9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent.

As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the 1/

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loud speaker. I went to the office to see someone who worked with my father there to check me out. I was sick to my stomach -- had something happened to a family member? Did I know anyone in New York? Why was he there to pick me up?

My father's colleague did not answer me 2/

We are witnessing a rise in groups forming in the name of fighting antisemitism that are actually hate groups targeting college campuses as battlegrounds.

Their victims are pro Palestine students, many of whom are racialized Arab & Muslim.

A 🧵with reciepts 1/ So as you’ll all remember I was targeted by a group called MACA, mothers against college antisemitism who left nasty comments under an instagram post by Hunter college congratulating me on a book award. As I explained in a prior thread they were angry re protests on campus 2/

Germany's defense of Israel in the name of the holocaust is a striking example of what happens when history is taught with a focus on events and outcomes rather than processes. The same thing happens in the U.S. a 🧵 1/ Teaching history as events, as I was taught in grade school, and as I think a lot of people are taught, means that we isolate the actors as exceptional. Eg bad Germans mass murdered Jewish people. 2/

Joy, a Cameroonian asylum seeker just gave this testimony at @EspacioMigrante on the impact of #Title42 on her.

Please read & amplify her voice:

The life of an immigrant is not a choice. I don’t know if I can call it bad or good luck, but it is the destiny of some people. 1 I traveled more than sixteen months to reach Tijuana. On my travel, I saw many people killed, I saw racism, I was personally attacked by discriminating and racist people. 2