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Just today- a really good friend of mine- for almost a decade, unfortunately decided to call off our friendship because I support Israel's right to exist & believe HAMAS being in power isn't good for anyone.
This message really hurt me deeply but I can't let things like this
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@LiliBosse1
He didn't refute his Judaism, he refuted using the Holocaust & his Jewish identity to justify any injustice.
I will admit- I made this mistake of misinterpreting his statements- & I truly apologize.
Out of context "Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness". It seems like he here is refuting his Jewishness.
His full statement was: "Right now we stand here as men who
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“Hamas has vowed to continue the atrocities of October 7 many times over. Rafah in particular is a focal point for ongoing terrorist activity. Nearly 700 tunnel shafts have been identified in Rafah, from which approximately 50 tunnels cross into Egypt. These tunnels are used by
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I will admit- I made this mistake of misinterpreting his statements- & I truly apologize.
Out of context "Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness". It seems like he here is refuting his Jewishness.
His full statement was: "Right now we stand here as men who
He did not refute his Jewishness, he refuted its weaponization.
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@elicalebon
@ArminNavabi
wrote in
@QueerMajority
what happened during & after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran as a consequence of this unity between the leftists & the Islamists—which Reza Shah dubbed “the unholy alliance between the ‘black and the red—’” namely
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“As a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, I condemn [the actions of] October 7th.
We are for peace and safety, and the preservation of lives. Hamas does not represent me. What happened was not my choice and has nothing to do with me or my family. We are victims of mentally
كفلسطيني من قطاع غزة أدين السابع من اكتوبر
نحن مع السلام والآمان وحفظ الأرواح وحركة حماس لا تمثلني وما حدث لم يكن اختياري وليس له علاقة بي أو بعائلتي، نحن ضحايا مختلين عقلياً ومرضى نفسياً بيتحكموا في حياتنا بالحديد والنار
أنا وعائلتي وغيرنا الكثير في غزة لم نختار طريق حماس
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@zabius
I'm not okay with any of the suffering- & HAMAS is to blame- & Gazans deserve a government which actually respects all of their lives.
Just a simple & short demonstration: From a young age- Palestinian children are indoctrinated by the Palestinian leadership to seek death
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Palestinian voices for peace to follow:
@HowidyHamza
,
@Ahmad4ISRL
,
@Palestinia12961
,
@1brXo
,
@afalkhatib
,
@aziz0nomics
,
@moghaoui
,
@arab_leb2
,
@realbassemeid
,
@AzizAbuSarah
, &
@khalidi79397
.
#Peace
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@academic_la
Moreover
Hizbullah-Affiliated Journalist Ibrahim Al-Amine: Israel Has Not Initiated Anything in This War, It Is Only Responding to Our Operations; We Are the Ones Expanding the War
#Lebanon
#Israel
#Hizbullah
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@elicalebon
Yasmine Mohammed (
@YasMohammedxx
) also wrote a book on this phenomenon. Her book is titled:
"Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam"
Amazon URL:
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@emilyshar1
@nytimes
@spj_tweets
@NewspaperWorld
@Poynter
@IFJGlobal
@ACESEditors
@EJNetwork
Farnaz Fassihi has urged the NYtimes not to write about Iranian
@AlinejadMasih
& the NYtimes has issued a copyright of the message of her saying that.
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@Abbasuperfan1
Yes- I suppose you are correct, but it is still unfortunate. She considers herself Progressive, Muslim, & Queer- she has to know that HAMAS is not progressive and tolerant of LGBT individuals at all, while Israel is.
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@emilyshar1
@nytimes
@spj_tweets
@NewspaperWorld
@Poynter
@IFJGlobal
@ACESEditors
@EJNetwork
The NyTimes hired a journalist who speaks at Hamas events
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@realbassemeid
@Stanford
Watch 'Nova Festival Film" here to see an hour of video of 10/7 at the Festival
"Nova Festival Film" by Dan Peer.
