#sami al-arian

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If the Palestinian Arabs really wanted a state, they would have accepted one of the many offers that have been made to them to establish one, going back to 1948. What they really want to do is destroy Israel utterly, in accord with the succinct Qur’anic command: “Drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191). It is actually a historical myth that the Israelis drove the Arabs out; the Arab Higher Committee told them to leave, but that fact has been obscured by decades of propaganda. Now, however, no less a luminary than Sami al-Arian, a former U.S. academic and darling of the Left, has revealed the truth: the goal of the Palestinian jihad is not a Palestinian state, but the demise of the Jewish state.

Speaking on Al Jazeera on July 30, al-Arian said: “In my view, the Palestinian cause is not about creating a state, like everybody says. It is not about a one-state solution or a two-state solution. The Palestinian cause has to do with the very presence of Zionism in the region. Therefore, our greatest strategic goal, in the meantime, we can take steps, but the greatest strategic goal is to dismantle the State of Israel, which means uprooting Zionism from Palestine.”

Sami al-Arian has been an enemy of Israel for a long time. A former professor at the University of South Florida, he pleaded guilty back in 2006 to a charge of “conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds to or for the benefit of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Specially Designated Terrorist” organization. He was then deported from the United States, but he remains a darling of American academia. In Dec. 2022, Indiana University featured him as a speaker. In 2021, according to JNS, al-Arian organized a conference that was co-sponsored by the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School for International Studies. Conference speakers denounced Israel as the “apartheid Jewish Zionist colonial state” and called for its eradication. The program, JNS reported, was “replete with Palestinian propaganda, revisionist history, and blatant anti-Semitism and anti-Israel vitriol.”

At that conference, Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Arian denounced Israel in the hysterically false terms that are now becoming familiar in America thanks to the likes of Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah): “There is no doubt we are talking about a settler, colonialist movement. What we see here today is an attempt to depopulate the indigenous people, and bring in as many Jews from around the world and try to bring a system that is properly being identified now as apartheid. There is no doubt about this.”

Israel, al-Arian thundered, was a “racist movement,” a “Zionist onslaught” that was directed toward replacing the “indigenous people.” The solution? Israel’s total destruction: “the essence of the struggle should be to dismantle this structure.”

Al-Arian has been quite clear about his views for decades. In 1991, during a speech in Chicago, al-Arian screamed: “The Quran is our constitution. Jihad is our path … Victory to Islam… Death to Israel… Revolution… revolution till the victory.”

#sami al-arian #palestinian arabs

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Western governments act like this conflict has only been twelve hours, but it's been twelve decades.

~ Sami Al-Arian, on Hamas' anticolonial resistance offensive.

#free Palestine #from the river to the sea #Palestine #Palestinian resistance #Palestinian liberation #original #decolonise

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Adeel Mangi is not a victim of “Islamophobia,” “bigoted smears” or anti-Muslim discrimination, as Timothy Lewis’s recent Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed asserted. The real reasons bipartisan senators, Jewish organizations and others oppose confirming Mangi as a federal appellate judge (one step below the U.S. Supreme Court) are the following:

Mangi was until recently an advisory director and repeated donor to a viciously antisemitic, anti-American, pro-terror organization—the so-called “Center for Security, Race and Rights” (CRSS) at Rutgers Law School; Mangi evaded questions and improbably professed ignorance about key matters (including antisemitism, terrorism and Middle East issues) that are likely to come before the federal appellate court; and Mangi has absolutely no judicial experience.

It is absurd to claim that a bipartisan group of senators oppose Mangi’s confirmation because Mangi is Muslim. The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed another recent Muslim nominee for a federal judgeship: Zahid Nisar Quraishi.

