#arab liberation

[iraqueer]

thinking about Yemen and how they're the poorest arab country(in money, definitely not in morals or having a fucking spine) and how when they were on the security counsel while the US was making the case to invade Iraq they were the SOLE dissenting voice and how the US blocked any aid from entering the country in retaliation

how this created a manmade famine the saudi was only happy to continue(yes I know this is because they wanted to "defend their borders" from Irani affiliated houthis but how cutting off food and medicine to civilians protects your borders from Irani influence is beyond me)

how because of their (the houthis btw not the Yemeni govt one could argue the US is collectively punishing a civilian population for the actions of a so called terror group that they have nothing to do with. how fair is that i wonder) stance to block any ship coming from or going to Israel made the US fucking deny them aid again.

like it's fucking cargo ships its not hurting anyone. it's MONEY it's fucking an economic sanction

money! people are dying in gaza they're being murdered in the most dehumanizing way possible split up into a grid districts and bombed with a computer program!

and the biggest stance any supposed barbaric west Hating arab terror group is doing is just economic. rerouting ships ffs and now Yemeni people are going to starve

again

thanks to the US. have we paused to think why do many "terror" groups are taking root in the Mideast? why do so many of these terror groups call for a death to America?

yesterday I watched a doc on Yemeni jews. how a lot of them were expelled from yemen around the 40s 50s around when zionism and the occupation of palestine started. (same thing happend in Iraq btw) how many yemenis fled fearing for their lives to Israel where they had their kids taken from them and lied to about it and they were given to European Jewish people who fled to Israel. like they were supposed to be safe there and they had their kids taken from them.

I think about how Jewish people lived in arab countries for a long time and were expelled after Israel came to power because those countries feared that their colonial overlords would do the same to them, since a lot of the Mideast came under control of Britian at that time, and Britain is the ones who did that to palestine. (anecdotally my great grandmother's dad would have my great grandmother bring over food to their Jewish neighbors every Saturday as a child, and now my great grandmother is very antisemetic, really shows you how hate isn't like in our dna it was a response to fear(not unfounded, but still not right) of occupation) like it feels sometimes like we get called the antisemitic and are paying for the crimes of the nazis. but like we're not the ones who did the holocaust, we're not the ones who expelled Jewish people out (until the establishment of isreal and again I don't agree with what arabs did, but I'm just adding context) But somehow we're the antisemitic ones for hating our aggressors.

like it looks to me like Europe (led by the british) let their Jewish population be exterminated and then wanted to get rid of them and preyed on their trauma and fears and pushed them to a land they already felt they owned, just another part of their empire. aided in the extermination of the native population. and we're surprised they would hate their oppressors (the zionist, the British and then the

US)

should the Jewish people living in these arab countries for generations have been expelled because of the acts of an outside colonizing population(that just so happens to be Jewish, that benefits from weaponizing the fact) ? NO! they aren't associated with each other! and many Arab Jewish people have suffered because of zionism. Palestinian Jews face discrimination in israel! I feel like this is more a traditional colonization, just this time it's not Christian missionaries involved it's a Jewish European population.

I know this fucking essay seems unconnected. tbh I'm not trying to make an informative post. it's just a few of my thoughts as an arab. seeing how people talk about us. that post about the houthis taking a ship and seeing people demonize them calling them extremists and terrorists when it's a fucking ship. (not to say houthis haven't hurt and shot at and terrorized the Yemeni population they are by no means innocent freedom fighters) like these groups get labeled terrorist so that it instills post 9/11 fears in Westerns when they are not threats to the US but when the us labels them as such the US is justifying the use of force against them. and like??? are we not allowed to resist? are we not allowed to fight for our land?

the US can get involved in every conflict around the world in the name of "human rights" and "global security" and create the conditions for these "terrorists" groups but we have to quietly watch Palestinians get slaughtered and if anyone does anything they're a terrorist. if hezbollah tries to reclaim lebanons land its a terrorist. if yemen tries to stand up and help palestine they're terrorists

that term is a cudgel used against resistance to western imperialism and its always used in a biased manner

[ahaura]

i saw someone point out the frequency with which liberals back social justice movements... how, for instance, when ferguson happened under obama it was not popular and there were many, many liberals who found the blm movement, in a sense, "in violation of [liberal] sensibilities" (when liberalism as a rule does not challenge the status quo, only maintains it and sees any call for revolution or real change as disruptive or 'bad for optics' and therefore not acceptable) but then when trump became president and he opposed blm a lot more liberals decided that the blm movement had merit because they viewed it from a team-sports perspective rather than a worldview based on morals and an understanding of the systems in place in the U.S. - that it was more comfortable for them to operate from a "trump bad" basis rather than "the american justice system and the police are inherently white supremacist, which are inherently, automatically, and always violent"

