In our noisy world, we often equate value with volume.

But true growth happens in silence.

Reflect on transformative moments.
Were they loud or quiet?
In the pause between words, change occurs.

Today's Sufi Comic explores this concept.

Hillel Neuer is a true role model in meaningful civil society action. He tirelessly walks down the halls and stands in the middle of institutions armed with facts. I wish we had a 100 of him.

“It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.” —Karl Kraus

This is an interesting essay on El Salvador's president and his war on gangs. I had no idea so many of these gangs actually started in LA.
im1776.com/el-salvador-hi…

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour @husseinaboubak
It seems the goal of all “indigeneity” discourses is primarily to carve an opening to call the Other a “colonizer”/interloper, (while erasing plenty of other oppressed and migrating groups eg Armenians) whose “indigeneity” /or not lacks the same propaganda value

My Debate in Moment Magazine: Should UNRWA be shut down?

I say Yes, and the other side, a gentleman from USAID, says not now but eventually Yes. Does that mean I won?
momentmag.com/moment-debate-…

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour To reinforce what you say at least in the Israeli context: it’s disheartening how the Messianic & adjacent Right in Israel are detached from Rabbinic values & are assimilated Romantic Nationalists whereas the Left have whole heartedly adopted the disease of cultural Marxism!

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Hussein I learn so much from your long posts & this is another great one (as is everything on your substack). Perhaps your short post triggered so much reaction because people read it to say: mutual lack of care is the source of the conflict rather than its irrefutable context

It might be a losing battle to try to convince someone to admit their mistakes, but you may have better chances to try to help them fix it.

If there is such a thing as 'orientalizing,' it would be calling someone indigenous.

It is interesting how a benign remark generated such a visceral emotional reaction from a lot of people. I would bet that many Israelis and Palestinians would largely agree with it. Why, then, the frenzy of passionate objections? Let's explore.

To note that both Israelis and…

And what is 'Orientalism' but an ideology for culture professionals' mobility to make a career of talking back to and instead of the West?

It's heartwarming to see the Cherokees stand with their indigenous Palestinian brothers

Because all boundaries, all definitions, and all rationality are being thrown away.

OK now that the eclipse is over what's our next circus

These international ngos are a big fraud