Moustafa Bayoumi @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social
@BayoumiMoustafa
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columnist @guardian, award-winning author @penguinrandom & @NYUpress, prof @BklynCollege411 Books: This Muslim American Life & How Does It Feel To Be a Problem
Joined October 2011
“People think they’re going to lose something by talking about Palestine. But they should think about what they lose by not talking about Palestine.”. From my interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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I'm a Muslim, and I would like to report a crazy man threatening a woman on a stage in Missouri. #debate.
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Brooklyn Public Library, tonight
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Celebrated author and poet Mosab Abu Toha has been kidnapped by the Israeli army in Gaza as he was fleeing with his family, Dianna Buttu reports. We demand his immediate release and the release of his wife and children.
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Let CUNY and NYPD trade budgets!.
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Being forced out of your home and your land is never “great news.” It’s a tragedy and a crime.
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This is what today's America looks like. The squad is us | Moustafa Bayoumi .@AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib @AyannaPressley .
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This man sits at the apex of the American journalism establishment. He has a source—the well-known Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro—literally beaten in front of him, and he feels bad for … the Israeli soldiers.
I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron. I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it.
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Claiming crying was RIGGED, Trump calls for total & complete shutdown of babies in US until we know what's going on
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“If an observant Muslim woman wanted to get on the Paris Metro, she would be required to remove her burqa and replace it with a face mask.”
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“We love the USA and we love what’s happening .” . That’s what Trump says at the end of his latest video. Really. I’m not making this up. #TrumpCovid19 .
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Trump: If you, Hillary, had been an effective senator, you would have stopped the assassination of Julius Caesar, but he's dead! #debate.
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It’s Hillary Clinton who doesn’t know her history. The negotiations were ongoing, known as the Taba Summit, and it was Israeli leader Ehud Barak who walked away. Israeli elections happened soon after, and Sharon won, ending negotiations. (It was also pseudo sovereignty, at best).
Hillary Clinton criticizes pro-Palestinian protests and says many young people she’s spoken to “don't know very much at all about the history of the Middle East or, frankly, about history in many areas of the world.”
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Had a good run with a tweet last night. Most retweeted of the debate! No response yet from @realDonaldTrump, but I can wait for 3:20 am.
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Hawai'i court ruling against Trump. This part's gold 😂😂:
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Word on the street is that one of the chairs at tonight's #Debate is now getting an STD test.
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Seeing Trump family corruption is like watching 18Century French aristocracy, without the gold chairs, er, ridiculous hair, er. Never mind.
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This editorial by the student newspaper at Columbia is fucking brilliant. It deftly illustrates how the craven agendas of federal legislators and university administrators are ruining higher ed. and universal values. It’s the students who save us.
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As a nation, we never should have invaded Iraq, or provided Anthony Weiner with Internet access.
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I wrote this about Edward Said, who can seem like a prophet: 20 years on, ‘there’s hunger for his narrative’
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Don't forget that it was an executive order--Executive Order 9066--that established Japanese Internment. #NoBanNoWall.
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Trump's like a Nigerian email scam: keeps showing up, makes absurd promises, offends your intelligence, hitting delete won't make it go away.
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Seemingly forgotten in all of this is the 1996 hunger strike (14 days) and 5-day takeover of Hamilton Hall to establish Ethnic Studies at #ColumbiaUniversity . The students won.
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Wow. This is inspiring. Evergreen State College shows us how it can be done. Here's a summary of the terms of the agreement between the Gaza solidarity encampment and the administration. It's wonderful.
The Evergreen State College (school of Rachel Corrie) agrees to divestment.
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“He was not an abolitionist. He bought and sold slaves for his in-laws, and opposing slavery was never at the forefront of his agenda. “He was not a champion of the little guy,,” she said. “He was elitist. He was in favor of having a president for life.”
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They are ‘civilised’ and ‘look like us’: the racist coverage of Ukraine. My comment, in The Guardian, on media portrayals of Ukrainians at the border.
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The way authoritarianism works is to make politics so taxing, so costly, so exhausting, and so dangerous that most simply turn away. Don't!!.
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They will blame us when they lose and ignore us if they win.
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I know many Americans with Iraqi, Iranian, Syrian, Sudanese, Somali, Yemeni, or Libyan origins. All have more American values than Trump.
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Sources say the Republican leadership is hurriedly buying Donald Trump a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, before it's too late.
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In my latest essay, I congratulate Bari Weiss and the other founders of a brave new university. Surely, if they believe so strongly in academic freedom, a Palestine Studies department must not be far behind.
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Does Florida exist just to drive us all crazy?.
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Read this from Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew (1946) and think about Trump's press conference.
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“America did not build a single democratic institution in Afghanistan. Instead, warlordism and corruption became part of the country’s political culture like never before.” A must-read analysis by @Emran_Feroz
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So, if you come from a Muslim-majority country that has been invaded, overthrown, or bombed by the US, you can't come in.
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Some personal news: Guardian US announces Moustafa Bayoumi as new regular columnist . (formalizing an informal role I've had for years). Thrilled! .
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Donald Trump claims to be a gentleman, after reminding us not to believe words because THEY'RE JUST WORDS! #debate.
