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Erik Schechter
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Erik Schechter
@ErikSchechter
CEO, Red Phantom Public Relations/ Follows and retweets are not endorsements/ I love blocking bots
New York, NY Katılım Haziran 2011
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@JustLuai @AmaniUniverse Is it so hard to believe Gal Gadot, a veteran who served in the genocidal apartheid Nazi military the IOF, would ask for a Palestinian to be removed?
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I was featured in Maroon 5’s ‘Girls Like You’ music video as a Palestinian woman.
Gal Gadot tried to have me removed.
Guess who won.
Sumud Podcast@sumudpod
“Why should I as a Palestinian woman make myself smaller?” 🎙️ In this clip from the Sumud Podcast, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh shares the story of being personally invited by Maroon 5’s Adam Levine to appear in one of the most viewed music videos in the world, alongside Gal Gadot, and the controversy that followed. Responding to criticism and pressure, she explains why she refused to step aside or make herself smaller, offering a powerful perspective on visibility, identity, and standing firm in the spotlight. 🌍 Amani Al-Khatahtbeh is a global media founder, political strategist, and leading voice at the intersection of digital rights, culture, and power. As the creator of Muslim Girl, she has spent the past decade reshaping the narrative of Muslim women in the West, transforming it from a point of marginalization into a cultural and political force. Her work sits at the forefront of critical global conversations on free expression, platform accountability, and the future of the digital public square. Named one of CNN’s “25 Most Influential American Muslims,” Amani became the first Muslim woman from New Jersey in American history to run for U.S. Congress. Her first book, Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age (Simon & Schuster), is a two-time Editors’ Pick on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Labeled by The Economist as a “generation prophet,” her writing and commentary have appeared in TIME, The Washington Post, Variety, and beyond. Amani’s influence spans media, policy, and culture. She has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and has collaborated with leading institutions, brands, and international organizations. She has shared stages with President Bill Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Shonda Rhimes, Hasan Minhaj, and other influential voices shaping global discourse. She is currently building Digital Assembly, a next-generation think tank focused on redefining participation, equity, and governance in the digital age. 🔑 In this conversation, we explore → The emotional and psychological impact of the ongoing tragedy in Palestine → How collective grief and personal loss intersect in times of war and crisis → Growing up Muslim in post-9/11 America and navigating identity under scrutiny → The role of media in shaping narratives about Muslims and Palestinians → Islamophobia, misogyny, and the unique challenges faced by Muslim women → Internal community struggles and the importance of solidarity and accountability → The intersection of feminism, faith, and cultural identity → Activism, moral courage, and making difficult ethical decisions in public life → The power of storytelling to humanize marginalized communities → Why protecting and uplifting vulnerable voices is essential for collective liberation Sponsored by The Karate Attorney (@karateattorney) fighting for justice inside and outside the courtroom. Visit KarateAttorney.com 🎬 Full episode on sumudpod.com 📲 Follow @dredhasan | @sumudpod | @amaniuniverse | @watermelonplusco | @watermelonpictures
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@NathanJRobinson And?
There are lots of young left- and right-wing authoritarians who haven’t killed anyone.
That doesn’t make their ideas any less dangerous.
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A somewhat crucial difference between Benjamin Netanyahu and Hasan Piker is that one of them has murdered tens of thousands of people while the other is a Twitch streamer
Jonathan Chait@jonathanchait
Hasan Piker is an authoritarian. So is Netanyahu. If liberal Zionists want to survive, they must fight both. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…
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@_gothlorien @StopAntisemites @MalloryMcMorrow Tacking the label “genocide” onto a conflict that killed ~40K civilians doesn’t magically make it worse than one that killed ten times as many civilians.
Seriously, dude. WTF.
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@ErikSchechter @StopAntisemites @MalloryMcMorrow Not denying that at all. I’m just saying that the genocide committed by Israel was one sided.
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There’s a lot of misinformation out there, so let me be clear. I have not, am not, and will not take money from AIPAC.
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@_gothlorien @StopAntisemites @MalloryMcMorrow Well, someone is unfamiliar with the Tigray, Yemeni, Sudanese, and Syrian civil wars.
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@StopAntisemites @MalloryMcMorrow Sounds like it’s just the money from people who support by far the worst crime of the 21st century, which is a bad thing to associate all Jews with if your goal is to stop antisemitism.
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@adam_louis52328 @PMHalpern Israel killed 400 Jews on Oct 7 at the Nova Festival and at Be'eri . Was that genocide?
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Every single antizionist in the academy celebrated and supported the October 7th genocide. I saw it with my own eyes when I returned from an indigenous Amazonian village and opened my computer on October 9th, 2023.
I will never ever forget it.
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Poland has found an unlikely celebrity in Edward Warchocki, a Chinese robot equipped with locally developed software that has debated politicians and chased wild boars off the streets of Warsaw. ft.trib.al/iIMGy1q
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@bbalsam @DrNeilStone Kinda jealous that I haven’t been added to these antizionist lists.
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@DrNeilStone I get called the C-word on the daily and if I don't, I wonder what I've done wrong :). I also get these types of notifications.
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@NoLore Please, stop it already with this nonsense.
The War in Gaza is a war. And it pales in comparison to the Tigray, Yemeni, Sudanese, and Syrian civil wars.
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This is really, really gross. Imagine going to Auschwitz and promoting a regime that is literally conducting a genocide right now.
