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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4h

“Massive and unprecedented bombings in Gaza tonight. 9 dead since yesterday. There are also reports of phone calls to residents of Gaza City with new evac orders, and over Jerusalem again, airplanes are heard. Is this the war we were all waiting for ahead of the elections?” x.com/nirhasson/st...

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 14h

What doesn't kill you either makes you a mental health professional or a writer.✌🏾🫡 and you are welcome.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fun fact: Princeton denied Anne Carson her tenure. So a kind reminder that large institutions will often ignore you until you're too big to ignore - then they pretend to be your biggest supporters.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Grateful that Nobel have decided to use the prize for good this year, and have made some morally sound and impactful choices. Both Navi Pillay and Anne Carson are legend.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.” ― Anne Carson

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026

Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Without a baseline of agreement that each innocent life is invaluable, and thus that each loss is a tragedy and each murder a crime, we inhabit different moral codes and realities." eladnehorai.substack.com/p/a-life-is-...

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A Life Is a Life: Thoughts on the Anniversary of October 7th

Today has become marked by debates over whose life matters more rather than mourning the loss of innocents. And that itself is a tragedy.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i am noticing that actually making it in life requires you to be violently allergic to all forms of self victimization. ✌🏾

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you @danaelkurd.bsky.social for hosting me to talk about the multiple, layered, and intergenerational threats to Palestinian health today—we talk about settler violence, sexual violence, destruction of health infrastructure, and much more.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The adage "If you're making both sides angry, you must be doing something right" is overused, but in this case, the fact Mayor Mamdani's statement is angering both those mad he mentioned Israel's genocide in a statement on 10/7, and those mad he is mourning Israeli civilians at all, is... telling.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mayor Mamdani is actually our most centrist politician, if by that you mean, "Getting absurd and bad-faith criticism from all sides."

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am sorry that we are made to believe this is necessary for our society, our safety, our honour, our dignity, and, perhaps most shamefully, our religious faith.

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How Do You Get Through? Sometimes You Just Survive in Part

Saturday, October 7, 2023

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That mourning one human being can be interpreted as abandoning another. That we are continually instructed to decide whose child, whose parent, whose fear, whose shattered family may enter the boundaries of our compassion.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am sorry that we are imposed upon binaries, pushed into them, told that we must hold on to our “teams.” I am sorry that grief itself has somehow acquired, even required, teams.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But on this third anniversary of October 7th, a good start is to try to resist the flattening of empathy, to let ourselves weep for all the lives lost, the children killed, the families torn apart, the homes destroyed.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

a kind reminder: unhoused people and drug addicts are human beings who deserve to use public bathrooms too and people with shelter and are sober are also very much capable of destroying public property.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Depuis le mur de notre bureau à Paris, à chez vous, avec toute notre affection✌🏾 Cordialement ✌🏾 Très belle semaine ✌🏾

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can only speak for myself when I say that everything changed in my life on Saturday, October 7, 2023. There is the life before. And then there is the life after. Toprakları bol, mekânları cennet olsun.

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How Do You Get Through? Sometimes You Just Survive in Part

Saturday, October 7, 2023

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“In NAZA, the AI systems are the tools of death, but the real problem is the humans.” foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/05/i...

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AI Made the List—but Humans Still Did the Killing

In the film “NAZA,” Israeli soldiers reveal the workings of autonomous warfare.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not only does the Israeli government not care about the safety of the Diaspora, they are actively willing to cultivate ties to figures who make antisemitism worse around the world, if it enables them to steal more land in the West Bank with global impunity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US, Israeli and European far-right figures to gather for conference in Israel

Trump’s counter-terrorism ‘czar’, Sebastian Gorka, was scheduled to speak at conference but White House says he will no longer attend

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can read the full interview, here. share.google/NgMm5RbsFq2X...

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Elon Musk gets his dick wet for knowing it is in Vanity Fair." - Jeremy O Harris Lol, he certainly does. And Mark Guiducci, habibi, you certainly gave him that head. (Ahem, sorry, that headline.)

