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Human Rights Lawyer • Author • Dad Jokes • Sirius XM Host • Creator of Let’s Address This with Qasim Rashid: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/
This week SCOTUS issued a ghastly ruling, that Trump's ICE fascists can use ethnicity as a ‘relevant factor’ to detain people, specifically citing Latino ethnicity. Here’s the harsh truth: This Supreme Court’s extremism is not an aberration, but a manifestation, of Supreme Court extremism throughout U.S. history. Here are the devastating receipts:
Imagine if in the last year Hamas attacked Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Tunisia, & Qatar, assassinated its leaders, raped prisoners, used civilians as human shields, snipered babies, shot teen boys in the testicles, bombed hospitals, schools, churches, & mosques, starved millions to famine, & genocided minimum 100K—all while claiming self defense. Would you buy that sick excuse? Because Hamas did none of that—but that’s the exact excuse Israel uses for doing all of that.
This is from Israel's oldest paper. This is Israeli media reporting these war crimes and genocide in broad daylight. You won't see this in American corporate media. They've continued to ignore this, enable this, even justify this and cheer it on. Do not look away. This is genocide. This cannot stand. image
A reminder that Netanyahu is still starving Gaza by blocking aid—which is a war crime. Recall that when Yemenis blocked ships to prevent genocide, they were bombed. Now, as Israelis block aid to enable famine, they’re protected. If you don't see the grotesque white supremacy in our foreign policy then you're either not paying attention or you're happily complicit. The world must unite to end this blockade and stop this genocide.
WOW. The Guardian is reporting that Israeli troops fired ‘warning shots’ at 25 diplomats visiting occupied West Bank. The delegation comprised ambassadors and diplomats representing 31 countries, including Italy, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, and the United Kingdom. Israel claims it was an "inconvenience" and they're investigating. Make no mistake, this is deliberate intimidation by a regime committing daily genocide. If this is how they treat diplomats, just imagine how they treat Palestinians.
Fascism is when there are documented cases of the KKK mass murdering at least 5000 Black people and terrorizing millions more, but they're still allowed to exist and hold public marches due to "free speech," but Black and brown people are disappeared, deported, and tortured on the mere accusation that they said things the Government doesn't like.
Before leaving office Joe Biden is set to pardon his son Hunter. He can't stop there. Right now ~2500 people sit on federal death row. When Trump was in office he lifted the moratorium on executions. Biden should commute their executions to life in prison. Do it.
Netanyahu’s response to the ICC arrest warrant is to claim antisemitism. But this is without merit. Not only is the ICC charging both Israeli and Hamas leaders for war crimes, among the key advisors to help issue these arrest warrants is 94-year-old attorney, renowned humanitarian, and Nazi death camp survivor, Theodor Meron. Netanyahu is accusing one of the last living Holocaust survivors of antisemitism😐
Watching MAGAs panic at the thought that women might vote opposite their husbands reminds me that after no fault divorce was legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20% The "strong 1950s family unit" that GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating DV, & 0 female financial autonomy. GOP was always about control of women, and nothing about that has changed today.
Does a Red Line for Rafah even exist? Despite declaring attacks on Rafah as a "Red Line," the Biden Administration says Israel's attacks on Rafah killing 45 civilians including 32 children is not a deal breaker. OpEd going live at 8am CST. Subscribe here to receive automatically in your inbox:
WOW this is incredible & terrifying. Israel spent over a decade spying on ICC prosecutors to "retroactively investigate incidents of interest to ICC to prove Israel’s legal system is accountable." Meanwhile Israel has banned all journalists from Gaza and has killed 100+ journalists. This is totally what you do when you're not guilty of war crimes. How much longer will the USA, UN, & the world enable this injustice? https://www.972mag.com/icc-israel-surveillance-investigation/
So we're just going to ignore that authorities confirm an anti-Palestine agitator yelled "Kill the Jews" to ignite discord & get people arrested? Antisemitism is a real threat to humanity, and extremists like this harm both Jews & Palestinians. Shameful.
BREAKING: A special State Dept panel told Sect Blinken in December to sanction the IDF due to war crimes and rapes—& he’s taken no action.😳 Remember, the US Govt immediately pulled UNRWA funding on the mere allegation of Hamas, and without any evidence, but now 5 months later zero action against IDF despite extensive documentation of rape & murder by IDF as proven by the U.S. State Dept itself!😐
March is Women’s History Month. A reminder that after no fault divorce was finally legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%.🤯 The "strong 1950s family unit" GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy. Or maybe that’s the GOP’s goal.😐
Truly unbelievable that after bombing Afghanistan for 20 years, & bombing Iraq for 20 years, & leaving both nations in even worse condition by killing hundreds of thousands of civilians—people still think that bombing Palestinian civilians is the path to peace.😐 #CeaseFireInGaza