The majority of appellate judicial nominees have years of prior judicial experience and a record of judicial decisions that can be vetted. In public statements and letters, leading Jewish organizations involved in combating antisemitism, including: our organization, the Zionist Organization of America; Americans Against Antisemitism; StopAntisemitism; Students Supporting Israel; and the Coalition for Jewish Values (representing over 2,500 rabbis) noted that it is dangerous to elevate Mangi to a lifetime Court of Appeals judgeship when he has no judicial record to examine, which is not even to mention his alarming CRSS involvements.

Among other horrors, while Mangi was on CRSS’s Advisory Board (referred to as its “brain trust”), CRSS celebrated the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks’ 20th anniversary by hosting terror-affiliated speakers, including Sami Al-Arian, who was convicted for funneling funds, goods and services to the designated terror organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad. CRSS also hosted a group whose officials have connections to Al-Qaeda and Hamas networks, the notorious antisemite and anti-Israel propagandist Rashid Khalidi, and Israel-bashing BDS groups and leaders including Jewish Voice for Peace, Peter Beinart, Khaled Elgindy and Marc Lamont Hill (who was terminated by CNN for antisemitic comments).

Furthermore, CRSS’s website posted a resource guide listing and linking to numerous antisemitic, anti-Israel, BDS and terror-linked organizations, films, books, journals, “educational resources,” websites, podcasts and reports.

CRSS’s website also included CRSS Executive Director Sahar Aziz’s open letter praising and justifying Hamas terrorism and denying Israel’s right to self-defense while Hamas launched 4,500 rockets at Israel in May 2021. Aziz recruited Mangi to the CRSS advisory board. The Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest New Jersey stated that “Aziz has regularly and consistently promoted vile antisemitic propaganda” on social media and elsewhere.

In addition to his own donations and services, Mangi obtained donations from his law firm for CRSS.

During his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Mangi repeatedly refused to condemn viciously antisemitic, anti-Israel CSRR events and statements by reciting this mantra: “I do not have the expertise or factual background to express views regarding the complex history of the conflict in the Middle East, which is irrelevant to my potential work on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.”

Of course, condemning antisemitism and antisemitic Israel-bashing does not take expertise; it just takes courage. Moreover, antisemitism and Middle East issues are highly relevant to potential cases on the Third Circuit, including cases seeking remedies for antisemitic attacks and harassment on college campuses and city streets; cases regarding antisemitic boycotts; and cases brought by victims of Hamas and other terror groups under federal victims of terrorism and victims of torture statutes. Mangi is unfit and unqualified to fairly judge these important matters and should not be confirmed.

#adeel mangi #cair #islamophobia #bigoted smears #judicial nominee #center for security race and rights

[because--palestine]

A thrilling roundtable discussion with Miko Peled and Sami Al Arian

Israeli American activist and writer, Miko Peled, and Palestinian activist and professor Sami Al-Arian discuss Zionism explored as a means of developing anti-Palestinian fear in its followers, a persecutory force against those who – in accordance with key moral principles and international law – stand up for the rights of Palestinians, and, finally, is embedded within American institutions of power.

Drawing largely from their own lived experiences, including remarkable challenges in relation to Zionism they have had to overcome, Miko Peled, who eventually rejected his Zionist upbringing to become an unwavering and outspoken ally to the Palestinian people, and Sami Al-Arian, who was wrongly imprisoned in the United States after having been framed by Zionist supporters for aiding “terrorism”, speak to how pro-Palestinian solidarity, education and activism can upend Zionist oppression worldwide.

#palestine #free palestine #endisraelsgenocide #genocide #gaza #zionism #colonialism #ethnostate #apartheid #resistance #Youtube

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See It: Ted Cruz Flattens Dick Durbin in Heated Exchange Over Biden Judicial Nominee Adeel Abdullah Mangi

It is without fail that anytime a prominent Republican politico disagrees with or otherwise opposes a prominent Democrat minority figure, the race card (and/or the sexism card) will get trotted out as a way to shut that Republican up, shut down the debate, and dishonestly frame the differences in opinion as boiling down to racism or sexism (or trans/homophobia).