It is a footage recorded by Hamas themselves, victims and first responders at the Nova Festival on 7th October.
#NeverAgain
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@BluegrassRabbi
His statement needs to be contextualized- he wasn't refuting his Jewishness.
I will admit- I made this mistake of misinterpreting his statements- & I truly apologize.
Out of context "Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness". It seems like he here is refuting his Jewishness.
His full statement was: "Right now we stand here as men who
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@conzo0311
And the first two lines are untrue-
You're only attacking a strawman- a caricature of my views- it's abhorrent that there are the deaths of thousands and thousands of Gazans. And I do not actually believe I and her have all that different of morals, just a different view of the
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@elicalebon
@Ayaan
is right!
@ArminNavabi
wrote in
@QueerMajority
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Nadia is really vehemently attacking Palestinian peace activist John Aziz (
@aziz0nomics
) here...
And no—John isn't profiting from Palestinian suffering & dehumanizing Palestinians for wishing ☮️ peace🕊️ between Palestinians & Israelis, between Palestine 🇵🇸 & Israel 🇮🇱 ...
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@HowidyHamza
Just a hypothetical question—what if it prevented perpetual war, prevented a further subjugation of a people, saved one's own people, & prevented more death & tragedy in the long term?
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@BluegrassRabbi
Read the full quote carefully:
"We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict, for so many innocent people.”
— 'Zone of Interest' director Jonathan Glazer
• He's saying he's against Israel's
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BREAKING: ISRAEL ARMY BOMBED AREAS NEAR ISFAHAN AND NATANZ WHICH CONTAINS IMPORTANT FACILITIES OF IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
This would be AWESOME
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@elicalebon
=Freedom of speech means freedom from interference, suppression or punitive action by the government—and nothing else. It does not mean the right to demand the financial support or the material means to express your views at the expense of other men who may not wish to support
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Briahna Joy Gray claims that Hamas has no interest in killing all the Jews in Israel. It only wishes to establish a state “like what we have here in the United States.”
To Gray, October 7th was not a massacre of Jews. It was simply an attempt at democracy-building by Hamas.
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History shows that when the revolutionary left and Islamist right start sounding alike, it’s time to start worrying.
By Iranian Armin Navabi (
@ArminNavabi
)
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Let's get this straight: BDS activist Calla Walsh says people should not join the "Woman Life Freedom" movement which calls for equal rights for women and girls in Iran because we need Iran stay evil to fight the US & Israel.
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@mo7mdpa
I hope you can find safety some place someday- whether in Israel, the U.S., Europe, or elsewhere. Ideally - I hope you'll be safe in Palestine if that's where you wish to stay - but thank you for speaking up against HAMAS.
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When Pomona College students (and possibly others) rushed into an administrative building last night, President Gabi Starr told them they had 10 minutes to leave.
Then she suspended them and had them arrested.
(Warning: language)
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@afalkhatib
@KhalilJeries
@KhalilJeries
- why would your cheer such verbal attacks on a family member of a Palestinian peace activist & himself- who hopes to bring peace, reconciliation, understanding, & hope to both Palestinians & Israelis in the region? How is that going to reduce tensions, reduce
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"We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict, for so many innocent people.”
'Zone of Interest' director Jonathan Glazer
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“God willing, may there not remain a single Hamas member in Gaza on Eid.
Oh Lord of the Worlds,
May God take revenge on you; there is neither Ramadan, nor Eid, nor anything good. If Hamas had any honor, they would hand over their leadership for the
ان شاء الله عيد ما بضل فيه ولا حمساوي بغزة
ي رب العالمين
ينتقم منكم الله لا رمضان ولا عيد ولا زفت
لو حماس عندها شوية شرف بتسلم قيادتها ليعيش هالشعب
كل غزة صاحية بتتحسبن في الشوارع والخيم والمدارس بتتحسبن على حماس والضيف والسنوار والقسام اقسم برب العزة كل غزة بتتحسبن عليهم
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@afalkhatib
@OsloFF
@HowidyHamza
Thank you both so much for the very important peace activism you're doing! It's very important and we're very appreciative.
