Let me introduce you to Ahmed Daoud, one of the owners of the Old Man and the Sea restaurant in the Jaffa port. Daoud was recently arrested for throwing 16 Molotov cocktails into a house he thought was Jewish but turned out to be Arab and caused sever burns to a 12 yrs old /1
child by the name of Mohamed. Over a month earlier Daoud was arrested for battery, recorded in a CCTV video below, against the Arab owner of a coffee shop during a dispute about loud music. Lawyers were able to get him out then only for him to commit his hideous crimes soon /2
after. Is Daoud a fighter engaging in resistance to the Zionist occupation? Or is he just another manifestation of disgusting male chauvinism and truly toxic masculinity? Palestinians, and other nearby Arab societies, have long been giving religious and ideological cover for /3
such toxic male behavior, allowing male tyranny to hide behind big words and big causes. This is one of the core causes of violence in the ME in general and in Palestinian society. Until Palestinians and Arab Israelis figure this out, problems will continue.

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29 Jun
Khalidi promises to counter the assumption that the Palestinian identity only existed because of resistance to Zionism. He completely failed to carry this promise throughout a book that is mostly dedicated to retelling Arab reactions to Zionism. The first argument of Khalidi /1
is that the Palestinian identity has its roots in Islamic reverence of Jerusalem, which begs the question of why such reverence should be considered distinctly Palestinian and a sufficient base for a modern Palestinian nationalism and not Islamic or Arab? Moreover, Judaism and/2
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27 Jun
Man shall not live on identity alone! I can't help but to notice that most of the "As a.." generation, young ppl using identity affiliation to signal authority for their statements, are essentially Philistines when it comes to culture, tradition, and history. As such, identity /1
became nothing but a claim to power and authority. A barbarian of Roman origins using his Romanism to empower his/her Barbarianism. What does identity mean when one doesn't engage with it, draw from it, and tries to add to it? Identities are arguably the most valuable human /2
cognitive artifact ever created. Many of them took centuries, millennia, and countless human lives to slowly and painstakingly build and create. To reduce them to a power claim in social games is one of the most sacrilegious insults to human decency. What does culture & history/3
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25 Jun
I'm glad that more people are becoming aware of the insanity called Critical Theory but people should know this is not new. Such a device of ideological toxicity already ruined entire academic disciplines which I'm not sure how can they be restored. Critical scholarship /1
already indoctrinated multiple generations of college graduates, many of whom became the academics of the following generation. Those individuals usually end up extremely conformist and utterly unimaginative. They all repeat the same jargon and scholarly decorum without /2
any sort of introspection or questioning. Anyone familiar with academia knows the kind of personality that thrived in such an atmosphere is the authoritarian personality that seeks to acquire authority and power through academic titles, incomprehensible and pathological writing/3
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30 May
The entire issue of the fake photo in the dead children lineup is only meant to point out the clear anti-Israel media bias that got so bad in places like NYT that it can unwittingly gulp down any propaganda from antisemitic terrorist organizations without due diligence fact /1
check. The media is getting disgusting. Such behavior is an insult to the decency of both the living and the dead and endangers the legitimately horrified feeling one should get from the idea of dead children. Having said all of that, this is not meant at all as a way to push /2
aside the fact that a war did happen in which innocent children lost their lives thanks to the terrorists organization Hamas that is dehumanizing both Palestinians and Israelis with its using of one population as a shield and the other as a target. I wish journalits would stick/3
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29 May
I feel awful we are forced to look at pictures of children and then wonder if they are real stories or fake instead of just feeling the tragedy. But this is the price we pay for presence of deception and lies. The Arabic media and internet world is literally an ocean of deceit /1
Pictures of children and adults are deceptively used with lies in order to emotionally manipulate Arab and Muslim crowds into supporting certain political causes or hating other people. Growing up in Egypt, there were pamphlets like that all the time. Claiming that /2
Cokecola is buying bullets of Zionist soldiers to kill Muslim babies and all kind of other stories with pics of dead people. People would casually volunteer to stage photos meant to inflame religious senses. Before, I thought as globalization does its work, such behavior
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29 May
Hey @nytimes, how do you think Israel manages to kill the same child every war?
Here is a link to the post from 2017
facebook.com/5twt.hd2a.205/…
Okay, I have been digging. It's literally a random photo from "cute Muslim toddlers" online photo stocks that have been circulating for many years. We need an actual investigation of all the data of the "killed" children. Hamas and @nytimes are literally trolling the world
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