🚨🇸🇾 Throwback: The moment Syrian "president" al-Jolani was arrested in 2006 by the Iraqi security forces while wearing a wedding dress in an attempt to hide himself.
Watching the deteriorating situation in Syria with great concern. The Kurds are under threat from the new Syrian government that is aligned with Turkey.
It would be a disaster for America’s reputation and national security interests to abandon the Kurds, who were the chief ally in destroying the ISIS caliphate.
Therefore, I will be introducing legislation this week designed to impose crippling sanctions on any government or group engaged in hostilities against the Kurds. The Save the Kurds Act, I believe, will receive strong bipartisan support and must have teeth to make it effective.
Stay tuned.
This is a call to the world: protect the Kurds, secure a decentralized future for them in Syria, and stop legitimizing violence as “stability.”
Stand with the Kurds now, before ISIS and chaos rise again from the ruins.
Erdoğan’s spokesperson, his fantasy, and his New Syria.
This painting is the shame of all the international organizations that caused it.
This is your work.
#DefendRojava#KurdsOnAlert
When they came for the Christians, the Kurds stood with them.
When they came for the Alawites, the Kurds stood with them.
When they came for the Druze, the Kurds stood with them.
When they came for the Jews, the Kurds stood with them.
When they came for the Yazidis, the Kurds bled for them.
Again and again, the Kurds chose solidarity over silence, protection over indifference, humanity over fear.
Now they are coming for the Kurds.
History is repeating itself, and history is watching. Silence today is not neutrality, it is abandonment. The same forces that targeted one community at a time are following the same script, hoping the world will look away once more.
This is the moment for all who were defended to stand up for those who defended them.
For faith communities, minorities, and free peoples everywhere to say: enough.
Standing with the Kurds is not a political statement, it is a moral one.
It is a stand against erasure, against collective punishment, against the idea that some lives are expendable.
If “never again” is to mean anything at all, it must mean never again for anyone.
Now is the time to rise together.
Now is the time to stand with the Kurds…