Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی
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Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT SHADOW COMMANDER | History PhD | Contributor @theatlantic | Clemson Prof | Flaneur | Film
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Today is the publication day for What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom, a book that I poured all my heart into. It is the story of my heroic compatriots: the women and men of who fight for a better Iran.
Link:
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Great Al Arabiya journalist grilling Hamas’s Khalid Mashaal from an Arab perspective
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Abstract debates about antisemitism?
I was at a Jewish friend’s tonight, a home I often visit, and couldn’t find the apartment door. I realized they had taken down the mezuzah by the door. I realized they were afraid to be openly Jewish in New York City in 2023.
Crushed me
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We are in the throes of a revolution in Iran that will likely change the course of world history.
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Did Iran say it will shut the Guidance Patrol (Hijab police)?
No. Here is what happened:
In a press conference, someone asked top prosecutor, Jafar Montazeri, why was the Guidance Patrol not around anymore.
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A young Iranian woman, who had immolated herself in prison after she was jailed due to her protests against the the ban on entering stadiums, just died in a Tehran hospital.
She is known as the
#BlueGirl
because she, like myself, supported the football club Esteghlal.
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I also grew up in Tehran, loving my mom's Schnitzel, which was a very common dish in Tehran of my generation, as was the Italian Macaroni, the Russian Salad Olvie and Beef Stroganoff.
This kind of ignorant discourse on the Middle East is so tiresome
why of course we are indigenous to the Middle East now eat your Schnitzel mit Kartoffeln, sweetie
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I still can't believe this happened in the United States of 2023.
A scholar shows a respectful medieval depiction of Prophet Mohammad and she loses her job AND is labeled Islamophobic by the university's shameful administration.
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شما از هر نحله سیاسی که باشید اگر کمی انصاف راجع به رضا پهلوی داشته باشید می‌بینید که گفتمانش چقدر دلسوزانه، میهن‌دوستانه، اتحادساز، با رویکرد فراگیری و همراه با انعطاف سیاسی است.
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حالا که صحبت رضا پهلوی شد خاطره یکی از اولین دیدارهایم با ایشان را هم ذکر کنم: چندین سال پیش، در استودیو تلویزیون منوتو بودم که ایشان برای بازدید آمده بود و به محض دیدنم، احوال پدرم، مصطفی عزیزی، را پرسید که آن موقع در زندان اوین بود و کوشید تسلی خاطر دهد.
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Like most Iranians, we have a family WhatsApp group.
My grandmother, when she gets up for her morning prayers at around 5 am, always starts the day by wishing us a good morning "under the care of God."
The group has now been silent for 3 days and it eats me from the inside.
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You have to remember how much personal courage it takes for the journalist to follow this line of questioning
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The correct position — people belong wherever they are
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'Hummus is not your food, you stole it' should ordinarily be something that only some crazy drunk uncle says at a party. But it is effectively part of the respectable discourse on Israel/Palestine and it was even tweeted yesterday by a leading human rights activist.
Just nuts.
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This tweet really encapsulates the mindset of some on the Western left.
The idea that today, harbinger of so much death and suffering for everybody involved, “should be a day of celebration”….
I really don’t have words for it.
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خواهر ۱۷ ساله دوست فلسطینی‌ام امسال از یکی از بهترین دانشگاه‌های آمریکا پذیرش داشت. با ذوق و شوق آماده بود برود ثبت نام. ساکن نوار غزه است و اسرائیلی‌ها نگذاشتند تا سفارت آمریکا در اورشلیم سفر کند تا ویزایش را بگیرد. و حالا او مانده و حصر غزه و نابودی رویاهایش از همین سن.
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“He made a vile joke so who cares if he was killed with his entire family, including two kids in an airstrike?” is as barbaric a statement as anyone can make… and many have made it on this hellsite…
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People of Iran do not want war against Israel. We have absolutely no reason to be in conflict with Israel and, having seen the worst of war from 1980 to 1988, we don't want it to repeat.
War will only benefit Khamenei and his regime. Stop the escalations! Find an off-ramp now!
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“We all voting Bernie Sanders because of
@AOC
” is what a group of 15 or so youngsters from Bronx told me on the subway today.
