New Anthology Confronts the War on Children in Gaza through Black and Jewish American Voices

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Chicago, IL—March 2025 — In the wake of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, For Gaza’s Children: Black, Brown, and Jewish Writers and Poets Speak Out presents a bold and timely response to one of the most urgent moral issues of our time. This powerful anthology centers the lives of Palestinian children and offers an uncompromising critique of state violence, settler colonialism, and the global community's complicity.

Edited by Marc Lamont Hill, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Keith Gilyard, For Gaza’s Children features over forty contributors—poets, scholars, journalists, rabbis, and activists—who bear witness to the atrocities committed against Palestinian youth and call for a new global ethic rooted in justice and collective liberation.

In their searing introduction, the editors contextualize the anthology within the aftermath of October 7, 2023, when a Hamas-led attack was met with an overwhelming and ongoing Israeli military response that has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians—over 9,000 of them children. They argue that this violence constitutes a war on Palestinian childhood and a flagrant violation of human rights, morality, and international law.

Key contributors and topics include:

  • Marc Lamont Hill on the necessity of centering Palestinian children in any meaningful framework of global justice.

  • Haki R. Madhubuti on naming the horror in Gaza as genocide and daring to speak the truth against sanitized narratives.

  • Lara Friedman on the denial of Palestinian children’s human rights.

  • Jason Cohen on confronting the dehumanization of Palestinian youth by Zionism and Western imperialism.

  • Jonathan Tilove and Rabbi Alissa Wise offering Jewish theological responses to the violence against Palestinian children.

  • Alice Walker with original poems such as Hope and The Slain Children of Gaza Hold Council in Paradise.

  • Mursalata Muhammad, Tony Medina, Gabriel I. Green, and others, with poetic responses that blend grief, rage, and radical love.

  • J. Raya Bell and Tracie D. Hall on the intersection of reproductive injustice and cultural erasure during wartime.

  • Talib Kweli, Ezra Hyland, Rev. Dr. Marshall Elijah Hatch, Sr., and Dr. Maulana Karenga exploring the moral imperatives of resistance.

This volume stands as a declaration of radical solidarity. It resists false binaries, reclaims the voices of Black and Jewish Americans from weaponized narratives, and insists that Palestinian children, and all children, deserve safety, imagination, and peace.

For Gaza’s Children is available now online at Third World Press Foundation.

For media inquiries, review copies, or interview requests, please contact:

Mursalata Muhammad, PhD.
Volunteer Special Projects Manager
Third World Press Foundation
Email: twpfprojects@thirdworldpressfoundation.org

 

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