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@LisaVonic
Ty. Wow- very sorry for your loss, it's difficult for me to understand this kind of mentality.
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@afalkhatib
@thetimes
Thank you, Ahmed, for your profound contributions to peace and understanding, and for maintaining your commitment to these ideals in the face of such personal tragedy. Your work serves as a reminder of the importance of individual values in the quest for a just and peaceful
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Statement from Pomona President Gabi Starr:
Pomona students involved are suspended immediately and students from other Claremont campuses are banned.
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@HowidyHamza
Furthermore
Hizbullah-Affiliated Journalist Ibrahim Al-Amine: Israel Has Not Initiated Anything in This War, It Is Only Responding to Our Operations; We Are the Ones Expanding the War
#Lebanon
#Israel
#Hizbullah
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@aziz0nomics
Sounds like Calla
The funny thing is that Calla Walsh is a self-declared communist and Ebrahim Raisi personally executed thousands of communists and leftists. If Calla was born in Iran instead of the US he would have killed her for her political views
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@Ahmad4ISRL
What!? He’s one person & he doesn’t speak for everybody. There’s no reason to feel ashamed for asking—you’re proving many people value on this platform so think of it as a mutually beneficial (win-win) exchange.
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@emilyshar1
@nytimes
@spj_tweets
@NewspaperWorld
@Poynter
@IFJGlobal
@ACESEditors
@EJNetwork
The NYtimes hired a journalist who taught a course for the PFLP
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@SashLG413
His statement needs to be contextualized- he wasn't refuting his Jewishness.
I will admit- I made this mistake of misinterpreting his statements- & I truly apologize.
Out of context "Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness". It seems like he here is refuting his Jewishness.
His full statement was: "Right now we stand here as men who
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“No, you will let me finish I’m not done. How dare you call freedom takers ‘freedom fighters’”
@elicalebon
on
@piersmorgan
is the best thing I’ve seen in months
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@jawad_od
No- it was an honest mistake.
On first & not so careful hearing it sounded like he said
"Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness, and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict, for so many innocent people."
But the comma
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Let's get this straight: BDS activist Calla Walsh says people should not join the "Woman Life Freedom" movement which calls for equal rights for women and girls in Iran because we need Iran stay evil to fight the US & Israel.
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“Hamas ... has destroyed us,” says Adnan Abdelaal, who has fled for safety four times in the past four months of war.
In Gaza, anger grows at Hamas along with fury at Israel
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@aziz0nomics
Sounds like Calla
Let's get this straight: BDS activist Calla Walsh says people should not join the "Woman Life Freedom" movement which calls for equal rights for women and girls in Iran because we need Iran stay evil to fight the US & Israel.
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"You do not have anything more valuable than your life."
"Because you have this mind- You don't want to be told how to live. You want to make those choices yourself."
"You get to make the choice about how you want to live."
"You don't want authorities and coercion and people
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@MaryHogins
Thank you for sharing,
@MaryHogins
, I stand in solidarity as a U.S. citizen for the victims of the Armenian Genocide. I wish you & your family generational healing & strength. 🙏
For any1 reading this- let’s give praise to France for their embrace of the Armenian genocide
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@HowidyHamza
We need freedom of speech & expression everywhere-if bad ideas aren't criticized because it isn't permitted- then they remain and continue to bring harm upon people.
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@AlliLisa33
Which may be true- but I made the apology above because I was wrong to have misconstrued his actual statements.
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@iamAtheistGirl
⚫A --> B when if A is true then B is true (Modus Ponens).
⚫A --> B is false when both A is true & B is false.
⚫If B is true & A is false- then A --> B is vacuously true- which means nothing.
E.g. "1=0 implies God exists" is logically true but a meaningless statement.
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Message to the world, if they’ll hear us now.
