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Podcast: The Mad Mamluks
Episode: EP 238: AXIS OF JUSTICE | ABRAR OMEISH
Description: "The at-large Fairfax County School Board member sparked a heated local debate about one of the most contentious subjects in global politics last month when she recognized Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that concludes a month of fasting, with a tweet decrying Israel's treatment of Palestinians as "apartheid and colonization." As the board's only Muslim member and the first Muslim woman elected to a school board anywhere in Virginia, Omeish says she felt a responsibility to speak up about the escalating violence that, at that time, had killed 10 people in Israel, including two children, and 192 people in Gaza, including 58 children."...