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Ami Dar
@amidar.bsky.social
1.7K followers 23 following 120 posts
Husband, father, brother. Started Idealist.org. Freedom and dignity for all.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 7h
There are exactly zero excuses left for not letting international journalists into Gaza now. Open the damn gates.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 2d
All the feelings: Happy and relieved this deal is finally happening. Angry it didn't happen earlier. Heartbroken by all the suffering. Hopeful and wary about what comes next. Determined to continue doing what I can. Loving the lovers and bored by the haters. Enough! And onward!
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 21d
I was at a conference on Friday where someone said that as long as most people in the US have “lots of calories, cheap gas, and videos to watch,” there would be no real pushback against authoritarianism. We are about to find out if that’s true.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 27d
Ok it!
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Sep 3
We so urgently need a global coalition of the kind and the reasonable. That’s the only thing I want to work on from now on.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Aug 29
My dream team for the Nobel Peace Prize when it's announced in October: the doctors and nurses of Gaza, and Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin, the parents of Hersh, the hostage who was murdered there a year ago.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Aug 27
The power of words. Tom Barrack, Trump's special envoy to Lebanon, goes to Beirut and tells Lebanese journalists at a press conference not to be "animalistic," thereby reinforcing every anti-American stereotype in the region. Maybe professional diplomats are a good thing?
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Aug 27
Yes! We were there on Sunday! Let’s do it!
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 29
Anyone can argue with Mamdani on the merits of what he says or does. That's America. But leave his religion out of it. That's also America.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 21
On a very different note, this week my wife and I went to the Whitney to see an exhibition of Amy Sherald’s paintings. It’s literally breathtaking. If you are in New York, don’t miss it.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 21
Two of the proudest and most stubborn nations in history, each with its own myths and stories of martyrdom and survival, bashing each other in the delusional hope that the other one folds first. What could go wrong?
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 20
God, we need better leaders.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 20
Idealists of the world, unite! A better worid is possible. We all want this in our hearts. So let’s build it together, starting right now.

Coming Tuesday to a website near you :)
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 19
Netanyahu while visiting a hospital and talking about the dead and wounded: “We are all paying a price. Even my son had to cancel his wedding.” Despicable moral midget.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 19
What’s wrong when “they” do it, is also wrong when we do it. And vice-versa. Why is this so hard to grasp? Don’t target civilians. Don’t bomb hospitals. Don’t starve and terrrorize entire populations. No exceptions. And stop justifying it when it happens. What is wrong is wrong.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 19
Did you? Ever hear bullets whistling by your head?
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 19
F-off pussycat.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 19
I’m Jewish. Antisemitism is real. And *therefore* it pisses me off when it’s cheapened by calling just anyone an antisemite. Apply wherever you like.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 17
You must be fun.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 17
I hate the feeling of being afraid to go to bed because of I might read or hear in the morning.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 14
A cliché that never stops being true. Most people simply want to a) be left alone; and b) live their life and raise their family with some measure of freedom, dignity, and security. All this BS, all over the world, is caused by a tiny minority of sociopaths, with, yes, too many passive followers.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 13
If any Iranians read this, I want to say that there is at least one Israeli (and many more) who thinks that a war between our countries is an idiotic tragedy. God, I am pissed now.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 12
To state the obvious: Trump should absolutely stop Netanyahu from launching an idiotic and politically self-serving attack on Iran.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 11
We are all drowning in waves of BS.
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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · Jun 4
With everything that’s happening around us, we urgently need a global coalition of good people. Of the kind and the reasonable. Of all those who want to help build a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives. And if we can also laugh as we go, even better.
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