Syed Arif Ul Haq

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Shame on the Basque police @ertzaintzaEJGV for brutalising Flotilla members returning home after being abducted, unlawfully detained and ill-treated by Israel. May those responsible be held accountable.

We must resist the Israelisation of our societies.

[Sami Hamdi سامي الهاشمي الحامدي @SALHACHIMI]

This shift from Bin Salman should be encouraged. Saudi’s strength lies in its ability to inspire through Islam domestically and abroad, and investing accordingly.

This confrontation with the Israel-armed UAE is a chance for the Crown Prince to change course from one of confrontation with the kingdom’s identity, to one of harnessing it to become a regional (and global) powerhouse.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Who is the ‘we’? Isn’t Douglas Murray British, not American? Why should American soldiers go out to fight and die because a foreign pro-Israel neocon thinks it’s a good idea?

[fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @fbhutto]

Why is this news? Pakistan does not recognise Israel and never will

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Israel's bombing of the Tehran synagogue illustrates what many ultra-orthodox Rabbis have long argued:
Zionism is not Judaism.
Zionism endangers Jews everywhere.

[Sami Hamdi سامي الهاشمي الحامدي @SALHACHIMI]

Trump says he accepted ceasefire in exchange for Iran opening the Hormuz Strait and that he "won" by opening the Strait.

But Hormuz Strait was already open for everyone before the war. It was shut because Trump decided to fight Israel's war...

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

No regard for civilian life, civilian infrastructure, the consequences of his craziness to the nations in the region that he calls “allies” that will suffer because of him, or even to his own country.

Went to war for Israel. Won’t back down because of his fragile ego.

A small man.
A madman.
A lunatic.
A terrorist.

[Muhammad Jalal @jalalayn]

The world will one day ask, how did we get to this point? And the answer will be that the moribund Western world helped facilitate a genocide in Gaza that set in motion an evil, unprovoked crusading alliance hellbent on mass murder. Gaza changed everything.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

No words can capture the sincerity, energy, and love this man carries. Truly devastating and sickening. We will fight for him, and may Allah free him soon.

[American Muslims for Palestine @AMPalestine]

A beloved community leader, Salah Sarsour, was abducted by ICE on Monday, March 30th. Salah serves as the President of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM), board member of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), and has been a community advocate for over three decades. He is a father, a grandfather, a dear husband, and a kind and principled role model for countless people in Milwaukee and beyond.

As an American Muslim community that believes in justice and equal rights for all people, we condemn this abduction and usurpation of our community leader’s rights. Salah has been a lawful permanent resident in the United States for over 32 years. He is a pillar of the community and a law-abiding Milwaukee business owner. Yet, he was pulled over while driving by over 10 ICE agents with no cause. He was taken out of state to a detention facility in Chicago before being transferred to a detention center in Indiana. His family was left scrambling to determine his whereabouts and his condition.

We must be clear that Salah is being targeted on the basis of his Palestinian and Muslim background. Salah grew up in the Occupied West Bank in Palestine, where he faced oppression and torture at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces as a child. After marriage, he moved to the United States and built a strong and loving family. Along the way, he has supported dozens of community members, hiring countless Milwaukeeans who needed a job, and building up advocacy and educational organizations to bring a greater voice to immigrants, Palestinians, and Muslims across Wisconsin and the country.

Salah’s story represents precisely the immigrant-refugee success story that should be celebrated, not demonized, as the cornerstone of this country’s professed values. Structural racism against Palestinians and Muslims, especially immigrants, weakens our democracy and erodes human rights for all. DHS targeting a community leader like Salah must raise alarms for all of us. His detention reflects a troubling trend we’ve seen with Mahmoud Khalil, Leqaa Kordia, Mohsen Mahdawi, and other voices critical of Israeli oppression: this administration is weaponizing the U.S. justice system to advance the interests of a foreign state, Israel, at a time when it is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. Recognizing that it has lost American public opinion, the Israeli lobby is now leveraging the justice system to undermine our constitutional rights and suppress dissent. Salah’s arrest also reflects deeper threats to our democracy from an administration that disregards American values and treats constitutional and legal limits as optional. We stand against this coordinated attempt to wield U.S. immigration courts to silence Palestinian voices and advance a racist anti-Muslim agenda.

We write to affirm that we will fight for him. We will fight for his release just as we have fought as a community against all attacks on immigrant, Black, Palestinian, Somali, Latino, and Muslim civil and human rights. We understand what it feels like to be othered, racialized, and exceptionalized as victims of state violence, and we refuse to let go of our rights and our values. We invite you to stand with us and stand with Salah Sarsour.

This injustice has become too common across this country. The baseless allegations leveled against Salah are nothing more than a smokescreen to justify his detention and silence his advocacy. However, we know this fight for Salah is part of a larger trend: leveraging attacks on immigrants and on Palestinians, particularly, to build new precedents that whittle away at democratic norms and legal protections for everyone. That is why this fight is a fight for all of us. #FreeSalahSarsour.

With hope,

AMP - American Muslims for Palestine
ISM - The Islamic Society of Milwaukee
MLFA - Muslim Legal Fund of America
USCMO - US Council of Muslim Organizations
CAIR - Council on American-Islamic Relations
MAS - Muslim American Society
Islamophobia Studies Center
Palestine Center for Public Policy
Islamophobia Studies Journal
Northern California Islamic Council

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel is going to depopulate and annex a massive chunk of Lebanon.

It will then colonise that land to help forge a ‘Greater Israel’.

If another state did that, the outrage would be rightly deafening.

Not here, though!

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel just passed death penalty law for ~10,000 Palestinian prisoners.

This violates the Common Article 3 applies to all four Geneva Conventions, but international law clearly doesn't apply to Israel.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is ethnic cleansing. Out in the open. Slobodan Milosevic was (rightly) indicted and demonized for this behavior.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Medicide by Israel continues

[RANTZINE @rant_zine]

@piersmorgan Those who thought this is just two “psychopaths” dragging Israel down. 62 Knesset votes, broad support it’s Israel.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Disgusting

[Sami Hamdi سامي الهاشمي الحامدي @SALHACHIMI]

Washington Post begins to describe AIPAC as an “outside group”

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

AIPAC’s political arm funneled over $5 million to groups to defeat Illinois Democrats critical of Israel, according to filings.

The secretive giving is the latest example of how outside groups are obscuring their spending in competitive campaigns. https://t.co/9jJtB6MGXN

[Sami Hamdi سامي الهاشمي الحامدي @SALHACHIMI]

Worth noting:

China and Russia nowhere to be seen for Iran.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

This is unspeakably awful. I genuinely cannot comprehend how you treat a human being like this. And now this man is dead. Everyone involved needs to be locked up.