Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz2 Twitter profile

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

29 days

I've written a few paragraphs on a book that everyone should read before pontificating about Syria.

I’ve written a long essay for a future issue (the Halal issue) of the Critical Muslim which reviews three necessary books on the politics of the Middle East. Two are Alex Rowell’s ̶…

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

1 year

Was eating Syrian fast food in a cafe last night and talking (in English) about Russian savagery in Ukraine, and how belatedly the west had woken up to the problem. The chef walked over and began talking in Arabic. "I saw the Russian savagery in Syria. I was in Harasta." (urban

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A journalist speaks Arabic and is immediately surrounded by a mob chanting 'Death to Arabs'. It's an understatement to say that this cannot be described as a healthy society.

Middle East Eye

@MiddleEastEye

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WATCH: France24 correspondent Laila Odeh was heckled and verbally assaulted by Israelis in Jerusalem for speaking Arabic.

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graves of the Russians, but he wasn't convinced. Syria is ruined and there's no way to reach a happy ending. We did agree that it soothes the soul to some extent to see the Ukrainians defeating the Russians, in any case.

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area in the eastern Ghouta, Damascus outskirts). "They used every type of weapon you can think of. They used de-mining explosives, a hose full of explosive which turned an entire neighbourhood into fire. They used white phosphorus and vacuum bombs. You wouldn't believe such

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1 year

If in Dumfries, go and say hello...

Levantine - Syrian Cuisine restaurant menu in Dumfries - Order from Just Eat

View the full menu from Levantine - Syrian Cuisine in Dumfries DG1 2RS and place your order online. Wide selection of Mediterranean food to have delivered to your door.

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violence on a battlefield, but this was a city environment with every house full of women and children. There's nothing left now. It's destroyed. Anyone left in Syria is desperately praying to find a way out." I told him that one day we'd celebrate on the

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Ah that's really lovely. And then he organised a mass rape campaign.

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And if you want to know more, please do read our (Folio Prize-shortlisted) book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. It contextualizes, and (unlike most western takes) prioritizes the voices of Syrians who lived through the events.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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2 years

I was attacked in the street and was about to call for help when I remembered that America attacked Iraq. So I submitted to the beating. To do anything else would have been hypocritical.

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If you're reposting jason hinkle, lowkey, abby martin, the guy who runs mintpress, roger waters, and suchlike, please be aware that these are people who consistently denied Russian/Iranian/Assad attacks on hospitals and schools in Syria. Syrians also matter.

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1 year

Euphoric joy in Kherson after the liberation. If we'd listened to Kissinger, Chomsky, Corbyn, etc the people of Kherson would still be under savage occupation. Ukraine needs more weapons to continue rolling back Russian fascism. We should all redouble our support.

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residence permit but known to the authorities. His surviving relatives are scattered around the world, unable to meet because of visa regimes. Every Syrian family is now like this - or worse off than my family, because nobody in my extended family as far as I know is stuck

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in a camp on the Syrian border. These are the worst places of all... except of course for the prisons/death camps of the regime, where at least a hundred thousand men, women and children languish between life and death.

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On the subject of Harasta, one of my cousins used to have a dental clinic alongside his family home there - both now destroyed by Assad, Iranian and Russian forces. My cousin was arrested by Assadists and badly tortured. He now lives in a European state in legal limbo, without a

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1 year

Chomsky is an idiot, a boon to fascist regimes, a genocide denialist, and an absorber of energy which might otherwise be spent on genuine oppositional politics.

David Patrikarakos

@dpatrikarakos

1 year

Has one man ever been so wrong about everything, all the time, for decades?

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5 months

The PA in the West Bank chose peace and economic development. In return, Israel increased its colonisation of the WB and ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem. I'm all for a variety of Palestinian opinions, criticism of Hamas, etc - but this guy is a tool of Israeli propaganda.

John Aziz

@aziz0nomics

5 months

Dear Palestinians 🇵🇸 This is what Gaza, Ramallah, and East Jerusalem could be like if we chose peace and economic development instead of trying to militarily recapture Tel Aviv and Haifa. We wasted hundreds of billions of aid on tunnels and weapons.

