Everyone loves diversity and inclusion – until you stick up for Palestinians
I wrote this essay for The Guardian about an experience of mine–I was invited and then disinvited to speak at an event …
Threats against Palestinian, Muslim and Jewish people has spiked since the war began
I had the honor to speak with Mary Louise Kelly of NPR’s All Things Considered regarding the spike in threats to Palestinians, …
Standing up for Palestine is also standing up to save the west from the worst of itself
I wrote this for The Guardian, on how Western governments are limiting expressions of support for Palestinians. It’s one thing when those …
A cop said a woman killed by a police crash had ‘limited value’. That’s appalling
Have you heard about the Seattle cop who described a young Indian graduate student who was killed as being of “limited value”? …
Jordan Neely, a vulnerable young man, was killed – and not by his medical history
In The Guardian, I write about how the killing of Jordan Neely and how much of the talk around the young man’s …
When it comes to immigration policy, Biden is increasingly Trump-like
In The Guardian, I argue that when it comes to immigration policy–especially on the US’s southern border–what we really need is a …
Biden is throwing migrants under the bus to appease Republican fearmongering
In this piece, for The Guardian, I argue that while the Biden administration criticizes conservatives as anti-immigrant, it pursues policies not so …
Allah supreme: how Pharoah Sanders found freedom and rebellion in Islam
The legendary jazz musician Pharoah Sanders left us in 2022, moving me to write this piece on the influence of Islam on …
Division Is America’s Natural State
Did the War on Terror, with its brazen contempt for existing institutions and established rule of law, launch the USA’s latest creep …
Jenny Holzer, PEN America, and Me
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the important organization PEN America, which fights “for the freedom of imprisoned and at-risk writers …