We saw it nearly every day during the eight years Barack Obama was president, and also during Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign, and we continue to see it, for example, whenever members of the antisemitic "Squad" act stupidly, which is more often than not, unfortunately.

READ: AOC Picks Fight With Ted Cruz on 'Racist History' of Democrat Party, He Finishes It

On Thursday, we saw it again during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Adeel Abdullah Mangi, who was nominated by Joe Biden in November to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and was then renominated in early January after a contentious round of questioning in December. 

As the Washington Free Beacon reported at the time, Mangi has had some troubling connections to leftist hate groups that Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee raised questions about in December:

Adeel Abdullah Mangi [...] is an advisory board member of Alliance of Families for Justice. The organization, which works to end "mass incarceration," was formed in 2016 with Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin as a founding director.  [...] The Alliance of Families for Justice, where Mangi has served since 2019, organized an event in 2021 to urge the release of six Black Panther and Black Liberation Army members serving life in prison for murdering police officers. [...] The Alliance of Families for Justice is not the only radical group on Mangi’s resume. He served until this year on the advisory board for Rutgers Law School’s Center for Race, Security, and Rights, an anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts against Israel and recently blamed Israel’s "settler colonialism" for provoking Hamas terrorists' Oct. 7 attack. The Center hosted an event on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 that featured Sami al-Arian, a former professor convicted of raising money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group.

During Thursday's hearing, Cruz again brought up some of those issues before the committee. In response, Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) proceeded to play the race card against Cruz, accusing him in so many words of "Islamophobia" and insinuating that Cruz suggested Mangi might be a terrorist because he was a Muslim American.

Cruz absolutely went off on Durbin in an inject-in-my-veins response, stating he had the right to respond considering his character had been impugned and refusing to cede time to anyone else on the committee until he corrected the record not only on his own position but on Durbin's shameful demagoguery as well:

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 18, 2024

In my opinion, that should be the standard tone and tenor of any response that comes from a Republican after a Democrat pulls the kind of pathetic woke stunt Durbin did during the hearing. 

They should not back down until they get everyone in the room and perhaps everyone who is watching at home to understand that they have legitimate and relevant arguments against (or for) whatever issue or nominee is being debated. 

Further, they need to be willing to call out in no uncertain terms the insulting, underhanded, race-baiting (or woman-card-playing) tactics used against them by their political opponents and note that those tactics go against the ideal of judging a person based on the content of their character (and actions and policy positions) rather than the color of their skin or their sex.

Democrats have gotten away with this for decades and with a lot of help from their mainstream media allies, but times are changing on that front and we can thank Republicans like Ted Cruz for not shying away from calling it like it is and laying the smackdown when Democrats take the low road because they have no rational arguments to make.

Flashback: Dick Durbin Deflates Left’s ‘Subpoena Clarence Thomas’ Balloon as Ted Cruz Nails What’s Really Going On

[truthcorridor]

The Origins of the Israeli Genocide of Gaza and its Geopolitical Implications by Prof. Sami Al-Arian

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#GAZA #GENOCIDE #ISRAEL #PALESTINE #POLITICS #USA #WAR #WESTBANK

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February 5 2015, 5:07 a.m.

In 2003, Sami Al-Arian was a professor at the University of South Florida, a legal resident of the U.S. since 1975, and one of the most prominent Palestinian civil rights activists in the U.S. That year, the course of his life was altered irrevocably when he was indicted on highly controversial terrorism charges by then Attorney General John Ashcroft. These charges commenced a decade-long campaign of government persecution in which Al-Arian was systematically denied his freedom and saw his personal and professional life effectively destroyed.

Despite the personal harm he suffered and the intense surveillance to which he had been subjected since as early as 1993, the government ultimately failed to produce any evidence of Al-Arian’s involvement in terrorist activities, instead relying at trial overwhelmingly on the pro-Palestinian writing and speaking he had done over the years.