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@nariell_a Strength to you. Many people are thinking of you, and hoping for your safety, as well as for Ukraine's victory, which will be a victory for Free Syrians too, and foe decent people everywhere.

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100,000 lost in his dungeons. Over 600,000 murdered. Thirteen million driven from their homes. Syria's cities destroyed. Its ancient heritage smashed and plundered. What a romantic guy.

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I went to a film screening about torture in Syria, after which Syrian refugees spoke painfully of their traumatising experiences. Then a white guy stood up and said 'Assad's a resistance leader, very popular at home, and the 'revolution' is a western regime change operation'.

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1 year

Horror upon horror. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake has hit Syria. All those buildings weakened by 12 years of Assad/Iranian/Russian bombardment have collapsed. Already there were hundreds of thousands in tents, which are under snow. This is far too much pain for a people to bear.

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4 months

If you were disgusted by ISIS but not by this variety of ethno-sectarian fascism, certain cultural prejudices are blinding your moral sense.

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

4 months

An Israeli soldier posing next to a fallen mosque minaret in Gaza with the message written on it: "The temple shall be built soon."

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Lots of 'woke' young people are silly, annoying and intolerant, but those rightwingers who pretend 'wokeness' is an existential cultural threat, and use the fear they thereby generate to shut down education and discussion, are deeply sinister and truly dangerous.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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This 'biggest attack on Jews since the Holocaust' line is appalling. It was an attack on Zionist occupiers. It has nothing to do with the Holocaust. This is part of the constant effort to render invisible the facts of dispossession, occupation, apartheid and genocide.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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2 years

The two things I see first on Twitter this morning: a refugee Syrian father throwing his son's corpse into the sea, and yet another white boy lecturing a Syrian on how the Syrian revolution against the genocidal dictator was 'counter-revolutionary'.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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Those who think Libya was better off under Qaddafi: 1. No, it was even worse. 2. His decades-long dictatorship strangled civil society and political organisation. In key ways it de-developed society. It is therefore the first cause of today's chaos.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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If anyone thinks I'm suggesting that the Arab societies smothered by dictatorship are, by contrast, healthy - I'm certainly not. The whole region is sick with sectarian and ethnic intolerance, all of it blooming on the manure of authoritarian political dysfunction -

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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I fully support this lawyer and the case against Israel - but must point out that not long ago Syrians also broadcast their destruction in real time, and were either ignored or slandered.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

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"The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something." Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague

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Amazing that some still talk about the Soviet Union as if it brought about social justice when in fact it enslaved the workers, starved the peasants, shot the intellectuals, and deported or exterminated the colonised peoples.

Гюндуз Мамедов/Gyunduz Mamedov

@MamedovGyunduz

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#OnThisDay in 1932 the Soviet Union passed its infamous Law of Five Spikelets. It gave the state the legal basis to execute or imprison peasants who tried to gather food from state-owned collective farms and became a harbinger of the Holodomor in Ukraine. First, the Soviets…

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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Blatant lies, as is to be expected from Russian imperialism. The Russian empire colonised the Caucuses, Central Asia and Siberia. In recent years it has practised colonial violence against Afghans, Syrians, Chechens, Georgians and Ukrainians.

Russian Embassy in South Africa 🇷🇺

@EmbassyofRussia

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#Russia was among the few world powers that neither had colonies in #Africa or elsewhere nor participated in slave trade throughout its history. Russia helped, in every possible way, the peoples of the African continent to attain their freedom and sovereignty #EndSlavery

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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I'm begging you to think critically about why you totally ignore the Iranian dictatorship's mass slaughter of Syrians and Syrian-Palestinians, its militia presence in Iraq, and its key role in the Yemeni tragedy.

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@NikaMelkozerova Free Syrians are passionately committed to Ukraine's freedom. We have a common enemy in Russian fascism. We admire your courage and fighting spirit. Your victory will be our victory too.

