عليا 🔻 Rhythm Rider
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France and U.S.A are Imperialist hegemons but one is a colonial structure. Yanks are both the state formation and Counter-Revolutionary militarised Bloc (2nd amendment). Lack of rioting isn't due to being "docile" or "state militarism", it's due to settlerism, U.S nationalism.
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" يا ريتنا متنا قبل ما شفناهم".. تعب عام كامل يُسرق أمام أعين أصحابه.. مستوطنون ينهبون محصول الزيتون الفلسطيني
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Zionism is emerging as highest form of white supremacy and fascism. The merging of Zionism, white supremacy and fascism requires that all forms of opposition is criminalized and erased!
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Nazism never died, it simply morphed into NATO — receipt n. 3,217.
NEW: A newly declassified report reveals that the CIA was actively involved in resettling Nazis in Canada and that a leading CIA officer in charge of resettlement operations was later the CIA’s representative in Ottawa.
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There are many incredible videos on the day of Tufan al-Aqsa, but the one that I think of most is of two Palestinian martyrs riding at sunrise on the other side of the Gaza concentration camp for the first in their lives, when one says to the other: “Drive slowly.”
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Today marks the anniversary of the most consequential act of anti-colonial resistance in our lifetime. Al-Aqsa Flood fundamentally changed the world.
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The entire “antisemitism on the rise” was a manufactured narrative meant to obfuscate and silence dissent and protest of the extermination campaign by a U.S.-backed Jewish state against Palestinians from day one.
And everyone played into it - not just the gov’t, Dems, GOP, the news media, Jewish Zionist orgs, school admins and elected officials but even so many well intentioned activists who affirmed this narrative versus shutting it down. And it’s still happening.
Infuriating, but not surprising. A DOJ whistleblower has now confirmed what we said from day one: the "antisemitism" investigations into universities were predetermined, evidence-free, and political.
And Columbia's trustees participated in this hoax. They paid $221 million, handed over records, and expelled students to close a deal built on nothing.
David Greenwald led that board. Shame on him and on every trustee who went along to advance their Zionist ideology. If they have any dignity left, they resign.
And there must be a full investigation into them and it will come.
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not to mention the fact that the data shows that the overwhelming majority of so-called incidents are in fact, anti-genocide anti-Zionism protests. On the other hand, there is real and dangerous anti-Islam and anti-Black racism that manifest in actual physical, economic, professional, legal, educational, and psychological harm.
Modern antisemitism is an industry, mostly manufactured by Zionism to help Israel continue killing Palestinians and stealing their land, homes, and heritage.
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.
Our safety and our thriving are tied together.
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An armed resistance fighter in Gaza in tears while destroying a tank muttering to himself, "They've killed children and women. May Allah accept it from us."
If you don't support Palestinian armed resistance fighters, you're not a supporter of Palestine.
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A reminder that leaked Israeli studies found that pushing pro-Israel propaganda to Westerners didnt work and instead they advised spending millions blasting the West with racist Islamophobic content demonizing Muslims instead.
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The Epstein Empire will never defeat this.
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The US is a barbaric capitalist dystopia.
A court just ruled that people do NOT have a right to clean water, or to truthful information from the government.
This came after the city of Jackson, Mississippi misled residents into drinking what it knew was lead-contaminated water.
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This video from the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.
US soldiers taped a ready-to-eat meal to their humvee and dragged it behind them as hungry Iraqi children chased them.
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Iran is not fighting this war only for Iran.
Understand that first. Absorb it. Because until you understand it, nothing else about this conflict makes sense.
Iran is fighting for the right of any nation on earth to exist outside the permission structure of Washington and Tel Aviv.
It is fighting for the principle that sovereignty is not something granted by empire, it is something inherent. And if it must be defended with blood, then blood is what gets spent.
Every country that has been sanctioned into poverty for daring to disagree.
Every government that has been coup'd out of existence for nationalizing its own resources.
Every leader who has been assassinated by a drone because he refused to make himself useful to someone else's agenda.
Every people told that their choices are submission or destruction.
Iran is fighting for all of them.
You don't have to like the Iranian government to understand what's at stake.
You don't have to agree with every policy, every ideology, every internal decision.
That's not the point.
The point is that a country of 90 million people has looked at the most powerful military and financial empire in human history, and said: no.
Said it for forty-seven years.
Said it under sanctions that would have broken most nations.
Said it while being threatened with annihilation on a weekly basis by countries with actual nuclear weapons.
The question this war is really asking is not whether Iran survives.
The question is whether any country is allowed to survive on its own terms.
That question belongs to all of us.
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Thread on our collective responsibilities in the face of the Iran letter
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First, please slow down and step outside of the performative ecosystem of hot takes and ego driven gotchas regarding the critiques of the Iran letter.
Instead, it is imperative to collectively use this moment towards a broader self-critique of our failures. There are two tasks in particular which stand in front of us:
i) Critically turn around and look at the limitations of the theoretical and epistemological frameworks through which race, colonialism, and imperialism have been approached in the West. These frameworks logically lead to this letter, however much it has been mocked here, its intellectual foundations remain the basis of even critical approaches in Western universities. And
ii) we must open ourselves up to substantively engaging, and learning from, the theoretical and epistemological frameworks that underpin the actual forces of resistance in the region who are alone today in materially fighting genocidal imperialism even at great cost. In other words, move beyond just watching the resistance, and allow yourself to enter, with humility, the worlds that birthed the resistance, to learn from them so that you might be able to apply these lessons to revolutionizing our own genocidal Western societies so that they stop raining terror down on the majority world.
