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Aug 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
As I sit on @AOC lying about Harris ‘working tirelessly towards a ceasefire’, the angrier I get. It’s not just a lie, it is complete historical and moral revisionism meant to cleanse Harris of any and all culpability in the genocide of the Palestinians.

But there’s more.

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AOC is ostensibly speaking to young progressives when she says this — meaning she is weaponizing that positionality to bring votes for a woman who’s done nothing but back Israel & its genocide.
And if Harris is ‘working tirelessly towards a ceasefire’ - then what has she been doing for the past ten months, as second in command?

What does Harris as VP have the power to do or not do..?

The Democrats are unwilling & unable to approach this contradiction because it dismantles Harris as a capable candidate.
Jayapal told me she had just spoken to Harris *that day* (Saturday) that I spoke to her. There is no ‘tireless work towards a ceasefire’ happening with Harris.

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May 21
The US threatens global starvation because federal law mandates defunding the UN in the case of Palestine becoming a member state.

Difficult to see the US as anything other than pathologically evil - in the true moral sense - in its capacity & willingness to harm.

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Federal law (1990) explicitly states that the US will have to pull funding for the UN or any specialized agency that gives the PLO the same standing as a member state.

Now, at the UN - the PA’s name was changed to ‘State of Palestine’ in 2013. But a 1994 law still prohibits the US from funding the UN or any affiliate if they admit any group/org that does not have “internationally recognized attributes of statehood” as a full member.Image
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This was why in 2011, the US defunded UNESCO after it admitted Palestinians as a full ‘member state’. US financial withdrawal cost the UN agency, for cultural/heritage protection, 22% of its budget.

As a result, the US did lose its voting rights and in 2017, left UNESCO entirely.

It only rejoined & starting funding again in 2023 (paying $600M in back dues) - to thwart growing Chinese influence that had come to replace American influence in the agency.Image
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May 2
You are wrong.

India is the largest buyer of Israeli arms - where do you think those arms are being used?

India routinely uses Israeli tactics to suppress, kill & disappear Kashmiri Muslims and entrench its occupation. Hindutva conceptualization of Indian identity and claims of indigneity take a lot directly from Zionist conceptions as well.

While the U.S. is responsible for the formation of the Global War on Terror, its ideas of security were taken from Israeli practices of security - which are rooted in Zionism. India used these ideas to expand laws and practices to, again, entrench its occupation of Kashmir and criminalize and kill our young men.

Zionism is an ethnosupremacist ideology that relies on Islamophobia for the continued “legitimacy” of Israel and its violence. Zionist groups, pro-Israel groups were foundational to fomenting Islamophobia in the U.S. (which already was racist, ofc). Guess where Hindutva talking points come from?

Connecting the systems of violence and supremacist ideology that exist, that feed off one another to uphold occupation and ethnic cleansing isn’t “antisemitism” and saying that this is, is not only an erasure of these connections but denial of what our peoples have experienced and at whose hands.Image
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The way in which people dismiss what has happened to Kashmiris, and how deeply connected that is to Israel and the US, is one of my biggest frustrations. It is a complete erasure of what Kashmiri Muslims have experienced at the hands of the Indian state bolstered and armed by the Israelis and Americans.
The ethnic cleansing project in Kashmir, by the Indians, has been successful. It breaks my heart to know I will never be able to visit where my great (great) grandparents lived, where there may still be records of my family there & that the land that they knew has almost ceased to exist.
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Apr 17
One of the key ways the ‘Antisemitism on Campus’ discourse has developed is through the categorization of “Pro-Palestinian students” vs “Jewish students”.

Muslim/Arab students are made to occupy a politic vs pro-Israel Jewish students who are made to only occupy identity.

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It’s a very cynical use of language & categorization that is purposeful. “Pro-Palestinian” is, of course, an umbrella - it includes Arabs, Muslims, Christians, Black Americans, Jews, LGBTQIA, etc. But when pitted against “Jewish students” or just “Jews” - it’s made threatening, because of how Palestinians & fight for their liberation is manufactured in American/Zionist imaginings: anti-Semitic, wanting the destruction of Jews.
The categorization of “Jewish students” on campus - like how Abby Phillip does in her intv w/Asna Tabassum or as done in this congressional hearing - takes away the vested politics part of the antisemitism campaign: stifling any and all critique of Israel & distracting from anti-genocide activism. Thus, these are *pro-Israel* Jewish students, not just Jewish students.
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Apr 11
this narrative of ‘low intensity’ or ‘scaling back’ the war (see: genocide) has been around for months while we have continued to see increased horrific slaughter & war crimes



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no genocide in recent history has had this incredible of PR management, kudos
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Apr 6
I don’t care for the protests in Israel. I never have and never will. I don’t care about the political aspirations and grievances of people who are - by definition - violent settlers. Even those born there are settlers in the context of on-going land theft & occupation.

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If this strikes you as harsh, then I suppose you also would’ve found it harsh when people said they did not care about the political aspirations & grievances of white southerners during Jim Crow or whites in apartheid South Africa.
There’s no obligation, certainly not political or moral, to ever care for the aspirations and grievances of those who exist with the power that they have solely because their boots crush the necks of others.
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Mar 18
For the last six months, there’s been a common refrain that pops up even among those sympathetic to the Palestinians:

‘What else did Hamas expect?’

Not only does this framing justify genocide as a logical response but it also erases US/Israeli culpability & history.

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From everything we know there was a simple plan & expectation for Oct 7: grab hostages & exchange them for imprisoned Palestinians. One hostage mentioned that a fighter told her she’d be back home on Tuesday - expectation was that Israel would want its civilians back.
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No need to rehash everything re: the Oct 7th plan & what ostensibly went wrong, but it’s clear that Palestinian resistance groups - and it was a coaliton, not just Hamas - didn’t expect the mess of an Israeli response that we all saw.
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