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We should all condemn the burning of the synagogue in Tunisia. Real ugly behaviour. Neither the synagogue nor Tunisian Jews are the Israeli state.

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2 years

For the sake of peace and so that our homes may be warm this winter, we should pressure Russia to recognise reality and accept that its destiny is to be an appendage of Ukraine, a much stronger nation with a much greater history...

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1 year

France and the US should apologise to Turkey for rebuking it when it stood against Russia in Syria. France should apologise for siding with Russia and Haftar in Libya when Turkey stopped Haftar. The US should apologise for backing the PKK in Syria - a group it lists as terrorist.

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What a stain on the Arab and Muslim worlds, and on humanity, these debased dictators are.

Palestinian leader supports China’s Uyghur policies in joint statement

“The Uyghur issue does not align with Palestine's interests,” an expert says.

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6 months

It's very, very obvious that most western elites consider Israeli Jewish life to be worth much, much more than Arab Muslim life. Of course, there are many precedents to this. In Syria, westerners became very upset about Kurds or Christians being hurt, but didn't notice when

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1 year

Someone with a quarter million followers called Khaled Beydoun is spreading the lie that sanctions on the regime are stopping aid to Syrians. But it's the regime which steals aid to spend on its killing machine, and which blocks aid to liberated areas.

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Those who spread conspiracy theories and propaganda to justify or cover up the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Syrians are not actually friends of Palestinians. Likewise, those who cover or justify the slaughter of Palestinians are no friends of Syrians.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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2 years

Corbyn gave an interview to the Assadist TV channel al-Mayadeen. Assadism is a form of fascism responsible for the destruction of Syria and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Syrians. Corbyn said the west should stop arming Ukraine, and claimed that he's been accused of

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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Israel has murdered 326 Palestinian children in three days - children whose brief lives were spent in a cage. There is no outrage amongst western governments, no 'unequivocal condemnation', because the west is racist to its ugly, corrupt core.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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This has arrived. Absolutely essential reading for those following Syria and the wider region.

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occupation, apartheid, all the various imperialisms, gangster dictatorships, cults of personality, military regimes, police states, prison complexes, death camps, all-consuming corruption... these systems need hatred to fuel them, and produce ever more.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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This is what Syrians have been reduced to by Assad, Iran, Russia, the Arab states, Turkey, the US, the EU, the left and the right. They tried to make a better life at home. Everybody joined in stopping them. Now everybody joins in stopping them finding a life outside.

European Insider

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🇹🇷🇬🇷 Scuffles break out on the Greek-Turkish border as Turkey's Gendarmerie tries to prevent migrants from crossing into Greece. #Caravan_of_Light #قافلة_النور

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I spoke to Arabs living in Germany. They say it's like living in Israel. Intimidatory police presence everywhere, blatant racism from the public, censorship, violence. Germany projects its guilt onto the Arabs. The grandchildren of the Nazis think they've improved. They haven't.

DiEM25

@DiEM_25

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This is Berlin police stomping out vigil candles for Palestine last evening. According to witnesses in the same demonstration, a Jewish reporter was also pepper sprayed and a 4-year-old was shoved to the ground by police. This is scandalous.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

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1. This number is about a third of the actual number murdered by Assad/Russia/Iran. 2. Israel is a key reason why Assad remains in power. 3. Israel and Assad do exactly the same - with imperialist support they commit genocide & destroy cities. 4. Fuck both of you.

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The ongoing murderous Russian imperialism which hardly anybody in the west bothers to notice, especially not 'anti-imperialists'. It's a crime that free Syrians have been denied the weapons they need to defend themselves, and that Russia & Iran have been so consistently appeased.

FSA Soldier

@fsasoldier

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Maram IDP camp in Kafr Jals region in the northwest of Idlib was targeted by Russian warplanes with cluster bombs. 6 civilians, including children, were killed and more than 30 injured.