I break down these two points in more detail in the rest of the thread:
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It’s crazy this even needs to be said, but if you are a westerner your ONLY job is to oppose the abuses of the western empire. Not Iran. Not China. Not Russia, Cuba or North Korea.
If you live in the US or one of its allied nations, then you live under the single most tyrannical and murderous power structure on earth, and that’s where your focus belongs. You do not have any legitimacy in squandering any of your energy and attention criticizing human rights abuses in empire-targeted nations while living under a globe-spanning empire that is fueled by a nonstop river of human blood. It is not okay for you to use your western privilege to attack the nations your own government is working to help absorb into the power structure you live under.
Whenever I say this online I’ll get some Trotskyist or anarchist babbling about the need to express “solidarity” with Iranian political prisoners or whatever, but whenever I press them on what actual, material benefit those expressions of “solidarity” bring to the people they’re meant to help, they can’t point to anything solid. Whereas I can point to some very obvious ways in which contributing to an imperial war propaganda campaign can help grease the wheels for real material actions which hurt actual Iranians.
If you’re a westerner, you have an obligation to use your voice responsibly. If you are feeding into the latest “the people in the empire-targeted nation need liberation from their evil tyrannical government” war propaganda narrative with your expressions of “solidarity” and your blind insistence on treating all bad things as equally bad, then you are using your western voice irresponsibly, and you are morally culpable for the mass slaughter you help facilitate with your recklessness.
It’s not okay to be a citizen of the western empire and act like human rights abuses in an empire-targeted nation are of equal or comparable concern to the far more egregious abuses of your own leaders and their allies. It’s also not okay to be a fully grown adult and believe the use of force in empire-targeted governments is happening separately from their targeting by the empire, as though Iran would look the way it looks today if the US and Israel had not been working to collapse and control it for generations.
Iran has only survived the latest imperial onslaught because Tehran tightly controls what happens in that country. The only reason we didn’t see Xinjiang absorbed into the western power umbrella with the help of CIA-backed separatists is because Beijing waged a sweeping crackdown on the extremist factions who’d been launching attacks in the province. The only reason North Korea has gone relatively unmolested by the western empire in recent years is because its government obtained nuclear weapons. It’s baby-brained analysis to pretend such things happen independently of the US and its allies working to take control of unabsorbed nations and force them into compliance with Washington’s capitalist world order.
The western empire therefore makes the world a crueler and more abusive place not only by its direct acts of cruelty and abuse, but by the way it forces its targets to choose between (A) annihilation and (B) using extreme amounts of force to retain their sovereignty. The empire we live under is responsible for the vast majority of the dysfunction and misery in our world, and yet you as a westerner want to spend your time yelling at Iran? Fuck off, man.
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The Guardian has published an open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, signed by Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rashid Khalidi, Robin DG Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Judith Butler, Walden Bello, among others.
These are not people to be dismissed lightly. Several have given their lives to the anti-imperialist and Black liberation movements, and one of them is writing from inside a US prison. I take no pleasure in disagreeing with them. But the letter is wrong, and plays an objectively harmful role.
Its central image is the “two blades of a scissors”: the Islamic Republic on one side, US and Israeli imperialism on the other, with the Iranian people crushed between them. It inserts a symmetry between the world’s major imperialist power and an anti-imperialist state that has never invaded another country, and which has stood consistently with the oppressed from Palestine to South Africa to Venezuela.
The load-bearing phrase is this: “we reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism.” Exactly how “hollow” is Tehran’s anti-imperialism? 😵💫
For four decades, while almost every Arab government made its accommodation with Washington and Tel Aviv, Iran armed, funded and sustained the Palestinian resistance. It refused normalisation when the Abraham Accords put enormous inducements on the table. It has absorbed forty years of sanctions, assassinations of scientists, sabotaged infrastructure, and now an open war of aggression, rather than abandon that position.
The states that normalised are not being bombed. Hollow anti-imperialism is a communiqué and a hashtag. Iran’s anti-imperialism has been measured in the blood of 168 Minab schoolgirls, in the bombing of its hospitals and oil depots.
One can vehemently disagree with aspects of Iran’s domestic politics, but the question at hand is: where do we stand in the global struggle against imperialism? What side of the barricade are we on? Do we support a criminal war of aggression waged by the US and Israel, or we we support the resistance to that war? Do we support genocide in Gaza, or do we support the country that has been the Palestinian resistance’s most consistent ally for decades?
This letter dissolves the distinction entirely. It asks us to refuse the choice. But in a war of aggression there is no third position available, because only one party benefits from your neutrality – and it’s not the party being bombed.
The letter appears in a British newspaper, six months into a US-Israeli war, at the precise moment when Washington cannot win militarily and needs the political terrain softened. It recycles a familiar vocabulary – sham trials, systematic torture, the targeting of minorities – without sourcing, in the genre that has preceded and accompanied every single regime-change war. Whatever the signatories intended, that is the function it will serve: making the moral case for war.
Angela Davis was imprisoned by a state that told the world she was a terrorist. Mumia Abu-Jamal is imprisoned by that state today. These are people who know exactly what happens when an empire manufactures the moral case for crushing its enemies. They would not have signed, half a century ago, a letter denouncing both blades of the scissors – COINTELPRO on one side and the Black Panther Party on the other.
Progressive and anti-war forces have a duty to support Iran against war, sanctions, regime change plots and destabilisation.
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If someone made this exact same statement -- but replaced "Muslim" with "Jew" -- their career would not only be instantly and permanently destroyed, but their families, banks, communities and employers would be relentlessly hounded until they were denounced, disowned and banned.
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