This is fucking racist and you should be fucking ashamed of yourself. You're talking about a nation of 15 million people as if we are dangerous animals who must be caged or else they'll eat someone. Fuck you, you fucking racist
"We have to treat them that way because if we don't they'll hurt us". Or maybe when you brutalize someone and stand on their neck for 73 years, you wouldn't want to get off their neck, coz you think the moment they get on their feet they'll sock you in the face for what you did
It is extraordinary when the subjugated do not hate their oppressors, but it's ordinary when they do. That hatred did not come in a vacuum, it's a reaction to oppression. Unfortunate, but human. If you decry the hatred but not the oppression, you're among the oppressors.
It is human nature when the oppressed hate their oppressors. Unfortunate but human. The oppressors routinely exploit this human tendency to argue that the subjugated are hateful savages who should be denied agency and treated as subhuman. Like this fucking racist.
These assholes come across a situation where there *clearly* is an oppressor and an oppressed, and instead of demanding an end of oppression, they demand that the subjugated reduce the anxiety of their subjugators as a preconditions for ending subjugation. Fuck that racist shit.

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27 May
What often goes unsaid in the whole 1SS/2SS debate is that (1) Israel will *never* allow Palestinians to have a truly sovereign state anywhere in historical Palestine; (2) Israel's settlement expansion was never about "natural population growth" but preempting a Palestine state
Pro-Israel folk want to have their cake and eat it too, they want to live in a fantasy world in which Israel actually accepts to coexist with a truly sovereign Palestinian state *and* wants to gaslight Palestinians by forcing us to live in their fantasy world too
Bottom line, in the short to medium term, neither a 1SS nor a 2SS is possible. A huge reason is unqualified, unconditional, uncritical historical Western support for Israel. We can have a 1SS in 20-30 years if we work hard. Meanwhile we can have a 2SS when hell freezes over.
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25 May
So I have a question about genocide *runs and hides*
But seriously, with regards to say Xinjiang. The CCP is trying to extinguish the Uighur *as a people* but not necessarily by killing them all. This is "cultural genocide". But is it also *literal* genocide, in that the aim is to erase an identity off the planet?
I ask this question with my eye on Palestine, and I hope to broach this topic respectfully. Many Israeli politicians have clearly said Palestinians don't exist as a people and that they'd rather if they are expelled. They refer to us as "Arabs" as a way to to deny our peoplehood
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25 May
So I'd like to quickly offer my perspective (as someone who studies radicalization) on Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent antisemitic comments in which she likened mask mandates to the literal Holocaust, not sure how long this thread will be:
Many people have (correctly) noted the antisemitic nature of her comments. What people missed, though, is that the comments aren't only about minimizing the Holocaust - they're also about inflating the persecution narrative of her white base. Radicalization thrives on persecution
Reminder of my (much) earlier tweet about the "radicalization roadmap" which I developed partly by reverse engineering my own radicalization (20 years ago) + by watching another generation get radicalized in 2014/2015:
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24 May
Take six seconds to google me before trolling. I'm literally living under police protection because I have a crosshair on my back and dictators want me dead. Also, what is it that triggers these people about a Palestinian voice living as a refugee in the West?
I mean it seems that random white Americans are a million times more offended and aghast about a prominent stateless Palestinian refugee in Norway than are Norwegians themselves (most of whom are incredibly gracious and welcoming)
Also, do I have to literally live under bombs or in a dungeon or in a refugee camp for my voice as a Palestinian to be valid enough for you? Must we as Palestinians always play the role that satisfies your prejudices - as the eternal global underclass?
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24 May
Several people in my mentions (and messages) have been asking why so many Palestinians have considered the recent ceasefire as a victory. To explain, here's a short thread (or at least I intend it to be short)
Reason #1: Reclaiming the narrative about our peoplehood. Our people have been fragmented and forced to live multiple parallel realities. The fact that every Palestinian across the board was rising up and raising one flag was a huge victory against an oppressive reality
Reason #2: Dignity. To be humiliated is part of the Palestinian experience, this is true across the board but some are more deeply oppressed than others. The cease fire was a return to the status quo strategically, but for many people was more proof that we cannot be defeated
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23 May
A commercial flight was flying from Athens to Lithuania, a flight path that has it fly over Belarus. While in Belarus's airspace, it was intercepted by military jets and forced to land, because there was a journalist from Belarus on board who is wanted in the country
This is an extremely dangerous precedent for all journalists, activists, and journalists in the entire world. If this is allowed to pass without serious - and I mean *serious* - consequence, then it's no less dangerous than the precedent set by the 2018 Khashoggi murder
There are two immediate concerns. The first is the safety of freedom of the journalist, Roman Protasevich. The second is ensuring a package of consequences so painful that they serve as a deterrent to every tinpot dictator out there who thinks of doing anything like this
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