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Here's my recommended list of anti-regime Iranians to follow:
Nioh Berg [
@NiohBerg
]
Darya Safai MP [
@SafaiDarya
]
Lisa Daftari [
@LisaDaftari
]
Nilofar Ayoubi [
@NilofarAyoubi
]
Nazanin Boniadi [
@NazaninBoniadi
]
Gazelle Sharmahd [
@GazelleSharmahd
]
Sana Ebrahimi [
@__Injaneb96
]
Nazanin
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How can one be this delusional?
FACT: Palestine is way more democratic than Israel ever was.
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"If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him."
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew
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@persianjewess
And less than 20% of people surveyed by the
@ADL
have any training at all on
#Antisemitism
in their DEI programs on university campuses.
But I thought Jews are the oppressors? /s
"In recent years, many universities have made efforts to expand diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in response to concerns about inequities for marginalized groups in the academy. With few exceptions, the exclusion of
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@Ahmad4ISRL
Thank you so much-
I hope we can find ways to continue to encourage dialogue with people we disagree with in good-hearted discussions so we can finally bring an end to the wars. All of these wars and all of the suffering is so heart-breaking.
When there's a deep conflict there
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@emilyshar1
@nytimes
@spj_tweets
@NewspaperWorld
@Poynter
@IFJGlobal
@ACESEditors
@EJNetwork
And it gets better.
Here is a summary of the main grievances the National Union for Democracy in Iran (
@NUFDIran
) has with Fassihi’s reporting as outlined in the article:
🔴Inaccurate Reporting:
The article accuses Fassihi of unprofessional conduct and
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“Since October 7, a donation of $250 million was received for a person named: Mohammad Sobhi Abu Saqr… (a representative of Hamas in Mauritania).
** Not a single dollar entered Gaza.
This is one of the people who steal in the name of Gaza (and there are many of them).
Please
مُنذ 7 أكتوبر استلم تبرع بقيمة 250 مليون دولار لصالح شخص يُدعى : محمد صبحي أبو صقر ..
(مُمثل حركة حماس في موريتانيا )
** لم يدخل غزة دولار واحد ..
هذا شخص من الذين ينهبون باسم غزّة ( وهُم كُثر )
تحرّوا تبرعاتكم يا إخوان ..
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💡I did a very quick & rough upper estimate (using many assumptions) of the percentage of Gazan’s alive today who would have voted for Hamas in 2006, and it comes out to about 16%.
I’ll include in the thread below, & if people like I can do a more rigorous analysis sometime. I
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@afalkhatib
Eidak Saeed, Ahmed!
I & many others recognize all of the positive work you are proving & it is helping, even if it's subtle & difficult to measure.
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@LiliBosse1
He didn't refute his Judaism, he refuted using the Holocaust & his Jewish identity to justify any injustice.
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@GLNoronha
@nytimes
NUFDI’s Complaint to NY Times: Farnaz Fassihi’s Problematic Iran Reporting - NUFDI ()
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⚫ Jewish NYers are turning out to support a Druze restaurant that experienced anti-Israel vandalism
via
@NYJewishWeek
"In recent months, she told the New York Jewish Week, her restaurant was broken into twice and was vandalized with “Free Palestine”
How’s that boycott of Israeli restaurants going for you?
Gazala’s, an Israeli Druze place on the upper west side. Come on by, but there might be a wait!
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And this was in 2022, long before the October 7 massacres & Israel's subsequence attacks.
Pro-Palestinian rally at the Israel Mission in Manhattan where they are calling to “Globalize the Intifada.”
Chants include “We don’t want no two state” and “Israel go to hell.”
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Augusto Pinochet is no hero- he was a brutal dictator who had a record of extensive human rights abuses & violations.