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Many people sent me the Jeremy O Harris and Mark Guiducci interview. I loved it. It was very entertaining to watch. I had just one utter confusion, which is them both keep referring Vanity Fair as “journalism.” To my good sirs: please be serious.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which is all a long-winded way of saying: These debates about Zionism and anti-Zionism are mostly unhelpful right now, and I wish everyone could just drop these terms unless speaking historically and talk about their political vision for the future in other terms.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

hear me out: women should start wearing Meta glasses to frat parties.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Following the résultats des élections au Québec, I’d like everyone to be informed that I will be caring for my self as a morally bankrupt Roman emperor from now on✌🏾 I hope that helps. Bonne chance et courage.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everything I needed today was in this piece.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026

We’re moving 10,000 low-income children off the child care voucher waitlist — at absolutely no cost to their families. Eligible families with children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and through age 19 for children with special needs, will be invited to apply for a voucher on a rolling basis.

Mayor Mamdani and others make an announcement at a podium with signage that reads “Child Care for all”

Children hold hands in front of signage that reads “Child Care for all”

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“What is the hardest for some does not even exist for others.” — Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

once I realize someone is committed to missing my point, I shut up. and I humbly recommend it to everyone.✌🏾

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is so rare these days that a week goes by and I don’t think of this passage from Sara Ahmed’s Feminist Killjoy Handbook.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please make sure to watch and rewatch the documentary. Please recommend and ensure friends, colleagues, and loved ones see it too. Take the opportunity to have difficult and hence, important conversations.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But I think we may risk dismissing one of the few places where this ever-important and forever-pertinent conversation is happening inside Israeli society.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is a reckoning only Israelis can perform, and one we badly need them to. I understand where the critiques from the left and from Palestinians come from. They come from grief.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tonight, we had the honor of seeing the documentary, NAZA. NAZA was made by Israelis and speaks first to Israelis, and I've come to think that is its whole point. The reckoning it stages is not one Palestinians should have to carry; they have carried enough.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those whose families lived through the Jewish traumas of Mitteleuropa, it isn't that esoteric why Zionism was once seen this way, even as it has now become Kahanism. The lesson here is not unique to Zionism, but the opposite - how easily liberation movements become the thing they once hated.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I could write a long thread on why and how Zionism was by many seen as an emancipatory movement in the early 20th century (and the contradictions involved) or on (marginalised) versions of Zionism that pursued Jewish national expression from an egalitarian position. But this seems esoteric to me.

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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every decade or so, we go through this. Waves & waves of women sharing their stories of sexual assault & harassment after an especially horrific case hits the headlines, such as the Cornell 7. And every decade or so, what changes besides collective retraumatisation? open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

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Essay: #IBeatMyAssaulter

On “Optimal Violence” and Trickle-Up Retribution

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026

From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Regarding the #Naza film and debate about war crimes vs genocide, the debate has been underway for a while, based on the documentary makers research, I published this in July 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1... People are beginning to understand the illusion of the war/genocide distinction.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As we get ready to see the documentary's special screening today, I am keeping this ever-important remark at heart and mind.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NAZA is a film by Israelis primarily for Israelis. And *that is a good thing*. It is a thing that cannot be accomplished by palestinian victims. It is a thing we NEED israelis to do. The critiques of this film from the left+Palestinians come from a position of pain, but are inaccurate & not helpful.

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘Antisemitism isn’t systemic’ is the Left’s version of ‘the world’s oldest hatred’. An easy slogan that is in fact a sign of impoverished thought, a stubborn unwillingness to think critically & rigorously. One hyperbolizes, the other minimizes;

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Why is no one getting back to us?” Vicky Cohen was trying to reach the army after receiving images of her son Nimrod’s abduction. Ahead of October 7’s third anniversary, families are sharing the messages they sent that morning. 🎗️ www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

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October 7 victims share texts from massacre, call on public to do same | The Jerusalem Post

Dozens of people affected by the attack launched a social media campaign with the hashtag "we are all October 7," in which those affected by the massacre share the messages received.

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