Ismat Mangla

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

I think we all know what we need to do…

© HAARETZ : Israel News Israeli Court Extends Detention of Autistic Jaffa Boy Who Was Sexually Assaulted in Prison Mother of defendant, a 14-year-old who is charged with security offenses, says that her son is 'being presented as a terrorist, but he is a sick and helpless child'

It is difficult to put into words how this headline makes me feel. Especially the framing of “the mother says…” as if there is any doubt. The cruelty is the point.

I would kill for a Coffee Crisp

so we won’t learn why he had a saudi passport and a bunch of very high level israel connections

Epstein Files Transparency Act says that the Attorney General shall make public "all unclassified records" but has a carveout for "kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy"

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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

What Zohran Mamdani’s rise tells us about the state of democracy in America | Analyst News The prospect of Mayor Mamdani has triggered a full-scale, bipartisan effort to obstruct his candidacy at every level. There’s a simple reason why.

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This coordinated resistance has exposed the hollowness of our democracy—a system that celebrates popular participation in theory, but punishes it in practice.

The implications of this election stretch beyond City Hall. Can the people really choose—even when the system says no?

In this election, that anti-Muslim racism has fused with the weaponization of false antisemitism claims—a tactic that’s really meant to police the limits of debate on Israel and Palestine.

#3: Anti-Muslim racism is the last bipartisan permission structure. Nobody loses any political capital by trotting out Islamophobic tropes, as many on the right predictably did.

But Democrats seized on the anti-Muslim tact with equal fervor, dubbing him a "jihadist," terrorist sympathizer or worse.

This election has implications far beyond the question of who controls trash pickup and fixing potholes in NYC. If Mamdani wins, it gives permission for ordinary people in both parties to begin asking deeper questions about the American political system.

Why? Because Mamdani represents a vision that doesn’t hew to entrenched interests. Dems give lip service to diversity—as long as diverse voices don’t buck the status quo.

#2: With the Democratic Party’s brand in the toilet, they should be celebrating a young, charismatic pol who has energized progressives through a grassroots movement not just in NYC but around the country.

Instead, they treated Mamdani’s primary win as an error to be corrected.

(Or, as @davidsirota.com puts it, they’re “so accustomed to political privilege that the prospect of slightly more democracy feels to them like oppression.)

#1: The billionaires are panicked. 26 of them have spent $22 million to take Mamdani down—because they recognize the influence a Mamdani victory could have on the rest of the country.

If Mamdani can win here, others like him might win elsewhere.

🧵Zohran Mamdani went from a no-name assemblyman polling at just 1% in February to being the front-runner for NYC mayor in a matter of months.

I write for @analystnews.bsky.social on what his meteoric rise *and* the intense backlash to his campaign tell us about democracy in America.

Thinking about the family of Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband who were assassinated at the hands of a radical MAGA shooter in June.

Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.

Simply invoke it and any act of destruction, depravity or violence becomes instantly justified. The accusation alone stains so deeply that questions of guilt or innocence become irrelevant. The job is done.

I’ve been thinking about how, my whole adult life, the word “terrorist” has been indispensable to Western imperialism. It’s a magic term that absolves the need for proof, debate or context.

Why they prefer us starving | Analyst News How the world learned to mourn Palestinian death without naming Palestinian murder.

For two years, Palestinians begged for food, water and medicine only to be met with silence, or worse, euphemisms.

Now Western headlines say “famine” and “genocide.” But don’t mistake this shift for a newfound conscience, writes Ahmad Ibsais.

Read:
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YouTube video by Analyst News Michael Brooks: Israel-Palestine is not “complex.” It’s apartheid.

“It’s not a complex issue. It’s super simple.”

In one of his final appearances before his death in 2020, Jewish American commentator Michael Brooks called Israel-Palestine what it is: apartheid.

WATCH: www.youtube.com/shorts/fA5dP...

PHOTO ESSAY: Starvation attacks the bodies of these children in Gaza GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In some tents and shelters in northern Gaza, emaciated children are held in their parents' arms. Their tiny arms and legs dangle limp.

My God. The images in this AP photo essay of starving children in Gaza are going to haunt me forever.

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Tablet Magazine @tabletmag The Perelman Performing Arts Center was unveiled in September 2023, steps from the footprint of the Twin Towers. Critics called it “glamorous” and “a retort to terrorism.” But no one mentioned something almost too strange to believe: It’s a ringer for the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine. The cube-shaped building is even veiled in marble that recalls the Kaaba’s black kiswa, and one corner points directly toward Mecca. This is not an internet conspiracy theory. It’s a thing anyone could see. But not a single one of the dozens of distinguished art and architecture critics and urban planners who commented on the site for dozens of high-level newspapers and magazines ever so much as noted the similarity to the Kaaba, even in passing. Standing on a site visible to hundreds of thousands of people, the building has somehow rendered itself invisible. [Underneath is a still shot from a video, showing the white cube of the Perelman Art Center, with "American Kaaba" written above it by the edits. The only comparison to the actual Kaaba is that they are both cubes.]

Somehow this came across my feed on X and this is genuinely hilarious. Tablet Mag is arguing that a performing arts center in New York is actually a secret Kaaba, because... uh... it's a cube? And the Kaaba is a cube? And they both have some marble on the outside, so check-mate libs.

YouTube video by Analyst News “The blood of Gaza is on our hands as Americans,” says Peter Beinart #gaza #israel

“The blood is on our hands as Americans. We are profoundly complicit and deeply responsible.”


@peterbeinart.bsky.social says the U.S. is not just silent—it is actively enabling famine and genocide in Gaza with weapons, diplomatic cover and billions in aid.

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I am so angry, I can’t speak on it anymore.

We are starving. | Analyst News My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid. Gaza’s children are dying in front of our eyes, and we are powerless to help th...

"In the camp, I came to understand the true cruelty of this genocide: the suffocating overcrowding, the mass of refugees forced out of their homes, and the endless stories of hunger. " Must-read from @analystnews.bsky.social

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Is the new Superman film anti-Israel, or just another attempt at rehabilitating America’s image? | Analyst News Viewpoint: James Gunn’s Superman flirts with critique but ultimately serves the same purpose as most superhero films — sanitizing American militarism for global audiences.

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Is the new Superman film anti-Israel? Or is it just another attempt at rehabilitating America's image?

Some viewers see a radical critique of real-world occupations, from Gaza to Ukraine. But beneath the thin veneer or resistance, the film is ultimately an act of rehabilitation. Superman dodges the deeper critique: America's own complicity in global violence. IFFAT MIRZA Doctoral candidate University of Cambridge

Superhero movies have long been vehicles for American war propaganda — and this one may be no different. Read the full viewpoint at AnalystNews.org.

Is Superman anti-Israel—or just another piece of Hollywood propaganda?

Cambridge doctoral candidate Iffat Mirza unpacks the film’s messaging in a searing new viewpoint:

“Superman dodges the deeper critique: America’s complicity in global violence.”