{"id":46710,"date":"2016-04-25T02:21:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T02:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46710"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:32:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:32:15","slug":"im-the-new-nus-president-and-no-im-not-an-antisemitic-isis-sympathiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46710","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m the new NUS president \u2013 and no, I\u2019m not an antisemitic Isis sympathiser"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m the new NUS president \u2013 and no, I\u2019m not an antisemitic Isis sympathiser<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2016-04-24<\/p>\n

Malia Bouattia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\u2018Some may not agree with my politics and ideologies, but I do believe the student movement has a shared goal.\u2019 Photograph: Vicky Design\/NUS website<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The accusations being directed at me this week are deeply troubling and false. I want to focus on liberating education and opportunity for all<\/em><\/p>\n

This week I became the first black woman to be elected president of the National Union of Students<\/a>, and the first Muslim<\/a> who will hold this position too. But instead of celebrating and publicising this incredible landmark, the media coverage<\/a> has been cluttered with stories calling me a racist, an antisemite, an Islamic State<\/a> sympathiser and more.<\/p>\n

The truth is, as those who know me well understand, I\u2019ve always been a strong campaigner against racism and fascism in all its forms. And I\u2019d like to set a few things straight…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m the new NUS president \u2013 and no, I\u2019m not an antisemitic Isis sympathiser The Guardian 2016-04-24 Malia Bouattia \u2018Some may not agree with my politics and ideologies, but I do believe the student movement has a shared goal.\u2019 Photograph: Vicky Design\/NUS website The accusations being directed at me this week are deeply troubling and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,820,10],"tags":[23648,23645,23646,2103],"class_list":["post-46710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-uk","tag-malia-bouattia","tag-national-union-of-students","tag-nus","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51621,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710\/revisions\/51621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}