“Liberation” by Kashmiri hip-hop artist FaisAll to welcome back our Kashmiri friends whose polemics, reports, sarcasms, insights were deeply missed on social media. Facebook was like a ghost town without them.

Posted January 29th, 2020

The world’s dumbest president: ‘the Al-Aqua mosque’.

I look at repulsive Trump, I don’t just see hate, white & male supremacy, misanthropy; I see the real face of capitalist rule in the US, Britain, India, Burma, Israel, Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, Iraq, Japan, Mexico, & elsewhere. Trump lost the election but they handed it to him because Clinton’s populist rhetoric would have made the rightward stampede harder & take longer to carry out. Lesser evil panic is a fool’s game.

“All kinds of people will be wringing their hands about Trump’s “peace plan”.
We need to speak clearly:
Trump’s plan requires the Palestinian leadership to complete the late Yasser Arafat’s capitulation to Zionist oppression and domination.
Trump’s plan does not recognize the right of the people of Palestine to be free from military occupation and blockade.
Trump’s plan does not recognize the right of the people of Palestine to equality.
Trump’s plan does not recognize the right of the people of Palestine to sovereignty.
Trump’s plan does not recognize the rights of the Palestine refugees.
Trump’s plan cannot be defeated by hand-wringing, by diplomacy, by international law, or by “armed struggle”.
Trump’s plan cannot be defeated except by principled and well-organized mass action led by Palestinians who have clearly-articulated revolutionary-democratic goals and tactics.”

–Henry Lowi

In an interview, Jared Kushner (who is really really ugly) acknowledged that Palestinians were not consulted in formulating the new bantustate proposal. He also sneered at Palestinian resistance & suggested they were not ready for ‘statehood’. You look at him, you see Goebbels written all over his face.

The Kashmiri telecommunications blockade intentionally goes both ways. Now, after nearly six months, Kashmiris don’t know any more about what’s going on outside Kashmir than we know about what’s going on inside Kashmir. They don’t know there’s an emerging solidarity movement & we have no idea what is happening to them & to their resistance struggle. Under the mantle of a blockade, India is likely committing all sorts of human rights crimes. We just keep our focus on building solidarity because whether or not they know, it helps build Kashmiri political power.

“It’s quite clear that the Indian state doesn’t want any real journalism from Kashmir. It doesn’t want the story, as told by Kashmiris, to come out. This is why it has imposed the severest possible curbs and surveillance on Kashmiri journalists.

In the face of this authoritarian suppression of the press, Kashmiri journalists, infinitely more courageous than many of their counterparts in India, have worked hard, and with great dignity, to get the word out. They deserve the highest accolades.”

–Kashmiri writer Mirza Waheed

Tens of thousands of Syrian civilians are fleeing Syrian & Russian bombing as well as ground forces in Idlib. These photos are of fleeing civilians trying to protect themselves from the Syrian Army which is targeting them.

This is a map of Trump’s so-called ‘peace plan’ which he tweeted a few hours ago. It is first & foremost a scam, a temporizing maneuver to give Israel more time to fully implement the Oslo Accords which embody the terms of Palestinian surrender & legitimize occupation & expropriation. The map itself stands as testimony to that reality. There is no possibility of a two-state/bantustate solution for Palestinians. The only alternative to continued ethnic cleansing & genocide is the secular, democratic state proposed decades ago by Palestinian visionaries. That is the only solution which incorporates Palestinian self-determination while addressing the fate of Jews born & raised in Palestine.

There may be Israeli settlers in the West Bank unwilling to accept a secular, democratic state because of their rabid Zionism. No one ever thought a transition from colonial acquisition, apartheid, genocide would go smoothly. Settlers who cannot accept democracy may be compelled from persecuting & freeloading off Palestinians to move back to where they came from. It took a civil war to end slavery in the US but the alternative was no more acceptable than continued genocide against Palestinians.

(Map tweeted by Trump, January 28, 2020)