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85% of antisemitic attacks in Germany come from white supremacists. Germany is the worst in Europe for anti-black racism. The grandchildren of the Nazis are projecting their guilt onto others, while supporting genocide. Still as racist as ever.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

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A report on Germany clamping down on people supporting the Palestinians

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1 month

This is Lavrov and Assad level propaganda

Trita Parsi

@tparsi

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Baghdad Bob and Sean Spicer have nothing on John Kirby. Kirby says that there is no evidence that Israel deliberately struck WCK aid workers in Gaza. He also says that Israel has NOT violated international humanitarian law in Gaza (!!!) #CeasefireNOW

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I spoke to my half-Syrian half-Palestinian niece, who lives in Turkey. I congratulated her on the war, because suddenly the priority of many Turks has shifted from hating Syrians (and therefore all Arabs) to loving Palestinians. We laughed, but very sadly.

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It was far too difficult for western states to lift a finger to stop the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Syrians by Assad and Iran. But when it comes to defending commercial cargo from the Houthis and Iran, they're ready for war. Arab life is worth less than cargo.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

2 years

More evidence coming in every minute of mass executions of civilians in Bucha and other suburbs of Kyiv. Handcuffed and shot in the head, in groups or house to house, pushed into mass graves, piled up and burnt, or left in the street....

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Something Syrians discovered too, and before them Bosnians, Kosovars, Afghans when it was the Russians killing them, etc etc...

Vladyslav Starodubtsev

@VlStarodubtsev

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Leftism become unsafe space for Ukrainians, and trust eroded, because of left-wing dogmas and racism, you think twice before entering any unknown left-wing communities. And its awful, just awful. It shouldnt be the case with, in theory, most inclusive ideology

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No precedent at all, @guardian so long as you ignore years of starvation sieges perpetrated against Syrians and Palestinians by Assad/Iran/Russia - and ignore is what almost everybody does when it comes to Syria.

The Guardian

@guardian

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I asked colleagues about starvation in Gaza. They said there is no precedent for what is happening | Devi Sridhar

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

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Russians commit genocide against Syrian and Chechen Muslims, and not long ago against Afghans, Kazakhs, Tatars, and others, and idiots like the people running this account respond by spreading Russian propaganda. Shame.

Allah Islam Quran

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May Allah reward him and guide him to Islam.

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I don't like the Houthis and hate their sponsors. But I fully support their attacks on shipping. There is a GENOCIDE underway. It shouldn't be cheap. Everything should be stopped. What I don't condone is the Arab dictatorships failing to do what the Houthis are doing.

Dr Andreas Krieg

@andreas_krieg

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Bizarre allegiances loosely based on “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” appearing today You can condemn #Israel ’s actions in #Gaza , criticise the short-sightedness of US/UK bombings in #Yemen , but don’t condone Houthi attacks on global arteries of trade

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Now the chickens are really coming home to roost. May every nation under the Russian jackboot benefit from this. Slava Ukraini. Free Syria. Free Chechnya.

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This reminds me of Russian propaganda claiming the White Helmets (our Syrian heroes) were an al-Qaida front. Various left fascists swallowed the propaganda, but western elites laughed it out of court. In this case, however, the pro-genocide west acts on the Israeli propaganda.

Gary Spedding

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Defunding of UNRWA by 9 countries - even if temporary - risks the total collapse of the relief efforts that they are part of and coordinate for Palestinians in Gaza. It also risks long term impact upon the work carried out by UNRWA in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and the West Bank.

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Sanctions exclude humanitarian aid. Aid pours into Assad-controlled areas, and is stolen by the regime. The regime and Russia block aid to liberated areas. They have bombed aid convoys. The problem is Assad, not sanctions against Assad. Remove Assad, then remove the sanctions.

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2 years

Free Syrians are praying today for the success of two heroic forces - the Ukrainian army and the Iranian people.

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Israel is a major reason why the west won't support democracy, self-determination, or even self-defense, in the Arab world. When Syrians lobbied the US for defensive weapons so the Free Army could defend liberated areas, the answer always was: that worries the Israelis.

