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[德梓 @dezidreaming]

@stdshaniII I can see how that looks bad to an illiterate moron like you

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

@UrOrientalist Heshmat you genuinely, desperately need therapy. There's honestly nothing more to it.

[A. V. Dremel 🔻 @BmoreOrganized]

This idea keeps popping up, and every time, it's the same rank chauvinism that dismisses the agency of revolutionaries across the world. You are diminishing their adherence to a materialist worldview as some European dalliance, rather than a choice they make with eyes wide open.

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

the kind of orientalism that makes you shudder 👇

[endthewest @bookdellector]

western marxists vehement and reflexiv rejection of religion is an expression of their latent but pervasive eurocentrism.

they grew up with the most genocidal, irrational, anti-human, hollowed out and fascism-supporting faith system in history (western christianity) and

[vanishing mediator @Sain4847]

@StupiderTootles

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

@Sain4847 @StupiderTootles lmfao

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

Not to defend Digger (which I think Adam Nayman critiqued best), but in general I don't think you can make a film that levies some criticism at the western audience for climate change without pissing off most people, regardless of whether the criticism is subtle or not.

[Alex Colston @re_colston]

It's the most mundane thing in the world, but it's transparent when someone's "theory of change" is whatever is most beneficial to their ability to hang out and rub elbows with the ruling class. I've been around long enough. This doesn't only apply to Palestine.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

As a Muslim journalist who spent her early career writing, observing and talking about Muslim Americans, pursuit of power & specifically Palestine (I created the concept/term of Faithwashing) - this perspective below is rooted in two myths: first, that the struggle for Palestinian liberation will come from American electoralism and second, that Muslim Americans of particular class backgrounds and on trajectories of pursuit of power have a primary vested interest in and plan for Palestinian liberation (or starting with at least ending the genocide).

This is historically not the case and we know, also historically, that the pacification of radical movements and moments happens the moment they are brought into the mainstream fold and choose to moderate themselves because no one is holding their feet to the fire. If all you’re satisfied with are crumbs, because the plate was empty before, then all you’ll get is crumbs.

Additionally, it’s been said so many times already, if you’re not pushing them left, they’re being pushed to the right.

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

Awful post and dogshit opinions, thanks.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

A little outside my usual lane, but this needs to be said.

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Since Abdul’s interview with Ezra Klein, I’ve watched parts of our movement go after him. On Wednesday, protesters chanted “traitor” at Zohran. I know I’ll be attacked for saying this, but I can’t stay quiet anymore while we turn on two of the most powerful advocates for Palestine in US politics.

I think we’re missing the bigger picture.

Zohran and Abdul are not only reaching millions of Americans outside our bubble, they're changing the way those Americans see Arabs and Muslims.

For decades, Hollywood portrayed us as terrorists and religious extremists, a threat to the West. In Reel Bad Arabs, Jack Shaheen documented how Hollywood systematically depicted Arabs as villains across more than 900 films, and that was even before 9/11. I have no doubt that this dehumanization contributed enormously to the lack of empathy Palestinians received for decades.

Now look at Abdul and Zohran. They're putting Arabs and Muslims in the middle of American political life as competent, principled American politicians, talking about healthcare, housing and the things that affect Americans' daily lives, without abandoning Palestine. A perfect example of that is Abdul's interviews on Fox. If you haven't seen them, I urge you to watch them before passing any further judgment. He was so compelling and so eloquent that even Jesse Watters, the Fox host, said afterward: “I like him. I don’t want to like him. I like him for some stupid reason.”

And it's not just that. Zohran warned that Gaza was on the brink of genocide on October 13, 2023, and Abdul was calling it a genocide by October 21. Long before they became prominent political figures, they took enormous risks by challenging the boundaries of acceptable political discourse.

And look how much those boundaries have shifted since. Without a doubt, Zohran taking that stance and winning in New York home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel was one of the biggest drivers of the broader shift we’re seeing within the Democratic Party.

Kamala Harris, who many hate for denying and enabling the genocide in Gaza is now endorsing Abdul, who calls Gaza a genocide and wants to stop arms sales to Israel. If that isn't a win for the movement, what is? And yet instead of celebrating it, we're angry at Abdul for receiving her endorsement.

Abdul did all this while also acknowledging the Jewish trauma from the Holocaust in his interview with Ezra Klein. Isn't that exactly what we've always wished politicians would do: represent all their constituents, including Jewish people, while refusing to compromise their moral principles?

And that trauma is real for Jewish people. What we Palestinians hate is how Israel has used that trauma to justify our oppression and dispossession.

Just to clarify: I don’t agree with everything they both say either. In the Ezra Klein interview, I wish Abdul had talked more about Palestinian trauma and what happened in 1948 as people don't understand it in the same way we all understand the trauma of the Holocaust.
But why does the responsibility of explaining that fall solely on him? Yes, he could have done better, but so could we as a movement.

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

@fieldstone_ fuck off with the zionazi babble

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

So many people talk like it is still November 2023 and getting a politician to acknowledge what is going on in Gaza as “genocide” is the absolute ceiling for what the mass movement can possibly ask for.

[louis sanchez @fieldstone_]

@pomegranatist He didn’t switch teams. He’s one of the only politician who’s still actively calling the conflict a genocide

[𓍯 ‏ س @pomegranatist]

I hope New Yorkers haunt him with insults wherever he goes. Politicians need to learn they cant just use Palestine’s popularity to launch their careers then switch teams as soon as they take power without people atleast caring. It keeps happening and people do nothing about it.

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

@tuffluffjimmy @PushForward13 @ChinatowndJake Your very unoriginal mixture of cowardice and dumb guy bigotry. Already bored by it. Fuck off now.

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

@tuffluffjimmy @PushForward13 @ChinatowndJake What the fuck is wrong with you?

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

@sheepscountm3 @Is_Not_Brian Get your own fucking movement and stop making the decolonization of Palestine about the feefees of American Jews.

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

@_citoyenne No.

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

“Left anti-semitism” is not a real phenomenon but stupid, smug, malevolent attitudes like the one on display in this tweet will eventually convince everyone that it needs to be.

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

@MuktiPill he's a German so there's a chance there is residual Anti-Deutsch shit particles inside him

[德梓 @dezidreaming]

@RotIdeologist @nataliehaiytch https://t.co/x2AWo6Wvgj

[Ahmad Kaki @AKPalestine]

I don't believe people fully understand just how bad it is for Mamdani's to fund organizations like JCRC. We sued a school district last month after the local JCRC effectively compelled the district to punish students for wearing Palestine related clothing. The JCRC's position