These are photos of Obama at a Palestinian community dinner in Chicago seated at a table with Edward Said, Ali Abunimah and Rashid Khalidi. The latter have both attested to his betrayal and how Obama used to always attend events in their community. In 1999, Abunimah introduced him at a fundraiser for a community center in Deheisha refugee camp in the West Bank. Imagine that.
He used to be that comfortable speaking up for and being associated with Palestinians. While teaching at the University of Chicago, Khalidi lived in Hyde Park close to the Obamas. They became close friends and would have dinner together; they even held a fundraiser for Obama.
No, it's not Cuba, nor Venezuela, nor North Korea,Iran, countries where, according to Western media, human rights violations occur daily.
This is in Arkansas, in the United States, where three police officers beat a defenseless citizen in this way.
Smarter people have articulated this before but the Gaza Genocide prefigured all of this violence. What Gaza asked of all of us was how much horror we were willing to ignore, and it the answer was “a lot”. All of this (ICE, Venezuela, etc) is downstream of that complacency.