He suppressed political dissent & banned leftist parties. Thousands of Chileans were arrested, tortured, and killed under his rule. The Rettig Report documented
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#BREAKING
: Senior Hamas leaders Yassin Abu Shahed and Khaled Nagar confirmed killed in Israeli strike north of Rafah
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@elchocorrol01
@QaJu7
@Palestinia12961
@aziz0nomics
@HowidyHamza
@afalkhatib
@realbassemeid
@moghaoui
@1brXo
@mo7mdpa
@AzizAbuSarah
@omarabdrabou
@kareem_1087
@khalidi79397
@YasMohammedxx
@KhaledAbuToameh
You want all of them to rot—even the one's working to defeat organizations such as HAMAS & working towards peace with the Jews & Israelis? That seems very bigoted.
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@KhalilJeries
Well- fighting for peace doesn't involve destroying the existence of the State of Israel- why not work towards bringing Israelis & Palestinians in dialogue together & changing the political leadership & laws of both Israel & Palestine? Both people can enjoy safety and live &
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This is wrong & must be condemned;
Palestinians are people too- how dare you dehumanize them.
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@aziz0nomics
@afalkhatib
@HowidyHamza
@IhabHassane
@Palestinia12961
@PVPeacenow
@1brXo
@mh6756
@PalestineloveIL
@Aishawas9yo
@khalidi79397
@Qa_Ju7
@WafaaAh09275088
@mo7mdpa
@HowidyHamza
@Ahmad4ISRL
@afalkhatib
@aziz0nomics
@PalVoice4Peace
@Gay_Palestinian
@realbassemeid
@IhabHassane
@KhaledAbuToameh
@moghaoui
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@aziz0nomics
There are many high level officials on both sides who are continuously hindering all possibilities for peace & reconciliation.
To fight for peace—which requires all parties to implement peace—we need to overcome this intractable problem of those many who are getting in the way
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Question 4 Q/A from
@yaronbrook
's talk, "Israel's Moral War," hosted by the
@salemcenterUT
at UT-Austin on 1/26/24.
Q4: Hi there. Um, I just want to start by saying, you know, I am a proud anti-Zionist Jew—we do exist. So, you know, I wanted to ask, you know, I was, I was sort
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@ShaykhSulaiman
They died
🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, has been confirmed to have died in his helicopter crash that took place this morning. The Iranian officials are preparing to conduct the transition of power. There is currently no proof of foul play.
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Everyone should follow Elica Le Bon (
@elicalebon
) in my honest view— she's a British born Iranian, Attorney, activist, & artist— and an independent & critical thinker providing valuable insights & perspectives into Iran, The Middle East, imperialistic thinking on the far left,
The Islamic regime DOES NOT represent the Iranian people. Iranians in Iran cannot express their views, but Iranians outside of Iran have a message to the world: listen to them.
#MLG
#Iran
#Israel
#Lebanon
#MountLevnon
#MountZion
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#Antisemitism
IS racism, I repeat, Antisemitism IS racism. Antisemitism is a hatred towards a person because of his genetic lineage- & if it weren’t- why do they hate secular atheist Jews - & why is the term, “anti-SEMITISM”?
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@elonmusk
— these are the kind of voices we need to promote if we hope to have peace in the middle east someday — don't accept my word for it though —please go research them for yourself.
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As
@yaronbrook
argues in this clip- freedom- freedom from coercion, force, and authority- & freedom to think, speak, and act- is necessary for fostering creativity and progress.
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She deleted the post—here's a screenshot.
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Wow- a Mask or Freudian slip?
Her comment made during a debate about a “Ceasefire now” resolution was that “anti-Jewish students” aren’t protected during protests but pro-israel students were protected- suggesting double-standards by law enforcement.
#antisemitism
IWR EXCLUSIVE: An
@FIU
student complained that "anti-Jewish students" aren't protected during protests.
When the mask slips...
The comment was made during a debate on a 'Ceasefire now' resolution at a student government meeting in February.
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Want to learn more about Israel?
Check out this series of podcasts on Israel by
@yaronbrook
, an Israeli-American entrepreneur, investor, Objectivist, writer, podcaster, public intellectual, & host of the Yaron Brook Show.
He is also a former finance professor at Santa Clara
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