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Will Alden

@williamalden

schmaltzy potatoes

Los Angeles, CA Katılım Nisan 2009
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Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi@tparsi·
This is a MUST-READ. @williamalden spent extensive time with Monarchists to better understand their perspective and their philosophy. Ironically, in that effort, he ended up being threatened by them and accused of being an agent of the Islamic Republic. nybooks.com/online/2026/04…
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Hooman Majd
Hooman Majd@hmajd·
Very good piece on the LA monarchist movement and their embrace of war on their homeland. What's never been really clear is what the Iranian monarchists in the diaspora expect to find in Iran if their project is successful and Pahlavi regains the Peacock Throne. Most diehard monarchists have jobs, businesses, professions, and family and second and third generation American children and grandchildren. Will they leave all that and return to an Iran they haven't seen in decades? And do what? Retrieve property that was confiscated by the state forty-seven years ago? Seems unlikely that would be a priority for any new regime that replaces the current Islamic Republic.
Will Alden@williamalden

For @nybooks I hung out with the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile that has organized the community here around support for Trump, support for the war, and support for the son of the last shah. My dispatch from LA nybooks.com/online/2026/04…

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Sina Toossi
Sina Toossi@SinaToossi·
👇Quoted in this @nybooks piece on Iranian opposition politics in exile. I explain that monarchists were irrelevant to the 2022-23 Women, Life, Freedom protest movement inside Iran, but moved aggressively to dominate & reshape the diaspora movement around them.
Will Alden@williamalden

For @nybooks I hung out with the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile that has organized the community here around support for Trump, support for the war, and support for the son of the last shah. My dispatch from LA nybooks.com/online/2026/04…

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Dahlia Krutkovich
Dahlia Krutkovich@krutkovich·
@williamalden knocked this very tough assignment out of the park. Maybe one of the most sustained Anglophone engagements with the diaspora monarchist movement, for @nybooks online:
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Will Alden@williamalden·
Reporting this was a trip, very challenging, occasionally hilarious, occasionally delicious, and I only feared for my safety once (read to the end)! Very grateful to editors @krutkovich @NCaplanBricker
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Will Alden@williamalden·
For @nybooks I hung out with the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile that has organized the community here around support for Trump, support for the war, and support for the son of the last shah. My dispatch from LA nybooks.com/online/2026/04…
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Jewish Currents
Jewish Currents@JewishCurrents·
We're about to ship our Spring issue, featuring new writing from @tanvim, @williamalden, Zaina Alsous, Jon Danforth-Appell, Tareq Baconi, and many more voices (cover by Alfredo Jaar). Get it in your mailbox (and save 50%) with code JCSPRING50: jewishcurrents.org/subscribe
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Emily Gould
Emily Gould@EmilyGouldNYmag·
it's highkey starting to seem like maybe the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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+972 Magazine
+972 Magazine@972mag·
The billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor Having acquired Paramount and CBS and eyeing TikTok and CNN, the Ellisons are constructing a pro-Israel information empire with unprecedented reach. @williamalden reports. 972mag.com/ellisons-param…
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Noura Erakat
Noura Erakat@4noura·
I cant believe they needed to write this. “The practice of mishandling bodies by bulldozing them into unmarked graves can violate international law, according to legal experts.” #Genocide #AccountabilityNow
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده@RamAbdu

A terrifying CNN report reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians alive. “Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves — CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers.” edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/mid…

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Palestine Legal
Palestine Legal@pal_legal·
In an in-depth “Portrait of a Campus in Crisis” based on more than 40 interviews, @JewishCurrents shows how UCLA’s capitulation to pro-Israel students and groups — and resulting violent repression of pro-Palestinian activists — paved the way for Trump’s attacks on the university.
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Palestine Legal
Palestine Legal@pal_legal·
“If you placate the bully, the bully comes back,” said Palestine Legal board member Katherine Franke.
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Eli Valley
Eli Valley@elivalley·
Excellent deep-dive into the violence perpetrated by fascist Zionist thugs at UCLA. Democrats, Republicans, the ADL +the media have spent over a year lying that the violence was an antisemitic attack on Jews, and have used it and other lies to eviscerate American higher education
Will Alden@williamalden

For @JewishCurrents I went long on pro-Israel activism at UCLA jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-a-… (unpaywalled)

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Will Alden@williamalden·
@ArielleLAngel @maricohen95 @krutkovich @DovWaxman UCLA’s response to the defining anti-war movement of this generation has been to ignore, distort, punish, and arrest… this is my attempt to understand why
Jewish Currents@JewishCurrents

“The only way UCLA really has been exceptional is in its exceptional failure to protect the students in its encampment from violence.” Read @williamalden's deep dive into political dynamics at California's largest public university: jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-a-…

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