Vice President for Government Affairs @CIPolicy. Former US Senate staffer. Lawyer. Cornell alum.

Washington, DC
Joined December 2012
Israeli settlement expansion & settler violence are out of control. The last 3 years saw 50,000 West Bank Palestinians forced from their homes by Israeli military operations, demolitions & settler terror attacks. Now, dozens of lawmakers led by @JoaquinCastrotx are pushing back.
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The next UN Secretary-General must defend international institutions and norms against the forces of autocracy and corruption. @CIPolicy explains why Lana Nusseibeh, the public face of the UAE's denials of arming a genocide in Sudan, is the wrong choice: internationalpolicy.org/publ…
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The United Nations should confront impunity, not crown it. The UAE has put forward a candidate for UN secretary-general. Its record is appalling. It has armed Sudan’s genocidal RSF militia, which has carried out mass murder and mass rape. It also stands accused of arming and financing warlords and militias in Libya and across the Middle East—empowering war criminals who rule through violence and brutal repression. It has bankrolled Trump and the dictators who crushed the Arab Spring, helping extinguish millions of people’s hopes for democracy, dignity, and freedom. Elevating a UAE candidate to UN secretary-general would not be a triumph of diplomacy. It would be a debasement of the international system: rewarding a corrupt regime accused of enabling atrocities with leadership of the very institution charged with preventing them.
I am standing to be Secretary-General because I believe this is a moment to act with greater urgency: to act earlier, bring people together across difference, and drive the work forward until it produces concrete results. That is how we rebuild trust in the United Nations and ensure it delivers meaningful change for the people it exists to serve. My vision: lananusseibeh.org
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In some ways, @Lana_Nusseibeh is a compelling candidate for UN Secretary-General. She's a woman from a moderate Gulf country and has a record of effective diplomacy -- but unfortunately she has proven her effectiveness by backing the UAE's role in arming the RSF militia as it has engaged in mass murder and mass rape in Sudan, in a rampage that both the Biden and Trump administrations have called genocide. So, sure, an effective diplomat is wonderful -- but not if the effectiveness is divorced from values the UN is meant to promote. No doubt she thought she was simply supporting the policies her country's leaders set. But hundreds of thousands have died in Sudan, as best we can tell, and she has helped lead a UAE diplomatic effort that has lied about it, covered it up and persisted in it even as the slaughter continues. Shouldn't that be disqualifying?
I am standing to be Secretary-General because I believe this is a moment to act with greater urgency: to act earlier, bring people together across difference, and drive the work forward until it produces concrete results. That is how we rebuild trust in the United Nations and ensure it delivers meaningful change for the people it exists to serve. My vision: lananusseibeh.org
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את התמונה הזו ראו בכל העולם בשבוע האחרון, חוץ מבישראל. זוהי מרים ע'אנם, בת 3. אביה נהרג לפני שהיא נולדה. אמה נהרגה מול עיניה במתקפה על ביתה בשבוע שעבר. היא חולצה מבין הלהבות. 20% מגופה מכוסה בכוויות. לכתבה, ביחד עם מייסאן מאדי: haaretz.co.il/news/politics/… תגובת צה"ל למטה.
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Hard to watch that interview with @IlhanMN by @chrislhayes where a sitting member of Congress describes her life in hiding because our own govt is using gestapo tactics to terrorize her family. Every Republican knows that nothing will come of this “investigation” other than this debasement of the whole system by Trump. They all know it.
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Trump & US war planners misread Tehran as on the verge of collapse. Instead, Iran's leaders are now committed to match escalation with escalation until securing a negotiated settlement based on mutual concessions, argues @SinaToossi in @CIPolicyJournal internationalpolicy.org/publ…
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American Jews should demand that our synagogues, Hillels, Federations & other institutions sign a pledge promising not to discipline rabbis & other employees for expressing criticism of Israel & solidarity with Palestinians. We should withhold dues & other support if they refuse
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Impeachable offence btw.
Trump Ties Disaster Aid to Midterm Outcome, Warning States That Vote Democrat Could Receive Less Federal Relief Money — NYT
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Absolutely illegal. The next Congress should not only hold hearings and investigate this, but issue subpoenas and seek to punish noncompliance. The next administration should prosecute all who violated the law.
SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24. Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff. State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
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Also the first to help cover up a policy of running guns to a genocidal militia in defiance of a UN arms embargo
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If there’s someone on this planet less self-aware than Brett McGurk, I haven’t met them.
How did UAE become the largest global provider of humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to UN data? Because of Lana Nussaibeh—a diplomat who knows everyone and works with them to GSD. She would be an inspired choice for this impossible job.
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sorry, what?
I wrote about the new generation in Washington, DC semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
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AIPAC can’t save its brand by folding its PAC. A once-revered organization didn’t become toxic because it supported candidates. It became toxic because of the policies it asks those candidates to defend. Keeping its Super PAC while abandoning its own PAC only doubles down on the dark money politics that helped create its problem in the first place.
SCOOP | After three cycles of direct political involvement through its political action committee, AIPAC announced it will no longer issue endorsements or directly earmark contributions to candidates. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/5pegr
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To put this in simpler terms: AIPAC is now such a political liability for candidates that it is ending its direct campaign contributions, but doubling down on dark money and other fundraising more difficult to tie back to it.
SCOOP: AIPAC will no longer endorse congressional candidates or earmark donations to congressional campaigns. The group's super PAC, United Democracy Project, will continue to operate and it will urge members to donate directly to pro-Israel candidates. jewishinsider.com/2026/10/ai…
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Today, Israeli forces detained dozens of volunteers, including a congressional candidate and rabbis, in the West Bank. Days earlier, settlers attacked European diplomats and a Washington Post journalist. If American public servants, diplomats, and journalists are targeted, imagine what Palestinian families face every day. Congress should take up my bill, the Stop the Settlements Act, to impose sanctions on anyone driving settlements in the West Bank or Gaza, including construction companies and banks. It's backed by 59 members of Congress, including the bill's latest co-sponsors, @RepRaskin, @RepRobertGarcia, @RepJasonCrow, @RepDeborahRoss, @RepJasmine, and @RepDavids. nytimes.com/2026/10/21/nyreg…
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Steve Witkoff's an imbecile. In addition to the million plus dead, Putin hunts and kills Russian dissidents & has abducted thousands of children from their families.
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“There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking… nuclear weapons…. If you take out Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations.” — Netanyahu, 2002 It might be time to stop listening to this guy and start holding him accountable.
Netanyahu: “Iran is once again attempting to develop weapons of mass destruction"
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Combatants from Europe to the Gulf are targeting energy, because they know gas prices freak out Trump. New @OrderFromAshes pod with @mwhanna1 @zackcuyler Chris Newton and @rohadvani
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