+ that, if trump was president while israel is carrying out its genocide, liberals would have NO problem denouncing israel and demanding for a ceasefire because they're comfortable operating from the 2-party system basis, NOT from a framework based on material conditions or factors or any acknowledgement or analysis of imperialism, colonialism, or capitalism. but because biden is a democrat, and democrats are supposed to be "the decent party" "the lesser evil" "more respectable" when, in functionality - in real practice, they don't want to disrupt the status quo. (internally, maintaining systems of white supremacy and capitalism; externally, furthering U.S. imperialism by maintaining hegemony and continuing the practice of exploitation and extraction of labor+capital+resources from the global south)

which is why we're here, a month into a genocide, and liberals are so cowardly and gutless that, in the face of our democrat president allowing and funding the genocide of palestinians in order for the U.S. to maintain its military base in the middle east, liberals IMMEDIATELY jump to "well, you HAVE to vote for him still, because trump will be worse!" and go "well im powerless there's nothing i can do", immediately folding like a wet paper bag in the face of the american empire rearing its ugly head in the most blatant, naked way in years, instead of thinking "this is unacceptable, i should pressure my elected officials and do everything i can - be it combating propaganda, contacting my congresspeople or senators, protesting, or engaging in direct action - to ensure this stops as quickly as possible".

there are liberals STILL IN MY NOTIFICATIONS who go "well you'll be electing a fascist if you vote for trump" not realizing that YOU CAN'T SIMPLY VOTE FASCISM AWAY. (which is not to say you should vote for republicans; that's not what i'm saying. none of us have said it.) we're pretty much already there. it's 2003 all over again, with the patriot act and all. the american war machine is pumping out racist, orientalist, pro-colonial, pro-genocide propaganda on behalf of the ethno-state america and its allies have backed since the so-called state's inception. people are being doxxed, fired, harassed, and attacked for visibly supporting palestine/opposing israel. islamophobic hate crimes are on the rise; a 6 year old boy was murdered not one month ago, an arab doctor in texas was stabbed to death. antisemitism is on the rise as well, thanks to the conflation of antisemitism with anti-zionism (which nazis have and will attempt to co-op in order to 'justify' + then act on their antisemitism, racism, and genocidal worldviews). our government is silencing people, brutalizing protestors, and arming and funding an ethno-state committing genocide - everything that would have been called fascist if it was under trump. but because it's a *democrat* liberals place "vote blue no matter who" and "optics" over the extremely basic moral stance that "genocide is wrong and people have the right to self-determination, autonomy, and life". arabs and muslims are already so dehumanized in the west that liberals (whether they consider themselves liberals or not) consider it an inconvenience to talk about the ongoing genocide that is happening with the blessing of OUR government. in this they expose their selfishness, the shallowness of their morals, their chauvinism, and their racism/orientalism/islamophobia/et cetera.

for example, if you see israeli troops waving a gay pride flag and the israeli state touting its support of gay people while said iof soldiers are murdering men, women, and children en masse every single day and you somehow????? think that because gay people are the ones doing the killing or a state claims to support gay people is doing the killing is ok then 1) you have fallen for pinkwashing propaganda and 2) that you find the murder of palestinians, or any people, permissible by a colonial force that uses causes liberals may genuinely care about in order to disguise, whitewash, or "lessen" the severity of the injustices it does unto usually black and brown people outside of the U.S., then you are just as bloodthirsty and depraved as anyone you would personally assign those descriptors of.

once again, it goes back to resorting to a team-sport understanding of the world rather than approaching it from a material one.

[crownspeaksblog]

I sometimes think about men have almost the same rights, body autonomy, freedom in every country while for women life looks so different from country to country or at least from region to region.

In some countries you're forced to cover your head, in others you're prohibited from covering your head and in other countries you can wear/not wear what you want. You can have an abortion in that country but not this one. You can get education, degrees and have paying jobs in most countries but not in others. You can go to a doctor if you need to but there you can't because women aren't allowed to become doctors and women aren't allowed to see a male doctor..

I sometimes think about how shitty the country i live in is but then i think well at least i can get an education and go to a doctor.. i shouldn't have to be grateful for those things..

[caitlinjohns77]

you are actually trash

[allthecanadianpolitics]

How do the Conservatives treat a war criminal who boasts about killing terrorists and says more Palestinian child hostages should be killed?

They throw him a party (last week).

How do the Libs treat him?

They congratulate him on his new job (2021).

Canada is dangerous to Arabs.

[many-sparrows]

Nativity at Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, Palestine, for Advent 2023. Photos from Pastor Munther Isaac.

[aqlstar]

you were probably asked this before, but by saying "certified Palestinian Jew" do you mean your ancestors lived in Israel before immigration became popular, or do you mean a Jewish Palestinian? (I'm assuming the former tho)

Neither, actually. I put it there to point out the absurdity of the idea of a Jewish Palestinian in a modern sense, as well as the absurdity of the modern distinction between “Palestinians” and citizens of neighboring Arab countries. (As you correctly assumed.)

My father’s family immigrated to the US from Ottoman and British controlled “Palestine” (Haifa, specifically, which is now in Israel). They were Arabic-speaking Christians who had lived in that region as far back as they could trace their family history.