First time they’ll be voting ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
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The United States has not been a consistent advocate for democracy abroad.
It doesn't matter whether you are on the right or the left or whatever, this is just plain disinformation.
Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, Chile 1973 -- these are just the most egregious examples.
For decades, the U.S. has been an advocate for democracy abroad. This year’s presidential vote, perhaps more than any other, is testing the strength of the values America promotes around the world.
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Egyptian man visits Iran in Ramadan and is shocked at how Iranians care so little for fasting and other Muslim rules
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Hamas's strategy is clear, as Mashal also previously said in his interview with Al Arabiya: They don't mind millions of Palestinians dying so long as it helps the goal of 'destroying Israel'.
They are a menace to Palestinians, Israelis and the rest of us.
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified
#Hamas
#Gaza
#Palestinians
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Iran has EXECUTED someone for the sole crime of drinking alcohol.
A father of two is dead because he had some drinks.
Yes, really.
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How proud I am of my friend
@NazaninBoniadi
for her continued advocacy for a free and democratic
#Iran
.
She constantly ignored all the haters who made fun of her looks or her acting career.
Her name will be forever registered in our history for taking part in this historic day.
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This murderer doesn’t represent Iranians — thousands of us have died trying to overthrow him
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I can’t emphasize how important this is: i haven’t seen Khamenei openly challenged by students like this for some time.
Only those who go through a lot of vetting make it to an event like this… which shows dissent has gone so far
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هیچ جنبش انقلابی نمی‌تواند حضور خیابانی بی‌وقفه داشته باشد. برای ادامه مبارزه علیه جمهوری اسلامی باید دست به تدارک تشکیلات و سازماندهی بزنیم. #انقلاب
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So proud of how
@NazaninBoniadi
has stepped up for her fellow Iranians
Thank you,
@NazaninBoniadi
, for coming to the United Nations to support peaceful protesters across Iran. Your activism is an inspiration to so many, including me.
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Some famous professor in Geneva, New York wrote an article, duly published by Verso, as to why killing civilians is great & how she was so excited about 10/7.
What else is new? For these bored folks, we, the people of Middle East, only exist as subjects of their fantasies
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Remember when I said this ordinary picture, which shows a couple of women having breakfast in Tehran without their Hijab on, would be historic?
The woman who is in it, and posted it, Donya Raad, has now been arrested.
#IranRevolution2022
#مهسا_امینی
دنیا راد هم بازداشت شد. جرم: صبحانه خوردن به طرزی که خودش دوست داشت.
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Iran's labour movement coming out against the attacks on Israel:
"With firing at Israel, the Islamic Republic has adventurously began a war which is hurting a nation of 90 millions... this regime is doing its last mission to destroy Iran"
Independent Iranian Workers Union
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No,
@AlinejadMasih
did not ask for a military attack on
#Iran
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Friends have to be honest with friends. True allies of the Palestinian people are not those who shout the most “radical” slogans in NY or London but those who speak the truth bluntly: not having a vision for Israeli Jews has for long doomed the Palestinian national movement.
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Her name is Sarina Esmaeelzadeh. She was 16 years old
She was murdered by the Iranian regime in Karaj
She loved singing & had a YouTube channel. She once asked: “Iranian teens now know the world & ask themselves: why should their problems be so different from American teens?”
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مسیح علی‌نژاد امروز در پخته‌ترین لحظه سیاسی تا به امروز خودش ظاهر شد باضافه حفظ آن ویژگی کنشگریِ صمیمانه و خودمانی که در «مسیح» شدنش نقش داشته.
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Posts like this are really fascinating because they really show what a bizarre relation anti-Zionist American Jews have to Israel & how politically rotten it is.
So Israel needs to be defined by the absolute worst crimes committees by its soldiers? Which other state +
I decided 30 years ago—in the summer of 1993—that I would never support this state, never go or send a child of mine there, never apologize or temporize for it, b/c I never wanted, as a Jew, to be a part of this. All states are brutal, but to affirmatively align myself with this?
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Navalny had a choice. He could have remained in his Berlin exile. But he staked his life on the battle for freedom in his country, went back and paid the ultimate price. That’s worthy of highest praise.
