Park Slope Nana
@Be4Spring
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Teacher, writer. @mqr, @new_letters, @RawVisionMag, @Salon, @december_mag; Bearing Witness: Teaching Holocaust @HeinemannPub, @BLReview, @CUNY.
New York
Joined February 2010
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Intifada Comes to Australia
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The terror attack on Bondi Beach was an atrocity tolerated into being, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
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“We spend our lives searching for what we have lost; and one day, perhaps, we will suddenly find it.” A piercingly beautiful essay on love and loneliness, medicine and relationships. A must must read. https://t.co/wU4KsTtIfR
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The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
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During the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months, Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health. The goal, as I said
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Yesterday, I spoke at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, along with @Nadav_Eyal, about Gaza, Hamas, Israel, the future of the ceasefire, and hopes for a better pathway forward. A student group, Facts on the Ground, sponsored the event as part of its efforts to encourage
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More of this engagement, please. Thank you, @afalhatib
Yesterday, I spoke at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, along with @Nadav_Eyal, about Gaza, Hamas, Israel, the future of the ceasefire, and hopes for a better pathway forward. A student group, Facts on the Ground, sponsored the event as part of its efforts to encourage
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Terrifying, urgent and I want to hear every decent public voice express their outrage.
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Not so long ago, the KKK shouted outside Black churches being used for voter registration drives, while the white mayors of those towns probably justified those hate mobs by calmly explaining that churches should not be used for political purposes.
Mamdani spox Dora Pekec tells me the mayor-elect “has discouraged the language used at last night’s protest and will continue to do so,” in response to demonstrators outside Park East Synagogue who chanted “Death to the IDF” and “Globalize the intifada.” Full statement:
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Also says something about the need for conversation among those with varying views.
It says a lot about the normalization of antisemitism when @thecrimson will publish a student op-ed justifying ending friendships with Zionists, framing it as moral courage. The piece harps on discourse and morality, yet cutting off friends over ideology betrays both. All it
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Antisemitism is an ideology that sees the Jews as the source of all the world’s interlocking problems. Zohran Mamdani is an antisemite.
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My father and Zohran's father, on the record. Vote! Your choice in this election matters, so don't throw it away with a protest vote. Early voting now open.
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed" Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism"
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Tariffs made a single piece of blue pastel priced at 20EUR cost 73.74EUR; regardless, France is no longer shipping to the US. #tariffs
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I just left a visit to the ICE detention facility in Eloy. There’s a lot to absorb, but I want to tell you about a woman I met named Maria because her story really shows how messed up all this is. She’s been in the U.S. for twenty years. Has no criminal history. She was
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BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website. Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with: - Writ of Habeas Corpus - Congresses ability to control tariffs. See screenshots below: July 1 Vs. Today. Please
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‼️Europe, Summer 2025‼️ Just yesterday in Vienna, Austria, violinist Hagai Shaham, pianist Julia Gurvitch, and I were enjoying a quiet moment in a cozy little Italian restaurant — grabbing a bite before our concert. Naturally, we were speaking Hebrew among ourselves. After
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Very good work. Read it and act. https://t.co/thDUtYUHfC
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While the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls
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I find it difficult to understand. My father's family had lived in Algeria for at least five hundred years. It wasn't called Algeria yet, as that name was given to a conglomerate of regions around Algiers by the French conquerors. At certain times they were treated as dhimmis,
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Greek mythology never more relevant… New Airforce One arrives from Qatar
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