Elahé Sharifpour-Hicks

In the view of Vice-President J. D. Vance, there is a single cause for the Democrats’ overwhelming wins in the midterm elections: “the reason we lost” is the Iran war, he wrote on X Wednesday morning. According to an NBC exit poll, 63 per cent of American voters disagreed with Donald Trump taking the country to war with Iran. The midterms also reflected the sea change in Americans’ views on Israel, with candidates such as Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s new senator-elect, not shying away from denouncing Israel’s war on Gaza and its role in provoking Trump’s rovoking Trump’s Middle East imbroglio. Read more about how voters on Tuesday rejected the war in Iran: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/UV…

Bernie Sanders on Iran: What the Democrats can do is stop the war. And we stop that war not just by passing resolutions, but by defunding the war. This war is illegal. It's unconstitutional. We're going to stop that war.

Democrats should do the Stefanik college president hearings in reverse. Get college presidents on the record saying that students have the right to peacefully protest and to say controversial--even offensive-- things. Get them on the record that scholars should not punished for their views and that universities will protect foreign students targeted for their views. Demand that the last three years of McCarthyism and cowardice end now.

Muslim candidates made historic gains in the U.S. midterms, led by Abdul El-Sayed, who becomes the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate after winning Michigan’s open seat. El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American physician, beat Republican Mike Rogers despite facing anti-Muslim attacks during the campaign. Adam Hamawy, an Egyptian-American surgeon and Army veteran who volunteered as a doctor in Gaza, becomes New Jersey’s first Muslim member of Congress. Incumbents Rashida Tlaib in Michigan and Ilhan Omar in Minnesota were re-elected. Aisha Wahab, an Afghan-American, is projected to win a full term in California. At the state level, Aber Kawas became the first Palestinian-American elected to the New York State Legislature, and Nabeela Syed flipped a Republican-held seat in Illinois’s state Senate. Muslim community outlets count at least 36 Muslim candidates winning or leading in federal, state and local races, with seven or eight heading to Congress. Many of these candidates ran on affordability, civil rights and opposition to unconditional U.S. military support for Israel. Several faced heavy outside spending from pro-Israel groups.

هفته گذشته، استاندار تهران از کاهش ۷ هزار نفری تعداد #دانش‌آموزان شهر تهران خبر داد. در گفت‌وگوی که با تعدادی از کودکان داشتم،#فقر مهمترین دلیل ترک تحصیلشان بود. بسیاری از خانواده‌ها دیگر توانایی پرداخت هزینه‌های تحصیل، خرید کتاب، لوازم‌التحریر و رفت‌وآمد به مدرسه را ندارند.

Mabrouk: El-Sayed declares victory! The first Muslim American elected to the US Senate!