Donna Miles دانا مجاب

Writer. Columnist @NZStuff. @TEDx speaker. Bylines at The Guardian, Stuff, NZ Herald, The Listener. Newsroom, The Spinoff. Former senior mathematics lecturer.

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

Watch this incredible protest as the indigenous Maori MPs perform a haka to disrupt the vote on a bill that seeks to diminish their rights.

Imagine if Western politicians had the same courage to stand up to genocide and shame Israel in similar ways.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Britain cannot credibly claim that it is imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements while letting contracts continue through the back door.

This is outrageous and frankly insulting to the public. We need proper sanctions on Israel, now.
https://t.co/z4Z5h9Uxq6

[Negar Mortazavi @NegarMortazavi]

Excellent answers by @HamawyForNJ to terrible questions on CNN, repeating aged talking points long used by mainstream media that dehumanize and vilify Middle Eastern societies to manufacture consent for U.S. wars across the region.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

This is like pushing someone off a cliff and saying: “I don’t control gravity”

[Negar Mortazavi @NegarMortazavi]

Biden had four years between Trump’s two terms. You continued Trump’s maximum pressure on Iran, refused to restore Obama’s nuclear deal despite explicitly promising to do so, and paved the way for this disastrous war.

All while backing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and mass slaughter in Lebanon.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's important this performative video is met with the scorn that it deserves.

Silence would be unacceptable.

But it's actually worse to have Labour making sad videos whilst continuing to arm a genocide and arrest those who protest. It should be beneath contempt.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

One day, there will be an inquiry.

Does this government want to be remembered for making it happen, or for getting in the way?

Do the right thing — and launch a full inquiry into Britain’s complicity in genocide, now.
https://t.co/Ch4r3iscsL

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Action now.

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

A highly respected former National cabinet minister, Chris Finlayson, says:

"...billionaires have wrecked New Zealand’s electoral system, and we should move to a preferential system like Australia’s."

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

Chris Finlayson on #NZ election 🗳️ : “I find it profoundly disturbing that a couple of rich billionaires can decide they want to destroy the system. In fact, they probably have.”. Says “proportionality had effectively been “perverted”. https://t.co/uoynaFCHbd #nzpol

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

I have written along with many of my colleagues urging the government to take emergency action to address the nightmare situation facing Palestinians in Gaza as a result of the floods. This is a desperate tragedy with lives being lost already. https://t.co/4I2fFxdGvU

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

Who knows if this is true. I just hope they won’t use it as a pretext to kill more Iranian children.

US and EU maximum sanctions on Iran, while formally exempting food, function in practice as starvation sanctions by severely reducing ordinary Iranians’ ability to afford food.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

French officials have accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of responsibility for the cyberattacks that knocked out commercial refrigerators and freezers across France last month, saying there would be consequences for Iran.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/j5JxfVazVc

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

@AmirAminiMD Well said, Amir.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

You may be thinking that this is just one girl expressing her views, but this is really the common perception among Iranians.

This is the philosophy and teachings of a thousands of years old civilization - the birthplace of human rights. And believe it or not, this is also an integral part of Islam itself.

This is the voice of nation that hasn’t attacked another country for over three centuries and is today standing alone in the world against tyranny and oppression.

This is the real Iran. The real descendants of Cyrus the Great - Not what the media has been portraying Iran as for decades. Not the depraved morons you see in LA or London celebrating genocide and begging war criminals to bomb their supposed home country.

Iran has always been filled with the most loving and compassionate people on earth. It’s a matter of pride and honor.

And if most US politicians were not bribed and compromised and had an ounce of wisdom and clarity in them, they’d tell you that Iran has always been the one country the US could have had -and should have- as partner and ally in the region.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Unforgivable.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

It's official. 100,000 people have signed our petition for an inquiry into the UK's role in genocide. Thank you to everyone who signed & shared.

Parliament must now make time for a debate. We are not going away until we get this inquiry. We want the truth, and we want justice.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Heavy rain has flooded tens of thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians across Gaza.

It was a sleepless night for many, as the rain washed away makeshift shelters and soaked blankets and mattresses.

More than a year after the ceasefire began in Gaza, little has changed for its more than 2,000,000 residents – most of whom now live in tent camps.

[Benjamin Moser @BenMoser123]

“Quem é pró-judeu tem de ser pró-palestiniano, porque a causa palestiniana é a causa judia e a causa de todos nós".

https://t.co/Tfz6DDdu4i

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

An 11-year-old Iranian girl whose younger sister was killed in the Minab school bombing says she holds no hatred for the American people, distinguishing them from their government.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

This world truly does not deserve the beauty and the grace of the Iranian people.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

In a social media post, Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi warns that Tehran will “rain down hell” if the US resumes attacks on the country.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/EYwzdlmOsz

[Negar Mortazavi @NegarMortazavi]

Democratic Party has to be the party to stop bombing other people's children and start investing in our children. - @brhodes

*Trump’s war on Iran began with attacks on a school full of children in Minab that killed 150+

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

More than 200,000 people have marched in Amsterdam demanding government action against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, according to organisers Amnesty International Netherlands.

🔗 : https://t.co/1oWCgDW9Yx