Syrian-American writer, novelist, and attorney, working to dismantle the Nakba Machine, replace US foreign policy in the Middle East, and end the Duopoly.
@joshua_landis
US foreign policy in the Middle East for the last century is like going to your neighbor's house while it's being built in burning it to the ground repeatedly.
@denise_dewald
Without the British Mandate imposed in Palestine at the end of WWI, which was a form of colonialism, there would not be an Israel. Instead, there would be a Palestine full of Arabs and Jews living together. There would still be issues, but occupation, apartheid, and genocide
@peterdaou
Antisemitism that plagued Europe's Jews was European, not Palestinian, not Arab, not Muslim, not Middle Eastern. Only European. The transmogrification of Antisemitism onto the Palestinians has allowed the Israelis to get away with a slow genocide, which has been quickened since
@alon_mizrahi
This is reminiscent of President Wilson having a stroke in the fall of 1919. Had he not been so debilitated, the Senate would have ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and the US would have joined the League of Nations, and France and Britain could not have given themselves
@yanisvaroufakis
I’m convinced the decision by Hamas leadership to attack now, and in this way, was directly related to conditions in the West Bank, and perhaps even more so to Netanyahu’s premature victory lap on Saudi normalization in September.
@HotSpotHotSpot
That’s text book retaliation. The students have First Amendment rights of speech and protest they are being denied under threat of losing their lawful rights, such as attending the college they were admitted to and paid tuition for. The students should sue DeSantis and the state
@SkyNews
@SkyYaldaHakim
The fact that she could say that with a straight face tells you everything you need to know about the State of Israel. These people are lost yet again!
A burning bush told me so.
@COLRICHARDKEMP
You are wrong. If Iran strikes Israel it will be a proportional response based on Israel's aggression in Lebanon and Syria. The US should not jump in to defend Israel in a fight that Israel has picked. It would be much more beneficial to US foreign policy to let Iran get in a few
@mehdirhasan
It's a system that can be gamed, and that's the problem. We have let 6 justices undermine the US Constitution and the elected Congress. We need to reform SCOTUS so that it cannot be gamed.
We need 21 Justices, 13 sitting for each case, with 20 year terms. That's how we make
@JamaalBowmanNY
Good man! You nailed it Jamaal. We need more people like you in Congress. You should not have been opposed within the Democratic Party. It would be a crime if you lost the primary to the AIPAC stooge running against you.
@SunjeevBery
@UCBerkeley
How horrific for that law student to be assaulted by the Dean and a law professor for speaking up. It's appalling. He should be removed from his position as Dean, and Frisk should be fired for her assault on Afaneh, which is clearly caught on camera.
@mehdirhasan
Nothing transpired on October 7 or since that could ever justify Israel killing over 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza, the majority being women and children, displacing millions of people, bombing apartments to the ground, bombing schools, hospitals, and humanitarian aid, destroying
@RepRashida
@ASE
That’s an understatement. I never thought I would see the day when POTUS green lighted an ally to commit war crimes. He has undermined over a century of US foreign policy.
@Ilhan
When America tolerates or perpetrates tyranny abroad, it weakens our moral and ethical principles, and we begin to tolerate tyranny at home. This is the story of the last 22 years since 9/11. A slippery slope that leads to Biden green lighting war crimes against a defenseless
@daliaziada
While your journey must have been very emotional for you, it had nothing to do with the Exodus in the Bible. It was not universal or archetypal. It was political and personal. This story begins in 1920, not the Bronze Age. And, as you left Egypt, you did so while a nation of
@FareedZakaria
@rulajebreal
Giving Netanyahu an ultimatum is futile. He'll do just what Ehud Barak said he will do in his new piece in Foreign Affairs, play both sides against the middle. And, he will win again, because that is the system we have in place. Israel cries "security," AIPAC repeats it, Congress
@alon_mizrahi
I've been tracking the protests and the violence, and I have not heard of a single incident of a protester attacking any one. The protests have been peaceful, until the protesters are attacked by the anti-protesters, usually Zionists.
@RitchieTorres
You are wrong. Just look at the example of the Passover dinner at Chemerinsky's house. There was nothing antisemitic about it. A student spoke on behalf of the suffering in Gaza during the Passover dinner, which corresponded with the end of Ramadan. Chemerinsky and his wife threw
@AmiDar
All these complications so Europe's Jews can squat on Palestine? Israel owes the Palestinians not only a contiguous state that has the same or greater square miles as Israel (yes, that means giving back land), it also owes the Palestinians financial reparations for the half of
@RepRashida
It is a dereliction of duty, misuse of resources, and an act of incompetence to provide military aid for Israel’s war on the Palestinians without extracting concessions from Israel, such as a cease fire, humanitarian aid, and a process for a Palestinian state.
