Raja Abdulhaq
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Muslim Palestinian political organizer & researcher. Co-founder of @TamkeenMvt & @QudsN. Former Exec. Dir. of @ShuraNewYork. Opinions are my own. رجا عبد الحق
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What's shocking isn't that Zohran Mamdani is backtracking on his promises but that people really thought electoral politics can deliver another outcome other than disappointment.
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Resharing this article after the UN Security Council approved the US colonial plan in Gaza: https://t.co/sJdDq9ViHL
middleeasteye.net
Modelled on Allied policy in post-war Germany, the plan falsely conflates colonial resistance with Nazism, demanding nothing less than the Palestinians' unconditional surrender
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Of course, you don't have to agree with their whole platform. Set boundaries for disagreements, however, aligning on the big picture is essential for the survival of the oppressed everywhere. On the other hand, the Right fundamentally don't see us as equal human beings.
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Comparing the Right with the Left is really shortsighted. Palestine's colonization by Zionists is enabled by the US and Western powers to maintain their political and economic hegemony. The Left aims to undo that while the Right seeks to sustain that oppressive status quo.
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Can we stop using euro-centric ideological frameworks to characterize Palestinian liberation movements? The division between West's Right & Left is based on ideological & material development of European thoughts & structures. Muslim world has a different experience & context.
The Palestinian Resistance is anti-imperialist, and it is also fundamentally right-wing. It is anti-imperialist, not primarily to create a new world order, but because it fights foreign military occupation to restore sovereignty and self-determination to its people. It is
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The Zohran Mamdani victory is reminiscent of that Obama 2008 win.. When elected officials become heroes and saviors, movements get crushed because of the delusion of succeeding in changing the system from within.
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This is what changing the system from within looks like. The empire couldn't be happier with this kind of "change" from within to sustain itself.
MSNBC’s @AymanM asks former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if she regrets defending Biden’s Gaza policy through 15 months of mass civilian killings and war crimes. @K_JeanPierre : “I was vey proud of everything that I did. I don’t take anything back.”
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A billionaire, who usually buys politicians, is shocked that politicians indulge while being bought.
I spoke to someone who knows @CurtisSliwa and now I understand why he is staying in the race. The City has an 8 to 1 matching program for NYC donors. Sliwa got ~$5m of matching funds from the city for his campaign. According to my source, Sliwa’s wife, friends and others are
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This wild attack on Imam Siraj Wahhaj shows that Islamophobia doesn't discriminate whether you are politically radical or not. Imam Siraj is your typical mainstream Muslim leader who navigates politics within the system. Yet, he is being attacked for simply being a Muslim man.
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It's actually very American and on brand with American racism and violence since 1492.
Labeling Muslims as “unindicted co-conspirators” is one of the most un-American things our government has ever done. Imam Siraj Wahhaj was one of more than 170 people whose names were placed on a secret list. Not because they were charged or convicted, but because they were
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The recent coordinated demonization of Hamas clearly was in preparation for this statement. It's obvious who is on the payroll of the US empire and its institutions.
The United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza. This planned attack against Palestinian civilians would constitute a direct and grave violation
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These native informants are just pawns for Zionists. They are part and parcel of the Zionist hasbara, aiming to demonize and dehumanize Palestine under the excuse of opposing Hamas. They target Hamas and make up lies, using Islamophobic rhetoric, to justify Israeli crimes.
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Resharing this so folks can grasp our criticism to Zohran Mamdani and his stans.
Can Zohran Mamdani stans not gaslight us and just admit he is framing Israel through the mainstream platform to be more electable and not that he is an unmatched diplomat? We all agree he is the best candidate for NYC, no need to undermine the Palestinian cause in the process.
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Native informants using Western colonial tools to justify genocide against their own folks.
Great news: I just received word that several major human rights organizations are preparing to release statements condemning the extrajudicial executions carried out by Hamas in Gaza. Let’s hope this is true.
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If there is no AIPAC, the USA will invent another AIPAC to justify its unconditional support to Israel. America needs Israel to maintain its hegemony.
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Zohran Mamdani asking Palestinians to lay down their arms is basically asking them to accept being eliminated by the Zionist settler-colonial project. That's not pragmatism, that's asking the colonized to surrender and subjugate themselves to evil.
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Last year, Muslim doctor met with Biden to show photos of murdered children in Gaza to pursue him to stop the war. Biden said that he has seen the photos before. The two news stories below show again the US is knowingly exploiting the suffering of our people for its interests.
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Liberal discourse isn't just stupid and out of touch with reality, it's meant to trivialize things to use them against colonized subjects. Liberalism isn't impartial, it only serves the Western colonial world.
If this is true, then they should be tried and convicted in court, with a fair trial, with the evidence on public display - not executed by unidentified men in the street.
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American politicians and their obsession with genocidal monsters like Columbus. Supporting Israeli crimes is part and parcel of American imperialist heritage.
If you’re Italian-American in NYC, this is what Comrade Mamdani thinks of you….
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I wonder if Zohran Mamdani was running for office during the Holocaust that he would say that he supports Jewish rights, but isn't anti-Nazi.
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