It’s true the Maduro government is completely corrupt & represents the interests of Venezuelan capital, not that of working people. It has no rights whatsoever to shoot at unarmed protesters. But it is solely up to the Venezuelan people to settle the score with their government. The US Pentagon (which represents competing American capital) has no legitimate role whatsoever. Those focusing only on the Maduro regime without opposing US military intervention & sanctions are trying to hide their support for war against the Venezuelan people. There’s a political term for such people: war mongers. War mongers have close association with war criminals.
The extreme political aggression of undermining the US Bill of Rights (the foundation of US democracy) to oppose BDS speaks to the importance of Israel as a fortress against democracy in the Middle East. Just as it speaks to the importance of the Palestinian struggle against colonialism, apartheid, & genocide. Their struggle is now inextricable from the struggle for democratic rights in the US.
Stripping Aung San Suu Kyi of honorifics is part of building support for the Rohingya people against genocide.
Trump keeps pretending he’s withdrawing troops from Syria & Afghanistan. But we don’t have to pretend we believe him. There’s a snowballs chance in hell that US troops will be withdrawn from either country.
This is the body of Samah Zuhair Mubarak, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl extrajudicially executed & left bleeding to death today at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. Israeli occupying soldiers shot her to death & justified it by saying she tried to stab a soldier with the green knife shown here just above her left knee. Remember what French Zionist Bernard-Henri Lévy called the “Stabbing Intifada” & other Zionists & apologists for Israeli crimes called the “Knife Intifada” or the “Lone Wolves Intifada” in 2015? That’s the so-called ‘Intifada’ when the Israeli army gunned down Palestinian young people on an almost daily basis & planted knives on them justify it. There was even film footage of Israeli soldiers planting a knife on one victim.
It isn’t possible to know what immediately incited the occupying soldiers to gun this young girl down in cold blood–other than they’re trained in genocide–because the forensics will be done by the Israeli military. The certainty is that she did absolutely nothing to provoke this monstrous crime. May she Rest In Peace. And may we work tirelessly to build Palestinian solidarity by honoring BDS, with rallies, forums, educational forums.
End the occupation of Palestine! Self-determination for Palestinians!
(Photo from several Palestinian sources on FB & Twitter)
An outstanding analysis of Facebook censorship policy by Inji Pennu:
If only those who support lesser evil politics in the US had the clarity & insights that this Kashmiri writer has about a born-again bureaucrat trying to neutralize Kashmiri popular resistance to occupation & colonialism. An excellent analysis!
It cannot be said strongly or often enough that every time we do not act to oppose the laws–now operating in 26 US states & being made a law by the US Senate) making support for the cultural & economic boycott of Israel a felony, we are not just weakening Palestinian solidarity but undermining the US Bill of Rights which is the foundation of American democracy.
We need to form local, state, & national coalitions to systematically oppose & defeat these attacks on free speech, free association, the right to assembly, the ability to build solidarity against war, occupation, genocide. If we do not, we will be forced to abandon the Black community (where systematic & egregious violations of the Bill of Rights have been unchallenged for over 35 years) & Palestinians who these laws have in their crosshairs & all the rest of us will be completely disarmed against the advance of tyranny in this country.
Palestinians are fighting a life & death battle against genocide. Either we move into action to oppose these anti-BDS laws or they again will stand alone.
(Photo of young man at Great Return March by Mustafa Hassona)