Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud is leading a campaign to rehabilitate her country’s image after blows such as the 2018 slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and Riyadh’s involvement in the war in Yemen and the loss of close ally Donald Trump as president.
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June 10, 2021 Share
TAKOMA PARK, Md. A plump robin wearing a tiny metal backpack with an antenna hops around a suburban yard in Takoma Park, then plucks a cicada from the ground for a snack.
Ecologist Emily Williams watches through binoculars from behind a bush. On this clear spring day, she’s snooping on his dating life. “Now I’m watching to see whether he’s found a mate,” she said, scrutinizing his interactions with another robin in a nearby tree.
Once the bird moves on at season’s end, she’ll rely on the backpack to beam frequent location data to the Argos satellite, then back to Williams’ laptop, to track it.
Combating what they call a deluge of online hate, these activists in their 20s and 30s are hoping to shape the conversation around anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Some fear it’s a “losing battle.”