September Events for Palestine

Mark your calendars for the following important Western Mass events:

September 16th from 5:00 to 6:30 pm: Poems from Gaza: An Evening with Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha, UMass Bowker Auditorium
September 20th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm: Interlink's 2nd Annual Read and Resist Fest. Interlink Publishing, 46 Crosby St., Northampton, MA
September 24th a6 6:45 pm: Gaza: Past, Present, and Future? A Talk by Norman Finkelstein, UMass Bowker Auditorium

POEMS FROM GAZA
An evening with Palestinian writer & librarian Mosab Abu Toha
Tuesday, September 16, 5–6:30pm
Bowker Auditorium, Stockbridge Hall, UMass Amherst
Ticketed free event | Tickets at tinyurl.com/UMToha,
Fine Arts Center Box Office: 413-545-2511

MOSAB ABU TOHA is a Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist from Gaza. His first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 
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Read & Resist Fest is back for its 2nd year, and it’s bigger and better than ever!

The Second Annual Read & Resist Fest will take place on Saturday, September 20, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Interlink Publishing, located at 46 Crosby Street in Northampton, Massachusetts. Masking is required. 

Interlink Publishing—the only Palestinian-owned book publisher in the United States—will once again host this outdoor social justice and literary festival dedicated to collective liberation. The festival will feature a book sale, more than twenty queer, trans and/or BIPOC vendors, children’s activities, all-ages workshops, teach-ins, music, and food.

The Read & Resist Fest began in 2024 as a collaboration between local organizers and Interlink Publishing to create a space for community building, education, and organizing toward a more equitable world both locally and internationally. Last year’s festival drew over five hundred attendees, and this year’s event is expected to be even bigger and better with grant funding from the Northampton Arts Council and Interlink Foundation.  The festival will feature over twenty social justice organizations, including Western Mass Jewish Voice for Peace, Western Mass Asylum Support Network, River Valley Democratic Socialists of America, UMass Students & Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Translate Gender, Collective Power for Reproductive Justice, and many more.

“We wanted to create a physical space where people who believe in social justice and collective liberation could come together, learn, and organize. After the 2024 election, more people have realized that injustice and oppression has been happening right here in our communities. It is more urgent than ever to come together and connect to work towards change. All of our struggles, and those around the world, are intertwined.” — Statement from Read & Resist Fest organizers

TEACH-IN/AUTHOR EVENT LINE UP:
11:00 am: 6 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School
Teach-in on abolition by Dr. Amilcar Shabazz and Tom Wiener, authors of In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School.
KIDS CORNER: 11:30 am: Palestine Storytime 
Storytime of Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine, read by Hannah Moushabeck, play-along music with percussion by Michel Moushabeck. 
12:00 pm: Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing
Teach in by Jina B. Kim, author and Assistant Professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College.
1:00 pm: Palestinian Poetry Teach-in
Teach-in by George Abraham, Palestinian American poet, editor, essayist, critic, and performance artist.
2:00 pm: Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School
Book talk by bestselling author and educator of antiracist and social justice education, Tiffany Jewell.
KIDS CORNER: 2:30 pm: Queer History Teach-in for Kids! 
Kid-friendly teach-in by Sarah Prager, author of Kind Like Marsha
3:00 pm: Immigration Protections Teach-In 
Teach-in by immigration lawyer and activist, Elliot Oberholtzer

Gaza: Past, Present, and Future?
A Talk by 
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
IN PERSON @ BOWKER AUDITORIUM
STOCKBRIDGE HALL, UMASS-AMHERST
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2025, 6:45PM
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC — BUT TICKETS REQUIRED

RESERVE FREE TICKET

“No scholar has done more to shed light on Israel’s ruthless treatment of the Palestinians than Norman Finkelstein.”
—John J. Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

A Rare Public Appearance at UMass-Amherst

Norman Finkelstein — the world’s leading forensic scholar of the Israel-Palestine conflict and a renowned authority on the politics of the Holocaust — will appear in person at Bowker Auditorium, UMass-Amherst, on Wed., Sept. 24, at 6:45 p.m., to deliver a major public talk on the situation in Palestine and themes related to his forthcoming book, Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places.

Admission is free — but tickets are required, and capacity is limited.  

Click here to reserve your free tickets now.

ABOUT NORMAN FINKELSTEIN:Finkelstein is the author of 13 influential books and one of the world’s most compelling voices on the Israel–Palestine conflict.His 2018 book Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom shot to #1 on Amazon after October 7. The Intercept called it “indispensable.” Noam Chomsky said, “Finkelstein’s study stands alone.”He was denied tenure at DePaul after a campaign led by Alan Dershowitz — Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer — in one of the most significant academic freedom cases in U.S. history.Tickets are free, but they will go fast.

Fine Arts Center Box Office: 413-545-2511

Contact:
Michel S. Moushabeck
Founder/Publisher/Editor
Interlink Publishing
E-mail: michel@interlinkbooks.com
Website: www.interlinkbooks.com