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Even putting aside my disagreements with DSA and looking at this objectively, I do think there's something to a lot of this being that most people are really unable to engage with anything unless it's in this passive consumerist way. Even mass politics

@samaakhullar I’d love to read an advance if you’d allow me. Sounds interesting!

I wrote something about these non-Palestinian writers who keep going to Palestine and documenting all of it and I know ppl are not gonna like it or call it purity testing or wtv so if any of u guys know some good places/editors to send it to lmk lol

My dad always told me American healthcare profits from the sick. I brushed it off. Then I watched healthcare workers here abandon colleagues like Dr. Abu Safiya and remain silent while their institutions invested in the bombs that leveled hospitals abroad. Boy was 10 yo me wrong!

Trust me, I'm not expecting him to respond. He’s probably gonna stay silent, which will expose himself further, and the people who rally behind him can decide what that means. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's children asked @docstopgenocide to amplify this campaign to save their father. I'm honoring their request.

stop expecting shit from lib zio leaders whose entire purpose is to maintain the status quo of normalization through hardcore identity politics...

Dear Zohran, I wouldn't be writing this if it weren't urgent, but I know your team probably has eyes on me, and the chances of this being seen by you are high. Zohran, you have a platform that reaches millions. You have access to the President of the United States. Use it. Publicly call on Trump to demand the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Marwan Barghouti, and every Palestinian political prisoner. Publicly uplift the campaign action items so the world mobilizes around them. You and I have disagreed. You and your team knows that well. Today, none of that matters. More than 10,000 Palestinians are being held in israeli torture dungeons. Their families are fighting to save them before they’re tortured to death. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's children are fighting to save their father. Marwan Barghouti's children have spent years fighting for theirs. They don't need a meaningless statement of solidarity. They need people with influence to act. If you say you're pro-Palestine, then prove it. Use your platform. Make the call. Demand their freedom. Mobilize the world for every Palestinian prisoners liberation. The campaign materials and action items exist, share them far and wide.

Zohran Mamdani use your platform to demand the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Marwan Barghouti, and every Palestinian political prisoner. You're a powerful storyteller. Tell their stories. Paint the picture for your audience, and uplift their campaigns action items.

it’s truly sad and disgusting that the western “pro-Palestine” movement still hasn’t atoned for celebrating regime change in Syria. no reckoning, no self-criticism, nothing. just moved on like it never happened and expects us to forget too.

Oh, I completely agree. I wholeheartedly don't think boycotting alone will stop the genocide. Nothing stops Zionists from divesting their money from one company and investing it in another, making the net effect zero. We would have to divest from companies everywhere around the world before it could have that kind of impact, and that's not a short-term plan. I guess I should've been clearer. When I said "successful," I meant in terms of those companies actually feeling the financial hit. I already know boycotts alone won't stop a genocide, but they're easy enough for people to do alongside other forms of action.

@anoosify @aaiqbal @autisticswana But they didn’t stop doing business w the entity. And even if they did it wouldn’t have stopped the genocide. Boycott was a woefully under-powered tactic compared to what the situation called for, claiming ‘success’ here is delusional.

Genuinely asking: what do you think made the McDonald’s and Starbucks boycott campaigns so successful? Out of everything on the BDS list, those two seem to have taken the biggest hit from the movement. My guess is that because they're global brands with locations in almost every community, they were more relatable and easier for people to boycott. But I'm curious what everyone else thinks

While the world watches the World Cup, bombs keep falling. The U.S. bombed Iran. "Israel" keeps bombing Gaza. Both colonial states use global distraction to kill more people.

@aaiqbal @autisticswana I’m not sure if this is still the case post ‘ceasefire’ (I hope it is), but their global sales and stock values dropped. Also I feel like in the local community, anyone who thinks to get McDonald’s or Starbucks is publicly shamed for it

@anoosify @autisticswana In what way are they successful?

@spookysvetlana To summarize: Something local, and relatable to everyone. Something that can be replaced easily.

@anoosify that's probably the biggest factor. i'm sure also, coffee and burgers, pretty much everyone's living areas have local places to get that stuff that are probably much better too. so hardly a boycott with friction for a lot of people

FIFA only exists to take the world's most beloved working-class sport, politicize it, corrupt it, and keep it under Zionist and western imperial control. Egypt’s loss today, overturning a red card for the USA, funding Trump’s disastrous Gaza “peace” plan are all examples of that.

This is my village in Palestine, sometime in the 1900s. This is my heritage. This is where I come from ❤️

When billionaires own the game, politics owns the sport. FIFA and this very instance is proof.

Oh we’re calling them farmers now

Celebrating the Fourth of July in America is like celebrating the Nakba that forcibly displaced and killed indigenous Palestinians in Tel Aviv.

Soccer to me will always be my dad on a dirt field in Palestine. No stadium. No sponsors. No trophies. Just people playing because they loved the game, and his kid rooting for him.

Never forget: the last time Ben Gvir came to NYC, his visit was followed by a mob assault in Crown Heights, a pro-Palestinian protester was struck in the head, and a local woman was chased by dozens of men chanting “Death to Arabs” and threatening to rape her. More than a year later, no one has been held accountable.