Yusra Ghannouchi

"Today, we issue a broader warning: the threat of violence is no longer contained; it does not just target American Muslims, it threatens anyone who cares about upholding democratic institutions and civil society." American Muslims Are Only The Beginning: open.substack.com/pub/imamsuhaib…

Amin, Mansour, and Nader should be with their families today. Instead, their loved ones and community are left with unimaginable grief. Islamophobia and the dehumanization of Muslims enabled this tragedy. We must confront this deep-seated hate wherever it shows up.

Two teenage gunmen fatally shot three people at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in the city, before killing themselves. Activist Linda Sarsour knew one of the victims and says the shooting reflects rising bigotry against Muslim Americans. democracynow.org/2026/5/19/san_…

The EU's unflinching collaboration with #Libya and #Tunisia to contain the flow of migrants. 2d part of the excellent reporting by @allankaval in Le Monde lemonde.fr/en/internation…

Imagine an adviser to Biden had said this about Jewish Americans on the day of a synagogue attack - or any day of the year! Just imagine the response.

فرحة مدينة الزهراء بالإفراج عن رئيس بلديتها ريان الحمزاوي الذي قضى 3 سنوات في السجن وبرئ من تهم التآمر

Folks, the Israeli military, ***by their own admission and according to their own data***, has a rampant and increasing problem with sexual assault. If this is what is happening to Israeli soldiers just imagine what they are doing to Palestinian in their custody.

Sky's @DominicWaghorn is the first international journalist to report from Minab, Iran, after more than 150 people were killed when an alleged U.S airstrike hit a school. ‘I just want to see my son one more time and hug him' one mother told him. trib.al/yYJBy2W

Hawaa Abdullah, daughter of Amin Abdullah, the security guard who was killed along with two others in Monday's shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, honored her father as a role model and the "absolute best dad in the world." abcnews.link/szqfszC