Shadi Hamid

@shadihamid

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I've worked on the Middle East for the better part of my adult life. When I left Brookings, my hope was that I could focus less on the Middle East, in part because I thought it was hopeless. Short of a historic outbreak of violence or mass uprising, U.S. policy wasn't going to…

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So Zizek is good on Ukraine, which makes me wonder why he saw only a proxy war and ethnic and sectarian tribes in Syria, ignoring the popular revolution and its local councils.

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Biden in Warsaw: "Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no." Biden in Cairo:

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This feels very like the immediate aftermath of 9/11 - emotional hysteria seizes the west, no dissent or nuance is brooked, very bad plans are set in motion. In 20 years we'll be asking how we could have made such decisions, how we made the world so much more dangerous.

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I had to unfollow a Syrian who compared Andrew Tate to Malcolm X. It was bad enough when young men believed Jordan Peterson was a great teacher. I can understand that Peterson's act might convince the naive and uneducated, but Tate? Tate is no more than a thug.

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It's problematic that many seem to think that Israel has always existed next to a population of anti-semitic Palestinians. No, Israel was created by destroying Palestine 75 years ago. Palestinians have been in refugee and concentration camps since.

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With Crimea as with Syria, Obama revises reality rather than admit he was wrong. The price is paid in Ukrainian and Syrian blood.

ArianaGic/АріянаҐіць

@GicAriana

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"There was not an armed invasion of Crimea," - @BarackObama June 22, 2023

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I was wearing a free Syria shirt. A woman asked 'Is that the Palestinian flag?' I told her what it was. She said 'It must be terrible to be from a place which globalists have destroyed.' Not even a question about my opinion. Straight to the fascist conspiracy theory.

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2 years

Do these people not understand that America attacked Iraq? Fucking hypocrites!

Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒

@borzou

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It’s not a revolution if Iranians can’t dance to it. Sanandaj, October 9. (kudos for recording video with phone horizontal)

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The UAE is the worst of states. Loves Israel and Assad, sponsors genocidal militias in Sudan and Libya, funded Sisi's coup, invaded Bahrain, bombed Yemen. Its gold is stolen from our common Arab oil and gas wealth - it belongs to us - and from the underpaid imported working class

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If only they knew what the UAE does to get that gold. If only they knew the number of lives they killed, starved, raped, tortured and displaced to get that gold. If only they knew how many lives they screwed. If only they knew that gold was at the cost of a whole country.…

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Muslim thugs in western countries intimidating and insulting random Jews - as well as being immoral, you're very stupid. The reason why there's a Jewish state in Palestine in the first place is because of racists like you.

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Forgive the extreme analogy, but asking Assad permission to send aid to the liberated areas of Syria is like asking Hitler permission to send aid to Auschwitz. Your obscene statist niceties are murdering people every with every minute that passes.

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She withdrew, rightly, because of the presence of the Assadist, Putinist, anti-semite Susan Abulhawa.

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼

@DrewPavlou

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Ukrainian Jewish-Australian writer Maria Tumarkin is a legend for withdrawing from the Adelaide Writer’s Festival. Her statement: “donate to Ukraine - no humanitarian causes - weapons only.” I completely agree. Arm Ukraine and Stop the genocide

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@qunfuz2

7 months

I still support Ukraine because it's morally correct to support people resisting occupation, and also because Syrians and Ukrainians have a common Russian enemy. But the argument below is absolutely true, unfortunately, and it's why most people in the world are not sympathetic.

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

7 months

Over the last two years, when I asked people in Africa or India or Pakistan or Gulf why they were not joining Europe to stop a genocide in Ukraine the answer was: “Because next time there is a genocide outside Europe, Europeans and Ukrainians will do nothing or even cheer for it”

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

2 years

@vanillatary Hasn't she hosted Syria genocide deniers like Mate?

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

1 year

@JulianRoepcke You're a racist, in the great tradition of your people.

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@qunfuz2

1 year

I understand completely that Turkey must vote out Erdogan, who's concentrated too much power in his own hands, and has savagely attacked the media, to avoid becoming an autocracy. But the opposition (that western journalists call liberal) is a greater threat to Syrian refugees.

