Disappointed at outcome of UN Security Council vote on Palestinian UN membership.

It is past time for Palestine to take its rightful place amongst the nations of the world. 🇮🇪 fully supports UN membership and will vote in favour of any UNGA resolution to that end.

'Our veto against Palestinian statehood does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood'

When you go full Orwellian doublespeak.

I am enormously proud of my daughter isra hirsi.
She has always led with courage and compassion, from organizing a statewide school walk out on the 20th anniversary of Columbine at the age of 15, to leading the biggest youth climate rally at our nation’s Capitol at 16, and now

I now go back to the district court and because of this, I’m limited in what I can say.

But the right to protest was not abolished in the 5th Circuit. The right to protest remains. Sotomayor’s note is important.

When this case is finally over, I’ll be able to say more.

'The Supreme Court announced that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.'

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Ok Spotify but where are the lyrics Taylor Swift #TTPD

This is Lisa Witter. She has counselled Nobel Peace Prize winners, CEOs, and politicians. She now runs Apolitical, a network of over 270,000 government officials who are working together to solve the problems that we all face.

Instead of defending free speech and academic freedom and push back against McCarthyism, Columbia University is doubling down on its crackdown on anti-Genocide activists by allowing NYPD to arrest dozens of peaceful protesters. The world is watching in disgust and abhorrence.

Giving us 15 minutes to pack up and leave from our housing is seriously twisted. I am not surprised at all — I am glad administration is finally showing their face to the general student body, because student organizers have known from the start how evil these administrators are.

I remember when Columbia invited me to give a talk on authoritarianism and dissent in the former Soviet Union and I described…the type of things Columbia is doing to its student protesters now

Remembering Lyra McKee on the fifth anniversary of her killing.

Delighted that her life and work are being celebrated, including through the wonderful film LYRA from alison millar, shortlisted in next month’s #AmnestyMediaAwards .

Oh my god, you guys- Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli just said #longcovid is live, replicating virus.

'We see evidence of persistent live virus in humans in various tissue reservoirs, including surrounding nerves, the brain, the GI tract, to the lung.'

FINALLY.

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Great statement from Asna Tabassum, the student whose words and presence USC found to be ‘a threat to safety’

In 1953 Arabic-speaking intellectuals created the magazine al-Jadid, which published poetry & fiction by Mizrahim & Palestinians. The editors said they wanted to shine a light on anti-Mizrahi & anti-Palestinian discrimination “out of the spirit of Arab-Jewish solidarity.” 13/18

You’ve probably been hearing lots about Israel — but not about Jews with roots in the Arab and Muslim world. They’re over half of Israel’s Jewish population, yet the American media barely covers them.

So let me tell you a story about my family. 🧵 1/18

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Libraries should stay libraries and if you want them to be community recreation centers you should just say that you want that instead because those used to exist, too, and were shuttered for the same reason conservatives and neoliberals are trying to defund libraries now.

The subject of Arab Jews is almost never talked about, but for centuries and sometimes millennia, Jewish communities were integral to the Arab and Muslim world. They were vital elements of their larger societies and felt right at home where they were.

In Yemen, Morocco,…

“The humiliation Arab Jews experienced in Zionism is something they never experienced in the Arab countries.”

Israeli writer Alon Mizrahi I without equality there's no freedom spoke to AJ+ about the erasure of the Arab Jewish identity in Israel.

A natural basic income experiment began in the mid-1990s and how the kids, now in their 30s, are doing is incredible. As adults, they have fewer drug problems and their average IQ is higher. By age 26, the benefits of the UBI exceeded its cost by 3-to-1.
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1. In Sydney, a mother & child were stabbed by a mentally ill white man, Joel Cauchi

2. When a brave security guard, Faraz Tahir, a Muslim refugee, stepped in to save them, Cauchi killed him

3. Top British media figures blamed the deaths on Muslims

4. Their tweets are still up