His ordeal finally ended last night, 12 years after it began, as Al-Arian was deported yesterday at midnight (EST) from the United States to Turkey. His deportation was part of a 2006 plea bargain to which he acquiesced in order, he told The Intercept last night while at the airport preparing to leave the U.S., to “conclude his case and bring an end to his family’s suffering.” Al-Arian added: “I came to the United States for freedom, but four decades later, I am leaving to gain my freedom.”

#palestine #usa

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Indiana University ‘Distinguished Panelist’ Is Deported Palestinian Islamic Jihad Top Dog

Indiana University ‘Distinguished Panelist’ Is Deported Palestinian Islamic Jihad Top Dog

“Deported Palestinian Islamic Jihad “Master Manipulator” Among Indiana University’s ‘Distinguished’ Panelists,” by Steven Emerson, IPT News, December 20, 2022: Every so often, Sami Al-Arian emerges to opine on some domestic issue, reminding us of two things: He’s an inveterate liar who continues to whitewash his years of service to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). And a disappointing number…

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#sami al-arian

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Speakers with terrorist affiliations or those who have expressed support for terrorism will be featured at a 9/11 event sponsored by Rutgers University and San Francisco State University on Saturday. 

The panel, "Whose Narrative? 20 Years since September 11, 2001," will serve as a launching point for a semsester-long event that will explore, among other topics, challenging the "exceptionalization of 9/11/2001" and "legitimization of 'war on terror.'

"Speakers on Saturday will include Dr. Sami Al-Arian and Dr. Rabab Abulhadi, academics who have in the past courted controversy in their engagement with terrorists and terrorist organizations.

According to the event landing page, sponsors include SFSU’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicity and Diaspora Studies (AMED Studies) program, Rutgers' Center for Security, Race and Rights, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, two Jewish Voice for Peace Chapters, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) and America Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

The International Legal Forum, an Israel-based NGO with a global network of over 3,500 lawyers and civil society activists in over 40 countries, uncovered the panel and has sent letters to the administrations of Rutgers and SFSU demanding the event be canceled.

#9/11 #sfsu #san francisco state university #rutgers

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Brother of Dead Bin Laden Follower Moves Within Dem Party Circles

   Political photo ops and more for CAIR operative Ahmed Bedier.  

   It is no secret that the Democratic Party has benefitted from a Muslim community that has felt alienated by the GOP. Adopting this community, though, comes with a hitch. Much of this constituency’s leadership is associated with overseas terror. One case in particular is that of Ahmed Bedier, a Florida delegate of the Democratic Party who has been a representative for Hamas-linked groups, the spokesman for a Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader, and the brother of a follower of Osama bin Laden. He has photos with Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders, the late John Lewis and more. Why would a political party embrace such a dangerous individual?

   Ahmed Mustafa Bedier arrived in the US from Egypt with his family, when he was eight years old, spending his youth in both Illinois and Oregon. When his parents relocated back to Egypt, he elected to remain, as he had gotten used to secular American society. In time, he made his way to Florida, where he became somewhat of a financial success, purchasing real estate, shopping at upscale stores, and driving a fancy BMW. In 2000, Bedier went through a dramatic change, becoming an observant Muslim and attending a radical mosque, the Islamic Society of Pinellas County (ISPC), soon taking on the position as the mosque’s Outreach Director.

   In November 2002, Bedier became the Communications Director for the Florida office of CAIR. CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations was established, in June 1994, as a key part of the US Palestine Committee, a terrorist umbrella group led by then-global head of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. In 2007 and 2008, CAIR was cited by the US government as a co-conspirator (unindicted) in two separate federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas via a US charity, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). Bedier founded CAIR’s Tampa chapter and later would take on the role of Executive Director of CAIR-Florida.

