Oh my God. Hossam is one of the few journalists who has been able to get us any information from North Gaza. Israel has been targeting and killing Palestinian (and Lebanese) journalists with impunity - they want to silence whatever information is able to get out. This is horrific & our media here is complicit in this genocide and in the targeting of these heroic journalists. Hossam, btw, is a young, young man - he’s 23. He was born in 2001. His entire life has been the open air prison that is Gaza. His work has been and remains indispensable. He, like so many other Palestinian journalists, has shown us what real journalism is - it is empathetic, it is kind, it is fearless; it holds power accountable and it is willing to be vulnerable.

Praying for his recovery & safety.

Great reporting from @umaribnfarooq on the national Uncommitted Movement taking money from a Democratic Party-aligned PAC, which does not allow beneficiaries to endorse anyone but Harris.

It was controlled opposition— this is why the Democrats were never worried about Uncommitted & didn’t care to give them even crumbs at the DNC.

People in our communities called it out, but outsiders, in media & activist circles, vested in protecting the Dems pushed Uncommitted national.

middleeasteye.net/news/us-electi…

Statement from National Uncommitted— despite trying to go after the reporter and claiming the allegations are baseless, they don’t actually deny any of the major allegations including the point about endorsement and about suppression of organizers in uncommitted state chapters (they do a blanket rejection, nothing specific). There’s also nothing in the article about a “secret agreement” but rather about a condition on the money received.

x.com/uncommittedmvm…

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.

A thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1850290875026260195

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.

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:

https://x.com/sanasaeed/status/1752111335536521523?s=46

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.

🧵 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

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.

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.

https://twitter.com/kamalahq/status/1846610665135317226

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 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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https://twitter.com/naksbilal/status/1838219072074301909

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?

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. 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.

In the morning, the House Ways and Means Committee will be discussing HR 9495, a bipartisan bill which includes provisions threatening to revoke the tax exempt status of any nonprofit the govt deems a "terrorist supporting organization” — a new legal category.

It’s transparent what this is: an attack on Muslim, Arab, Palestinian organizations in particular as well as an attempt to silence any and all organizations which have & continue to condemn the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

No coincidence they’re discussing this on 9/11 either.

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It’s already illegal to intentionally provide support to “terrorist organizations” but this bill takes away any necessity of showing “intent”. It has, instead, created a new designation: “terrorist-supporting organizations”. And there is nothing in the bill that protects *any* nonprofit from this designation./2

Biden-Harris administration resignee Maj. Harrison Mann last night at an event at Georgetown:

The intel community was well aware of the high [Palestinian] casualty counts, from the beginning. There was also concern about being implicated in war crimes so a decision was made to take the assurances of Israeli intelligence as credible. He resigned.

/1 Former State Dept official Josh Paul:

On Oct 8th Israelis were coming in and asking for this weapon and that weapon. His role was to say yes and he was not willing to do it. He asked senior leadership to take a pause and a have a discussion. There was not only no interest in that, but there also was no interest in approving weapons transfers and having a discussion. There was a complete absence of debate. He resigned.

/2

This Canadian kid on TikTok, who focuses on marketing mishaps, made a video called ‘The Downfall of Kamala Harris’ and coconut-pillers bullied him into taking it down & apologizing. But my favorite part of the backlash has been the people flashing their Poli Sci degrees as tho that degree means absolutely anything🥲 (I say this as someone who did poli sci as one of her majors)

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.

🧵 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.

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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https://twitter.com/halalflow/status/1792944530389393422

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.

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.
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.

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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https://twitter.com/kayvanjoon/status/1780633337725325692

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.

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

https://twitter.com/lailaalarian/status/1778528677330059663

Original NYT headline

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.

🧵 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.

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.

🧵 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.

‘91-‘92, >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. /1

https://twitter.com/priscialva/status/1768004374532366648

The conditions in the camp were horrific: Haitians faced violence from US military, forced medical procedures, rotten food & no sanitation. It was pure filth and squalor because of how the US treated them. Almost 300 Haitians were kept in Gitmo bc they had HIV, per a 1987 US law.

The other night I went to Aaron Bushnell’s memorial, outside the Israeli embassy at the spot where he gave his last protest, to pay my respects.

It hit the spirit in a way I don’t have words for.

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I’ve been thinking about Aaron everyday since his protest; several times a day. I keep thinking about how he chose to protest -what do we think a bomb does to a body? - and I keep thinking about how he kept screaming “Free Palestine” until the flames completely had engulfed him.