Regarding Inea Bushnaq: During the Ottoman Empire’s final century, the Sublime Porte lost vast territories in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and North Africa as a result of wars with the Russian Empire, various local rebellions and wars of independence, and the imperial expansion of European powers. In some instances the new rulers ethnically cleansed their territories of Muslim subjects. This was most prominently the case in the North Caucasus. In arguably the largest genocide of the nineteenth century, more than ninety per cent of Circassians were killed or forcibly expelled by the victorious Russians. 21 May, the Circassian Day of Mourning, continues to be observed in remembrance of the genocide and exile. Hundreds of thousands of surviving Circassians found refuge in Ottoman territory at a time when Istanbul was engaged in a campaign to centralize and consolidate its rule in its remaining possessions. In addition to Anatolia, Circassian communities were settled in Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Palestine, where they remain to this day. The Jordanian capital Amman, known as Philadelphia in Roman times, re-emerged as a city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries largely on the strength of Circassian settlement. This was in turn related to Ottoman efforts to secure key transportation routes from Damascus to the Hijaz and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. In other cases, the Muslim population was not actively expelled or persecuted by the new rulers, and either remained, fled, or pursued a combination of the two. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the 1878 Congress of Berlin ended several centuries of Ottoman rule and replaced it with that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Whether out of fear of oppression by their new Christian rulers, opposition to conscription by the Habsburg army, or a preference to remain under Ottoman rule, a minority of Bosnian Muslims emigrated from their homeland. Among those who left were the grandparents of Inea Bushnaq, the Palestinian-American translator and oral historian who has among other works compiled a highly-regarded volume of Arabic folk tales. The Bushnaq family settled in the Palestinian town of Tulkarm and then Jerusalem, where Inea was born in 1938. Like every other Palestinian family in what became West Jerusalem, bar none, the Bushnaqs were expelled during the Nakba in 1948, when Inea was nine years old. She would later complete her education in Britain and after the 1967 June War settled in New York, where she remains to this day. A sprightly woman in her mid-eighties, Inea Bushnaq is currently the object of the latest meltdown by Israel flunkies. With the hysterical frenzy produced by @NickKristof 's @nytimes report on Israel’s rape regime yet to subside, a new and equally dire threat to Israeli national security has erupted. This time it comes in the form of @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani’s 15 May commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba, which his official social media account highlighted with a four-minute profile of New Yorker Inea Bushnaq, described as a “Nakba survivor”. “For Palestinians," it concludes, "their displacement and the Nakba continues to this day." The responses were fast and furious, essentially a replay of the Hasbara Symphony Orchestra’s Greatest Hits: There was no Nakba, so Bushnaq couldn’t have survived anything; there was no Nakba but they deserved it; neither the Bushnaqs nor any other Palestinians were forcibly displaced; the Nakba was an attempted genocide of the Jews; Palestinians didn’t and don’t exist; what about the Holocaust, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, and the millipede in Vanuatu with a broken leg; Islam, Muslims, Islam, Muslims; FAFO; etc. etc. etc. The talking point that most amused me is that Inea Bushnaq (and by extension Mamdani) is an imposter because Bushnaq is actually a “Bosnian” and “European settler” with “zero connection to the land” and therefore cannot be Palestinian. Her surname apparently definitively settles the matter. I have no idea whether and, if so, to what extent the Bushnaqs inter-married with the local Arab population. Let’s assume for the sake of argument they never did and kept strictly to themselves. What we do know is that they became part of the local society and made it their own. Theirs is the story of virtually every immigrant known to history, and it is how the societies that exist today were formed. But to Israel flunkies, one cannot be a Palestinian of Bosnian descent, because such individuals are really Europeans, Bosnians. If there is even the slightest connection to any foreign territory, no matter how distant in time, it means one is from there, and has no connection to and certainly no rights in Palestine. This principle of course applies only to Palestinians. On the other side of the ledger we have “Your home has been mine for 3,000 years and it’s blood libel if you ask me to prove I was ever here”. This particular gander is allergic to what is good for the goose. Are all these Israel flunkies, and the Americans first and foremost among them, really making the argument that a family that arrived in a particular country during the late nineteenth century cannot legitimately claim to belong to that country? Really? Would this not also have to mean that Inea Bushnaq, who arrived in the US as an adult in the late 1960s, similarly cannot legitimately claim to be American? And would it not also mean that any of her US critics whose ancestors can identifiably be traced to Europe, or Asia, or Africa, or indeed anywhere abroad also cannot claim to belong to or in North America? Most importantly, if Bushnaq is an imposter who has no place in Palestine because, although born there, her family emigrated from Europe to the Middle East during the nineteenth century, what are we to make of the hundreds of thousands who arrived from Europe during the twentieth century, most of whom were born abroad? Is it really that difficult to confirm that people have equal rights irrespective of their identity or background? Zionism is identity politics on steroids.

Brother Amin Abdullah was the guard at the mosque in San Diego for years. He was instrumental in stopping the shooters from reaching the children today. This was his final post on FB. On these holiest days, may Allah have mercy on him and accept him as a martyr. Ameen

Hundreds of Tunisians have marched through the capital to denounce a worsening economic crisis and what they say is a widening crackdown on dissent. President Kais Saied is accused of undermining the country’s hard-won post-2011 revolution system.

احتجاجات واسعة في العاصمة #تونس ضد الرئيس قيس سعيّد مع تصاعد الغضب الشعبي من الأزمة الاقتصادية وتراجع الحريات

Tunisians protest against Saied over arrests and economic strain reut.rs/4tD47CM reut.rs/4tD47CM