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@qunfuz2

1 year

Thanks to President Zelenskyy for talking about Syria

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

@ZelenskyyUa

1 year

All those who produce weapons for terror against Ukraine, who help Russia incite aggression, in particular by supplying Shahed drones, who support Russia's destruction of international law, can only be marginals for the world.

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@qunfuz2

1 year

Poor Turkey. The great hope to end autocracy is an old-style Kemalist fascist.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

7 months

Russia and China (genocidal states both) are winning big propaganda victories simply by not supporting the genocide of the Palestinians. The west is giving them this victory by showing the world how little it cares for international law and non-white lives.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

7 months

Israel has killed more Palestinian children in a week than Russia has killed Ukrainian children in a year and a half. The west is (rightly) outraged by Russia's behaviour, but supports Israel absolutely.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

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The genocide of Palestinians is by far the worst thing the west has done in half a century. It changes everything. But please don't say it's the first genocide 'in our lifetimes'. Genocides of Syrians, Rohingyas, Tigrayans are happening now. Don't erase them.

Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,M.Sc.,DPT.

@drhossamsamy65

20 days

We demand justice and accountability for the victims of #TigrayGenocide in Ethiopia..

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

5 months

Russia vetoed all criticism of/ action against Assad. The US vetoes all criticism of/ action against Israel. As far as the Arabs are concerned, both are genocidal imperialist powers. We won't begin to be free until they and their tools are expelled from our region.

Asad أسد 🗽🍎

@AsadFromNYC

5 months

The veto was expected, but what adds insult to injury was the body language: how he brusquely raised his hand & leaned back. We’ve all seen it. The hubristic swagger of a bully who knows he’s wrong but will violently persist b/c he’d rather burn it all down than be accountable.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

6 months

I still support Ukraine, and all occupied peoples. But impossible to persuade others now that Ukraine's leaders have stupidly identified themselves with a genocidal occupying power. Shooting themselves in the foot, because those who already supported them are now sending weapons

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

6 months

I spent my trips in Africa, Asia and Latin America over the past two years trying to convince people I met of the justice of Ukraine’s cause. That is no longer possible (unless you want people to laugh at you)

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@qunfuz2

4 months

May 2024 bring freedom.

QalaatM

@QalaatM

4 months

Last 2023's sunset over Damascus - Syria.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

2 months

13 years on, despite everything, the Syrian Revolution continues against all authoritarians. Suwaida protesting against Assad; Idlib against HTS (and Assad)

Samer Daboul

@samerdaboul6

2 months

Breaking through fear's chains, freedom rises anew. #Idlib 's squares witness the return of protests.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

6 months

Yeah, fuck Corbyn. He said the genocide of Kosovar Muslims 'never happened', supported Milosevic over the Bosnian Muslims, and propagandised for Assad and Russia as they murdered hundreds of thousands of Syrians. He's an enemy of the Arabs and Muslims.

Simona #CeasefireNOW

@simonajeger

6 months

Corbyn, while hypocritically calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, supports Assad’s slaughter of the Syrian people. Always astonishing how minds can be so twisted, but not infrequent esp with Syria X Palestine. And adding Ukraine to the moral integrity test results in very few people.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

7 months

Absolutely. If you don't oppose the genocide of Palestinians, and their dispossession over 75 years, then you are no friend of Syrians, only a parasite on our suffering.

Israa | ﮼إسراء

@IsraHazel

7 months

Masks are off for people we used to think were allies for freedom in Syria, but it turns out they just position their views around Israel and its "savage" neighbours.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

2 months

Same disease afflicts those who believe the Russian and Iranian ravaging of Syria and mass murder and expulsion of Sunni Muslims is ... erm.... anti-imperialist because the US isn't involved. This binarism (if not US, then good) has destroyed the left and curses many Muslims too.