   As Bedier began his involvement with CAIR, he as well got involved in the well-publicized case of soon-to-be convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian, becoming al-Arian’s unofficial spokesman in the media. Al-Arian created a Tampa, Florida network for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an entity responsible for the deaths of over 100 innocent people, including Americans. In December 2005, during an interview for TV, when asked if he believed al-Arian’s involvement with PIJ was immoral, Bedier infamously stated, “To a certain degree. Now, before 1995, there was nothing immoral about it.” Prior to 1995, PIJ took credit for five terrorist attacks and eight murders.

   In addition to CAIR, Bedier has served as the Florida Events Coordinator for Islamic Relief (IR), a group that has been banned by a number of nations. They include: Israel, which has labeled IR a front for Hamas, United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has designated IR a terrorist group, and Bangladesh. In 1999, Islamic Relief was reported to have shipped more than $6 million to Chechen rebels with ties to Al-Qaeda. In 2014, Britain’s HSBC bank cut ties with IR over worries about “terrorist financing.”

   In February 2011, Bedier found himself, along with hundreds of thousands of others, in Cairo, Egypt’s Tahrir Square to witness the speech of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the US-banned spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who had just returned to Egypt from exile after the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The following month, Bedier stated, on a Tampa radio show that he co-hosts, “I went to Egypt for the revolution…”

   Bedier’s younger brother, Amir, was also in Egypt for the revolution. In December 2012, after Amir was shot and wounded in the face outside the presidential palace, where many clashes between police and rioters had transpired, Ahmed took to social media to praise him. He said Amir was there “not to protest, but to help the injured.” He said Amir “represents the good people of Egypt, the heroes.” Ahmed’s kind words seemed to be little more than cover to protect his brother, because the sentiment expressed could not be further from the truth.

   Amir was no hero. Indeed, he was a follower of al-Qaeda. Evidence of this was revealed on his then-Facebook page, when, in May 2013, Amir, under the name “Amir MB” – MB meaning Muslim Brotherhood – changed his Facebook profile picture to that of Osama bin Laden. He soon followed that up by changing the picture to that of Abdullah Azzam, the deceased mentor of bin Laden and co-founder of al-Qaeda, who is known as the father of global jihad.

   On August 14, 2013, Amir was shot and killed by Egyptian police at Nasr City’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square. Ahmed, who went to check on the dead body with his parents, said that Amir, for 12 hours, had been left on the street to die.                                                  

   At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Ahmed Bedier, then-delegate to the convention, assisted fellow CAIR operative, Ali Kurnaz, in holding up a Palestinian flag on the convention floor, claiming it was in protest to the Democratic Party’s refusal to condemn Israel. Bedier’s behavior was a contemptuous propaganda ploy aimed at exploiting the convention’s media coverage to get attention for the terror-driven “Palestinian cause,” which he actively aids and abets. The fact that he was not censured for attempting to hijack the event shows that the Democratic Party had given their tacit approval for his actions.

   Bedier used the party for nefarious purposes then, and he is continuing to use the party now. His social media is littered with photographs of him with Democratic leaders, deceptively making him appear to be a ‘mover and shaker’ within the party. One photo, which Bedier posted on Facebook this past June, depicts him discussing a book with a smiling US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. And while the Pelosi photo might look completely innocuous, having a radical Muslim with al-Qaeda family gain access to the highest levels of our nation’s government should be deeply concerning.

   As the Democratic Party moves to embrace and pander to the Muslim community, it needs to understand that at least some within that community have ill intentions for our nation and the party, itself. That is the case with Ahmed Bedier and others like him. Given the dangers that they pose, it would be wise for the party to distance itself from these individuals, who mean us all harm.

#Islam #Muslim #Sharia #Jihad #Legal #Law #Politics #News #Media #election #Elections #Biden

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The last 10 years has marked tremendous victories for the Palestinian national liberation movement in the United States.

Initiatives by local Palestinian youth and supporters created momentum which brought the question of Palestine front and center.

These successes were gained despite the increased repression of the Palestinian struggle and its supporters through aggressive U.S. policies. From cases like the Holy Land 5, Sami Al-Arian, Abdelhaleem Ashqar, and Mohammad Salah, the deportation of Rasmea Odeh, to widespread NYPD and FBI surveillance, and the continued criminalization of the Palestinian resistance movement.

