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@SanaSaeed
Oct 28 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This is a striking moment but it isn’t the damning moment for Muslims & Arabs as many may think it is - it is the sign of the demise of the Democratic Party, even in its ability to maintain optics.

And optics are at the core of politics.

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Kamala Harris, Joe Biden & the Democratic Party have refused to even share a stage with Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians - not even for the sake of optics or for the sake of their electoral interests. Instead, Harris & her party have chosen to castigate & marginalize Arabs & Muslims - who overwhelmingly vote Democrat - at every single turn.
These men with Trump are a handful of Muslim/Arab leaders out of millions of Muslims in this country. Not all Arabs are Muslim and not all Muslims are Arab - and between these communities is a vast spectrum of politics & political engagement.
Muslims and Arabs have endorsed Jill Stein / third party candidates (@Abandonbiden24, over 150 imams/clerics in a letter); Muslims/Arabs have endorsed / supported Harris (Zogby, Emgage, Mehdi Hasan, Uncommitted-ish). Black Muslims have been on both sides of this.

Our communities aren’t monolithic.
There is no doubt that overwhelmingly Arab and Muslim communities are against the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of the Palestinians and its safe to say that almost every single Muslim & Arab filling out a ballot will be thinking about Gaza. But many will not even be going to the ballot box.
The question of voting for a party actively overseeing the genocide of 2.2 million people, including over a million children, aside — the Democrats have given absolutely nothing to voters (Arab, Muslim and others) to show they even want to pretend to care. Instead, they kick out Muslims from Harris rallies and yell ‘I don’t GAF about Gaza!’ at babies.
Trump did the easiest thing the Democrats & Harris couldn’t: he welcomed some Arabs & Muslims to share the stage with him. He embraced them. The Democrats, Biden & Harris have categorically refused to.
The narrative has been & will continue to be that Arabs & Muslims are supporting Trump - this isn’t true. Our communities are pushing against the genocide of our people.

Some in our communities are choosing to side with the current genocidaires, some are choosing to side with the future genocidaires.

But the majority are choosing to stand against both.

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Oct 23
Many of us have been calling this out for years, and especially this past year. This industry doesn’t need IDF ops but it’s not a coincidence they lead on all the big propaganda stories.

The WSJ story on the “UNRWA dossier” that was used to decimate UNRWA had a former IDF soldier & active Israel advocate Carrie Keller Lynn on its byline.

AXIOS’ Barak Ravid, an IDF reservist until 03/23 & former member of Unit 8200, has been at the forefront of Israeli/US “leaks” & was one of the first to push Hamas mass rape stories in the U.S.

Screams without Words had two Israelis on the byline, including Anat Schwartz who was former IAF intelligence.

The recent ‘Hamas minutes detailing Iran knew about Oct 7’ NYT piece had two Israelis, including Ronen Bergman who served in IDF intelligence. The other Israeli is Adam Rasgon who was on the byline for the horrendous Oct 30th, 2023 New Yorker piece that painted Palestinian journalists as legitimate targets for Israeli slaughter.

This barely scratches the surface of how much IDF presence there is not only in the U.S. news industry but specifically on covering the genocide the IDF is enacting.
Carrie Keller Lynne, WSJ:

Adam Rasgon, former New Yorker now NYT:
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Oct 18
Why did Israel publish this alleged footage of Yahya Sinwar’s last moments?

I’ve written about this before: Israeli propaganda is meant for Israelis and Zionists. Every bit of propaganda they put out is, from their vantage point, meant to humiliate Palestinians as well as show a spectacle of their ‘defence’ and might.

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The Israelis have zero self awareness on this front, they are consumed by narcissism. They see Sinwar’s last moments and see their victory; ending the lives of Arabs is that victory. /2
Others, not vested in Israeli ethnosupremacy, see a man fighting head on; he is not running away. It’s a strong visual message that we all, collectively, can recall: the dying but still defiant native fighting the invader until his last breath. /3
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Oct 17
With the death of Sinwar, the Israelis have a brief PR win but ultimately a narrative loss. Neither Haniyeh nor Nasrallah’s deaths served to weaken resistance against Israeli aggression. They also did not weaken regional and global support for the resistance.

And what does it look like, from a narrative standpoint, to continue the slaughter & decimation of Palestinians in Gaza when you have achieved what you claimed was a key goal? /1
Israel could use this opportunity to declare an end to the war, but that assumes that “eliminating Hamas” was the goal. It wasn’t - the annihilation of Palestinians was and remains the goal. Israel & the U.S. are irrational actors committed to genocide & regional war.
Resistance groups have faced significant hits but they are not weakened; instead we have seen a reinvigorated fight. Hezbollah’s welcome to ground troops at the border, that has left IDF soldiers terrified to fight, is one example.
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Oct 16
is the message here that Trump in practice is actually pro-trans rights? is that what the Harris campaign is saying here. is that the dunk.
Not sure how else to read this especially since this falls in line with the Harris campaign’s turn to the right, over its own base.
this also serves to undermine the Dems & Harris’ fear-mongering about Trump, because it’s saying “look, he campaigns as anti-trans but in actuality? his tenure as president saw transition care for incarcerated people!!!! hypocrite!!!”

.…???
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Sep 23
This is the point that underscores the breadth, depth & power of American imperialism and why comparing it to Chinese or Russian ‘imperialism’ has never made any sense. The global order of law and of violence is controlled by the U.S. - no other country.

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No country has the power to cripple nations in the way the U.S. can with sanctions. No country holds the influence over other countries the way the U.S. does. No country has anywhere near as many military bases as the U.S. does globally.

No country can enact NFZ the way the U.S./NATO allies can - can you imagine asking the Chinese for an NFZ in the West Bank or Gaza or Beirut?
Who militarily intervenes in Israel? Who has that power? Regional countries (KSA, Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait etc) are all military outposts for the US already (even those which has good relations with China).
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Sep 11
One day of tragedy used to destroy hundreds of millions of lives over two decades. If our rage were allowed it would crumble mountains with its screams.

1. An anti-war protest sign, at a rally in DC, in 2005. This image was taken one month after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, which gave us horrifying footage of Black Louisianans left to fend for themselves on their rooftops as the water levels reached higher and higher.Image
2. Guantanamo Bay, 2002. Over 300 Muslim men & some boys were held without charge and on flimsy ‘evidence’. Aby prison that is made to hold a specific population of people only is illegal under international law. It is a torture camp. Between 91-‘92, over 40k Haitian asylum seekers fled after a US/France-backed coup of Haiti’s first democratically-elected leader. HW Bush turned them away & the coast guard rerouted them to Gitmo.

Gitmo then became a concentration camp for Haitians w/HIV, later ruled unconstitutional.Image
3. A protestor holding a sign at an antiwar rally, originating from the artwork from antiwar activists in 2001. Image
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