“Any people in my friend list who do understand ‘Azaadi’ but don’t want to understand feminism and equal rights?

Any people who understand feminism but don’t want to understand ‘Azaadi’ or freedom for people irrespective of their political leanings or background?

Any people who think they are educated but look down on others who are less educated or less privileged?

Any people who hold any kind of prejudice against anyone?

Those pseudo-feminists who think they understand feminism and still mock and joke about women and treat them as material?

All these respected people, request you to unfriend me, no questions asked, just basic courtesy for each other! I don’t want we cross paths!

Thank you!”

–Tanzila Mukhtar

by Indian activist Ravi Kumar

This is what the supremacist ideology of Zionism leads to in occupied East Jerusalem: the disabling & disfigurement of children.

(Photo via Moneeb Saada)

The inaugural event of the Stand With Kashmir group at UMass Amherst in solidarity with Kashmir, the Syrian Arab Spring, Rojava, & Palestine.

Video of Palestinians joining with Kashmiris to protest the Indian Consul General speaking at an Indian propaganda conference at Harvard University.

“I was sitting in a corner of the courtroom, unspeaking and hopeful when Mr. Mian Abdul Qayoom rose and started presenting my father’s case. My father had completed his 20 years of imprisonment and was expected to be released. After listening to the arguments, the judge glanced at me and declared with an air of indifference, “Life imprisonment means imprisonment until death.” I remember Mian Qayoom’s ashen face, his eyes turning to me and then closing. He had done everything he could, to seek justice for me, in the courts of occupation. Today, the 76-year-old lawyer, who brought so many of our prisoners home, is in jail — ailing and weakening. We pray for your health, strength, and freedom.”

–Kashmiri Ahmed Bin Qasim whose mother & father are both political prisoners

Since I mistrust her politically, I have chosen not to post the many pronouncements of Iltija Mufti who has a very active social media presence demanding her mother Mehbooba Mufti be released from detention in Kashmir. The Indian government does not have the right to lock up Mehbooba Mufti or any other Kashmiri. It is for Kashmiris to charge & prosecute Mufti for her human rights crimes against them & their children. But my skepticism about Iltija is confirmed by her statement: “I respect Prime Minister Modi. But I don’t know if he is being misled or he is misleading the country intentionally.” Other than collaborators & the pathologically naive, are there any other Kashmiris who would express respect for Modi & suggest he is not one of the chief architects of the lockdown, genocide, & expropriation of Kashmir?

An excellent documentary by Kashmiri Shafkat Raina on forced labor by Indian troops in Kashmir:

Art by Mir Suhail Qadiri

(Reference: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/david-datuna-banana-art-basel-trnd/index.html)