This is not about
@Bram_R
@peterdaou
Judaism is a religion, not a people. And, it's the 21st Century, not the Bronze Age. The modern-day Israelis, the citizens of the state of Israel, came from Europe as colonial settlers during the British Mandate, and some before WWI. They are European. The Hebrews did not return
@alon_mizrahi
POTUS has never been constrained by such things when operating abroad. Under the US Constitution POTUS has virtually no checks and balances on his power as Head of State -- when facing the rest of the world, POTUS very literally has his back to the American people, and the
@peterdaou
The 5 Permanent Members of the Security Council do whatever the hell they want to do despite international law. They use it when it suits them, and they ignore it when it doesn't. This has been the case since the creation of the League of Nations in 1920. The same system of
@MatthewModine
@USAWrestling
@NCAAWrestling
@WBHomeEnt
As a high school wrestler from the Class of '86, Vision Quest has always been my movie. But I was surprised at how well it wears. It's a great script with great characters and performances, and the message of the promise of youth will never grow old. And, my teenage daughters are
@mehdirhasan
The Zionists are out defending their entitlements. X changed the algo, because I see a lot more Zionist propaganda on my feed than I used to see.
@TorahJudaism
A car driven in a manner intended to harm a pedestrian is assault with a deadly weapon. It's a felony, and in this instance it's also a Hate Crime. The video shows the commission of a felony hate crime. I hope the person behind the wheel of that car is apprehended.
@mattduss
The fact that Netanyahu would attack Rafah while a cease fire deal brokered by the US and Egypt is still on the table says all we need to know. He has no more respect for the White House than he does for the ICJ, he thinks American public opinion is backing him, and he doesn't
@umyaznemo
The Hebrews did not return to Canaa as a result of the Zionist movement. A bunch of Jewish European colonialists settled in Palestine as a result of the Zionist movement, and they displaced the Palestinians in an illegal, immoral, and now genocidal manner.
@alon_mizrahi
Israel is an entitlement. Evangelicalism is an entitlement. White people in America are very entitled, and they get very upset when their entitlements are taken away.
@SarahKSilverman
The same logic applies to Israel. Israel too needs to free itself from the mess it has created. Israel has always faced a moral imperative with respect to the Palestinians, and it has always failed to address it except when it becomes a political or humanitarian crisis.
@DovWaxman
As a scholar of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict you know that the Palestinians are stateless and defenseless, and that they have suffered displacement, occupation, apartheid, and genocide caused by the Zionists of Israel. You know that Israel has used force to interfere with and
@SecBlinken
You dishonor foreign and civil servants everyday, not to mention veterans like me, with a belligerent, toxic, racist, Zionist foreign policy in the Middle East.
@hebh_jamal
Germany can always be relied to do the wrong thing and go in the wrong direction in response to a political crisis. It's what Germany does.
@RepBrianMast
Without the military aid Israel wouldn’t be picking fights.
You and all the other AIPAC representatives in Congress have violated your oath to the US Constitution.
@andrewrsorkin
There is nothing anti-Semitic about the pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist protests on college campuses. You are confusing ethnicity with nationality. The protests rightfully support Palestinian nationalism that the Israelis have used force to prevent, demand a cease fire, and oppose
@SimonPartridge
@alon_mizrahi
Arab nationalism was on fire before, during, and after WWI, and without any reference to Europe or America. If the Turks had not lost the Southern Provinces in the War, they would have lost them to their inhabitants following the War. WWI was about the Nation-states defeating the
@SenFettermanPA
True. But Israel must abide by international law. Hamas’s attack does not justify bombing a densely populated city and displacing people. “Never Again” applies to everyone.
@DrJillStein
Marx proposed revolution as necessary for social change based on the Hegelian Dialectic, Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis. The question is how threatening must the Antithesis be to change the Thesis, the dominant paradigm. Marx said it must be revolutionary, something that
@SusanDarraj
Times like these recalls such incidents, and I am reminded how many in life I have had. The “there was no Palestine” trope is infuriating, and wrong, particularly from a professor.
I am Syrian-American, so for me it was usually do I want to blow up an airplane, some redneck
@hzomlot
Sadly, this is the result of the War on Terror. Israel is following the lead of more powerful states like the US and Russia, who made killing civilians in response to the “T” word permissible.
@mehdirhasan
We have to get these traitors to the Constitution and the People out of office in November. I hope their constituents are paying attention and understand the consequences to our democracy of allowing people who have sworn allegiance to a foreign nation, not to mention an
@DrJillStein
That's so true. Clinton tacked right and so did Obama. Both times the Republicans tacked even further right, and we got the Contract on America, the Tea Party, and now MAGA. We need a third party if we are ever going to find the Center again.