Rest in power.
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You couldn't have a more telling comment. A sovereign nation has no control over whether it is going to enter a war with its neighbor or not; because its government has no control over a militia that calls the shots -- and is strongly supported and tied to another foreign gov
Will Hezbollah respond to the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Beirut? “The decision is theirs,” Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib tells me. “We hope they don’t commit themselves to a larger war… We have a lot of reasons to think that this will not happen.”
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You want to know how I feel about all this ink I have to spill about the Middle East & its conflicts?
I wish I didn't have to do any of it. I wish I could be in Tehran, Beirut, Tel Aviv or Gaza, writing about poetry, cinema and wine, just as I did when I was a teen in Tehran
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Twice-Oscars winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi asks for support to
#IranProtests2022
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Of all the dumb things being said about Israel, the idea that it’s “white” is surely among the top
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@AliBakeer
No I actually listened to the full interview and don’t agree with this assessment. I posted this version because it has English subtitles
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It's an ugly fucking world we live in.
Do you really believe this is because these folks care for Palestinian lives? This was the best use of their time to help the Palestinian cause?
Here we have more of the pro-kidnapping crowd ripping down photos of hostages in London.
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Ramin Rezaeean dedicates his goal to the people of
#Iran
“especially those who are suffering” ❤️❤️
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Me: I can handle my drink
Also me after a glass of wine:
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Montazeri said the patrol wasn't the business of the judiciary but of the police so "they launched it and they shut it themselves." He quickly added that the Judiciary would still monitor "behavior in society"
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It’s the historian in me but I am so sick of this canard — this letter keeps getting shared as if it signals anti-Israel or anti-Zionist attitudes on part of Einstein, Arendt, etc.
It does NOT. Most of its writers (definitely Einstein) were Zionists. +
Congress declared Albert Einstein an anti-semite today.
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My uncle in Tehran after I tell him I am worried:
"If Israel hits my house out of 90 million people, it probably was time anyways" 😭😭
What would we do without our sense of humor?
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And to show that it was a truly Jewish household, one of them thought the other was being paranoid and had no reason taking the mezuzah down
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Also imagine this being your reaction to a CHILD having a meal after two months of captivity... I swear, the kind of absolute depravity that can exist amongst the supposedly educated people is abnormal
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Iran's regime media have also been quick at work, clarifying the the issue and denying that Guidance Patrol has been shut.
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Sorry if Middle Easterners don't conform to your fascist fantasies of indigeneity -- in fact, our region has long been a place of passing and melting of various cultures from around the world
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A 22-year-old woman was killed in
#Iran
by the police because she didn't observe the dress code . An entire nation of 85 million is in rage as are many in the Middle East.
Where our allies on the US and global left?
Or Iranians only useful to you as a rhetorical device?
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The main problem with (much of) the Left in the US is not that it’s allegedly authoritarian or anything like that. It’s that it’s utterly unserious; infantile to the extreme, cosplaying instead of changing the world
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The regime has been kicked off UNCSW. The Iranian people will remember those who stood with them — and those who stood with our murderers
Congrats to
@GissouNia
@UnitedForNarges
@NazaninBoniadi
& all those incredible amazing Iranian women who worked so hard to make this happen
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I wrote about
@GalGadot
‘s casting for Cleopatra and why the outrage it caused is misplaced.
Please read and let me know what you think!
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A reminder that the most popular Palestinian leader refers to Israel as “our future neighbor”, strongly supports the two-state solution and opposes attacks on Israeli civilians
Palestine, presidential election, PCPSR poll:
Marwan Barghouti (Fatah, Centre-left): 62%
Haniyeh (Hamas, Islamist): 38%
Fieldwork: March 5-10
Size: 1,580
#Palestine
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Please note that as I said above, Montazeri DID say "they launched it and they shut it themselves" so this is why the world media has been quick to report that the GP has been "shut."
But this is at best a very unclear and inconclusive remark uttered in the middle of a presser
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Still, there is some evidence that some inside the regime are debating whether to relax, change, re-package or do something to the Hijab laws although Khamenei is very unlikely to concede anything on this front
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For generations, the Marxist left - Arab, Jewish, Palestinian, Iranian, Italian, etc - had a basic approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: recognition of the self-determination rights of both national communities living there.