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Orta Doğu Çalışmaları Alanında Uzman Profesörler, Akademik Özgürlüğün Yerlerde Olduğu Türkiye’ye Akın Ettiler

Orta Doğu Çalışmaları Alanında Uzman Profesörler, Akademik Özgürlüğün Yerlerde Olduğu Türkiye’ye Akın Ettiler

  Orta Doğu Çalışmaları Alanında Uzman Profesörler, Akademik Özgürlüğün Yerlerde Olduğu Türkiye’ye Akın Ettiler

Yazar: Cinnamon Stillwell  • Campus Watch  11 Ekim 2017

Çeviren: Ercan Caner,  Sun Savunma Net, 17 Ekim 2017

En fazla akademisyeni cezaevlerine dolduran ülke Türkiye olmasına rağmen, geçtiğimiz günlerde yapılan bir konferans, yukarıda görülen profesörleri İstanbul’a çekmiştir: (Sol…

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#ACMCU #Akademik Özgürlük #İbrahim Kalın #International Conference on The Muslim Ummah #İslam #Sami Al-Arian #Türkiye #Uluslararası İslam Dünyası Konferansı #Ümmet

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Wywiad dla marcowego wydania Grazia Italy - Tłumaczenie

11 lat w biznesie, więcej niż 5.5 miliona obserwujących na Instagramie, występy na najważniejszych wydarzeniach, ale wywiady nadal cię stresują?

Wiem, to dziwne i to nie zależy od tego, kto zadaje mi pytania. To jedna z rzeczy, które mnie stresują, prawdopodobnie dlatego, że zawszę chcę byś doskonała; Myślę, że dla artysty normalne jest, aby być postrzeganym we właściwy sposób, bez bycia źle zrozumianym, ponieważ nieporozumienie może spowodować wiele problemów. Jednocześnie jestem przekonana, że lęk nie powinien w żaden sposób ograniczać wolności wyrażania przekonań, na których nam zależy.

Jak udaje Ci się radzić sobie z lękiem?

Myślę, że medytacja bardzo pomaga. Niestety moja koncentracja uwagi jest bardzo niska, więc ciężko mi ją ćwiczyć. Często podążam za radą mojego managera, która każe mi wyjść i spojrzeć na drzewa, ponieważ były tam o wiele dłużej niż my i przeżyły tyle rzeczy, które wydają się nam nie do pokonania: to daje mi moc, by utrzymać moje nogi na ziemi.

Myślę, że ważne jest, że coraz więcej artystów, na przykład Lady Gaga, chce publicznie mówić o depresji i zdrowiu psychicznym, jak o czymś, co nie musi nas przerażać lub sprawiać, że czujemy się sami.

Oczywiście. Nie czucie się samotny, wiedząc, że nawet osoby, które mają uprzywilejowane życie i sukces mogą doświadczyć depresji lub lęku, pomaga "normalizować" niektóre rodzaje chorób, na których nadal, nie rozumiem, dlaczego, są tematem tabu. Ponadto nie zawsze można dostrzec, kiedy ktoś ma chorobę psychiczną, dlatego ważne jest, aby każdy, kto na nią cierpi, czuł się tak komfortowo, żeby nie wstydził się prosić o pomoc.

Kiedy zaczęłaś odczuwać potrzebę bycia aktywistką?

Od kiedy byłam bardzo mała i to wszystko dzięki moim rodzicom. Nauczyli mnie i moją siostrę Hannę, jak ważne jest wyrażanie swoich opinii bez obaw, zmuszając nas do znalezienia "naszego głosu". W każdej dyskusji moi rodzice zachęcali nas do wypowiadania myśli na głos; kolacja była okazją do przemawiania i omawiania zasad, których nie rozumieliśmy lub nie czuliśmy, że są dobre. Pytanie i rozumienie, dlaczego możesz lub nie możesz czegoś zrobić, nie jest brakiem szacunku, to pokazuje, że posiadasz głos i nie boisz się go użyć. Dorastając, na przykład, to ja edukowałam moją rodzinę o feminizmie, który w między czasie stał się dla mnie bardzo ważną rzeczą.

