text:  Yad El-Baghdadi's forebears left Jaffa, Tel Aviv, in 1948. Today, he's a Palestinian human rights activist, a writer, and author of The Middle East Crisis Factory. I spoke to him earlier this year about a thread he'd written on X in November. In the thread, he clarified what terms like colonialism and decolonization really mean and why muddling them can be risky.