I’ll follow you down ‘til the sound of my voice will haunt you. 💙 🦁🌴🪬 Pronouns: Maccabish/Malka
Nov 30, 2023 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
Living ad a Jew in the Netherlands continues to prove to me that my ethnicity is not only Levantine, by that I am not a white European and never will be. 🧵
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I grew up in a Jewish suburb of Philly. If anything, I felt a touch different as my fam was secular, but my general experience was one where being Jewish common & relatively safe. My school was mainly 1/2 Jewish & 1/2 Black, some Asian Am & Latino students & white gentiles. /2
Jun 8, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 I really don’t understand why no one’s following “Qatargate” cash-for-influence scandal in Brussels/EU & especially why US is not wondering how — not if — Qatar is influencing US representatives.
Baclground:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_cor…2/ So far I only see the main Dutch news program & Politico reporting on the latest move by the Euro Parliament to tighten ethics rules to counter such bribery:
“Brussels wants clear tules of ethics to prevent another ‘Qatargate’ in future”
