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Bassam Haddad

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Bassam Haddad

@4Bassam

Founding Director of MidEast & Islamic Studies Program, George Mason University, Executive Director of ArabStudiesInstitute.org. Satire warning!

Joined April 2009

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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Dec 26, 2023
I don’t want to hear it again! The Complete Fall from Illusory Grace of the US Government I don’t want to hear a word about your vengeful democracy About your principles About your human rights About your civility About your values I don’t want to see you aghast at what you
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Oct 17, 2024
I do not think Israelis understand what happened today. But they will for the rest of time. They turned Sinwar into an immortal legend for the people of Gaza.
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Aug 16, 2024
One can understand political bias of an empire bent on injustice abroad, but to actually craft this headline, you have to be a bonafide as*hole:
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Dec 10, 2024
Notes/Thread on the "Days After," with focus on Israel’s destruction of Syria’s defense capabilities and its implications: There is no mincing of words regarding the (realistically temporary) relief that pervaded Syria for the past couple of days. But as we discover what we
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Sep 23, 2024
Israel's savagery has normalized in the Western media the killing hundreds of Arabs a day. But this is not normalized among the rest of us. This is not normalized. The wounds among the living in the region run deep. These wounds will come to life and tell their story in many
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Dec 8, 2024
Quick Notes/Thread on Syria angles: What explains the stark polar reactions we are observing everywhere in the wake of the Syrian regime’s collapse? It is as though people are watching different realities, or approaching reality from singular angles. I’ll try to unpack here
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Oct 1, 2024
The White House spokesperson just said "this is a dangerous escalation." Are you fuc*ing kidding me? Are you serious right now? How can the bones in your body not disintegrate upon hearing your racist self? After you helped Israel kill 45,000 people and destroy the lives of 2
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Nov 12, 2024
The false demarcation between the ‘over here’ and ‘over there’; and we as beneficiaries of imperial privilege. By @4noura last night in NY.
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Jun 3, 2025
Sam Harris and his ilk. Tim nailed it.
FiveFilters.org
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FiveFilters.org
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
May 30, 2025
Netanyahu will publicly declare it’s a genocide before university presidents and administrators do:
Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
May 30, 2025
UPDATE: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has barred the class of 2025 president from participating in her graduation ceremony after she spoke on stage Thursday denouncing MIT’s complicity in the genocide of the indigenous Palestinians population. On Friday, students
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Jun 20, 2025
Always former
Trita Parsi
@tparsi
Jun 20, 2025
Sweden's former prime minister: "Netanyahu attacked Iran not to prevent a nuclear weapon but to prevent a nuclear agreement."
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Dec 8, 2024
Imprisoned when he was a child. Solitary confinement. Not a supporter of Israel, not a supporter of US Imperialism, not even aware of the political landscape. Thrown in there like a dog, with no end in sight. He's not alone. His story is the reason this rotting regime edifice
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
Dec 8, 2024
Replying to @4Bassam
Hence, I am ecstatic for the release of prisoners of conscience who languished/tortured for years/decades, and people generally who had suffered immensely in Syria, including friends and family; but, aside from the immediate precarity, I am even more wary of the now increased
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Bassam Haddad
@4Bassam
May 15, 2024
The asymmetry of power displayed by knowing exactly where every person lives and what they do, and instrumentalizing it to kill, not only random human beings, but also those who produce knowledge, those who heal people, those who are necessary for social development, is worse
Quds News Network
@QudsNen
May 14, 2024
BREAKING| Israel kills Prof. Mamdouh Abu Al Husna, a law professor at the University of Palestine, along with his father and two of his sons, in an airstrike that targeted their home in Jabalia.
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