You have to understand when you're organizing with women of color, you can't use words like 'marginalized' and 'second-class citizen' loosely.
We must stand together united in solidarity against the targeting, demonization, and vilification of any group of people.
The way you raise the profile of an issue is by making the issue cool and relevant in pop culture.
Minister Farrakhan absolutely says anti-Semitic, misogynistic and homophobic remarks. And we have unequivocally rejected all forms of racism and hate, including anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.
I think the Women's March is actually reflective of this idea that you can create a big tent, but that doesn't mean the people inside of the tent are going to agree on everything. In fact, they might have very public fights about the things that they don't agree with.
I didn't wake up one morning and become some important person.
Look, yes, I'm a Muslim woman and I want to bring my community to the table, but I also want to make sure that I'm not being tokenized.
I'm a Palestinian-Muslim, but I'm also a progressive.
As one of the national organizers of the Women's March back in 2017, immediately after the Women's March, over 20,000 women across the country had registered to run for office - the largest numbers we've seen in probably our entire American history for women to run in this way.
I began my work as director of the Arab American Association of New York in the wake of the horrific attacks of 9/11.
It just doesn't make any sense for someone to say, 'Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?' There can't be in feminism. You either stand up for the rights of all women, including Palestinians, or none. There's just no way around it.
You've probably seen that any visible Palestinian-American woman who is at the forefront of any social-justice movement is an immediate target of the right wing and right-wing Zionists. They will go to any extreme to criminalize us and to engage in alternative facts, to sew together a narrative that does not exist.
Being a Muslim American activist, I've been targeted by the right wing in a way that is very dangerous.
I haven't given up on my country. I believe in the potential. I believe in the Constitution.
I believe that this is the land of religious freedom and that that applies to Muslims. And if I have to make it apply to Muslims with the work that I do, I'm going to do that.
It's not enough just to elect people of color and women of color and progressives. We need to make sure that they have a work plan and that they are - continue to align with the communities that helped get them to where they're at.
When I stand up here, and I'm fighting for your rights and the rights of all people in these United States of America, I am a true patriot.
Jared Kushner is the last person that should be trying to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The Palestinian people were governing themselves before the creation of the State of Israel.
