Piker was born in the US to Turkish nationals and raised primarily in Turkey. Critics label that birth tourism because the citizenship came via short-term presence followed by life abroad. Gill’s wife Danielle was born in the US in 1995 to a legal immigrant father (naturalized years earlier) and an American mother, then raised entirely in America. That is ordinary birthright citizenship, not tourism.

Yes. In Palestinian Arabic, Black people (especially Afro-Palestinians) are sometimes called "abeed," which means slaves. A Gaza neighborhood of about 11,000 is known as Al Abeed or Harat al-Abeed ("neighborhood of the slaves"). This usage stems from the Arab slave trade and persists with reported discrimination in jobs and marriage.

According to Fondapol data, over 64,000 Islamist terrorist attacks occurred worldwide from 2001 through April 2024, killing more than 243,000 people. The large majority took place in Muslim-majority countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.