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#Egypt: Widening assaults on press freedom by the authorities, including targeting, persecution and harassment of independent journalists, must end immediately.
We call on Egypt to end all forms of harassment of journalists and media outlets, and to respect and fulfil the right to freedom of expression, including the right to information. Journalists must be able to carry out their essential work free from intimidation and reprisals.
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An Israeli airstrike hit a metal foundry in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, killing three people, medics said. Four more people, including a 13-year-old, were killed in Gaza City's Zeitoun and Daraj neighborhoods and in Khan Younis reut.rs/4sVyg1C
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I wrote a quick reaction to Abdul El-Sayed’s win despite the deluge of Islamophobic attacks. For @nybooks
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El-Sayed received more votes in Dearborn than Harris and Trump combined in 2024.
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Through the fall and winter of 2023, my phone kept lighting up with calls and texts from Arab and Muslim Democratic staffers on the Hill. Several told me they were being kept out of the meetings where their bosses decided how to respond to Israel’s war in Gaza, and that they were labeled “emotional” and “difficult” for seeing it differently. They pushed for the vigils on Capitol Hill to include Palestinian lives alongside Israeli ones. None ever did.
After Tuesday’s results and the increasing rejection of AIPAC, I keep thinking about them. They spoke up at a cost to their standing in their own offices, and they kept at it while being shut out every step of the way. That took courage, and I hope the party remembers it next time.
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Three new Muslim members of Congress:
🩺 @AbdulElSayed: First Muslim senator. 15% of Michigan doctors are Muslim.
🎖️ Adam Hamawy: Iraq vet. 11% of U.S. Muslims are veterans.
🌎 Darializa Avila Chevalier: First Latina Muslim in Congress. Latinos make up 9% of U.S. Muslims.
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New in @playbookdc: Brenda Abdelall has been named Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed’s (D-Mich.) transition director.
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The work is just getting started.
I'm building a team in Michigan and Washington, D.C. to fight for a government that works for all of us.
Interested in joining us? Submit materials here:
abdultransition.com
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We just elected a rockstar bench of Democrats to Congress — and now we’re looking for great staff to help them deliver on their promises to the American people.
Got what it takes? Send us your résumé: majoritydemocrats.com/news/p…
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NEW: Michigan GOP chair tells me Trump’s ‘jihadist’ attack helped El-Sayed win in MI, which has one of the country’s largest Arab & Muslim pops
He said the national GOP should have shown more “sensitivity to the local conditions,” both in MI & nationwide
ms.now/liveblog/midterms-who…
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In successfully defending a Senate seat in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed overcame Haley Stevens (twice) and Mike Rogers, but also a nasty strain of Islamophobia that emerged not-so-quietly during this campaign. Stevens’s sudden weird late endorsement of Rogers over the weekend, accompanied by a mini-media blitz, clearly didn’t make a difference. El-Sayed will now become the first-ever Muslim to serve in the U.S. Senate, which is just one of the many historic feats in these midterms.
Read more updates: nymag.visitlink.me/HVwhWQ
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I am so grateful to every single voter in the 26th Senate District who made this victory possible.
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Breaking News: Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Democrat, has won Michigan’s Senate race, according to The Associated Press. He will become the first Muslim senator when he is seated in January. nyti.ms/3X5nFoP
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Trump just now, in his first post in three hours, writes: "I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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BREAKING 🚨 Adam Hamawy, doctor who volunteered in Gaza, wins House race
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#BREAKING: Democratic socialist Donavan McKinney wins Michigan House seat
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