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Assal Rad

@assalrad

PhD Mid East History • Fellow @DAWNmenaorg • Author of State of Resistance: Politics, Culture & Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge 2022, amzn.to/3BynCFj)

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calendar_today09-02-2019 16:46:32

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Today, Ben Gvir is in the U.S. and scheduled to speak at Yale. So while students across the U.S. are being deported for simply advocating for Palestine, at the very same time, campus leaders are welcoming Gvir, a convicted terrorist in Israel who glorifies violence.

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🆕 Video report from @NYTimes: "They hit the bakery while people were buying bread. They struck the grocery store while people were shopping. They targeted innocent civilians who have nothing to do with the war. Nothing to do with anything." -Mahmoud Al-Mahdani, Sana'a resident

Warren Gunnels (@gunnelswarren) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Millionaires and billionaires are failing to pay $150 billion a year in taxes that they legally owe-more than enough to make every public college and university tuition free. This is what happens when oligarchs rule the government.

Laila Al-Arian (@lailaalarian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Buried in the The New York Times article about the resignation of 60 Minites executive producer Bill Owens is that Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, complained about a segment on Israel’s war on Gaza.

Buried in the <a href="/nytimes/">The New York Times</a> article about the resignation of 60 Minites executive producer Bill Owens is that Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone,  complained about a segment on Israel’s war on Gaza.
Linda Mamoun (@mamoun_linda) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“denies manipulating death toll” Disgraceful reporting from BBC, which quotes pro-Israel propaganda groups like HonestReporting who cast doubt on the number killed in Gaza—even though experts say the health ministry’s count is accurate or even low with 1000s still missing.

“denies manipulating death toll”

Disgraceful reporting from BBC, which quotes pro-Israel propaganda groups like HonestReporting who cast doubt on the number killed in Gaza—even though experts say the health ministry’s count is accurate or even low with 1000s still missing.
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After meeting with "senior Republicans" at Mar-a-Lago, Itamar Ben-Gvir said: "They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed."

After meeting with "senior Republicans" at Mar-a-Lago, Itamar Ben-Gvir said: "They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed."
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“From the American POV - there's often this tenedency to paint the Iranian state as this irrational, extremist actor. What happened with the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 was that was disproven. Even the Trump admin, which reneged on the deal, conceded that Iran was complying w/ the

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Rafah has been annihilated by the occupation, but guess what: Israeli media is now reporting that they want to send the entire population of Gaza...to Rafah!

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They are telling you their plan out loud for everyone to see. It was always about the land and erasing Palestinian existence.

They are telling you their plan out loud for everyone to see. It was always about the land and erasing Palestinian existence.
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A plantation museum focused on the truths of slavery had two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’ theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

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History will record that American universities welcomed Israeli officials as they committed genocide and punished the students who opposed it.