Simsim

Palestinian organizer | PhD in Anthropology researching disability, displacement, and sovereignty in Lebanon | Brooklyn born and raised

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

least self aware poster on this website.

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

Nick Wright out of left field. Gotta love it

[nick wright @getnickwright]

Hi Matt. I’m more than a little confused by this critique. Even folks who just had a passing knowledge of @AbdulElSayed’s campaign know that his slogan was about 3 things: Money out of politics, money in your pocket & Medicare for all.

Whether you (or other Democrat Senators or anyone, really) disagree with that is irrelevant to the facts that those were the things he explicitly campaigned on.

Do you truly believe that given the above facts, he should simply pretend that is not what he campaigned on? Or, alternatively, that he should acknowledge that despite campaigning on those ideals, he’s abandoning them days after the election because he won by 7 and other Democratic candidates won by 9?

Lastly, I understand you always seem to be focused on maximizing electability and far less focused on maximizing enacting actual reforms, but given your (and others) focus on electability concerns, isn’t right now—literally the furthest out from the next election we possibly could be—the best possible time to raise these issues?

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

People like Matt and @neeratanden hate working class people. And they hate politicians who dare to try to create the systematic change to support them. I’m sure they are paid well for their anti-working class politics but their disdain seems clear to me

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

What is the purpose of this commentary?

We just had an election. Nine seats flipped. Only one of the seat-flippers embraced this idea in the campaign. Why the determination to make people mad at the people who just won?

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.

Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.

I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.

We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.

I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.

What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?

I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

Btw is the United States of Amreeka now

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

Blue Mississippi before GTA6 would be WILD. Hell before GTA7 would be impressive

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

I was so upset when Coates published the case for reparations and used Israel as an example. But his turn around and public criticism of Zionism as a racist settler colonial ideology has more than redeemed him

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

Coates: “Stevens, in joining Rogers, has allied herself with this odious culture war, one tied to a very real war. The campaign of hate, of which El-Sayed is the latest victim, has a simple goal: to render Muslims and Arabs more killable.” https://t.co/mKiSfBr9yp

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

"We are not simply facing a shortage of goods. We are gradually losing everything that allows a city to function, survive, and sustain life."

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

lol

[darryl li @dcli]

now out in print

https://t.co/ndoW0ExVQF

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

I think every centrist pundit owes @hasanthehun an apology fruit basket and a donation to the DSA candidate of his choice. You shitlibs are pathetic. Let's go El-Sayed.

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

You literally fed this monster.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

@HaleyforMI This is a betrayal of all you've represented in the past and all the people that supported you. Mike Rogers has a run a hateful campaign. I hope Abdul has a strong victory on Tuesday. What you've done today is an abomination.

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

@miatalias And yet every aspect of their lives and the land they live on is controlled by Israel you racist scum.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel’s defenders: It’s not a genocide

Israelis: Palestinians must leave or we’ll kill them

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

@steveschale I think you just described news media

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.

Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.

Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.

"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.

Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

Any other country would have been completely sanctioned and embargoed at this point

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🇮🇱 Trita Parsi: “In a stunning piece published by the head of one of Israel’s most prominent think tanks, Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman describes the reality of Israel’s new security doctrine:
👉https://t.co/BGgNhcyn6y

“1. The United States is a “declining power” and, given its ongoing social and political shifts, will soon abandon Israel in any event. This is compelling Israel to move toward greater self-reliance in order to avoid “excessive dependence” on the US since it “exposes Israel to the influence of a progressive American value system that is incompatible with Israel’s Jewish character.” 
Then he concludes: “Severing ties with the United States is therefore not only inevitable, but essential to Israel’s independence and the resilience of its Jewish national identity.”

2. Primacy of Jewish Identity over Democracy: The state’s Jewish identity takes precedence over its democratic system of government. 

3. Peace agreements are merely technical and temporary arrangements requiring constant reassessment. According to this view, peace is not an intrinsic value that generates security, but a means of achieving other policy objectives.

4. “Rejection of the Independent Existence of Arab States: The underlying premise is that most Arab states are not genuine nation-states, but collections of tribes and ethnic groups lacking a shared history and a foundational national vision. Consequently, undermining their stability is viewed as a natural process, one that Israel can manage more effectively than it can contend with strong nation-states, and one that it should even encourage.”

5. “War as a Foundational State: War is essential to national security and cannot be replaced by a state of peace, which, as noted, is merely a means rather than an end.... War is necessary, and preventive war is preferable because it secures a significant achievement at the outset.”
6. “Absolute Priority for Initiative and Offense over Defense: Preemptive, surprise strikes are viewed as the only way to achieve victory, giving offense precedence over defense.”

And there’s more. 
Important to note that Hayman does not advocate for this. Rather, he contends that this already is the new security doctrine of Israel.”

👉https://t.co/P923YA8STL

via @tparsi

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

@bluedoggeosh Wait are you denying that the Biden and Harris administration committed genocide or denying that a genocide is happening?

[Simsim @sameesulaiman]

At this point there have to be thousands of admissions by Israelis engaged in the genocide if their heinous war crimes. And yet you would never know that if you watched or read any MSM.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Israeli reservist tells Der Spiegel his unit killed Palestinians who approached hidden positions, then logged them as terrorists

The soldier, who spent about 250 days in Gaza, described a procedure his unit often used called “Alman Kasch,” in which troops take up concealed positions in areas that have not been evacuated and open fire on anyone who comes near.

“If Palestinians, who do not know that our soldiers are there, approach, they are shelled. Usually other people come along who want to help, they are also shot at. Within a few minutes, five, six or seven people are killed. The protocol says: seven terrorists eliminated. But no, it’s just seven people who crossed an intersection. Important: We do not kill, we eliminate. That’s how we’ve always phrased it.”

He said his brigade killed 160 to 170 people during more than 80 days in the Netzarim corridor, where “there were no fighting, no attacks by Hamas.”

“Only one man was suspected to carry a gun. No one saw the gun, it was night, and he had something with him that could have been interpreted as a weapon. He was killed about 500 meters north of the corridor, so he was not a direct danger, and we never examined his body. But not only him, but all these dead were reported as terrorists.”

The soldier is one of ten who gave testimony to Der Spiegel.