Shadi Hamid
@shadihamid
Columnist @WashingtonPost; Research professor of Islamic studies @FullerSeminary. Pre-order my book THE CASE FOR AMERICAN POWER: https://amzn.to/3GiHyke
My new book THE CASE FOR AMERICAN POWER is out November 11 from @simonschuster. This book is a culmination, really. I don't think I'm going to write something like it again. Pre-orders make a big difference! Please consider ordering a copy here: amzn.to/3UoLnYC
Yes, Israel wants to genocide, and it has. I lay out the case in detail here: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
This is just total bs. Turkish troops on horseback managed to kill a million Armenians in two years. If israel wanted to genocide, it would
For the past five days, nothing has entered my stomach except a plate of lentils I ate with a spoon alongside my children and wife two days ago. Today, I had to go wait for the trucks. My friend Abu Omar accompanied me, and we set out. While we were waiting, hoping to get some…
Endless atrocities
A Palestinian mother went out to bring food for her children, only to come back and find them all tragically buried under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike hit their home.
Our powerful @Daily_Express front page for tomorrow. The brutal suffering in Gaza must end. The shocking image shows Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, one, who weighs the same as three-month old baby due to the humanitarian crisis following the continued blocking of basic aid…
The new cancel culture is almost exclusively about suppressing pro-Palestinian speech
A Harvard publisher canceled an entire special issue of a journal on education and Palestine that planned to cover topics from the annihilation of Gaza’s schools to the challenges of teaching about Israel and Palestine in the United States. trib.al/pBFBGfZ
An utter and shameless slander from Ellie. Pope Francis added the 21 Coptic Martyrs, murdered by ISIS, to the Roman Martyrology --- even though they weren't even Catholic. He visited Iraq in solidarity with ISIS's Christian victims.
Have you noticed the pattern in which one Pope after the next will focus on the Jewish state & slandering it, while completely ignoring the actual genocide of Christians in the Middle East including right this minute in Syria?
People named Khalil were Christian while parts of the West were still shadowed by paganism.
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
What’s happening in Gaza is absolutely unconscionable. More than 650 people—including children—have died while trying to access food and aid. Replacing UNRWA with this colossal failure of an aid distribution system has been disastrous and deadly.
"This is one of the worst tragedies we've seen so far," @WFPChief Cindy McCain tells @BeckyCNN, describing a deadly incident yesterday in which dozens were killed and injured by Israeli gunfire in Gaza while seeking aid from a convoy of World Food Programme trucks.
This is what genocide looks like: “The systematic destruction of every element that supports life in Gaza.” As I’ve said many times, Israel’s actions in Gaza *easily* meet the legal definition of genocide and the vast majority of genocide scholars concur
Every day more doctors are being targeted in Gaza. When coupled with the campaign to destroy the hospitals, water supplies, shelter and the supply of food, it paints a clear picture. As my friend points out, there is only one possible explanation: the systematic destruction of…
Thank you to @ShadiHamid for this deep-dive discussion about the word too many people are still too hesitant to discuss - and why this word really matters. levernews.com/the-case-for-c…
I think of @freddiejh8's quip: “A nation of immigrants has become a nation of potential deportees.” We were never perfect, but we are growing more imperfect, and that imperfection isn’t the result of good intentions gone awry but bad intentions pursued with zeal.
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn't know. When the kids ask, tell them that no one meant any harm."
Another massacre of starving Palestinians
Breaking News: Israeli troops killed more than 60 Palestinians after crowds gathered near a border crossing where aid trucks enter, Gaza officials said. nyti.ms/3GRuuTp
Yes, they sang “may your village burn” before deploying. But I’m sure they scrupulously followed international law in Gaza nonetheless.
Ahead of the deployment of the 22nd Battalion from Carmeli Brigade into Netzarim, Gaza last April, the battalion gathered to prepare for their entry with a clear objective of what they were about to do. A large crowd of soldiers and officers cheering, “May your village burn”
In my new @wcrowdslive essay, I reflect on a particular kind of American despair. Things are looking bad, largely because they are. But that's not the end of the story. wisdomofcrowds.live/p/a-particular…