Founder & Executive Director of @Agoradotorg (ἀγορά).Political analyst.

D.C. | Gaza
Joined December 2015
After 48 hours of searching, the Jordanian security forces arrested the three terrorists responsible for the attack on the church
الأمن العام : القبض على الإرهابيين الثلاثة منفذي العملية الإرهابية الجبانة في قرية حمود #عاجل #الأردن #عملية_الكرك_الإرهابية #هنا_المملكة
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This is what Israel is doing in Hebron: Collective Punishment. Collective punishment is a penalty or sanction applied to a group, family, community, or entire population for an offense committed by an individual member or a small number of people. Article 33 of the Geneva Convention (IV) on Civilians explicitly states that no protected person may be punished for an offense they did not personally commit, and bans all measures of intimidation or terrorism. Imposing collective punishment during an armed conflict is classified as a war crime under customary international law.
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We express our deepest sympathies with our brothers in Yemen who are being starved by the filthy Houthis..
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Talk about the degradation of American culture. Truly disgusting!
President Trump in Michigan: "By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before: Nicki Minaj. That's hard to miss. Stand up. That's hard to miss."
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The Palestinians should be kicked out to any other Arab state, she continues, except Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, "because they are ours." Send this to the Lebanese who’ve been brainwashed into thinking Israelis don’t want our land
A young blonde woman with an American accent in Israel says that all the Arabs must be kicked out of Gaza because it is "our land" since "God commanded us to take it." The Palestinians should be kicked out to any other Arab state, she continues, except Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, "because they are ours." "Or we will kill them," she adds Can we stop pretending that this is a marginal view in Israel? That these are the comments of a fringe minority? They are not. Israel has been on this path for quite some time. Western governments know it fully - yet they continue to fund and enable Israel's genocidal policies.
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Only to supply the energy that the war Israel pushed the US into with Iran has everything to do with
Abdul El-Sayed blames Israel for the price of your eggs and bananas, even though he knows that higher grocery prices are only due to supply, energy and inflation factors. Shame on anyone voting for a candidate who uses Antisemitic talking points to win an election.
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The Israeli Druze are feeling a bit of humiliation and abuse in this regime imposed on non- Jews. No matter how anti-Palestinian the Druze become they are still not seen as equal, I personally faced worse abuses by Druze Israeli soldiers who are trying to prove their “zionism”
Druze Israelis are protesting and blocking major highway in Israel because three Druze were attacked in a Tel Aviv night club for speaking Arabic. That’s Netanyahu and his coalitions legacy. Yet many Druze are indebted to Netanyahu for going into Syria during Sweida massacre
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Visibly distraught Queen Rania of Jordan consoling families of the victims of the church attack in Karak.
الملكة رانيا تواسي ذوي شهداء الوطن في قرية حمود بالكرك #الأردن #هنا_المملكة
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Last week, on a panel with my friend @PeterBeinart, I made a point similar to Sohrab's here: the problem with Israel isn't simply its ethnonationalism—such states exist; I pointed to Japan as an example. The problem is that it exists as an ethnonationalist state on top of the Palestinians, on their land, and at their expense.
Is Japan as such racist? Coates says there is no “majoritarian ethnographic [sic] project that is not racist.” Again, taken to its logical conclusion, this would render many existing states “racist.” Which is absurd.
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Until when oh lord!
This is the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever seen. The way she refuses to let go of her father’s coffin….💔
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#PapaLeãoXIV recebeu hoje no #Vaticano o patriarca ecumênico de Constantinopla, Bartolomeu I.
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I have to say I’ve never seen this much solidarity towards Christians in the Middle East. God bless Jordan and its people
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This guy is a complete liar. I have been to Jordan many times, volunteered at church ministry there, and always displayed the cross publicly without ever facing any issues. The same goes for my cousins who live in Amman, and all of them wear crosses and have crosses on their cars. Is there bigotry against Christians among some Muslims? Of course, yes, and it needs to be continually addressed. However, the idea that Christians are “only tolerated” is absurd, and acting as if Jordan is ruled by the Islamist radicals who make such anti-Christian remarks is false.