Claims that the Palestinians were in 1948 ordered to evacuate their homes and homeland by Arab leaders in a series of radio broadcasts has been a perennial Hasbara Symphony Orchestra favourite since the Nakba, and continues to be widely promoted to this day. The BBC journalist and United Nations official Erskine Barton Childers (not to be confused with his father, Ireland's fourth president, Erskine Hamilton Childers) thoroughly debunked this claim more than half a century ago in his article, "The Other Exodus" published in The Spectator on 12 May 1961. Childers reviewed the comprehensive archives of Arab radio broadcasts compiled during that period by both the BBC monitoring station in Cyprus and its US counterpart, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) run by the CIA, and found nothing. I have posted a link to Childers's article in the comments, which is worth reading because it includes details of additional fabrications concocted by Israeli officials to further this foundational hasbara myth. Abba Eban, then Israel's permanent representative to the UN and later foreign minister, and easily its most celebrated diplomat, for example claimed that the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Haifa, George Hakim, "fully confirmed" that Palestinians were encouraged to flee by their leaders. Yet, according to Childers: "I wrote to His Grace [Hakim], asking for his evidence of such orders. I hold signed letters from him, with permission to publish, in which he has categorically denied ever alleging Arab evacuation orders; he states that no such orders were ever given. He says that his name has been abused for years; and that the Arabs fled through panic and forcible eviction by Jewish troops." This is the same Abba Eban who on 6 June 1967 falsely informed the UN Security Council that Israel had launched the June War the previous day in response to a series of non-existent attacks on Israel on the morning of 5 June by the Egyptian air force and artillery units. I was previously unaware that the Israeli archives also include records of these radio broadcasts. As the British-Israeli historian Benny Morris reports below, he went through these records and also found that such broadcasts, whether by local Palestinian or Arab leaders, simply do not exist. While the research conducted by Childers and more recently Morris is of course useful in providing official confirmation that such broadcasts are a figment of the Zionist imagination, logic alone should suffice to debunk this myth. In May 1948, the Arab states intervened in Palestine to put an end to the mass expulsions of Palestinians, which since November 1947 already numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and to defeat the Israeli forces responsible for this monumental crime. Does it make any sense that prior to their intervention they would have ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians to clog every road they hoped to use to enter Palestine, for miles and days on end? Of course not. As for the silly claim that the objective of the Arab intervention was genocide, there is no evidence for it, and the conduct of the Arab militaries during the Palestine War supports this conclusion. Nor was it the case that the Arab intervention was a coordinated military campaign to eradicate the nascent Israeli state. Some of the participating Arab states, Syria and Iraq, did have this as an objective. Transjordan clearly did not. Its leadership had already cut a deal with the Zionist leadership to partition Palestine between them and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. Armed conflict between Israel and Transjordan in fact ensued only after Israeli forces reneged on their agreement and initiated seizures of territory beyond the partition boundary. Egypt's position was more ambiguous. It seemed to be primarily motivated by rivalry with Jordan, and ensuring Jordan did not become the main Arab power in Palestine. In short, no Arab state wanted to see the emergence of the Israeli state, but in most cases Arab leaders had more pressing priorities. Coordination between them was primarily notable for its absence. Arab public opinion, by contrast, considered the failure of their leaders to successfully confront the Zionist project nothing short of treason, and it served as a catalyst for more than a decade of revolutions, coups, and uprisings throughout the region.

I'm trying to imagine Muslim kids chanting something similar about the Jewish or Christian faiths at a rally in London. The Prevent folks, counter-terrorism police, the entire British media would be all over the story, asking why Muslims are so extreme & brainwashing their kids.

Entre 1954 et 1962, l'armée française a déplacé de force dans des camps de regroupements plus de 2 millions de paysans algériens du djebel et des Hauts plateaux. Environ 200 000 personnes, principalement des enfants, y ont trouvé la mort. Dans "Une tragédie occultée de la guerre d'Algérie", la journaliste Lorraine Rossignol livre une enquête sur ces camps de la honte passés sous silence en France comme en Algérie.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

🚨This short film exposes the true story of Israel's creation, entirely through the words of its own founders For decades, Israel’s lies have been carefully designed to demonize its victims. To ensure that no matter the crimes it commits, the children it slaughters, the world remains incapable of empathy for Palestinians, or at best, treats it with the same apathy that has allowed this to go on for as long as it has On the 78th anniversary of its creation, it's time the world knew that Israel's past is not different from the brutal present the world is finally seeing

I don’t mind my data being used my for research to help the NHS etc, however, because the government have now allowed Palantir access, I have withdrawn my consent using this link: your-data-matters.service.nhs.uk