1/ Yesterday in the NYTimes, a student (mis)quoted from memory something I said in class on October 12, 2023. That quote suggested that I do not support Palestinian resistance. While I’m not disputing that student’s memory, the Times didn’t include what I actually said🧵
https://twitter.com/dr_mauraf/status/1924881130240524663
2/this is what I remember telling my class on October 12, 2023, less than a week after Al Aqsa Flood: 
3/ my politics have developed exponentially over the past 20 months, mostly due to: 1. Being in conversation with my Palestinian friends 2. Reading writing by Palestinian thinkers & artists 3. Following Palestinians (both in occupied Palestine and the diaspora) on social media.
4/I’m disappointed the Times didn’t include a quote from me BUT I would also say something very different now. I have worked hard to learn & change my mind these past 20 months. I do not always get it right and I’m grateful for everyone who has helped me to do better.
5/in my own politics (for those interested) I strive to center an anti-capital, anti-imperial approach that centers liberation & opposes supremacist ideologies like Zionism, a Jewish supremacist world view. I also live/was socialized in the US.
6/ I know I have a lot of work to do & this work doesn’t end until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea. And even then, it continues-there’s no justice within the logic of the Nation State.
7/ So much of our work is imagining (and then creating) a more just future. Not through peace but through liberation.
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