Czy bycie muzykiem zwiększa „moc” Twoich opinii, czy jest to Twój aktywizm, który daje siłę do głosu?

Zawsze o tym myślę, ponieważ uważam, że jest to kluczowe. Dla mnie bycie muzykiem to głębokie osobiste doświadczenie, które musi dać mi wolność mówienia tego, co chcę. To coś, co wydaje się łatwe i naturalne, ale takie nie jest. Siła ekonomiczna, w tej dziedzinie, jak w innych, wciąż jest głównie w rękach dorosłych mężczyzn, co może sprawić, że poczujesz się niekomfortowo, kiedy spróbujesz wyjaśnić, co chcesz zrobić i jakie to dla ciebie ważne. W takich sytuacjach bardzo łatwo jest zaakceptować kompromisy, ponieważ są one przedstawiane jako jedyny sposób na osiągnięcie sukcesu, nawet jeśli oznacza to "zdradzić swój głos" i wiadomość, którą chcesz przekazać. Na Grammy widzieliśmy, jak podobnie dzieje się to w innych dziedzinach, kobiety stają się coraz silniejsze, a to jest świetna perspektywa, która polepszy przyszłość, ale wciąż pozostaje jeszcze wiele do zrobienia.

Mówiąc o silnych kobietach, jedna z nich, np. Ariana Grande, jest Twoją przyjaciółką?

Tak, spędzam czas z Arianą, gdy jesteśmy blisko siebie. Myślę, że ma jeden z najpotężniejszych głosów naszego pokolenia, oprócz tego, że jest wspaniała i jest wyjątkowo silna. Z pewnością nie należy do artystów akceptujących kompromisy i lubię jej zdolność i narzucanie jej styl. Eksperyment, z artystycznego punktu widzenia, jest podstawą naszego osobistego i zawodowego rozwoju i nie można w ogóle myśleć, że w naszym wieku wiemy dokładnie, jak będzie wyglądała nasza kariera i styl. Ariana będzie w jednym z utworów na moim następnym albumie i jestem taka szczęśliwa, wszystko zaczęło się spontanicznie pewnego dnia, kiedy byłam w studio, aby nagrywać i zaczęła udzielać mi rad dotyczących melodii.

Kiedy słyszysz, jak ludzie mówią, że twoje pokolenie ocali świat, jak się czujesz?

Pod wieloma względami cieszę się z tej odpowiedzialności, ale myślę, że to nie tylko kwestia wieku, ale także kultury. Bycie młodym niekoniecznie oznacza odczuwanie potrzeby dbania o otoczenie lub rozumienie, że nienawiść wobec imigrantów, na przykład, jest po prostu sposobem na przekazanie innym obowiązków, które do nich nie należą. Niestety, są ludzie w moim wieku, którzy myślą inaczej. Nasza przyszłość, bardziej niż cokolwiek, zależy od wiedzy, od edukacji i od zdolności do zakwestionowania tego, co nam powiedziano, używając naszego głosu. Zawsze.

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The Israeli Genocide of Gaza; featuring Prof. Sami Al-Arian

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Muslim Former US Professor and Leftist Media Darling Renews Call for Israel’s Destruction

Muslim Former US Professor and Leftist Media Darling Renews Call for Israel’s Destruction

It’s easy to see why the American Left loved Sami al-Arian. Leftists hate Israel, too. My latest in FrontPage: Longtime FrontPage readers will remember Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor who for years was a darling of the Leftist intelligentsia. IPT News reported Monday that he has resurfaced, but that the stalwart old Jew-hater hasn’t changed: while he has reined in…

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