absolutely losing my mind that you have hundreds of international citizens who were been abducted, abused, some raped and tortured by Israel and… crickets in our news media. We are beyond “complicity” and ‘giving Israel impunity’ - its complete acquiescence and surrender.
Really sad news out of Memphis. Brandon Clarke has died. He was 29.
He was great with kids. He had just established his own foundation and was committed to pouring into the Memphis community. I went to two of those events. Keep his family in prayers.
https://t.co/AY8OFy7srB
I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented.
My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.
I’m devastated today to have learned more about a child I once wrote about in a poem published in the NYRB in March 2024. (Later published in my book Forest of Noise)
When I wrote that poem, I didn’t know her name. I didn’t know her father’s name, her age, or exactly when and where she was killed.
Now I do.
I know she was killed alongside her father by an Israeli sniper. I watched the video again, and I read the account in an investigative report published by BBC Arabic in August 2025.
Her name was Layan al-Majdalwi. She was two years old.