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Feb 10 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD—It’d be a TERRIBLE idea for @JoeBiden to worsen the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen by pushing a stronger War on Terror framework & reinstating Trump's terror designation for Yemen's Houthis. Here's a few reasons why.

#YemenCantWait

The US-backed, Saudi-led bombing & blockade of Yemen already kills one child in Yemen every 75 seconds. It is a catastrophic nightmare situation that @JoeBiden promised to stop fueling. It's just 1 of the many BASIC campaign promises he's failed to uphold

.@JoeBiden promised a clear break with Trump on ending material US support for the bombing of Yemen.

Today, a full year later, nothing has materially changed. Nothing. THAT is a moral outrage.
jacobinmag.com/2022/02/joe-bi…
Nearly two dozen of the world’s foremost humanitarian orgs are all begging Biden not to restore the “war on terror” approach to Yemen:

“A re-designation would further [risk Yemen’s access to basic] commodities like food, fuel, and medicine.” commondreams.org/news/2022/02/0…
The US War on Terror has only brought more violence to Black, brown, Muslim communities in the U.S. and abroad and failed by every metric and stated objective.

...except for one: making war and militarism profiteers rich.
To learn more, follow @Dr_Maha_Hilal & grab her brilliant recent book "Innocent Until Proven Muslim" here: broadleafbooks.com/store/product/…
Recently we’ve seen how the "terrorist” designation is being used domestically—which will only increase funding to police, DHS, militaries to further surveil and criminalize our communities. Let's leave the WoT framework behind once and for all.
We must stop the historical amnesia & take seriously the immense harm we’ve seen unleashed by being the world's imminent imperial force & war machine—destroying lives from Afghanistan to Iraq to Guantanamo—& END US support for the bombing of Yemen

#YemenCantWait.

It's on us to do everything in our power to ensure the U.S. stops powering the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, not make an already nightmare, genocidal situation worse.

@Joebiden MUST end ALL U.S. support for the war on Yemen.

theintercept.com/2022/02/08/yem…

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