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Awesome Arabic-language peddler map from 1921.
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Off to Ellis Island today. Gotta see immigrant America's history before Trump's Muslim ban.
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Trump: I'm for alternative forms of energy, including wind, including solar, including osmosis, including anything orange. #debate.
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Mexico and Canada considering building bridge over United States.
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Watch this. Hillary was "really tickled by" my tweet, according to her communications director.
.@jmpalmieri aboard plane tells reporters that @HillaryClinton was "really tickled by" @BayoumiMoustafa's viral tweet
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The cruelty of banning a refugee fleeing for life only because s/he doesn't have a husband/wife/son/daughter already in US is unconscionable.
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Tweeting about my tweet. (It's like being caught in a Charlie Kaufman film.)
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When Trump says "I will keep you in suspense," why do I, as a Muslim, think he means from the ceiling & in shackles?.
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Remember when Twitter was not about Donald Trump? ☹️.
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Map of Most Commonly Spoken Languages other than English and Spanish, by State, 2018. (Source: Migration Policy Institute, based on census data).
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Shit’s getting weird. ISIS issues travel advisory to Europe.
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Sometimes I also write serious stuff. The US just bombed Yemen, and no one's talking about it | Moustafa Bayoumi
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This mural, featuring Handala, is by Salim Assi and can be found in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Trump says election will be stolen, but he stole "Make America Great Again" from Reagan. #Election2016
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Build a school to grad school pipeline, regardless of means!.
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Black women are saving the republic from the Republicans. Thank God! #AlabamaSenateElection.
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The "president" should learn how to use quotation marks.
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The FBI just discovered the spam folder.
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Just realized: One day there'll be a Trump Presidential Library. Probably just a gold room full of multiple copies of The Art of the Deal.
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USA's loss. Toronto Schools to Cease Field Trips to U.S.
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Something tells me Trump asked his staff to remind him of the pope's wife's name.
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There was similar mayhem when NSEERS was first trotted out. I remember! But there was almost no popular outcry. Today's protests are great!.
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EXCLUSIVE: this is the first photo the public has seen of a War on Terror detainee, Ammar al-Baluchi, in a CIA black site, published in an article by me in today’s Guardian:
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My 16yr old niece, Pres-elect of her debate club, tells me: "I teach my junior debaters never to make Hitler analogies.".
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And then there's this! :) .
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Most Politicians Don't Court Muslim Voters. Bernie Is Betting on Them in Texas.– Texas Monthly
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Bipartisan medical experts have just determined that Trump's sniffles are because Trump feels sorry for himself.
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If theater "must always be a safe space," expect Muslims, immigrants, women, LGBTQs, Latinx, African Americans. to buy a lot of tickets.
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You might think that #Islamophobia is the driving force behind US anti-Palestinian bigotry. In fact, it’s the other way around. New piece of mine explaining what we get wrong about American Islamophobia. With illustrations by the great @MonaChalabi .
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Concerned Trump may mistake him for a woman, Paul Ryan decides to spend time in gym instead of on Trump's campaign trail.
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May sound sanctimonious--and I really don't mean it to--but I'm glad people are finally waking up to the Islamophobia we've known for 15 yrs.
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There must be a lot of weird blonde hair caught in the drain of the swamp because it doesn't seem to be draining.
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And the man flying the flag is on crutches.
Way back in the 1990s Israeli courts ruled it is not illegal to fly a Palestinian flag inside Israel. However, at any moment it can be confiscated with brutality. Why? The simple answer is it confirms more than anything that there is a Palestinian people.
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REMIMDER: International law prohibits the use of lethal force against civilians unless they participate directly in acts of hostility or pose a concrete risk to life, and even then, only as a last resort and only to the extent necessary to alleviate the risk. #Gaza .1/2.
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Super interesting: “the Quincy Institute will likely advocate a withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and Syria; a return to the nuclear deal with Iran; an end to regime-change campaigns against Venezuela; & sharp reductions in the defense budget.”
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I half expect Trump to name Chris Christie Secretary of Transportation.
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Trump admits he's paying more attention to the number of his social media followers than the violence done in his name. #60Minutes.
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Americans will be less welcome around the world. The tariff economy will crash. Unemployment will soar. Make America Great Again, indeed.
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Ivanka: I love you, Dad. Donald: I love me, too.
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In other (necessary!) news,so proud of my dad,who's receiving a YMCA Peace Medal tomorrow! Mabrouk, baba! Much love!
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No Muslims. No Sikhs. No Hindus. Etc. This is diversity from the days when people considered Italian food ethnic food.
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“The double standard may be expected considering how the plight of the Palestinians has been discussed in the past, but that doesn’t eliminate its moral darkness”
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Next appointments: .General Mills: Sec of Cereal.General Motors: Sec of Transportation.General Tso: Sec of chicken (pending Taiwan approval).
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Just before election, Trump shows anti-Semitic ad, insults Somalis, vilifies refugees, mocks hip-hop, accuses Latin@s. Keepin it classy, DJT.
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Everyone knows, the conquest of shariah begins with upholstery and before you know it, you're in the ottoman empire.
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Islamophobes hate her for her bravery and because she's phenomenal. But she always has all of our backs. That's why #IMarchWithLinda.
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