Basit Zafar
@basit_ak_zafar
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Ann Arbor
Joined December 2023
Today, we are releasing a subset of the findings from the (unofficial) 2024 U-M Community Survey on Anti-Palestinian Bias and Islamophobia. Full report here: https://t.co/QGYIhPa9ME A🧵on the survey, some highlights, and what the findings mean 1/n
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"The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich. Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians" https://t.co/9s53JnYX78
theguardian.com
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
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Glad to see an economist publicly speaking sense on this issue. https://t.co/ALVzwi0cck
nytimes.com
When the government is often behaving unchecked by the law, the idea of a binding contract is a fantasy.
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It’s way too late, but the truth has a way of coming out. Forget the airdrops and scrap GHF — let the UN organizations resume their humanitarian delivery operations NOW to stop the ongoing starvation:
nytimes.com
Israel has long restricted aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population. On Saturday, the Israeli military announced new airdrops of aid.
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Don’t worry the @nytimes isn’t mortified that it published this genocide denial as Palestinians are dropping dead and being shredded into pieces because Israel starved and killed them. They’re proudly pushing out push notifications for it.
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The Palestinian Exception is alive and well—even where 'academic freedom' is supposed to mean something. https://t.co/sO1Kfu9MOM
theguardian.com
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
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This is happening in 2025!
The GHF security personnel fired pepper spray at Palestinians who went to receive aid in Al Shakoush area in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. 10/7/2025
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Interesting how Trump and Netanyahu only find their voices after a church is hit. Where is the outrage when mosques, homes, and refugee camps are bombed? When dozens of civilians are killed daily, for months? Do only certain lives count?
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Great example of how NOT to ask survey questions—unless you're trying to steer people toward a certain answer.
I am a bit shocked to learn that even when presented with such a leading and biased question, 40% of 18-24s prefer to express support for *Hamas* over Israel. I am honestly surprised Elliot is sharing this as any kind of evidence that Israel's image is doing just swell in the US
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📰 NEW: Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) has released a dossier documenting The New York Times’ material and ideological ties to Israel. The report identifies nearly two dozen current and former staff with affiliations to pro-Israel think tanks, the Israeli military, and
EXPOSED: A new dossier from @wawog_now reveals material and ideological ties between Israel and journalists, editors, and executives of The New York Times. Whether serving in the IOF or taking money from pro-Israel consultancies, the staff at the Times is compromised.
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What I cannot fathom is that there are people who can watch this video and not feel this Palestinian mother's pain. Who either feel in their hearts, or have convinced themselves, that killing her young daughter was necessary. That it was justified. I cannot fathom.
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Today, the war criminal responsible for this was proudly hosted by U.S. officials, and @FranceskAlbs was sanctioned for wanting to hold him accountable.
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This fake vaccination campaign set back real vaccine efforts in Pakistan for years — and only deepened distrust among those already primed for conspiracy theories https://t.co/s9FDlOZnMG
Today I learned that the Obama administration’s CIA set up fake hepatitis B vaccine clinics in Pakistan to collect DNA samples in hopes of looking for Bin Laden.. I honestly have no words.
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Last year Wikipedia stopped allowing ADL to be used as a source, because ADL is a propaganda organization. The largest educators union in the US just voted to cut ties with ADL.
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New from me & @MazMHussain for @DropSiteNews: Leaked chats show Zionist agitators plan confrontations against pro-Palestine demonstrations in NYC, discuss buying lasers, burning Qurans, targeting the home of a prominent activist, harassing a mosque & more.
dropsitenews.com
The secret chat logs include plans to burn Qurans and attack pro-Palestine protesters with pepper spray.
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1. Worth revisiting the debate between @ezraklein and Ta-Nehisi Coates about Israel/Palestine because there's a specific factual point that Klein got very wrong which he should apologize for. Klein insisted that unlike Hamas, Netanyahu was not "specifically targeting killing
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The four Muslim members of Congress have put out a statement condemning the Islamophobic attacks on Mamdani. But it shouldn’t just be on the Muslim electeds. Where is Hakeem Jeffries? Where is Chuck Schumer? Where is the caucus? Shame on any Dem elected who is silent on this.
Our joint statement on the vile, anti-Muslim, racist attacks on Zohran Mamdani:
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I posted this on Instagram and got this message so I’m gonna share what I responded with: You’re not dumb, this is how the best propaganda works. Propaganda in news / mass information dissemination relies on many things, but it especially relies on offering truths we recognize
I don’t think there’s a court sufficient enough to try the NYT for its crimes against the Palestinians. Hundreds of Palestinians (including kids) seeking aid at the GHF death trap have been targeted, sniped and killed by the Israelis and this is how the NYT frames it.
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@piersmorgan Piers, it’s not just the Israeli Gov. u can’t keep hiding behind that false pretense.
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