Voices of Resistance — Diaries of Genocide // Fasila (Imprint of Comma Press), 2025

This book is made up of diary entries from four Palestinian women living through the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It is heartbreaking.

In the United States, we fund this genocide. We provide weapons, military training and strategy, UN resolution veto power, and tax-payer dollars. We are responsible for our own actions. There is a moral responsibility of every US citizen to call for the end of the destruction of the Palestinian people, to see Palestine into nationhood without obstruction or control by the United States or it’s lacky, Israel, to the establishment of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East as outlined by UN Resolution 242 along the internationally recognize Green Line.

This book has taught me about genocide. Palestine, where people live in terror and sleep, “…all of us stretched out on mattresses in neat rows, like bodies in a mass grave…” (pg.53). Where nowhere is safe from drone fire and bombardment. Where food has run out and cats eat dead bodies. Where children ask you how you prefer to die.

How can someone be a parent and not think of Palestinian children as their own?

On a personal note, I came to this book through Left Book Club. If you are unfamiliar with Left Book Club, please check them out—it’s a London-based club distributing one book per month concerned with social issues. If you need books to read, start here.

Voices of Resistance — Diaries of Genocide—Read this book if you want to understand modern Palestine.