Since UNWRA tracks Palestinian refugee status patrilineally, by that standard, behold: me, a Palestinian Jew!

The irony is that they never once identified as Palestinian- they were Syrian through and through, as were all their neighbors and friends.

This is an anecdotal example of the declaration made in the 1919 Palestine Arab Congress which I’ll link the wiki page to below.

One major claim of the Congress was

"We consider Palestine nothing but part of Arab Syria and it has never been separated from it at any stage. We are tied to it by national, religious, linguistic, moral, economic, and geographic bounds."

In short- my Syrian (actually Assyrian Syrian- but that’s a whole other can of worms) family has been retroactively labeled Palestinian by political actors seeking to isolate the Arabs in Palestine and thereby promote conflict. Hope that answers your question 😊 Please feel free to discuss or ask me further questions.

[dazedasian]

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[aphoticfirefly]

arab crowley wearing a keffiyeh, for a friend 🍉❤️

[wohnderstruck]

The little girls of Gaza by Sally Samir

[noosphe-re]

Ahmed Salman

[ahaura]

im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.

biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)

the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.

democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.

[crownspeaksblog]

Marriage in general is fucked in the middle east..

I hate hate HATE living in a country where girls being married off at 15 is seen as something to be envious of.. is seen as something to be admired for..for fuck sakes! That's a fucking child!! I remember a classmate talking about i think a cousin of hers who's 15 who's married to a 29/30 year old man and how MUCH he LOVES her and how everyday he does her FUCKING HAIR FOR FUCKING SCHOOL!!!!

i saw a video of a 26 year old mother selling food on the street to make money and the top comment on that video was a man (sincerely) offering to marry her and he had like 100 replies of people asking him if he did it already and praising him for it..

And you know what's annoying is when i try to point out how fucked up those things are.. I'm almost always in the minority, I'm almost always argued against and people try to justify something like this by being like "this is our culture"....

fuck this culture and religion because you know damn well this shit is rooted in religion.. girls married off when they hit puberty to men twice their age is seen as an accomplishment.. men being encouraged to grace widows and divorced women with their kindness and marry them like they're broken or used (even if it meant getting a second, third or a fourth wife)...

And i know to most people reading this shit it sounds like I'm making it up but I'm not and you have no idea how much i wish i was..

[workersolidarity]

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PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE FORCES OPEN FIRE ON ZIONIST SOLDIERS NEAR SINAOZ CHECKPOINT IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK

📹 Scenes from the Mujahideen of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, independent of the Fatah Party since 2007, firing a barrage of bullets towards Zionist forces occupying the Sinaoz checkpoint, west of Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank Palestinian territories.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[arabian-batboy]

I feel like we’re witnessing a new trope in military propaganda media emerging and it’s the “lets have a whiny overly-dramatic white liberal girl say that killing innocent Arabs is bad on-screen” to send a message to the audience that being against the US’s military crimes in the Middle East is something that only dumb sensitive lefties with pronouns in their bio do.

[many-sparrows]

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this from @jspark3000 , a hospital chaplain in Florida. He sums it up so perfectly.

People are dying and you are asking me to look away. People are dying and you are telling me that it's just too complicated for you to have an opinion on. People are dying and they are being called animals. People are dying and you are telling me that the Bible justifies the state of israel, actually, so it's fine.

I hold so much grief and pain and compassion for Israeli citizens now living in fear. I share anxiety and prayers and hope for hostages, and grief for innocent people who were massacred. But I cannot do that and then ignore the plight of Palestine. Not when people have been crying out in pain for decades. Not when a child dies every fifteen minutes. Not when families are being eradicated and settler violence is escalating without recourse. For the same reason that I grieve the victims of Hamas, I must side against the state of Israel and its history of oppression and violence!

I go to the wounded! I go to those fighting to survive! I go to those facing oppression!! I have no other choice! The Bible tells me to listen to those in pain, no matter who they are, and that means that I can hold compassion and dignity for people all over different parts of this conflict, while still understanding the inequity at play. When there is so, so much suffering and anguish, I cannot look away, no matter how much easier that would be! Acts 20:27 refuses to let us shrink away from the FULL council of God, no matter how difficult it becomes!

As long as I am alive, I must go to the wounded and the weeping. I go to my Christian siblings who are being persecuted in ways that most born and bread American Christians can't fathom. I have committed myself to peace making, different than peace keeping, and I cannot abandon that! Some analysts project that when this is all over, there will be no more Christians left in Gaza. I have no other option than to hold the people of Palestine and to continue to see them.

To follow this faith, you must have courage. Not only to do difficult things, but to challenge difficult thoughts. To engage in difficult conversations. To abandon neutrality when it is a tool of oppression. To hold complex realities without abandoning those who need you. To extend compassion and mercy farther than you can imagine possible. To listen when people cry out.

I go to the wounded, because I do not have the option not to. Palestine, you will never, ever walk alone. 🇵🇸