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Roya Hakakian

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Proud refugee/Wandering Jew/Persian poet/Writer/Eric Blair fan/Latest Book: A Beginner's Guide to America/Senior Fellow @AmericanPurpose @SNFAgoraJHU/member@CFR

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Accountability is needed now not only of the perpetrators on the ground, but of those who planned, incited, financed, and celebrated the sexual violence in a sadistic display of humiliation. Cochav Elkayam-Levy euronews.com/2025/09/04/aft…

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The "People's Conference for Palestine" just held in Detroit was arguably the most horrific, embarrassing, vile, and disturbing display of pro-violence, pro-terror, anti-Western, antisemitic, pro-Hamas, anti-civilizational, subversive, shady, questionable, damaging, unhelpful,

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"Baghdad, it must be said, is flourishing now. When I visited in August 2024, I was moved to see that city, which I had known only as a site of murder and oppression, beset by the comparatively venial sin of gentrification. I found freshly built shopping malls and cafés ..."

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Six Gazans were executed yesterday by Hamas's militias; all were allegedly accused of "collaboration with Israel". No court, no leads, only summary killings carried out in the street. Hamas's thugs have been desperately trying to prove any control over Gaza's streets in the past

Six Gazans were executed yesterday by Hamas's militias; all were allegedly accused of "collaboration with Israel". No court, no leads, only summary killings carried out in the street.

Hamas's thugs have been desperately trying to prove any control over Gaza's streets in the past
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Ukraine could soon run out of missiles to stop Russian drones. Pentagon slowed deliveries in June, just as Russia launched record airstrikes. Іf gaps persist, cities and power grids face blackouts and mass deaths. – FT 1/

Ukraine could soon run out of missiles to stop Russian drones.

Pentagon slowed deliveries in June, just as Russia launched record airstrikes.

Іf gaps persist, cities and power grids face blackouts and mass deaths. – FT

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To say that increasing numbers of New Leftists, black militants and advocates of the Palestinian cause are not only anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist, but, more, are moving toward ... anti-Semitism is clearly to use fighting words wsj.com/opinion/notabl… via Wall Street Journal Opinion

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Remembering the indispensable American, Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who understood the virtue of learning about your adversaries and listening to them with civility.

Remembering the indispensable American, Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who understood the virtue of learning about your adversaries and listening to them with civility.
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In a week when Russia targeted both Poland and Romania with Iranian-made drones, to which NATO had to respond for the first time since its inception, the people of Madrid staged a massive demonstration against Israel! msn.com/en-us/news/wor…

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For 1st time #G7 Rapid Response Mechanism has called out Iran’s #TransnationalRepression. Kidnappings, intimidation, killings abroad are not bilateral. They are attacks on our democracies. We won’t let iranian Regime export fear to #Europe. bit.ly/3JW8fNp #سرکوب_فرامرزی

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The person who first spoke of distinguishing between Jews and Israel was Ayatollah Khomeini in May 1979, “We separate the affairs of our own Jews from those of the godless Zionists in Israel.” What Hannah Einbinder proved is, above all, the success of Iran's regime's 50-year