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1/ Hating to insult or disappoint any of my followers, I was seriously considering your suggestion to create a new twitter handle. But one word you said made me change my mind: "uninformed". I have been reading, writing and researching the Middle East for the past 83 years. I was
2/ there when Azam Pasha declared (Oct. 11, 1947) "a war of extermination and momentous massacre" on a nation of refugees of which I was a son. And I was here at UCLA (2014) when BDS's Omar Barghouti re-denied my people right to self determination: ucla.in/2SxjgWH. A new
3/ twitter handle will give people of your persuasion the illusion that it is impossible for an "informed" person to disagree with their bubble of self righteousness and that "informed" people must be blind to the genocidal aims of BDS and its spokeswomen Rashida and Ilhan.
4/ I can't do it. I feel an obligation to truth and to history to let followers in your bubble know that "well informed" people exist who view them as gullible instruments in the service of a racist movement called BDS. Many of my colleagues feel same, but keep silent. I cant.
