I was born & raised in Brooklyn. I'm the daughter of Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants, a Lupus survivor, & an activist.
I'm humbled to be the first Muslim woman elected to the New York City Council and the first woman to represent my district. WE DID IT 😭✊🏽
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Extremely frustrated with the U.S. media response to #Afghanistan. Yall did this. All the media hype around bombing for freedom that justified U.S. occupation & an endless war -- this is on you, too.
Afghanistan is not a charity project. It needs to be a *reparations* project.
In complete defiance of international law & human rights, Israeli forces begin demolition of historic Palestinian property in occupied East Jerusalem for a biblical theme park. Shame on every American politician & faith leader who enables this. You are complicit. #SaveSilwan
A rare unfiltered look into the treatment of Palestinians inside Israeli Occupation prisons: this 2019 vid reveals the IOF storming Naqab prison, barbarically assaulting 55 prisoners for 10 mins straight & leaving them tied-up atop each other for many hours. 15 were hospitalized.
This is the palestinian village called Lifta on the outskirts of Jerusalem. It was taken over in 1948 and its people were killed and 73 years later their homes are still standing.
Yesterday Israel bombed and killed the closest cousin of another one of my friends. He was working on his clothing line and planning his wedding. His name was Raed Hamad. Sharing my friend Ahmed’s words. Please read them.
Repeat after me: #Gaza does not need your pity, it needs your advocacy and understanding. It does not need a ceasefire, it needs a cease-siege and cease-occupation. Our people do not need food aid, they need their freedom.