And now: this. One-sided hashtags w no content
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Terrible day of repression in Iran today. Widespread attack on women who are not covering their hair in Tehran and other cities. Moral police vans all over the place. People who have expressed antiwar sentiments threatened online.
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A friend asked: why are you against Hamas? Is it because you are against armed resistance?
No. I am not a pacifist. I am against the Hamas attacks because:
1) I am against terrorism, .I.e attacks against civilians
2) I am against politics of Hamas which are in no way positive
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I want to apologize for the wording of my tweet about the attack on the hospital. Even though I had qualified it with 'it seems by Israel', I should have waited for more conclusive evidence. Now we see that major elements of the story are being questioned by credible sources
I deleted the original top tweet of this thread for the simple reason that what I've subsequently tweeted is more up-to-date based on the latest we know.
To be clear, IDF's claims have not been convincing at all so far. We'll see what credible sources find out.
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(Although the Berlin Wall did also come down based on an official uttering some thing in the middle of a presser!)
State media has already tried to backtrack on this issue. We should wait and see
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جلوی هر فرصت‌طلبی که می‌گوید جنبش سال ۸۸ «دعوای خانوادگی» بود و ربطی به مردم نداشت بایستید.
جلوی هر بی شرمی‌که می‌گوید فرقی بین خامنه‌ای و میرحسین نبود.
از تاریخ مبارزات دموکراسی‌طلبانه این مردم پاسداری کنیم.
میر هنوز در بند است و خون شهدای ۸۸ هنوز خشک نشده.
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Many of you don't know the extent to which the Iranian regime's support for Hamas and PIJ is hated by the Iranian people.
Here you see a few pro-regime folks taking Palestinian flags to the stadium, thousands of fans shout in response "put that flag in your ass"
این کلیپ را تمام مردم #اسرائیل ببینند
امشب در ورزشگاه آزادی چند پاسدار پرچم فلسطین به داخل ورزشگاه آورده بودند که مردم چنین شعاری دادند
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Seeing some confusions about this so let's be clear:
People responding with violence to an occupying **army** in their country has never meant 'terrorism' in any definition.
Hijacking planes, blowing up buses and killing high school students CERTAINLY means terrorism.
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And just like that, I became Dr Arash Azizi :)
Not enough words to thank my wonderful committee
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You either think deliberately killing civilians for political purposes is permissible or you don't. If you do, you are pro-terrorism by any reasonable definition of the term.
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I am honestly so sick of American leftists, forever using real people’s lives as cudgels in their silly little internal debates.
A colonial-imperial mindset if there ever was one
So…it turns out that many people’s support for Ukraine isn’t based on a belief in the universal right to resist occupation and annexation.
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Mahsa Sadeghi, from
#Iran
’s national Taekwondo team, resigns from the team in solidarity with the struggles of Iranian women
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@anitasarkeesian
Israel is a sovereign country according to the international law; the same law we use to hold it accountable for its war crimes and crimes of apartheid. You can’t just accept one part of the law and throw out the other
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“Decolonization”
The family of Oren Goldin of Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak – missing since Oct. 7 – has been informed that he was among those killed on that dark day, 37 days ago.
He leaves behind his wife, Oshrit, and twins Aviv and Illy.
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Hiba Kamal Abu Nada was a stellar Palestinian writer. I had been eagerly reading her work. Six years ago, at 26, she won a top award at Sharjah for her novel.
Yesterday morning she was killed in Gaza by an Israeli strike. She was 32, younger than me
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In these sensitive hours, please do some due diligence and make sure you are not amplifying fake news of which there will be plenty and, when amplified enough, will make a real difference in the real world for real people
Seeing a lot of REPORTS of an explosion in Tehran and all of them are from idiot bluechecks who don’t cite any reputable news source and are using an old photo
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Fun fact: Twitter isn’t TikTok so when you say ignorant shit like this, you’ll get corrected by scholars
hebrew was only used during prayers and recitation but never was a language that was spoken the past 2000 years
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Who says academics shouldn't be able to teach views that students consider insulting? Who gets to decide what's 'insulting' to them? How can you seriously teach about centuries of human disagreements without airing views that will be offensive to some?
