Nafisa Nipun Tanjeem

Educator, writer, researcher, activist. Works as Associate Professor in Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Worcester State University. Views are my own.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

‘Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose—to help people.’

These were the last words of Rifaat Radwan, who filmed his own murder in Rafah. He was part of a Red Crescent convoy aiding wounded civilians. The convoy—clearly marked, unarmed, with flashing lights—was attacked on March 23, 2025.

For five days, the UN and Red Crescent were denied access to search for the missing rescue workers. When granted entry, they found 15 rescuers buried in a mass grave. The UN and Red Cross have called it the deadliest assault on their workers since 2017.

On April 2, the IDF stated that on March 23, ‘several vehicles were identified advancing suspiciously toward IDF troops without headlights or emergency signals,’ and their movement wasn’t coordinated in advance, prompting troops to open fire on these ‘suspected vehicles.’

However, the paramedic’s video, recovered from his body and verified by The New York Times, shows the convoy’s emergency lights were on, contradicting the IDF’s claim and proving their account of the attack was a lie.

[Nafisa Nipun Tanjeem @ntanjeem]

@Montoya1Rob @DHSgov @EdwardRandolph3 USCIS says green card holders will "be protected by all laws of the US," which includes the constitutional right of freedom of speech and protest. Also, how exactly does criticizing state violence and genocide become an activity "aligned to Hamas"? An interesting lawsuit awaits!

[Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1]

There is immediate work to be done to secure Mahmoud Khalil's safety: once that is done we need to name the people at Barnard/Columbia who helped make this happen: the administrators, the Zionist donors, the faculty members, who gleefully set the table for this fascist feast.

[Chris Sosa @ChrisSosa]

Everyone should be shouting from the rooftops demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil. No one is safe in a nation where you can be disappeared for protesting. It won't end with immigrants on green cards. This is a system test. Soon enough, they'll find a way to come for you too.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

The Trump admin is going after students who have used their first amendment, Constitutional rights.

This is unacceptable. Deporting legal residents solely for expressing their political opinions is a violation of free speech rights. Who's next? Citizens?
https://t.co/ncNTiBIfUT

[Mike from PA @Mike_from_PA]

The Green New Deal proposed by Bernie and attacked by establishment democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris had provisions that included a massive expansion of professional firefighters to handle wildfires.

We have the solutions, if we overcome the elites.

[Nafisa Nipun Tanjeem @ntanjeem]

Genocide is ecocide!

[CODEPINK @codepink]

How are the California wildfires connected to the genocide in Gaza?

@oliviadinucci & the CODEPINK DC team are in Congress today drawing the parallels.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Longer dry seasons and more intense wildfires are a direct consequence of the climate crisis.

We must stop putting fossil fuel industry profits over the safety and security of our people.

[Eli Meyerhoff 🍉 @EliMeye]

Biden on Trump’s bleeding ear: “There’s no place for this kind of violence in America.”

Biden on Palestinians: Send Israel more 500-pound bombs to genocide them.

[Nafisa Nipun Tanjeem @ntanjeem]

Avid critiques tackling questions of appropriation and commodification of folk music by Coke Studio Bangla or how it promotes a middle-class neo-imperialist imagination of "folk" and "fusion" miss an empathetic understanding of individual actors within the Coke Studio landscape.

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My op-ed on @cokestudiobang on @dailystarnews, asking people to go beyond the binary of loving or hating Coke Studio Bangla.

https://t.co/pcL10ToLsQ

[Nafisa Nipun Tanjeem @ntanjeem]

Critiques sometimes miss a vital point that these actors are not mere puppets of an imperialist-corporate-capitalist machine. They live complex lives and beyond, and they go through complicated, multi-layered decision-making processes regarding their engagement with Coke Studio.

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In the midst of shitty responses from the top administration of U.S. college campuses, this one from Hampshire College is so refreshing. @hampshirecolg

College presidents, take a lesson! Learn how to support your student body.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

“Dissent must never lead to disorder” - President Biden.

From Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” written in 1963:

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

[Nafisa Nipun Tanjeem @ntanjeem]

Politicians, university administrators, and corporate new media - learn how to speak truth to the power from those students. @WorcesterState @ClarkUniversity @WPI @holy_cross

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18-year-olds are much more equipped to run the world. #StudentsForGaza @FreePalestine

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When politicians fail us, students show us the light #FreePalestineFromApartheidIsrael @WorcesterState @ClarkUniversity @WPI @holy_cross

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Highlights from students' protest in Worcester today. Students are on the right side of history. @WorcesterState @ClarkUniversity @WPI @holy_cross

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Worcester college students' anti-genocide protest in Worcester today @WorcesterState @ClarkUniversity @WPI @holy_cross