LEILA MARSHY IS HAIKUBOXER: WRITER, EDITOR, FIERCE PUNCTUATOR
RAZING PALESTINE
Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada
With a Foreword by Dr. Gabor Maté
Baraka Books, November 2025
NOVEMBER 2025 EVENTS!​
MONTREAL Nov 12: Kawalees
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TORONTO Nov 17: It's Ok Studios, with Another Story Bookshop
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VANCOUVER Nov 20: Upstart and Crow
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HAMILTON Dec 3: New Vision United Church, with The City & The City Books​
REVIEW: OTTAWA REVIEW OF BOOKS
by Ian Thomas Shaw
"The value of Razing Palestine lies not only in its emotional immediacy but in its documentary importance. We live in a moment when history is being rewritten in real time, and when silence—whether chosen or coerced—will be remembered. One day, younger Canadians will ask what was known, what was done, and what was risked as Gaza burned and as repression rippled outward. This anthology will not offer them policy blueprints, but it will offer names, voices, and moral testimony. It may also, in some small way, encourage others to close the distance between awareness and action."
Read more here.
​Wth a Foreword by Gabor Maté.
Contributors include: Sheima Benembarek, Amy Blanding, Safa Chebbi, Libby Davies, Duha Elmardi, Dr. Yipeng Ge, Elise Gravel, Yara Jamal, Iman Kassam, Thoby King, Nora Loreto, Ehab Lotayef, Hunaifa Malik, Samira Mohyeddine, Kagiso Lesego Molope, Mo Pareles, Robin Philpot, Arfa Rana, Jillian Rogin, Sean Tucker, Lesley Wood, Anna Zalik, & more.
by Jeff Dupuis
"Razing Palestine pulls the curtain back on the violence and ugliness of the colonial machine, from its erasure of Palestinian culture and Palestinian voices from the mainstream, to the divisions sewed within the Jewish community itself. It turns those who are supposed to protect us into those who persecute us. The diverse selection of contributors shows the many ways and the many downstream effects of silencing dissent of Canada’s support of our genocidal ally has. We see the impacts of job loss and self-censorship, death threats and doxxing, even Jewish children being uninvited to Passover seder if their parents don’t tow the Likud Party line."
Read more here.
Two years in and we continue to watch in horror as 2 million people living on 140 square miles of land bear an unprecedented and unfathomable pummelling by the Israeli Army. More bombs were dropped on Gaza than in World War II; more children killed, wounded and orphaned than in any other conflict of this century; more journalists and healthcare workers killed than in any other conflict ever; and entire towns and districts were reduced to dust.
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Those who speak about the carnage are punished by censure, sanction, smearing and worse. Across Canada—and internationally—journalists are muzzled, academics are stifled, doctors are fired, activists are arrested, and artists are banned. Words such as genocide and ceasefire have been excised from the vocabulary, and criticism of the conflict invites accusations of antisemitism.
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Razing Palestine brings together the testimonies and stories of a wide range of individuals across a variety of domains who have suffered the cost and consequences of speaking up for Palestine.​