
Jonathan AC Brown
@JonathanACBrown
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Professor of Islamic Civilization @ Georgetown University, SFS, @ACMCU; https://t.co/aXIunGznsm Views my own, not those of Georgetown U
Georgetown, Washington
Joined July 2016
Feigning interest in Nigeria so you can win points in an Israel argument is frankly worse than not knowing what’s going on in Nigeria. These are real people, not props for some game.
1) I regularly cover Nigeria in my newsletter, including attacks on Christians, which are often brutal. But the 100,000 figure is absurd. There is no genocide. 2) Boko Haram kills more Muslim civilians than Christian. 3) Maher and Mace do not give a fuck about Africa.
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Last night Arynne Wexler told a “joke” to 3.4 million people likening Palestinians who just spent the last 24 months being bombed and starved to her dog begging for more food… Today she spent 12+ hours crying because not everyone is willing to denounce young conservative men
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Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors: Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza https://t.co/zFo7eMOq9c
theguardian.com
Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza
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Asked by @MSNBC’s @EugeneDaniels2 if Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, @KamalaHarris replied: “When you look at the number of children that have been killed, the number of innocent civilians that have been killed, the refusal to give aid and support, we should all step back
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“Palestinian families” @BarackObama
A child couldn't get a hold of himself upon spotting his father upon released prisoners, jumping to embrace him immediately.
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Standup comic @jfodlovesyou does a better job explaining NSPM-7 than basically all of major media:
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"I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten on my stomach, back, face, ear, and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways." Noa Avishag Schnall, a Jewish photojournalist who reported from the
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> kicks off the legacy sequel trend > kicks off the "filmed for IMAX" program where they change aspect ratios specifically for IMAX screens but doesn't film with a true IMAX 65mm camera > kicks off the Disney obsession with de-aging actors > kicks off Joseph Kosinski's career
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AI script, crappy editing job, concerned with culture wars 1000s of miles away, all we can do is poorly copy the West, and poorly at that
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In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family – a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents
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Top Cruise is quite simply incapacitatingly talented and focused.
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This is really disgusting.
These men showed up in this little market and grabbed the owner for no reason and if you notice they’re dressed in plain clothes with no Identification! They threw him to the ground as a Combat Vet shopping there calls the police on them! There was no warrant and he was a Citizen
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The free speech brigade seem quite confused when you ask them to champion the free speech of pensioners opposing a genocide.
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