Nazia Kazi
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Professor of Anthropology * Author of "Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics" * opinions expressed are not the views of my employer
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In my latest piece, I take a look at the right wing alliances that ought to be key in our framing of
#Islamophobia
"How the 'war on terror' obscures America's alliance with right-wing Islam"
✍️ Opinion by
@NaziaKaziTweets
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Imagine living through this and still believing in capitalism
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There is a Hamas command center under Mohela Student Loan Servicing.
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Watching the US celebrate Indigenous People’s Day while extending support to an apartheid settler colony is something
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As a Muslim woman my critiques are often met with the racist rejoinder, “You’re lucky you live in America where you are allowed to speak.” Now watch a major university silence a Muslim valedictorian in a hijab with no sense of irony.
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They’re madder about his incoherence than about his fascism
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“It’s heartbreaking when the people we’re killing die.” Democratic Party mantra
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@alexandra_adams
@BreeNewsome
“What, should we just not spend gazillions of dollars on our imperialist military anymore?”
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@MadinahForDE
Yes, I was a college student. we were called terrorist sympathizers, saddam hussein supporters. In 2003 I had a sign yanked from my hand at a protest, was told American soldiers were fighting for my right to protest. We were called Al Qaeda supporters etc.
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The one good thing to come out of the shaitaanery of the Democratic Party is that it consistently clarifies who’s still duped by a politics of form vs who’s got an unwavering critique of empire.
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So many who can see through anti-Palestinian propaganda in mainstream media/academia refuse to apply the same critical lens to other perversions cooked up by empire
I have no time for people who still—so many years & so much evidence to the contrary later—adamantly stick to the US State Dept narrative on Syria & *still* instantly try to discredit anyone who refuses to do so as an “Assadist”. It’s intellectually bankrupt, damaging & pathetic.
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Portland stabber swearing at the cops after committing double murder & they STILL took him into custody unharmed
#blacklivesmatter
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When you hate poors but love the idea of losing the midterm elections
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True, we really need more lessons about how the Libyan state was toppled and what came after that.
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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In just 10 days, the seats of power will wish you a happy MLK day, ignoring the fact of Martin Luther King’s fierce anti-capitalism and his staunch opposition to US militarism. And, like every year, it will be sickening.
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Retweeting
@StrikeDebt
in this, my third hour of being on hold with FedLoan today to sort out their errors
We don’t need a bill to cancel student debt because the president can do it on his own.
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The sad part is you can actually see the “let’s vote them in and pull them left” crew being pulled right.
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My latest haul. Now to leave my laptop somewhere far away so I can sit down and read.
@cinewallah
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@blackleftaf
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@emanabdelhadi
At the same time, we must be clear about the role of counterinsurgency, which historically has masked itself as people “on your side but playing a different position.” If we don’t study it or understand its nuance, we end up trusting these cynical actors (some of them unwitting)
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Do I think the Democrats are doing the right thing with regard to Gaza? No. But do I think they’re the best we can get and we need to push people to vote blue to stop a right wing tide? …No.
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So tired of “attempted coup” analysis of January 6th from people who have no analysis of the many coups - attempted and actual - perpetrated around the world against progressive forces by the ruling class of the US.
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Breaking: rat population explodes in East Palestine, OH following train derailment
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Some Americans will gasp “omg North Korea is so militarized and pro-army” but gladly chew on a handful of these
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Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk.
Obama asked visibly-Muslim women to get out of the camera frame at a campaign event so Kamala Harris could decline admission to hijabi women at a “get out the vote” rally.
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Stop saying “chai tea,” it’s repetitive. It’s like saying “conservative Democrat” or “American imperialism”
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Why do people in my replies keep insisting Muslim women aren’t allowed to go to school? I literally used to get scolded for getting a 98% because “what happened to the other 2 points?!” (I’ll save my lecture on US sponsorship of/alliance with repressive regimes for another day.)
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@SanaSaeed
How easily people are glossing over this, the AIPAC alliance, the willingness to call National Guard on demonstrators, the anti BDS position, and the PIPELINE. Americans be loving politics of form over substance every single time.
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@StrikeDebt
$10k in debt cancellation is coming around during finals week begging for extra credit even though they did none of the assignments this semester
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@thrasherxy
@pete_wells
This stock language is still somehow better than their reporting on Israel
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@ava
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@theIMEU
“A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.” -Emma Goldman
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@_carens_
This is why we study history. The Montgomery Bus Boycott which we all learn about was a massive inconvenience for people. That was kind of the point, as with so much effective resistance: make it absolutely impossible for business as usual to go on
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@powellAtlantic
@TheAtlantic
From the same publication that brought you “20 years after invasion, Iraq war lookin’ like a great idea”
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@azadessa
Thing is, they knew he was pro Israel and pro imperialist when they signed on. Why would they resign for him hitting the gas on what he’s already always been up to?
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Silicon Valley Bank shouldn’t have majored in the humanities and bought all that avocado toast.
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The frustrating thing is history can’t absolve you in a country with no memory.
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I wish Biden was “increasingly frustrated” with me, these student loans ain’t gonna pay themselves
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People ignoring the
#DeltaVariant
the way they ignore the creepy overlaps between Biden & Trump’s foreign policing
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No one in Philly trusting the “water is still safe” notifications after how dirty they did the people of Flint
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@AliAbunimah
@democracynow
@WajahatAli
@JoeBiden
@TheDemocrats
The apparatus of controlled opposition in this country is so much more sophisticated than we will ever know
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Does Trump's call for houses of worship to be heavily armed apply to mosques too? Asking for an Islamophobe.
