After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
Congrats to Joe Biden & Democrats — your relentless support for Israel killing 34,000 people has resulted in a historic anti-war movement (led by the young people who are supposedly your base) & the arrest of protestors and journalists which you warn will happen under Trump
Spent the first night of Passover at the student seder in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia.
The Jewish flank of the Palestine solidarity movement is growing and it is so beautiful to behold.
Judge for yourself how unsafe these Jewish students look.
For those who don't have the stomach for the video of Aaron Bushnell burning himself alive
Even as he was burning in agonizing pain he continued to yell free Palestine
If, upon seeing a man self-immolate to protest a genocide that’s been live-streamed to the world for 143 days, your reaction is to criticise or dismiss, you simply do not understand the gravity of his act or the magnitude of what he is protesting—and in doing so you become a part of the very problem his defiant act rejected.
Tens of thousands of innocent people are being slaughtered with US arms and US taxpayer funding, and US propaganda is working tirelessly to cover this up and manufacture consent for it to continue.
The enormity of this moment cannot be understated, for both what it represents here and now and the ramifications and precedents being set. And the depraved and dictatorial US Empire refuses to be swayed by international law, by the Genocide Convention, by the ICJ, by the UN, by protest, by voters, by tens of thousands of children dying—by anything.
This act, as devastating as it is, is a final, defiant scream in protest at the incalculable tyranny of an Empire that has entirely lost touch with humanity. Don’t become that, too. Don’t downplay, dismiss or criticise the person who makes the sacrifice in an attempt to stop tyranny—for you then become a part of that tyranny yourself.