Julie Iny
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Julie Iny is an American
United States
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activist and author of The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage, she is committed to ending oppression, racism, and antisemitism. She was born to an Ashkenazi mother and Mizrahi father, who originated from Basra
Basra
Basra is the capital of Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq near Kuwait and Iran. It had an estimated population of two million as of 2009...
, Iraq
Iraq
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Julie opposes the war in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
and has demonstrated so with banner reading, "Iraqi lives are precious". She also commented, that the war is "really inflicting terror on people who were already suffering". She currently resides in Oakland.