movement and the release of "The Ticket Seller," Daqqa's
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It was a great honor to have this portrait of Mona Khalil in this publication. And please do subscribe to The Key, an incredible resource from @palfest.bsky.social
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If you have The Key in your inbox, you also received this beautiful portrait of Mona Khalil, drawn by @djolder.bsky.social
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Can I drink water polluted with history? Can I drink the earth’s memory? My brother stares into me holding his cupful, saying “We all drank.” I reply, “I have had enough. I already drank my history.” Maryam Qawwash in The Key www.thekeymagazine.com/p/maryam-qaw...
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Gravitation
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Why does polling data show support for Israel amongst ordinary Nigerians? The answer lies in the politics of oil, the power of the pulpit, an inadequately resolved civil war and its aftermath, plus a left that no longer exists www.thekeymagazine.com/p/nigeria-is...
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Why the Giant of Africa Loves Israel
How did Nigeria – a country that’s half Muslim – become one of the most pro-Israel nations in the world? The answer lies in oil, the pulpit, a civil war, and a left that no longer exists.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
very cool to see the key cited in @theguardian.com!
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Issue 007 of THE KEY is live now with: - A photo essay from Ahmed al-Bazz on the erasure of Palestine. - 2 new poems from Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. - A profile of political prisoner, Umer Khalid. - Zena Hashem Beck on living through Israel's bombardment of Lebanon from afar. www.thekeymagazine.com
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Zeina Hashem Beck writes, in this stirring piece from Issue 007 of The Key, about how Israel's assault on Lebanon ripples across space and time. Read it here: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/zena-hashe...
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We asked one of the most eminent human rights lawyers in the world, Geoffrey Robertson KC, to write about the sentencing of the "Elbit Four" as terrorists and the dangerous precedents being set by the Starmer government. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...
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Punishing Protest as Terrorism
The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
NEW: 92NY was set to host a celebration in honor of Allen Ginsberg's life, but had to quietly cancel it after two of the biggest names on the bill withdrew over the venue's pro-Israel stance www.thekeymagazine.com/p/92ny-israe...
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“We should be having memorials to our own lack of conscience.” New York’s 92NY Loses Ginsberg Centennial After Authors Withdraw.
How artists' rejection of US empire and Israeli genocide is redrawing New York City's cultural geography.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Today in The Key we have a blistering critique on terrorism sentences from Geoffrey Robertson KC, the founding head of the law firm that built Keir Starmer's career www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...
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Punishing Protest as Terrorism
The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
London- I’m at Southbank Center tomorrow with @palfest.bsky.social secure.southbankcentre.co.uk/139994/13999...
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Southbank Centre
Are you sure you want to remove this seat from your selection?
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“You wouldn’t know if the reason is that we have a different sense of how cinema works or we have a different sense of what genocide is.” @alexnpress.bsky.social on Hollywood's invisible blacklist: lareviewofbooks.org/article/holl...
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Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist | Los Angeles Review of Books
Perfecting the art of the blacklist.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
So honored to publish this with @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social + @economichardship.bsky.social ♥️🙌 bsky.app/profile/sara...
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The genocide in Gaza has hit Hollywood as a political issue, but it has also played out as a labor question–making it difficult for workers to know if vanished opportunities reflect retaliation or simply an industry in free fall. @alexnpress.bsky.social reports www.thekeymagazine.com/p/hollywood-...
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Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist
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Study Hall @studyhall.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Great conversation with @sarayasin.bsky.social, editor in chief of The Key, about leaving the LA Times/legacy media and exploring the difficult dynamic of changing an institution from within. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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A New Path For Reporting On Palestine ft. Sara Yasin
Podcast Episode · The Study Hall Podcast · May 18 · 44m
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Billionaires are propping up right-wing media mouthpieces with no real organic audience. Bezos bankrolled an (embarrassing) new Post opinion desk, Ellison shelled out for Bari Weiss, and is looking to again with Katie Miller. It’s obvious why. My latest @status.news www.status.news/p/katie-mill...
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Subsidizing MAGA Mouthpieces
Billionaire media owners are pouring money into little-watched MAGA-friendly podcasts and video ventures in hopes of currying favor with the administration.
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
LA news outlets have done a really poor job covering Pratt’s mayoral campaign and history of junk claims. Here’s TMZ breaking the news that Pratt has actually been living in a Bel Air hotel and not the trailer as he claimed in the viral ad www.tmz.com/2026/05/13/s...
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Spencer Pratt Staying at Bel Air Hotel, Not Airstream Trailer
8:31 AM PT -- We asked Spencer if he has ever lived in the trailer, and he said no, adding, "I have never told anyone I lived there." However, in the campaign ad, he says squarely, "This is where I li...
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I had the honor of being in conversation with with my great friend, the scholar Tareq Baconi, about HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY everythingispolitical.com/readings/mol...
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Molly Crabapple In Conversation with Tareq Baconi
When artist and writer Molly Crabapple set out to research the Eastern European Jewish Labor Bund–the revolutionary, socialist, and unapologetically anti-Zionist movement that swept through Eastern Eu...
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Issue 005 of The Key is here! Today we have the honor of publishing Husam Maarouf's profile of Omar Hamad and the newly-opened Phoenix Library in Gaza www.thekeymagazine.com/p/phoenix-li...
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Gaza’s Phoenix Library Rises
Omar Hamad saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In the latest edition of The Key, Fariha Róisín examines the viral phenomenon of Zionists who participate in wellness culture while also justifying genocide against Palestinians. That dissonance, she says, is made possible by the idea of “spiritual bypass" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-wel...
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“May Your Village Burn”: Inside Israel’s Wellness Industry
The acclaimed author of Who Is Wellness For?, examines the phenomenon of a wellness culture seemingly at ease with genocide.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New on THE KEY, a piece by Amu Gib, a 30-year-old British activist who has been imprisoned for the last nine months under counterterrorism laws—and is now running for office in the upcoming council elections.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The following piece was written by Amu Gib, a 30-year-old British activist who has been imprisoned for the last nine months under counterterrorism laws. Amu and four others allegedly broke into a British military airbase in June 2025. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/amu-gib-pa...
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Opinion: Why I’m Running for Office from Prison
Amu Gib, one of five pro-Palestine activists imprisoned for allegedly breaking into a British military airbase last year, explains why they’re running for council in north London from behind bars.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"I want to be part of the government in the way a sledgehammer wants to be part of the prison wall: briefly, and with maximum impact." Amu Gib, a pro-Palestine activist in the UK, writes for The Key about their decision to run for office from behind bars www.thekeymagazine.com/p/amu-gib-pa...
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Opinion: Why I’m Running for Office from Prison
Amu Gib, one of five pro-Palestine activists imprisoned for allegedly breaking into a British military airbase last year, explains why they’re running for council in north London from behind bars.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In honor of Palestinian Prisoners Day please take a moment with this incredible photo essay by Maen Hammad from the crucial new publication The Key, edited by @sarayasin.bsky.social
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Photo Essay: Until Every Homecoming
Maen Hammad reflects on photographing the moment of liberation for hundreds of Palestinian political prisoners.
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Issue 004 of The Key is dedicated to Palestinian Prisoners' Day:
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Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I am proud to publish this essay by Huda Fakhreddine about her family's home in southern Lebanon; first destroyed by Israeli rockets in 2024 and now under threat again in light of Israel's full-scale attack on her homeland www.thekeymagazine.com/p/huda-fakhr...
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A House of Poetry
Huda Fakhreddine writes about her family home in South Lebanon, in a village that now lives under the terror of Israel’s bombs.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
For April & May's Bookshelf we have @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY - an epic history of the Jewish movement that refused Zionism's pressure to colonise and subjugate another people. Subscribe now at www.palfest.org/bookshelf and get an original artwork postcard too
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This @sarayasin.bsky.social essay launching "The Key" is excellent. This line captures so much. "It just takes far too much effort to make these stories happen." She means the necessary, moral, honest stories, like calling a genocide a genocide. Must-read. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
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It’s Not Complicated
The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.
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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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The Key: I've been thinking a lot about that time period in light of this rise of Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene as right-wing figures who are being very vocal about Palestine-