Christians in Jordan are tolerated, but tolerance can be a very bad thing. Imagine saying that white Americans “tolerate” Black people. How does that sound? You tolerate things you hate, but that you feel obliged to live with under the current conditions. If those conditions change, then you no longer feel obliged to tolerate them. This is how Christians live in Jordan. They are tolerated infidels. When Christians in Jordan celebrate their holidays, such as Christmas or Easter, they close their comment sections because, if they keep them open, they will be flooded with comments from their Jordanian Muslim friends telling them that their religion is false and that they must believe in Islam and convert. When a Christian dies, Christians also have to close their comment sections because Muslims will come and say, “You can't say, ‘May he rest in peace,’ because he was not a Muslim.” Christians in Jordan can worship within the walls of their churches. That is basically it. They can't display Christian symbols outside officially recognized churches, and if they dare to display symbols such as the cross, the Virgin Mary, or the saints publicly, they immediately face threats. A couple of years ago, in the last Christian town in Jordan, people installed a statue of Jesus in the town square. Within a couple of hours, they received threats and had to move the statue to the town cemetery. The church fathers and church leaders in Jordan are cowards, but we also have to understand why. Their only way to survive is to praise the king, who is ultimately the reason they are protected. If it were not for the king and the government, they wouldn't be tolerated. So they praise the king and praise the government because their survival depends on it. Then Muslims speak about “coexistence” and say, “If you come to Jordan, you can't tell the difference between Christians and Muslims,” as though this proves something wonderful. But the reason you can't see much cultural difference between Christians and Muslims is that Christians have been deeply Islamized. Even in their names, they have adopted Islamic names. Giving their children distinctly Christian or Western names makes them more susceptible to persecution, so they learned to adapt. They had to melt into the dominant culture. This is how Christians live in Jordan, perhaps one of the best Muslim-majority countries for Christians.
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Many Jordanians and other Arabs from the DMV area gathered at the Jordanian Embassy to mourn the martyrs killed in the Karak church attack in Jordan.
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You killed Christians and my family members in Gaza while sheltering at their church and never even apologized. Go to hell with your performative statement
Israel offers its profound condolences to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, as well as the families of the victims, following the tragic terrorist attack at a church in Karak. Targeting a place of worship and murdering innocent believers constitutes a severe assault on freedom of religion. We wish a full and speedy recovery to the wounded and reiterate our solidarity with Jordan in the struggle against terrorism and extremism.
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Well said. Christians are not immigrants in the region; they are indigenous and owe their existence to no one.
I am absolutely disgusted by those who say letting Christians live in the Middle East is a form of “tolerance”. You tolerate undesirable things. Christians ARE the Middle East. They are Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and everywhere else. Christians are us.
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I will be there. Join me if you can!
For those in Washington, DC, there will be a candlelight vigil tonight at 5:45 pm outside of the Embassy of Jordan for the victims of the Karak Church attack in Jordan, which claimed the lives of 8 people and injured 34 people.
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I would encourage students to apply only if you can name at least one professor there who is slightly critical of Israel. As a matter of academic freedom, one should be concerned about that, shouldn't they?
HUGE milestone for our @pepperdine University Master of Middle East Policy Studies program: MMEPS is the only Middle East studies program approved by the Department of State for the reimagined Pickering, Rangel & Payne Fellowships, America's flagship pathways into the U.S. Foreign Service. For the first time, State has published a short list of approved programs, all in Washington, chosen for their alignment with American foreign policy & the needs of the Foreign Service. For a program just two years old, this is a serious affirmation of what our @PepperdineSPP team has built in Washington, DC with our @WashInstitute partners. A true honor, in this amazing country, for the Department of State to trust Pepperdine with a part in preparing "America's Next Great Diplomats." For potential students: you apply to the State Department fellowship & to the Pepperdine degree program at the same time. MMEPS applications for Fall 2027 are already open, so start there TODAY: publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/… The Department of State fellowship application opens in December & closes in January, it is highly competitive. More info, here: careers.state.gov/americas-n… The selected Department of State fellows will receive tuition plus a $33,000 stipend, two summer internships & a path into the Foreign Service. You must be a U.S. citizen with a 3.2 GPA & pass the Foreign Service Officer Test first (so take it literally at the next opportunity!).
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Three Israeli Druze soldiers were assaulted in a Tel Aviv nightclub by Jewish Israelis because they were speaking Arabic. This occurred in what is considered the most liberal and open-minded city in Israel. Cc: Lebanese who cannot wait to "party in Israel."
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ندرك جيداً أن من يتبنون هذا الطرح لا يعنيهم مسيحيو لبنان أو مسيحيو المنطقة، بل ينصبّ تركيزهم على الاصطفافات السياسية والعداء للفلسطينيين والمسلمين.حبذا لو يعود هؤلاء إلى الفكر المسيحي وتعاليم الكنيسة، وأن يطّلعوا على كتابات المفكرين اللبنانيين المسيحيين، مثل شارل مالك، بدلاً من هذه الضوضاء الفكرية الغزل مع طروحات فاشية يقع فيها البعض (وهذا بالطبع لا يمثل غالبية مسيحيي لبنان).
إلى مسيحيي لبنان، وقت كان الفلسطيني عم يدبحكم ما في ولا مسيحي بالشرق تعاطف معكم أو وقف حدكم. كفاكم حاملين همّ مسيحيي الكوكب، ويا ريت حدا مقدّر لا بل عم يهاجموكم ويتطاولوا عليكم. افهموا انه ما عندكم قضية غير لبنان ووجودكم وبس. الرحمة والسلام للضحايا واعتذار للشعب الأردني بالنيابة عن مسيحيي لبنان على وقفتهم معكم. اعذرونا وانشالله آخر مرة.
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