They tell us that ICE is about immigration. The southern border.
Bullshit.
It is about weaponizing our government against our constitution. Normalizing the use of paramilitary force on our streets in ways that we stop questioning it.
Abolish ICE.
New York Democrat Socialist Congressional candidate Claire Valdez lays out her radical agenda:
“So, are we ready to free Palestine, are we ready to Abolish ICE are we ready to win Medicare for all, housing for all, and unions for all?”
establishment democrats and republicans weren’t fearful he’d fail and ruin nyc. they were worried he’d succeed and represent the threat of a good alternative
"In Vietnam, I didn't want the US to win. I don't want the US to win in Iran. I'm not America First, I'm Justice First. If it were switched and the Palestinians were doing to the Israelis what the Israelis are doing to them, I'm not pro-Palestinian". —Professor Norman Finkelstein
Israel flattened Beirut in 1982.
No Hamas. No Hezbollah. No October 7 to point to then.
Just 17,000 dead Lebanese and Palestinian civilians.
Even US president then Ronald Reagan, who armed Israel, called Begin furious after seeing a photo of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off and said “It is a holocaust”.
They killed so many innocent people that the survivors had no choice but to pick up weapons.
Then Israel had the audacity to keep using “Self-Defense” excuse every decade.
Israel didn’t stumble into endless war. Israel built it. Brick by brick.
Own it.
I see Sam Harris, the Gaza genocide apologist and ‘New Atheist’ apologist for a self-proclaimed Jewish state, is doing the usual pro-Israel whataboutism by cynically asking why people aren’t protesting, or didn’t protest or condemn, the killing Yemeni kids by a Saudi coalition backed by the US.
So here’s my challenge to Sam Harris. Let’s compare records. Let’s compare what I have said and written about Yemen over the years with what Harris has said/written.
Let’s compare what Ro Khanna or Bernie Sanders has said about Yemen, and what Harris has said.
Let’s see who uses Yemen cynically as whataboutism to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and who actually gives a damn about the people of Yemen and is consistent when it comes to objecting to US-backed foreign wars and genocides.
Shame on Sam Harris.