Outrageous and offensive for @IlhanMN to compare Palestinians resisting US-backed apartheid in the same category as the US empire which has killed millions, and Israel’s illegitimate terrorist colonial regime. Omar must stop pandering to Zionists with anti-Palestinian attacks.
https://twitter.com/ilhan/status/1401985884191404041
The fake “even handedness” @IlhanMN is displaying by placing Palestinian resistance in the same category as the aggressor and its American accomplices is another way of saying “All Lives Matter.” It’s anti-Palestinian and we should not accept it from a “friend”
.@IlhanMN thought that by attacking Palestinian resistance, racist white supremacists would praise her fairness and balance. But they are only smearing her for comparing the US to Hamas (and Taliban). She threw Palestinians under the bus for free. With friends like these ...
Attacking Hamas is the easiest and cheapest political tactic in the West. What takes courage, that @IlhanMN evidently lacks, is explaining why it has broad support and legitimacy as a resistance movement, and defending the principle that an occupied people has the right to resist
I’m not aware that anyone asked @IlhanMN to go out and defend Hamas. But the least she can do is not repeat Zionist talking points whose purpose is to justify Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestinians and delegitimize all resistance.
When you don’t have anything helpful to say, you always have the option to say nothing.
It’s also ludicrous for @IlhanMN to claim that those claiming harm by Hamas have nowhere to seek “justice.” US has passed special laws under which American settlers regularly receive damages of hundreds of millions of dollars against Palestinian organizations!
The entire American establishment, of which @IlhanMN is a part, has spent decades finding new ways to punish all Palestinians, while guaranteeing Israeli impunity. Comparison is wrong on every level.
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