At a meeting of the Muslim Girl Scouts of Astoria last week, a young woman bounded into the room, asking whether her fellow scouts had secured tickets to an Olivia Rodrigo concert. “It’s no conflict at all,” Ms. Rayan told me of Islam and the Girl Scouts. “You want a strong Muslim American girl.”At the Girl Scouts meeting, Amira and her friends discussed their plans to protest the war in Gaza. In 1948, Ms. Rayan told me, her grandfather lost his home and land in Jaffa to the state of Israel. Ms. Rayan said those killed in her family included six cousins and their children, who were as young as 2.

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Persons: Amira Ismail, Amira, ’ ” Amira, ‘ That’s, ”, “, ” Amira, Eid, Dianne Morales, Abier Rayan, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, Ms, Rayan, There’s, “ I’m, John Lewis, Amira waded Organizations: City Hall, Palestinian, United, New, Muslim Girl Scouts, Scout, Girl Scouts, Gaza Health Ministry, Hamas, Yorkers, Brooklyn Locations: New York, Queens, New York City, Palestinian American, United States, Israel, America’s, Astoria, Gaza, Egypt, Jaffa, Gaza City, Brooklyn