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Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Bill Clinton executed a mentally ill black man to prove he was tough on crime so Kamala Harris could brag about being tougher at the border than Trump.
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Today, not a *single* student in a class of 30 had heard of Abu Ghraib or the systemic abuses that took place there. I will never stop being amazed at how imperialist violence is able to so brilliantly hide in plain sight.
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This thread explains it.
THREAD. The Democratic Party platform presents such a profound crisis if we have any hope of avoiding fascism.
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Muslim Americans saying “I won’t vote for Biden after this” (a little late to the party but good) but following up with “I’m gonna vote for Trump, at least he’s honest about being a warmonger” is a predictable outcome of decades of the US neutralizing & silencing the actual left
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Covfefe and keffiyeh are literally the only two things that upset establishment liberals.
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Of the hundreds of students I’ve taught who have taken criminal justice classes, not one has been taught in those classes that US police were invented to suppress urban worker uprisings (in the north) and catch enslaved blacks who escaped (in the south).
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How many of these mayors kneeling in solidarity with protestors have also unflinchingly supported increased spending on militarized police forces? Don’t buy their political pageantry.
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@ShabanaMir1
But it’s not just that they’re engineers/scientists/doctors, but rather engineers/scientists/doctors who were brought here through immigration policy that was explicitly anti-communist/anti-left/pro-capitalist in the last instance. Hence the right wing fire and brimstone.
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@seankeane
The first 8 words of this tweet demonstrate just how hard leftists get scolded for not falling in line with the right-leaning Dem party every 4 years
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Such a good reminder of the coups and violence the US has sponsored around the planet, at the hands of complicit democrats and republicans
@freedomrideblog
"Many of the people and institutions now bemoaning the state of the republic have given Trump and his predecessors the green light to subvert democracy around the world."
My latest, "Capitol Riot Brings U.S. Foreign Policy Home."
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Heading home from
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, my African cabbie said “Obama deported my brother; how come no one screamed then?” There would be no Trump without the emperors that came before him.
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@Shack_Rat
Yes but I heard the halal snacks at the Lockheed Martin prayer room are so DEI and culturally competent
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@WajahatAli
Yaaassss! Mirch, Masala, and Mnuchin. So much good warmongering capitalism to eat with my achaar.
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Today we will be reminded, in the most insufferable onslaught of tongue baths, just how bipartisan is the US commitment to militarism.
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If you turn on the water without turning on the electricity to pump that water, you’ve not turned on the water at all. You’ve done a PR stunt.
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When powerful institutions roll out DEI initiatives during moments of revolutionary fervor, they are (in every instance) a strategy to silence, discipline, and placate a people who are finally seeing the writing on the wall.
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As we approach the 20th Anniversary, my latest piece, beautifully illustrated by Anuj Shrestha, on the true legacy of 9/11 via
@thenib
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Shaming Americans into voting for a genocidaire because the other guy would prolly also be a genocidaire AND he’d write covfefe: this is the level of
political discourse in the USA
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Democrats fawning over warmonger McCain makes good sense since Democrats too largely supported those wars.
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My book, "
#Islamophobia
, Race, and Global Politics," will be out later this year. An introductory text for any student or thinker curious about race, empire, and global politics. via
@RLPGBooks
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@MarisaElana
@ZahraBilloo
@JoyAnnReid
The media does engage in rampant anti-black racism too. The Islamophobia in this clip mirrors that; it isn’t counter to it.
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Just saw an ad for ALDI and thought it said ADL. People with critical thinking skills are tiiiiiired!
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Why the “anti Islamophobia” and “interfaith” efforts of yesterday are falling flat: my latest in Al Jazeera
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It would be interesting to learn how many Obama administration officials are responsible for circulating the most vile falsehoods to further US imperialist aims
It will be interesting to learn how many of those arrested in Hamilton Hall at Columbia are actually students.
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Every NY Times headline: “Israel faces a real dilemma about killing huge numbers of civilians, which it’s not even really doing by the way, but if it is here’s why it’s not their fault.”
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One striking thing about teaching 18-22 year olds is just how keenly they understand that the Obama presidency was unflinchingly pro-war, pro-Wall Street, and anti-worker.
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@BethLynch2020
These eyes did not volunteer to watch the slaughter of Afghanis so that I could come back to America and see bad things happen here too.
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It’s clear: not only has the legacy of the war been erased in America’s collective consciousness, so has the global resistance to it. (2)
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The statement “Look, I’m no fan of Netanyahu but” will always be followed by the most vile and thinly-veiled racism you can imagine.
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Good time to teach your students about Operation Ajax, the Soleimani assassination, and a few decades in between that get neatly erased from US social studies curricula.
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This week’s episode of
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Yesterday when discussing the US invasion of Iraq in class (the Democrats who green lit Bush’s war, the genocidal sanctions that preceded it, the massive civilian death toll), a student asked “How were there not mass protests in the streets?” (1)
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“Our putative saviors who keep instructing us to be nicer don’t oppose bad optics; they oppose Palestinian liberation,” writes
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Vote count looking as close as the two candidates’ political ideologies
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“I can’t believe US Congress cheered and welcomed him” um do you know anything at all about what the US Congress has done
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May we all be treated with the exact same care we have personally treated Biden on his genocide process when our time to do an ethnic cleansing comes.
May we all be treated with the exact same care we have personally treated Biden on his aging process when our time comes.
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Excited to hear that my book, "Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics," out now from
@RLPGBooks
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Since hearing the
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