1. In the war between Israel and Hamas, there have been far too many casualties­—thousands of innocent civilians have died, primarily in Gaza. But this war has another less visible casualty: the hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants to Israel from the Middle East and ... 2. North Africa known as Mizrahi, whose history is being erased from the popular narrative about Israel. My community is among them. When angry protesters hurl charges of apartheid and colonialism at Israel, they are, knowingly or not, repudiating the truth about Israel's ...

100 days pass since the start of the protests over #MahsaAmini 's killing in Iran. Here are some of what has changed already:
1) The notion of Hijab as an Iranian tradition has been shattered. Westerners, who refuted any challenge to hijab by calling it Islamophobia ... 2) must now learn how to [intellectually] walk and chew gum at the same time: defend Muslims against white nationalists in the west, while vehemently objecting to Islamism and its brutal practices, especially as experienced by women living under theocratic rule.

Here are the highlights of my testimony at the US Senate's Human Rights Caucus last Monday:

1) The first step that the US administration can take to help the movement inside Iran is to cease downplaying what is happening in Iran and call it by its real name: A revolution.

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2) This is the greatest democratic movement Iran's known not only since 1979, but since 1906--the Constitutional Revolution. These revolutionaries aren't driven by leftist or rightist ideologies, but the basic desires that have been the underpinnings of all democratic movements.

--VS Naipaul, Our Universal Civilization, 1990:
1) I was soon to discover that no colonization had been so thorough as the colonization that had come with the Arab faith. Colonized or defeated peoples can begin to distrust themselves. In the Muslim countries I am talking about.. 2) this distrust had all the force of religion. It was an article of the Arab faith that everything before the faith was wrong, misguided, heretical; there was no room in the heart or mind of these believers for their pre-Mohammedan past. So ideas of history here were ...

1) A few thoughts for the malicious twitterati who’ve been targeting me for the last few weeks: 
One: The rumors are true. I’m, indeed, a Zionist. Without the state of Israel, my paternal relatives, whose homes and business were set on fire in January of 1978 in Khonsar,Iran, 2) and who lost all they ever had, would have had nowhere else to go. 

Two: The most important words in the Hebrew scripture for me are, “Remember your  departure from Egypt.” Iran is my Egypt. By remembering Iran, I’m precisely fulfilling what every Jew has done

1) I’m a proud signatory of #theLetter published in #Harpers, calling for justice and open debate.

Some have dismissed it as a statement by a “privileged” few. The term privileged does, indeed, apply to me, though I’m not white, nor Christian, nor a man. 2) In the spirit of “what doesn’t break me, makes me stronger”, here are my privileges: I was a Jew & a woman under the #Antisemitic & misogynistic regime in my beloved #Iran. I've the privilege of coming of age in the revolutionary era, witnessing the rise of #Authoritarianism.

Senator Tom Cotton's op-ed for the @NYTimes was explosive and caused a senior editor, James Bennet, to resign for running a “non-factual” piece. But, other politicians, such as Iran’s Foreign Minister, have never had their non-factual pieces so severely scrutinized.

THREAD ⬇️ 1-On June 3, Senator Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed in which he said the military should have the authority to quell “rioters and looters”. Whether readers agree or disagree with Cotton, they all understand that they’re merely reading an opinion.