Subscribing to the New York Times so I understand why student protesters were defeated by the combined efforts of two governments, the media, billionaire activists, and multiple generations of anti-arab propaganda.
I do not have the bandwidth to blog a full rejoinder to Zeynep's latest NYT piece. So I'm gonna write it as a quick thread instead. Her thesis is that the effectiveness of mass protest (particularly campus protest) has waned, and social media is the main culprit. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/o...
Itâs time for organizers to invent a new model.
Yup, the Arab Peace Initiative has been on the table for decades. The deal remains available if Israel wants to take it, but decades of Israeli rejectionism continue unabated.
Immigration ties between Syria and South America have spread the consumption of mate in the Arab country. Argentina provides almost all of the yerba mate imported by Syrians, but Brazil is starting to gain ground. #yerbamate#syria#immigration#Brazil#Argentina
Syria increased its yerba mate imports from Brazil to 2,700 tonnes from January to August this year, up from 220 tonnes last year.
Here is Jordan's Foreign Minister saying a short while ago, on behalf of 57 Arab and Muslim UN member states, that they are "unequivocally, right now" willing to guarantee Israel's long-term security if it ends the occupation of the Palestinian territories and grants Palestinians independence.
YouTube video by DawnNews English
If I remember correctly this was after a British war ship had intercepted an Ottoman or Arab ship transporting slaves somewhere in the Middle-East seas.
Eye for an eye, getting Biblical, hard to accuse Hamas if you do it, too. "The High Court of Justice unanimously rejects a petition demanding that the government release the body of Walid Daqqa, an Arab-Israeli citizen who died in April this year in prison" www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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From Iraq and Syria to Gaza and Yemen: Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah divides Arab world
The hell that emerged from the European-Christian and Arab-Muslim imperial machines (I hate those machines, not Europeans, Christians, Arabs, or Muslims) is not the "hell" or Gehennom within Jewish folk heritage but it does partially derive from it.
@IrnaEnglish: In the absence and silence of some Arab leaders, Latin American leaders support the Resistance Movement. Venezuelan President @NicolasMaduro shouts, "Long live Lebanon" following the martyrdom of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. https://t.co/ecwPb8FglC