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May 11, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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In New York City in 2012, a judge invoking the first amendment, gave the greenlight to racist and Islamophobic pro-Israel ads in the subway by Pamela Geller. I was arrested for spray painting over one of the ads in Times Square-42nd St station. Andrew Yang is like those ads 1/ Tweet from Andrew Yang: I'm standing with the people of Isra
The ads said: In any way between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad." I spray painted over the ad because if Israel is "civilized" then I'm a proud savage. The woman trying to block me was w/ Pamela Geller 📷 Kristy Leibowitz Mona wearing a pink coat and green dress with her arm outstr
If those ads were protected by the first amendment, then so is my right to protest them. I was arrested, charged with criminal mischief and possession of a "graffiti instrument" (because of NYC's "war on graffiti"). Fuck fascism everywhere. 📷 Kristy Leibowitz A woman in a black jacket and a police officer with a dog arHandcuffed Mona is led away by a police officer. She looks o
Grateful that @StanleyCohenLaw represented me pro bono for 2yrs after my arrest. I refused a plea deal that involved a fine to MTA & woman blocking me who wanted $800 for paint on her Gucci sunglasses. I.was to stand trial until judge dropped the case in the interest of justice Stanley wearing dark trousers and a kuffiyeh draped across h
After the judge dropped the case,
@StanleyCohenLaw wrote this, to make clear I didn't pay any fine associated w/my act of civil disobedience. An anti-Zionist group did. I'm glad Stanley & I are friends now & I will always appreciate his solidarity. In his words: Up the Rebels! So the ignorant haters hate. The great human rights activist
Andrew Yang and Richie Torres, etc are using a similar ethos and hate as Pam Geller's ad campaign.
Listen instead to Rep. @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib Both who ran on progressive platforms that included rare and unprecedented questioning of U.S. support for Israel. I wrote this in 2019 about them zora.medium.com/trumps-incitem…
*The ad said "In any WAR..." not "way" Typing too fast!
Here's an article about my arrest at the time. theguardian.com/world/2012/sep…

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In 1977, two years before the Soviet invasion, revolutionary women’s rights activist Meena founded RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) to fight patriarchy at every level in her country. feministgiant.com/p/fist-in-the-…

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Shaima, an early member of RAWA, has explained that women in Afghanistan had to be mushti dar dahan, a term in Dari that means "a fist in the mouth," towards the men in their families, and also to society and government–i.e. State, Street, and Home. feministgiant.com/p/fist-in-the-…
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White & Christian are considered norm and not dangerous in the U.S. 👇🏽

"GOP Sen Anthony Kern & his prayer team of anti-abortion extremists praying in tongues (that’s not an audio issue) that an 1864 law banning nearly all abortion becomes law again."
It's easy to see the fascists and theocrats when they don't look like you. When they're white and Christian, their danger has not registered enough:

Arizona State Senator Leads Prayer In Tongues On Floor Before Abortion Ruling huffpost.com/entry/anthony-…
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Rights are not guaranteed nor set in stone.

History is not a linear march towards "progress." feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
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Mar 16
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia:Iran, that so many white women didn’t pay enough attention to theocracy that white supremacy was building at home
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…
It was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown men with beards, right?

I wrote this in 2020 and I have more and more reason to say it in the U.S .today feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
The same arrogance and naiveté that made so many white Americans think Trump would never become president is same arrogance & naiveté that made so many think "it would never happen here” whether it was destruction of abortion rights:anti-divorce laws feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
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Dec 9, 2023
Two months into its genocide in Gaza, the more Israel displays its savagery against Palestinians, the more obvious its moral and philosophical defeat.

Militarily, Israel is armed to the teeth and propped up by the U.S., the world’s most powerful country.

And Israel is losing
The unconscionable vote against ceasefire at the UN yesterday by U.S. & abstention by the UK are reminders that while some western political powers might still be propping up Israel’s crimes,around the world more & more people vehemently oppose the genocide.

Israel is losing
Israel’s crimes are repeatedly being equated w/some of worst genocidal crimes: from ethnic cleansing and genocide in Srebrenica to the cultural genocide of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

It has come at a staggeringly high Palestinian death toll—at least 20,000.

Israel is losing
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Nov 25, 2023
When the NYT is reporting it like this, something is changing Headline: Gaza Civilians, Under Israeli Barrage, Are Being Killed at Historic Pace In less than two months, more than twice as many women and children have been reported killed in Gaza than in Ukraine after two years of war.
"People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups." Text: People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups. Precise comparisons of war dead are impossible, but conflict-casualty experts have been taken aback at just how many people have been reported killed in Gaza — most of them women and children — and how rapidly.
"It is not just the scale of the strikes...Israel’s liberal use of very large weapons in dense urban areas, including U.S.-made 2,000-pound bombs that can flatten an apartment tower, is surprising, some experts say." Image
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