Ta-Nehisi Coates: They're talking about Israel. That's a very important correction.

The Key: Yeah.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: I'm sorry, I don't want to be too-

The Key: No, it's fair. I'm just curious how you're thinking about this in the present tense. What's the through line between what happened then and what's happening now?

Ta-Nehisi Coates: First of all, it's really bad. I emphasize the Israel part because my support for Palestine, my support for Palestinian life, it's not about support for Palestine and Palestinian life per se. Just like-and it took me a while to get to this-my support for Black life and for Black people is not for Black people or Black life per se. I just believe human beings are entitled to certain dignities and certain things in their lives. It's a pretty baseline thing for me.Unfortunately, some of the people with the loudest, most cutting critiques of Zionism and of Israel right now don't share that baseline belief. I think it's really important to say this. These people will turn on you in a second.

But to answer your question, there's an obvious moral problem here. Again, I saw it at the DNC. You watch these people get up 60 years after Fannie Lou Hamer's delegation was not allowed to be seated-and they won't let Palestinians talk. They think they can kill this critique, but the critique is true. The only control you have is whether the critique comes out of a place of humanism-of shared values and the significance and importance of human life-or whether it's allied with one of the oldest evils in the history of the West. You're not going to suppress this stuff. The days of doing that are over.

There are people in the Democratic Party-which I think is a separate thing from the movement, and certainly from my own politics-who, to this day, and it sounds insane, think they can get away with telling you that the Earth is flat and supporting a system that is designed around that logic.

It's not going to work. People aren't dumb.
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