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My Israeli friends in New York cooked us a great dinner last night. Of course I refused to eat the Kubeh until the host reassured me she had an Iraqi stepfather so it was ok. Now as for the Hummus….
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راستی اسم آن «خبرنگاری» که در گزارشش فیلم «اعترافات» دروغین اسماعیل بخشی و سپیده قلیان را پخش کردند یادمان نرود: آمنه سادات ٰذبیح‌پور.
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Why do I oppose sanctions on Iran that destroy the country's economy?
Because I'd like my grandmother to be able to afford groceries.
And, to paraphrase Camus, for me, my grandmother comes before your abstractions
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بارها شنیده‌ایم که رضا پهلوی را باید به عنوان شهروند مستقل بشناسیم و حسابش را از خاندانش جدا کنیم. سالگرد ۲۸ مرداد وقت خوبی است که ایشان به مردم بگوید نظرش راجع به این رویداد تاریخی چیست: سرنگونی دولت منتخب مردمِ محمد مصدق به دست کودتای مورد حمایت انگلیس و آمریکا. منتظریم!
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@manaartlover
«وکالت» البته یک امر سیاسی مدرنه و با «بیعت» فرق داره. به معنی نمایندگیه. اسم «نماینده» مجلس هم در ایران ابتدا «وکیل مجلس» بود و در خیلی زبان‌ها هم هنوز این واژه «اووکات» استفاده می‌شه. سیاستمدار بنا به تعریف وکیل مردمه.
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When it comes to Palestine and Israel, one point is key: you can’t ignore the national aspirations of either Palestinians or Israelis. You can’t just wish them away, no matter how well-intentioned you are.
I wrote about it.
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Even after the fact, when faculty tried to stand up to this nonsense, they were told to shut up.
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از نکات تاسف‌بار ماجرای #نجفی این است که مردم با آب و تاب در حیرتند که چطور «درس خوانده ام آی تی» دست به جنایت زده.
یعنی این دانشگاه‌پرستی و مدرک‌پرستی جامعه ما واقعا غریب و سخیف است -- انگار همه باورشان شده که هر کس دانشگاه فلان رفت فرشته اخلاق و معرفت است.
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"It’s a cliché already but some young Jewish leftists, feeling a need to prove their commitment to socialism and internationalism, had to be more anti-Israel than anyone else."
Michael Harrington, 1975
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This is exactly where the logic of this 'indigenous' politics leads in post-imperial spaces: Blood and Land fascism for the 'original people'.
We've seen it in Uganda, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, etc.
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من واقعا خوشحالم آقای بوچانی این توئیت را کرد تا بی‌ربطی این نوع تفکر تفرقه‌افکن به مردم کردستان معلوم شود.
آدم در چه سطح بیمارگونه‌ای باید دنبال جدا کردن مردم ایران از یکدیگر باشد که بگوید برای مردم کردستان در کوچه رقصیدن و حسرت زندگی معمولی و کودکان زباله‌گرد مهم نیستند؟
ضمن تبریک به هنرمند عزیز شروین حاجی پور,شاید شیر کردن این ویدئو خالی از لطف نباشد. در برنامه ای در ملبورن, مجری قبل برنامه ازم خواست آهنگ شروین را روی استیج بخوانم,حقیقتا نتوانستم با این آهنگ ارتباط بگیرم چون هیچ پیوندی با خیابان‌های کردستان نداشت. آهنگ خودم را خواندم.
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Israelis! Read this again: This is not 1973 anymore. Your two most important Arab neighbors recognize you already and all other Arab countries are also ready to do so -- if you end the occupation of Palestinian people
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Nothing scares the rulers of the Iranian regime like a strong Iranian woman
And so we walked away. The interview didn’t happen. As protests continue in Iran and people are being killed, it would have been an important moment to speak with President Raisi. 7/7
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Now we come to the West where shameful university administrators shut down free discussions of Islam IN THE NAME OF PROTECTING PEOPLE LIKE ME!
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