Dear young people protesting Israel's failed war in Gaza,

I also protested a bloody and failed War on Terror over 20 years ago when I was in college. We were on the right side of history, just like you.

We were smeared, cancelled, targeted and also called terrorists, just

The only people who truly believe in Our messages are those who, when they are reminded of them, bow down in worship, celebrate their Lord’s praises, and do not think themselves above this.

#Quran

He moulded… He breathed from His Spirit… He gave you hearing, sight, and minds. How seldom you are grateful!

#Quran

Anila Quayyum Agha, Intersections, 2013

It is a dark day for democracy when the Senate will not even allow a vote on whether U.S. taxpayer dollars should fund Netanyahu’s war against the Palestinian people.

JUST IN: Columbia University has announced classes will be remote for the rest of the year as anti-Israel protests rock the school.

There are now growing calls for tuition refunds for the $70k a year college now that it has practically turned into an online school.

'It’s vital

'I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’'

Important, powerful, detailed-filled piece from student jon ben-menachem, exclusively for Zeteo:
zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewis…

.PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, after nearly half of the nominated writers withdrew their work in protest of insufficient support for Palestinian writers amid the ongoing conflict.

time.com/6969954/pen-am… #Palestine #Gaza

A stranger in a strange land…

This Week in Democracy in Exile:

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•Kholood Khair on the anniversary of Sudan's 'forgotten' war.

+Marc Martorell Junyent on the myths behind EU migration policy.

+New poetry by Yahia Lababidi mailchi.mp/dawnmena.org/t…

The Unseen, I think, is willing to back our efforts if one's tears have fermented.

— Daniel Ladinsky

Everything truly attended to is spiritual practice.

— Kay Ryan

I have news! My memoir, Chasing Hope, will be published May 14 from Alfred A. Knopf! I feel too young to write a memoir, but I hope you enjoy it. Chasing Hope is available for preorder at bookstores and websites (support your independent book store!). Info at: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720814/c…

“Saints choose to think of everyone as their friend, so that hate does not get in their way.”

— Rumi, Fihe ma Fih

'Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes.' --A new UN statement news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

We ask you not for provision; We provide for you, and the [best] outcome is for [those of] righteousness.

— Taa-Haa (20:132) Quran

“Is there any reward for good other than good?'

#Quran

“…from the depths of darkness He will lead them forth into light.'

#Quran

BREAKING: Students at MIT, Emerson, and Tufts University have set up encampments in solidarity with Columbia University's Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

'We've shown our administrators the power that we hold and we can't give it up. We are the ones who run this campus who make

I look forward to offering amendments tomorrow to cut billions in offensive military funding to Israel from the proposed national security supplemental package and protect essential humanitarian operations. We cannot continue to fund this horrific war.