Unlike the frivolous lawsuit filed by the rightwing racist kid against the Washington Post, this lawsuit filed by 18 Palestinian defendants (including Bassem Al-Tamimi) against Zionist billionaire Sheldon Adelson has enormous political potential. They are suing him for genocide & conspiring to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their lands. It’s a brilliant tactic since Zionist & Israeli law firms are engaging in law fare against BDS & Palestinian solidarity activists all over the world. Such law suits will not effectively reverse genocide but they can serve to obstruct some settlement programs in the West Bank & East Jerusalem & they can be a powerful tool for educating about the nature of Israeli occupation/colonization.
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A useful article on the anti-Kashmiri furor set off by Pulwama:
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/violence-breeds-violence-kashmir-190217053833681.html?
It’s the insolent punk in this video wearing the Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat who is suing the Washington Post for bias against Trump. The Catholic high school student was in DC with his school for the annual anti-abortion march at the same time as Native Americans were rallying. The right wing is falling over itself trying to prove this was not a racist confrontation but this is a video worth a thousand of their lies.
An article about some of leading Kashmiri freedom fighter Maqbool Bhat’s ideas, including about the government versus the people of Pakistan. One of his most powerful is: “For us, Azaadi (Independence) means not just getting rid of foreign occupation of our beloved motherland but also to remove hunger, poverty, ignorance, & disease & to overcome economic & social deprivation. One day, we shall achieve that azaadi”.
Occupation? Or more aptly called colonization?
If you send hundreds of thousands of soldiers to war, some of them are going to get killed–especially if as a matter of military policy they engage in war crimes, as do the US, Indian, Israeli, European, Burmese, & all other militaries. This orgy of international condemnations over Pulwama are exposed by the silence on massive human rights crimes against Kashmiris under occupation & the pogroms Kashmiris are now facing in India. If we want to end soldier deaths, we make no concessions to militarism & demand the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all foreign troops from wherever they are deployed.
If the Catholic high school student’s $250-million lawsuit against the Washington Post for a new McCarthyism & bias against Trump is not thrown out of court, we can sue the same paper, the NY Times, & for that matter the US Congress for bias toward Palestinians. Bias is the very nature of a so-called free press.
That little matter of beheading & dismembering journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October (as well as beheading many other dissidents) has not impeded Mohammad bin Salman’s role in international politics one iota. He was a welcome attendee at the 2018 G20 summit in Argentina last November/December, was just feted in Pakistan by reform Prime Minister Imran Khan with fighter jet flyovers, 21-gun salutes, banners in the streets, red carpet receptions & honor guard ceremonies, & is now in India for talks on terrorism, investment, & trade. In return for not mentioning Saudi Arabia’s oppressive & murderous politics, Pakistan signed $20-billion in deals with the Saudis.
Saudi Arabia claims it will try to broker tensions between Pakistan & India but of course that could only be at the expense of the Kashmiri freedom struggle & by denouncing terrorism in Kashmir, despite the fact that there only a few hundred armed militants in Kashmir. The point is to impugn struggles against colonialism & occupation by exaggerating the scale of terrorism in Kashmir. MBS & Modi are expected to set up a Strategic Partnership Council to plan joint naval exercises & defense cooperation. This would be in concert with a similar cooperation set up last year between India & the US & between India & Israel. MBS will be off to China next in the Saudi campaign to forge partnerships for trade, investment, & against any popular initiatives for democracy. The irony of Modi feting MBS while conducting pogroms against Muslims speaks to the real purpose of the Islamophobic war on terror: not Islam theologically so much as political resistance to tyranny among Muslims.
(Photo on left is Imran Khan with MBS & on right is Modi with MBS)
Indian counterinsurgency troops in Kashmir & within India are trained by Israeli special forces commandos. India is also a major purchaser of Israeli military equipment, including weapons systems, missiles, & unmanned aerial vehicles. It is through militarism that the US is also involved in the nexus of colonial occupation in Kashmir.
Pellet munitions are trucked by convoys into Kashmir from India where they are dispensed to police & counterinsurgency troops. This collage of pellet victims is from the 2016 uprising when the Indian occupying army went on a rampage. The photos show the scale of facial injuries & disfigurement caused by pellets. Even though they are called non-lethal, they are clearly intended to inflict maximum harm, including to children, by blinding, disfiguring, injury to internal organs, lifelong pain & health problems, demoralization, & death.
Stand with Kashmiris in demanding the end of pellet guns & the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all Indian troops. End the occupation. Self-determination for Kashmir.
(Photo collage from 2016 by Freedom For Kashmir)