Muhammad Jalal

@jalalayn

2 months

The persecution of the Uyghur Muslims has become an inconvenient truth for those that have settled on a superficial pro-China, multipolar world narrative. Anyone that opposes the US is automatically on the right side of history. Distasteful.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

1 year

Last night I got talking to a European who claims anarchist allegiances. He told me Iran has a right to be in Yemen "because there are Shia there." Why do such people's progressive values melt into defences of sectarian imperialism as soon as the borders of Europe are crossed?

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

6 months

I agree with this sentiment. And I remember this woman making endless excuses for Russia, Iran and the Assad gang as they murdered hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians and leveled Syrian cities. Mutual solidarity is essential. Hypocrites are our enemies.

Rania Khalek

@RaniaKhalek

6 months

I understand now just how racist some people are. If you see the images of babies chopped in pieces and bloodied from Israel’s bombs in Gaza and your immediate response is to make excuses for Israel rather than demand an immediate ceasefire, you are racist. You clearly do not…

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

1 year

He also said it was fine for Iran's transnational Shia militias to occupy Syria because they 'are Arabs and it's an Arabist regime'. The Iraqi and Lebanese militias are staffed by Arabs, it's true, but Iran isn't Arab. A non-Arab Arab nationalist is the most annoying of things...

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

9 months

A decade ago, at least 1450 civilians were murdered in one night by the fascist Assad regime. The crime was backed and covered by Russia and Iran, and appeased by the Western powers.

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@qunfuz2

1 year

1. This is performative nonsense. China will do nothing to help Palestinians. 2. This murderer is carrying out a genocide against the Muslims of occupied East Turkestan. 3. China occupies Tibet. 4. Murderers shouldn't be patted on the back for their empty words about Palestine.

PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸

@OnlinePalEng

1 year

Chinese President Xi Jinping has affirmed China’s support for an independent Palestinian state.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

1 year

We're facing climate change, organised disinformation, increasing inequality, war, dictatorship, refugee flows, and so on. Anyone who tells you our most urgent problem is 'wokeness' is laughing at you, and planning to exploit your ignorance for nefarious purposes.

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@qunfuz2

1 year

Any money donated via UN bodies or others (like the Red Crescent) that cooperate with the Assadist state is likely to be stolen. Please do give to @molhamteam , @SyriaCivilDef , @SyriaRelief . The need is enormous.

Razan Saffour

@RazanSpeaks

1 year

Local NGOs DO have more leverage in reaching those in need, and have been on ground and among the people coordinating rescue missions and providing necessities where they can since the first tremble.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

9 months

Syrians have been disappointed so many times before that it seems foolish to continue hoping. And yet, there are two new elements to the situation. First, the entire Druze community seems to be rejecting Assad.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

7 months

Hinkle is an Assadist and a white supremacist. Watch who you repost.

Michael A. Horowitz

@michaelh992

7 months

It seems many pro-Palestinian commentators have fully embraced Jackson Hinkle, a man who has circulated conspiracy theories about the Douma chemical attack, minimized the situation of the Uyghurs, and appears to be friendly with the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (a proto-nazi…

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@qunfuz2

1 year

People like him because he's critical of US foreign policy. But it's very easy to be critical of US foreign policy without ignoring facts and propagandising for fascist and genocidal regimes from the Khmer Rouge to Putin and Xi via Assad and Milosevic.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

7 months

This is totally unacceptable. Last night Syrian human rights activist @WafaMustafa9 , whose father was stolen by Assad, was arrested by the German police. The German state's racist hatred of Arabs is out of control.

Mouatasem Alrifai | معتصم الرفاعي

@Mo_Alrifai

7 months

🇩🇪: Gestern Abend wurden Majd Murad und @WafaMustafa9 von der Berliner Polizei ohne ersichtlichen Grund angehalten, als sie gemeinsam mit ihren Freund*innen ein Restaurant verlassen haben. Majd Murad wurde unvermittelt von einem Polizeibeamten von hinten geschubst; die…

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

@qunfuz2

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The Houthis are anti-democratic monsters - part of the Iranian occupation in the region, guilty of imposing starvation sieges, murdering thousands of civilians, etc. But they are winning easy credit by doing what Arab states should - taking action to hurt the global economy so to

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