Hadia M

Author, Assistant Professor of Religion, Lover of words, Mother. Active on FB, not X:

[Hadia M @Hadia_Mubarak]

When I graduated college in 2003, it would have been illegal for me to show support for Nelson Mandela, whom the US govt. labeled as a “terrorist” until 2008. Let that sink in.

[Hadia M @Hadia_Mubarak]

Love this photo of two female heads of state!

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

This was Palestinian athlete Moazaz Obayat before and after 9 months of captivity in the prisons of the Zionist regime.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“The world is not divided between East and West You are American, I am Iranian. We do not know each other, vet we can talk and understand one another perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much greater than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much greater than the difference between me and you. Our governments, however, are very much the same.”

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist

Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born graphic novelist, illustrator, and filmmaker widely recognized for her acclaimed autobiographical graphic memoir, Persepolis.

Born in 1969 in Rasht and raised in Tehran, she came of age during the dramatic events of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the ensuing Iran-Iraq War. As a teenager, she moved to Vienna to continue her education, an experience marked by cultural adjustment, isolation, and questions of identity.

These formative years became the foundation for Persepolis, first published in 2000. The memoir chronicles her childhood in revolutionary Iran and her adolescence in Europe, offering a deeply personal perspective on political upheaval, family life, and the search for belonging. The book earned international praise and introduced many readers around the world to the realities of everyday life in Iran during a turbulent era.

Satrapi later co-directed the 2007 animated film adaptation, Persepolis, which received the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

[Hadia M @Hadia_Mubarak]

@Smusaiteer I am also looking for this. Thank you!

[Hadia M @Hadia_Mubarak]

@NancyMace So you will repress the rights of non-Christians to celebrate their religious holidays?! You fit in perfectly with 15th-century Spanish monarchs who executed and exiled Muslims and Jews.

If you won’t uphold the U.S. Constitution, then don’t run for office.

[Hadia M @Hadia_Mubarak]

@BabaKristian What is the tip? The link no longer works. I'll be declining for now, due to time constraints and ambiguity about this journal, but wonder if your advice has changed over the last few years. Thanks! :)

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

When the Prime Minister of Israel claims to speak for all Jews or calls Israel “the state of the Jewish people,” it’s phony as a kosher pork chop.

Israeli government doesn't own Judaism.

No Israeli politician speaks for Jews.Bibi,

Stop using the entire Jewish people as your political shield.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

my response to Mayor Mamdani, the reporters calling me, etc.

[Hadia M @Hadia_Mubarak]

Marine arrested shouting, https://t.co/xLodjwPTif via @GreenPartyUS

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

JEWS are not responsible for Israel’s endless wars.

JEWS are not responsible for Israel’s dangerous rhetoric.

JEWS are not responsible for the Zionist exploitation of our holy faith.

JEWS are not responsible for the weaponization of antisemitism for political gain.

ZIONISM and Israel are not synonyms for Jews and Judaism.

ZIONISM is a modern political ideology that betrays our religious identity.

ZIONISM cannot claim to represent the Jewish global faith it consistently undermines.

@LindseyGrahamSC @tedcruz

#Notinourname
#JudaismisnotZionism
#BreakTheSpell

Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

West Bank: Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds tending their flocks, attempted to enter homes, assaulted residents, and terrified children. Armed settlers fired shots to intimidate families and force them off their land.

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

I will never not remember this.

[Hadia M @Hadia_Mubarak]

@FmrRepMTG @docjazzmusic Thank you for speaking up against this maddening violence. Every human life is precious.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control:

TikTok
CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Cartoon Network
Comedy Central
DC Studios
Fandango
Miramax
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
And more

This is oligarchy.

[Hadia M @Hadia_Mubarak]

@toddrichman @nyknicks @Israel The statement that Palestine life is as sacred as Israeli life? You find his attire controversial but not the fact that Israel has created the highest number of children amputees in the world?

[Hadia M @Hadia_Mubarak]

@m3takl أسأل الله أن يفرج عنه وعن جميع المظلومين.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

Why anti-Zionism ≠ antisemitism (in ~2 minutes):

Ben Eidelson (@beidelson), Professor at Harvard Law, explains:

Zionism is a political ideology.Judaism is a religion and identity.

Criticizing an ideology is not the same as targeting a people.

That distinction matters.

[أخبار السعودية @SaudiNews50]

#السعودية تصفع سفير أمريكا في إسرائيل بعد تصريحاته بسيطرة إسرائيل على الشرق الأوسط:

•التصريحات مدانة ومرفوضة ومستنكرة كليًا.

•التصريحات الغير مسؤولة خرقًا للقوانين الدولية والأعراف الدبلوماسية.

•على الخارجية الامريكية إيضاح موقفها من هذا الطرح المرفوض.

•رفض كل ما من شأنه المساس بسيادة الدول وحدودها وسلامتها الإقليمية.

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[Martin Luther King III @OfficialMLK3]

W.E.B. Du Bois was a scholar, activist, and co-founder of the NAACP who advanced a bold vision for civil rights. He argued for higher education, political participation, and direct challenges to inequality. This #BlackHistoryMonth, we honor his intellectual leadership and lasting influence.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation.

Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention.

In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust.

But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming.

American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time.

Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical.

Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself.

Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office?

This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest?

Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse.

This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price.

The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most.

So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television.

History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late.

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