Eid Mubarak and كل سنة و أنتم طيبين to friends and family celebrating around the world.
Sahar Aziz
@saharazizlaw.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School | Author of “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom” | Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights (csrr.rutgers.edu) | Host, The Race and Rights Podcast | Views my own
Through Nakba, exile and genocide, my aunt Fatima never lost faith - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/through-nakba-exile-and-genocide-my-aunt-fatima-never-lost-faith
Through Nakba, exile and genocide, my aunt Fatima never lost faith
My aunt endured every chapter of Palestinian dispossession, including exile, demolition, prison, separation and the grief of outliving her children - yet never surrendered to despair
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www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
'When I returned from Gaza they called me a hero. But I felt I was a monster'
Some of Them Killed Civilians in Gaza; Others Just Looked On, or Witnessed Abuse and Cover-ups in the Name of Revenge. Now They're Trying to Cope With Something a Bit Different Than PTSD
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“After years of watching the horrors from Gaza and Israel's total impunity, American public opinion has dramatically shifted. Democratic senators breaking ranks reflects that change and the fact that Israel has become a political liability." — Assal Rad, speaking to DAWN
“Trump's threat to bomb Iranian civilian power plants and bridges demonstrates the US government's disregard for international law, giving other nations the green light to destroy civilian infrastructure without restraint.” — @saharazizlaw.bsky.social, commenting as Trump escalated his threats today
Congratulations to #RutgersLaw Prof. @saharazizlaw.bsky.social who joins the editorial board of Arab Americana, a biannual journal that adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding Arab American life. What a great start to Arab American Heritage Month!
"The Justice Department is increasingly telling judges it can’t defend ICE’s actions..." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Israeli settlers rampage across West Bank torching homes and cars - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-rampage-across-west-bank-torching-homes-and-cars
Israeli settlers rampage across West Bank torching homes and cars
No arrests made after Israeli settlers attack villages and beat Palestinians
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, you proudly take money from AIPAC. Do you support this statement they retweeted?
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal. But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.
3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
“Be careful to separate your views on the politics of the Iranian regime from the legality and motives of the U.S. and Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran. The U.S. and Israeli governments do not care if Iranians have a democracy." — @saharazizlaw.bsky.social
Israeli settlers shoot dead two Palestinian brothers in Nablus attack - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-shoot-dead-two-palestinian-brothers-nablus-attack
Israeli settlers shoot dead two Palestinian brothers in Nablus attack
Israeli forces reportedly fired tear gas at residents, including those wounded
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The normalization of Islamophobia in the US is so pervasive among right wing influencers that it warrants understanding to Germany in the 1930s when explicit antisemitism was spreading like a disease. The consequences are violent for the targeted group.
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5mo agoYou cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.
To preempt the rewriting of history that will predictably happen in mainstream US media in the coming weeks, here are some key facts: 1. Israel and the United States unilaterally attacked Iran, a sovereign nation, without provocation or other lawful basis under international law. (1/11)
"Just like the Forever Wars, this fiasco is also birthing its own captive constituencies... from contractors supplying it to MAGA-adjacent young (and not so young) men signing up for ICE, which Ganz describes as 'an employment program for the Trumpenproletarian mob." newrepublic.com/article/2069...
Remember when Congress authorized the use of force against Iran? Me neither. Any U.S. attack on Iran would violate U.S. and international law.
Israel is pressuring Americans to pay in blood and treasure for its obsessive desire to go to war with Iran. Let the Israelis fight their own wars with their own army with their own money.
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 5mo agoTake note of all corporate media that parrot Israel's propaganda of "pre-emptive strike." Call it out immediately. Also, take note of all the Democratic war hawks who tacitly or publicly rationalize this illegal war. Let's try to learn something, anything, from the disastrous War on Terror.
I look forward to being in conversation with Professor Michael Fischbach about “Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color” on March 3! Register at go.rutgers.edu/freespeech
Obama: "The rogue behavior of agents of the federal government is deeply concerning and dangerous ... the sort of behavior that we've seen in authoritarian countries and we've seen in dictatorships, but we have not seen in America."
What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
