Gulay

News Producer

[Gulay @gulaykaplan]

A short piece I wrote on the confined spaces for the IFD newsletter: https://t.co/00bG62O7fE

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

Asked by @CNN about US funding to Israel Abdul El-Sayed responds: “I'm opposed to unconditional military aid for any country. That is Israel, yes, but that’s also Egypt, where my family immigrated from. That's Pakistan, that's Saudi Arabia, that's UAE.
I also believe in international law and upholding international law, and there are Leahy laws against dealing arms to countries who are engaged in human rights abuses.”

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

As a Jewish American, Abdul El-Sayed just said everything I have been thinking.

Great speech. Disagreeing with a government isn’t antisemitism.

[Gulay @gulaykaplan]

so proud of Abdul 🥹

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Thank you, Michigan. I love you from the bottom of my heart!

[Abigail Spanberger @SpanbergerForVA]

I signed paid sick leave into law to ensure more than one million workers — full-time and part-time — can take care of themselves and their families without losing a paycheck.

No one in Virginia should have to choose between their health and their paycheck.

[Gulay @gulaykaplan]

@lcmporter Hi Lizzie, I have gone through thyroid cancer and can recommend my surgeon and endocrinologist in Istanbul. They were excellent and saved me from undergoing radioactive therapy.
I pray for your speedy recovery

[PassBlue @pass_blue]

In response to US, UN Security Council members that are states parties to the ICC (DRC, France, Latvia, Colombia, Greece, Panama, UK, Liberia, Denmark) say they will safeguard "its integrity against any threats or actions aimed at the court, its officials or its partners"

[Nader Hashemi @naderalihashemi]

I'm sad to announce that John L. Esposito passed today due to complications from heart surgery. He was 86 years old.

John’s humanity and ethical decency reflected the best traditions of the United States and the American people.

He demonstrated a deeply empathy for the struggles of the people in the Global South, especially in the Arab-Islamic world. He sought to understand and interpret religious politics not from the perspective of US Empire but rather from the vantage point of the downtrodden, the occupied and the oppressed.

His Italian-American background and his strong Catholic roots allowed John to interpret the Islamic tradition from the perspective of similar religious tradition (Catholicism) that had deep historical roots and like Islam today, also struggled to reconcile its normative ethical claims with the demands of modernity.

John was an early and courageous scholar who challenged Orientalists misrepresentations of Islam and Muslims. His scholarship created room for understanding in place of prejudice, and his intellectual insights and generosity left a lasting imprint on generations of students and colleagues.

In reflecting on John Esposito’s legacy, I’m reminded of an observation by Edmund Burke III. Commenting the work of the late Marshall G.S. Hodgson, author of "The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History of a World Civilization," Burke noted that Hodgson, like Esposito, refused to view Islam as the “other.” Instead, he understood the Islamic tradition as “a venture alongside others that marked human efforts to bring about a just and moral world.”

When John retired from Georgetown University, we assembled this short video to honor his legacy.

https://t.co/TSFU1Mg2OC

@mehdirhasan @jricole @Shanfaraa

[Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk]

This is your legacy on the occupied Palestinian territory, Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. History will remember your complicity.

Despite a partial arms suspension in 2024, Keir Starmer's government has continued to enable Israel's atrocities against Palestinians, their families and children through the supply of F-35 fighter jet parts.

Nothing can change the horrors Palestinians have faced. But the next Prime Minister has an opportunity to put an end to the UK Government's role as an ally to atrocities.

The UK Government must:
🔴 Suspend all arms sales to Israel
🔴 Suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement
🔴 Ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements

To the next Prime Minister: what will your plaque say?

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Netanyahu is simply lying here when he says there has been transparency about these killings.

We have been seeking justice for 9 Americans, including Saif Musallet, killed by settlers or Israeli security forces on the West Bank in the last 4 years.

In none of these deaths has justice been served.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon:

I said that Southern Lebanon would become Gaza. We would apply the Rafah model.

We would destroy everything there. We would deal with them in exactly that way.

And that is what we did.

The infrastructure has been destroyed. Homes in 24 villages along the border—villages that had existed for hundreds of years and were used by Hezbollah as military outposts against Israel—have been demolished.

The army systematically flattened the villages with bulldozers and explosives. Ninety percent of the houses are gone. Between 15,000 and 20,000 homes have been destroyed.

[Cameron Kasky @camkasky]

Ro and I visited the destroyed village of Zanuta and the site of an EU-funded school that got burned down by settlers.

It was here that we got intercepted and captured by settlers wielding American-made rifles. The IDF showed up to back up the settlers, not the U.S. congressman.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨Senator Lindsey Graham is dead, his office has announced.

The Republican Senator from South Carolina was a key advocate of the Iran war and vocal supporter of the Gaza genocide. His office says he passed away from a sudden and brief illness on Saturday evening.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

When this happens to a member of the US Congress, you can imagine what happens to Palestinians.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: U.S. intelligence agencies have warned the Trump administration that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to take steps that will undermine President Trump’s effort to reach a lasting peace deal with Iran. https://t.co/LF1mowtp08

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸 President Trump open to nuclear enrichment for Iran: "It's a little hard when other people have it, other adjoining states have it & you're not letting them have it for purposes of electricity & things like that. You have to use a little common sense."

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

A 25-year-old housewife in Chennai earns ₹250/hour ($3) just by doing her normal housework.

She wears a phone on her head and records herself making coffee, cutting fruit, folding laundry.

These first-person videos get sent to AI companies training humanoid robots to handle real-world tasks. She shoots 90+ clips a day.

Her quote: "Who else will pay you ₹250/hour ($3) an hour just for doing housework?"

She's part of a growing gig economy in India where thousands are doing the same thing, filming everyday life to train the robots of tomorrow.

[MoFA وزارة الخارجية @mofauae]

UAE Categorically Denies Media Reports Alleging Transfer of Funds to Iran

[Gulay @gulaykaplan]

Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Application Fee Rejected by Judge
https://t.co/v0M3Q9DEWQ

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

In 2024, the U.S. granted approximately 1.36 million green cards.

58% went to people who were already living in the country and 42% went to new arrivals from abroad.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

One of the most true sentences ever written:

"A regional order organized around Israeli impunity requires levels of coercion that are accelerating American decline."

Brilliant as always from @QuincyInst NRF Asli Bali

https://t.co/hd48CWZOqZ