Arabian Miguel

Palestinian. In love with America and most of its people.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Miko Peled, son of a prominent Israeli general who saw firsthand the genocidal depravity of Israel and now stands with the Palestinian liberation struggle: "There is no good Zionism, it is a racist, violent ideology."

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Your phone rings. You are given two options.

· Go to a specific location so we can assassinate you.

· Stay where you are and we will bomb you and everyone around you.

You have minutes.

The jewish occupation is doing this to Palestinians in Gaza right now.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Reporting from Paris, Israeli "journalist" Neria Kraus, of i24 News (Channel 15), interviewed "Ali", suposedly a local resident whose parents are from Baghdad.

Well, it turns out that "Ali" is actually Hezi Gangina, an Israeli tourist who lives in the South Tel Aviv neighborhood of Kfar Shalem, built on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Salama.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

I don't like the word Islamophobia. It sounds weird and weak. I don't think national media is afraid of Muslims, I think they hate them. They want to smear them on purpose to help Israel. It's bigotry with a purpose. Their coverage of @AbdulElSayed has been a textbook example.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

He's literally out here visiting museums and looking at dinosaur bones.

It's our fault, really.

We should never allow this.

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

I've been reticent to jump into the moral panic about @AbdulElSayed's supposed ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. But I'll say a few things that should be obvious but apparently aren't, as someone who studied the Brotherhood for years and wrote several books about them. First of all, so what if Abdul's mom was involved with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1970s? What does that have to do with Abdul? You shouldn't be judged for something your parents did or didn't do before you were even born. That's plainly guilt by association.

As for the Egyptian Brotherhood itself, it hasn't been involved in political violence since the 1940s/50s and even those incidents can't really be described as terrorism, since they didn't target innocent civilians for political gain. In the decades since, the Brotherhood has repeatedly renounced violence and committed themselves to pursuing their aims through the democratic process. It's little accident that Al-Qaeda's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, wrote an entire book condemning the Brotherhood as lackeys and disbelievers, precisely because they had agreed to abide by the rules of the democratic game.

Of course, it's totally fine to dislike the Brotherhood and what they stand for. They advocate for the application of Islamic law in politics and for a larger role for Islam in public life more broadly. In short, they're illiberal and we as Americans probably wouldn't want to live under their rule. But I don't see how one could describe them as an "extremist" organization. Their views on Islam — as ample polling makes clear — are fairly mainstream by Egyptian standards. I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to judge the Brotherhood according to liberal, American standards.

Before the Trump administration, successive U.S. administrations engaged directly with Muslim Brotherhood officials and maintained open lines of communication with their leaders, which made sense. They were the largest mass movement and opposition group in Egypt and it would have been foolish to ignore them from the standpoint of U.S. national interests.

Even if you hate the Brotherhood, it should also be possible to hold the view that their members and supporters shouldn't be repressed or killed and should have the right to participate in politics and contest democratic elections. Democracy, at its core, is about the right to make the wrong choice.

In many ways, MAGA as a movement is more radical than the Brotherhood was in Egypt both before and during the Arab Spring. At the very least, MAGA — like the Brotherhood — is illiberal. And the Republican Party under Trump has a dubious relationship with democracy. After all, a significant number of Republicans, including Trump himself, didn't respect democratic outcomes in 2020 and sought to overturn a legitimate election.

The GOP's attempt to demonize the Brotherhood and paint with the guilt-by-association brush is just another way to vilify peaceful law-abiding American Muslims by portraying them as having foreign ties and dual loyalties. It should be rejected as such. The idea that Abdul is some secret Muslim Brotherhood member is absurd on its face.

I wish the Republican Party would make up its mind about people like Abdul and Zohran, both of whom take the Democratic Party's line on LGBTQ rights and even trans athletes participation in women's sports. Sure, their faith is important to them and it influences them — but Republicans should welcome the fact that there are prominent Muslim politicians who are normalizing talking about one's faith in public life, especially after criticizing the Democratic Party for being inhospitable to people of faith.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Israel — not the Israel lobby, AIPAC, but the state of Israel — is running TV ads in Iowa:

@andrewperezdc @zeteo_news
https://t.co/lsTfR0O5mA

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

And that’s the problem.
#Epstein #IranWar #Genocide

[Shaun King @shaunking]

This murderer was just roaming around New York City.

[Dyab Abou Jahjah @Aboujahjah]

🚨❗️🇺🇸 Glass is not just another man implicated in the killing of Hind Rajab. He is the man who most likely gave the order to open fire on the vehicle carrying Hind and members of her family, including other children. That Glass can roam the streets of the United States as though nothing has happened is intolerable. He must be brought to justice.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The commander of the Israeli military unit likely responsible for killing 5-year-old Hind Rajab is currently in the U.S.

As a party to the Genocide Convention and the Geneva Conventions, our government is obligated to arrest and investigate him for these war crimes and acts of genocide. I stand with @HindRFoundation in calling on the DOJ to follow the law and take action.

[The Hind Rajab Foundation @HindRFoundation]

🇺🇸🚨 The #HindRajabFoundation has filed an urgent request with the U.S. Department of Justice, demanding the immediate investigation, arrest, and prosecution of Sean Glass, currently present in the United States. Glass commanded the Israeli unit implicated in Hind Rajab's murder. HRF's investigation places the 52nd Battalion—including Glass and his Vampire Empire Company—near her vehicle during the killing. Today, Glass walks free in the U.S.

➡️ More → https://t.co/11GS2Q8qkm

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

"Mandatory antisemitism training to all students, faculty, and staff" required by Trump DOJ's new settlement with UNC

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

This may be hard to believe @JDVance, but many U.S. citizens want to see pedophiles in the Epstein files held accountable.

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

If the first Jewish person to ever be nominated for the US Senate was being demonized for his/her faith the way Abdul El-Sayed is no one would have any issues calling it anti-Semitism. Yet we don't have people uniting to call out the hate being spewed against Abdul simply for his faith.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

This is actually true, as shocking as that may be.

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

The GOP is panicking over Abdul El-Sayed leading in polls. Their anti-Muslim bigotry didn't work with Zohran in NYC. If if doesn't work in a midwest state like Michigan, their days of using Islam to scare people is over! That is why they are doubling down on it!

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

NEW: Ex-AG Bill Barr is now lobbying DOJ for Airwallex, a fintech backed by Chinese tech giant Tencent, per a lobbying filing I found.

[Matthew Arndt @endthecartel26]

ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO VOTED YES ON SECTION 219 HAS BETRAYED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Our military, intelligence capabilities, and national security exist to serve the United States of America, not a foreign government.

Further entangling our defense infrastructure with Israel is an outrageous surrender of independent judgment and violation of our sovereignty.

You were elected to represent the American people, not the Israeli government.

Anyone who puts the interests of a foreign nation ahead of the country they swore an oath to serve has no business holding public office. VOTE THEM OUT!!!

That's a betrayal of the public trust, and voters should hold every one of them accountable.

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

Dear Israel supporters who talk so much about Jewish Safety and call Palestinians terrorists: A Jewish American woman was attacked by Jewish Israeli settler-terrorists. Her life was saved by Palestinians. Hope this helps.