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Writer. Ethnographer. Professor. Author of The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (Duke UP 2019) she/her/Free Palestine 🍉
Jun 7 7 tweets 2 min read
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🧵 2/this is what I remember telling my class on October 12, 2023, less than a week after Al Aqsa Flood: Image
Jun 6 4 tweets 1 min read
1/ Sharing my story with the NYTimes was not an easy decision. My north star goal is always liberation and a free Palestine. That led me to decide to participate in this article despite my concerns.

nytimes.com/2025/06/06/mag… 2/ The NYTimes is complicit in genocide, has manufactured consent for crimes against humanity, & has an active, ongoing agenda of dehumanizing Palestinians. Image
May 23 4 tweets 1 min read
1/ Yesterday’s discourse made very clear what many of us have known for years - antisemitism has been evacuated of all meaning & is now controlled by Zionists logic. 2/ When the term is weaponized by Zionists (whether Jewish, Christian, or any other group) to protect Zionists, Zionism, & the Zionist state, its use actively excludes anti-Zionist Jews, as well as actually Semitic people (like Palestinians)
May 19 18 tweets 4 min read
1/ It’s important the media expose the violence being done by orgs like the Heritage Foundation, initiatives like Project Esther, & the Zionist project. Yesterday’s story in @nytimes did not do that, though - a long 🧵on what’s actually at stake here. 2/ While @nytimes failed to truly investigate the absurdity of a fictional “Hamas Support Network” & its implications, here’s a shadowy international conspiracy that is 💯 real:
May 5 4 tweets 1 min read
1/ Apparently tix to the Met Gala are $50K each - imagine if every celeb donated that money to Gaza mutual aid & withdrew their labor until the genocide ended…. (oh wait, I forgot I live in the US, the most monstrous country ever) 2/ Some of us in the US spend our days watching children be starved to death by the Zionist State & some folks in the US cheer on genocide (or say noting about genocide) & a few plan outfits that cost more than most people make in a year.
Apr 28 5 tweets 1 min read
1/ Yesterday on the train, I saw a man wearing a bright blue baseball hat, Zionist flag embroidered on the front & sides. He was with his young children. All I could think as I stared at him with horror is how he believes his life is worth more than Palestinian lives, 2/ he believes his children’s lives are worth more than the lives of Palestinian children’s lives. Zionism is Jewish supremacy. The Zionist State is a Jewish supremacist state. Liberation requires the dismantling of this monstrous, hierarchical, & inherently violent world view.
Jan 21 4 tweets 1 min read
1/ The ADL has consistently participated in the surveillance of social justice movements, including civil rights, anti-Apartheid, immigrant, farmworker, queer, Palestinian rights, & labor movements 🧵
bostonreview.net/articles/emmai… 2/ As early as the 1930s, the ADL has consistently partnered with government & law enforcement towards such ends. While claiming to be invested in civil rights, the org instead is actively undermining such movements.
Nov 6, 2024 8 tweets 2 min read
Yesterday the majority of American voters decided they preferred a far far right conservative fascist leader over a far right liberal fascist leader. Some of the specific outcomes are different but the general results are & would be the same. 🧵 Folks organizing on the left (call them/us progressives if you want) have been calling for & fighting for a political practice that sees those who are most vulnerable & marginalized & have the most to lose (& therefore the most to gain) as the central focus of our organizing.
Oct 3, 2024 11 tweets 3 min read
Today is my birthday (it should shock NO ONE that I’m a Libra ♎️) & also the Jewish New Year and all I want for my birthday/this year ahead is the end of Zionism and a free Palestine. I promise to dedicate the next year to fighting for this future. In the meantime, a request🧵 The second thing I want is for anyone with extra resources to please donate to one/some/all of these fundraisers for folks in Gaza and their families - no one will save us but us:
Sep 26, 2024 6 tweets 2 min read
1/ As Israel & the US continue genocide in Palestine/escalate ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, we must continue to fearlessly fight for liberation & unapologetically condemn & work to dismantle Zionism & all forms of fascism
theintercept.com/2024/09/26/ten… 2/ A reminder: at least 116 Palestinian journalists have been murdered by Israel. Israel will not let foreign journalists into Gaza. Israel has targeted and shuttered Al Jazeera. Israel and the US do not want us to know what they are doing in Palestine.
May 3, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
1. If you're wondering who is training & organizing the Zionist students who are harassing, intimidating, attacking, & recording/reporting students protesting against the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza, look no further than @HillelIntl & Hasbara Fellowships:
hasbarafellowships.org 2. Our college/university campuses are actively supporting the training of US college students as a mouthpiece for a foreign govt. Many campus Hillel's hire former Israeli soldiers ("Israel Fellows") to encourage Jewish students to spend time in the region/serve in the military.