WULF@DerWulf
“Canadian students are being flown to Auschwitz wrapped in Israeli flags while Gaza is being flattened”
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@Soren44_ @CristianFl46703 @NathanJRobinson @Aizenberg55 That execrable law is being challenged right now in the Supreme Court.
Let’s hope it’s struck down.
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@CristianFl46703 @NathanJRobinson @Aizenberg55 Does apartheid mean that you only implement the death penalty for one specific ethnicity or does it mean something else?
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Why has it taken so long for liberals to realize that having a state built on ethnic supremacism is incompatible with liberal principles at a very fundamental level
OrangeMaxxing FreddyG@OrangeFreddyG
If Ezra Klein is saying shit like this, Zionism might be over
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@RmSalih Such a weird thing to say.
Along with Hitler, you’ve got Talaat Pasha, Théodore Sindikubwabo, Idi Amin, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, the Assads, Saddam Hussein, Omar al-Bashir, Yahya Khan, Yasuhiko Asaka, etc.
Bibi is barely a blip on the radar.
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@FinziKantini That's okay. I'm quite busy! I'll leave them to talk about Perestroika.
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Owen Jones feels very strongly that there is a lot of daylight between how Putin feels about the fall of the USSR and how Jones and Hasan Piker have characterized it:
Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno
You're either dishonest, or you have no interest in actual substance. Either way, you're a bad journalist. Piker said: “The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.” This is nothing like "the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century". Because you have no interest in engaging in good faith with what someone you disagree with thinks, you may go HUR HUR SAME DIFFERENCE! But it isn't, is it? Because for a start, your formulation would mean that Piker said that the fall of the Soviet Union was a bigger geopolitical disaster than, say, World War II. Which would be an insane thing to say. He didn't say "geopolitical", which Putin for example did, a formulation which shows no interest in actual lives. The Soviet collapse led to millions of excess deaths, a collapse in life expectancy, the biggest peacetime industrialised economic collapse ever, mass impoverishment, gangsterism, mass theft by the oligarchs, violent conflict, a kleptocratic dictatorship - we could go on. Nobody serious is saying the Soviet model was workable or defensible! But the Soviet collapse - rather than a transition to something a) democratic and b) not neo-liberal - was an obvious catastrophe, and it is insane given the facts to suggest otherwise.
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@esjesjesj It’s not just the Holocaust.
The War in Gaza bears no resemblance to the Rwandan, Roma and Armenian Genocides.
No does it resemble the mass killings in Pol Pot’s Cambodia and in Ukraine during the Holodomor.
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Two things here.
1. In the holocaust Jews often had informal schools in both the ghettoes and the camps.
2. The idea that a genocide only counts if it looks exactly like the holocaust is denying every other genocide in history
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@KarlRadl Very plausible.
The Hutu Power regime in Rwanda murdered 800,000-1,000,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates in 100 or so days.
Stalin murdered 3.5-4 million Ukrainians in just one year during the Holodomor.
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Alright let's run with that.
There are 525,600 minutes in a year and the 'Holocaust' occurred over c. 3 years (early 1942 to early 1945) which gives you 1,576,800 minutes.
That means that the Germans were allegedly murdering a jew every c. 15 seconds.
Sound plausible?
No.
Arsen Ostrovsky@Ostrov_A
Just pause to think for a moment ... 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. If a minute’s silence was observed for each victim, the silence would last more than 11 years!
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@grahamformaine Israelis must be the most incompetent genocidaires to have ever existed.
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Unlike the governor, I believe that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
Janet Mills asked tonight if she thinks Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza says that there is currently a genocide going on in Sudan and Somalia. Also mentions Rwanda.
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@arash_tehran @Jo_Lestampille Some people are addicted to fantasies of war and power, and they will invent grievances to pull others along.
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@Jo_Lestampille Israel did not 'take over' Egypt. Nobody in their serious mind would think that
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@souljagoyteller 1. Egypt’s *official name* is the Arab Republic of Egypt. It’s not just a country that happens to have a lot of Arabs.
2. Lebanon is a confessional state.
3. Iraq, Jordan and the rest are all members of an *ethnically defined* organization called the League of Arab States.
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An ethnostate is not simply just “a state that happens to mostly contain one ethnicity”. Lebanon is not an ethnostate. Neither is Iraq, Jordan, or Egypt. An ethnostate, for Israel specifically a “herrenvolk democracy”, is a state that builds its politics on representing one group
Goindia@Goindia394131
@souljagoyteller How do you feel about the 22 Arab ethnostates?
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I don't remember anyone working on laptops, wearing warm clothes, taking selfies, going to school, or sitting at home while they were systematically hunted down and liquidated in any genocide.
Those things, as usual, are reserved just for the Palestinian one. How convenient.
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@Mr_Andrew_Fox @PhillipsPOBrien I'm wondering how much of a comfort that is to an Iranian mother grieving her dead babies.
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People who are saying the US and Israel are being surgical in their air strikes against Iran are missing one major fact. The US and Israel have killed many more Iranian civilians in airstrikes since Feb than Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian airstrikes in all of 2025.
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How many calories do you consume every in just one meal?
This is the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941.
At this point there were 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 1.3 square miles.
Jews in the ghetto received just 184 calories per day.
It was premeditated starvation and it killed 50,000 from hunger alone.
We will never forget.
Photo @historyinpic9
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