The beauty of Kashmir is only ruined by the presence of 700,000 Indian soldiers & nearly 450 torture centers.

(Photo by Aasif Shafi)

Gaza News corrects Al Jazeera on death & injuries at the Great Return March. Just a reality check for those who claim voting for Democrats is a do or die proposition: to a person, Democrats support Israel against Palestinians & are not a lesser evil for them. Palestinians are not an ‘international issue’ or an accessory in progressive politics but are among the most important freedom fighters of our times. If you stand against them you are part of the problem no matter what the hell you say against Trump.

Recent victim of pellet munitions in Kashmir: if we do not stand with Kashmiris in their fight against pellet guns, protesters will be facing them in our own countries. Solidarity is not just the iron law of social transformation; it is the rubric of self-preservation .

The young Palestinian in the iconic photo was injured by an Israeli sniper today. What do you bet they were gunning for him & hoping to disable or kill him?

A Palestinian couple with special needs whose home was demolished to make room for Zionist settlers: such is the heritage of the Oslo Accords which legitimized occupation & colonial dispossession. Beware US-brokered ‘peace negotiations’ which have only ever opposed Palestinian self-determination.

t is absolutely pernicious how FB is using the Rohingya genocide to justify censorship & the sweeping deletion of accounts. When it deleted the accounts of Burmese generals (leaving Suu Kyi’s several walls intact), it was not to silence lies & hate mongering but to set the stage for censoring Rohingyas & other freedom struggles. It is important to know what the genocidaires are claiming & social media made that easily available. Now we have to hunt for such information. We have nothing to fear from freedom of speech, even for mass murderers & rapists like the Burmese generals. But mostly, we cannot let the powers-that-be trick us into supporting censorship on social media when the primary targets are those fighting war, occupation, & genocide. That isn’t a naive largesse toward the oppressors but protection for the oppressed.

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-says-it-has-independently-verified-how-much-it-1830244949?

Am I wrong, or has India killed more militants just in the past few months than there were militants when they began these nightly hunt to kill operations several months ago?

Since the Great Return March began March 30th until October 29th, Israeli snipers have killed at least 210 Palestinians & injured over 18,000.

–Al Jazeera

The Burmese genocidaires & Bangladesh, with the help of China (which armed the genocide) & India (which supported the genocide & is forcibly deporting Rohingya refugees), are accelerating the forcible deportation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh back to the killing fields of Burma. The most significant aspect of this monstrous plan is that representatives of the Rohingya people are not party to these negotiations. Deportation plans between Burma & Bangladesh actually began in November 2017 whilst the Rohingya genocide was in full throttle & thousands were fleeing for their lives. From then till now the plan has not gained an ounce of legitimacy or sanity. The Rohingyas are not cattle or sheep to be herded back & forth from killing field to squalid refugee camp at the whim of the oppressors. They have raised their voices in protest demanding they not be returned without substantial, ironclad assurances that they will not live in the concentration camps Burma has set up with help from China & India & that they will have full civil, democratic, & human rights.

Burma & Bangladesh call the forcible deportation plan a voluntary repatriation. But like the terms “crossfire” in Kashmir or “collateral damage” by the US Pentagon, they are just playing with words. Officials formulated a list of nearly 500 Rohingya families to be deported starting mid-November. Is there a single volunteer on that list? No, it was formulated entirely by Burmese & Bangladeshi authorities & it is almost certain that if the members of those 500 families were questioned, they would be outraged at their inclusion & terrified at being sent back to concentration camps & almost certain arrest, torture, death. It provides another chance for Burma to complete the “final solution.”

Does anyone in their right minds think Rohingya refugees should be sent back without their consent & without protections when they are still recovering from mass rape, mass executions, torture, the torching of entire villages, the loss of so many of their loved ones? Does anyone think barbarities of such a scale are psychologically overcome in just a matter of months whilst living in squalid refugee camps?

The Burmese generals, Suu Kyi, Sheikh Hasina, Xi, & Modi are the last people in the world the Rohingyas would trust with their destinies. There can be no decisions made about where they live without their direct participation in decision-making. If we do not raise our voices to support the Rohingya people, Burma & Bangladesh will get away with this continuation of genocide by other means. That we cannot allow.

(Photo of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh by Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune)

Would anti-Assad war mongers care to explain how the US can do this to children in Yemen in order to destroy the Yemeni Arab Spring uprising but do humanitarian bombing in Syria to defend the Syrian Arab Spring uprising?