Cynthia McKinney was *not* kidnapped. She was detained and deported for illegally running an Israeli blockade.

Cynthia McKinney is a shameless exhibitionist and grand-stander who has accused the Department of Defense of using Hurricane Katrina to cover up the slaughter of 5,000 prisoners whom she claims were secretly buried in a swamp in Louisiana, used the anti-semitic New Black Panther Party as security who in her service hurled racist invectives at Jewish reporters, and refused to distance herself from remarks her father made on television the night before her election defeat, stating that "Jews have bought everybody ... J-E-W-S."

Believe me, the Palestinians don't want someone like her on their side. She will do more harm than good to their cause. Her actions are shameful. It's an absolute outrage that she was ever elected to be in the U.S. Congress in the first place, and the manner in which she conducted herself while in office was truly dishonorable. Her fellow House Democrats wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole when she was in office, and I refuse to believe a single thing she says about what has happened to her in Israel. She is a disgrace to her community and country.

P.S. The Uyghur situation in China warrants a closer look.

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Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History is a brilliant book that attempts the “impossible” and succeeds. Using Michel Foucault and Eve Sedgwick as theoretical touchstones, and incorporating Raymond Williams’s “structures of feeling,” Heather Love “feels backward” to reimagine and connect with aspects of a queer past that had been rendered invisible.

Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech: Perhaps because I was working in the New York City public schools at the time, I was particularly moved by the story of Debbie Almontaser, the founding principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), an English-Arabic public school in Brooklyn, New York. KGIA is one of sixty-eight dual language schools intended to assist new immigrants with assimilating to their new home and foster an appreciation for the study of Arabic language and culture. Just one month before the school was slated to open, Almontaser was forced to resign as a result of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim fire that was sparked by Rightwing group Stop the Madrassa, fanned by Fox News, and finally made into an inferno by New York Post journalist Chuck Bennett, who took Almontaser's solicited explanation of the word intifada vastly out of context in order to write a sensationalistic story. The injustice done to Almontaser is devastating, though completely legal according to free speech laws.

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To all readers of feministing, the comments on that article are offensive and triggering. Do not read them if you don't have to. I flagged all the rascist comments I could get, we'll see what happens next.

Check out the comments on the entry about this artical on the community. The last post is so insanly racist and offensive. Everyone needs to stand up against whoever posted it.

that news story is one of the most victim blaming I have ever seen. it basically makes the case that if you have been drinking or drugged and are raped, your flashes of memory are meaningless because you may not have noticed other things. I understand the racist implications and why this may deserve a closer look in terms of the way the law enforcement acted, but the obvious slut shaming (how dare she have had consensual sex with someone and their semen be present!) and victim blaming attitudes of the article bothered me enough that it distracted me from seeing any other value in the article. It did everything it could do discredit the victim and glorify the athlete.