Today my apartment management called and told me I have to take down the #Palestine flag Iโve had hanging on my balcony for the past two months. Someone complained. ๐งต
Mana Mostatabi
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Mana Mostatabi
@mostlymana
doing things daily ๐ชด | some policy, some comms ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป | learned stuff @georgetownmsfs + @ucsb_ccs ๐ | big fan of non-proliferation and moo deng ๐ฆ
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2009
- Replying to @mostlymanaI checked my lease and I can hang it in my window โ so thatโs what Iโll do. But letโs not pretend this was neutral. This was silencing. This was erasure, folded into property management language. Palestine is not going anywhere. And neither are those of who stand against genocide
- Replying to @mostlymanaLetโs be clear: this wasnโt about policy. This was about someone not liking the visibility of Palestine. Not liking the discomfort of being reminded. Not liking that I dared to hang a flag that says, โI see whatโs happening. And I will not look away.โ
- Replying to @mostlymanaWhen I asked if they were also requiring the neighbor with a Warriors flag to take theirs down, the response was: โYeah, wellโฆ what if someone doesnโt like the #Warriors?โ And I havenโt stopped thinking about that. Because no one is knocking on doors about Steph Curry.
- Replying to @mostlymanaNo one is saying a sports flag โmight hurt our ability to rent units.โ No one feels politically threatened by team colors. Sports teams donโt challenge power. The Palestinian flag does.
- I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Sates of America. And for which it stands, one giant typo, and OMFG get me off this planet.
- My family in Tehran has piled into a car and evacuated. This is war, unfolding in real time. Other relatives are meeting them halfway because gas is being rationed. As my sister said, itโs taking a literal village to get them to places that may only be slightly less dangerous.
- This is the hard hitting, nuanced journalism I've been waiting all of 2020 for.
- Iran is subject to some of the most intensive IAEA inspections and monitoring in the world. Israel has a clandestine nuclear weapons program with zero oversight. Now itโs escalating again. Aggressors gonna aggress. #NoWarWithIranBREAKING: Israel said that it struck Iran, and Iranian media said explosions were heard in Tehran as tensions mounted over US efforts to win Iran's agreement to halt production of material for an atomic bomb reut.rs/4jReGNQ
- I hear people say โNetanyahu isnโt Israel,โ and yes, there are Israelis protesting the violence in Gaza. But comments like these, and polls like this, make it clear: removing Bibi isnโt enough. The rot is systemic. You canโt return to what Israel was, because what itโs been hasWhen youโre not at all a genocidal society.
- I feel overstimulated and furious, by both the attack itself and the mediaโs portrayal of it as a โpreemptive strike.โ They hit residential buildings. They killed children. Western media isnโt just biased, itโs complicit. Israel provokes its neighbors, slaughters civilians,
- Running list of Israelโs violations of intl law: โข War crimes โข Genocide โข Killing journalists โข Collective punishment โข Starvation โข Attacks on hospitals/schools โข Destroying water systems โข White phosphorus use โข Illegal settlements โข Forced displacement โข ApartheidYouโre a genocidal military repeatedly caught lying to cover up your war crimes. No one believes you. You murder journalists when you have something to hide.
- A big thanks to @VICE for giving me the chance to share my story about being Iranian American and how the recent escalations between the two countries I love have impacted me. #NoWarWithIran
- The US just bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. My first thought: JFC. My second: maybe itโs a one-off. Not because they value life, but because theyโve done the sacrificial math about how many American deaths theyโre willing to accept if Iran retaliates. This country wonโt
