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:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-supreme-court-has-always-upheld
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.
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.
Also, this is the West Bank, not Gaza. It's Occupied Palestine. Any claims that the Diplomats went "off route" and therefore the Israeli military had to open fire is an admission that the Israeli military is violently occupying land that is not theres, and needs to stop. Period.
I've been to Occupied Palestine. I've seen with my own eyes the restrictive suffocating nature of military occupation. Sadly, what these diplomats experienced is not the exception, but the norm. And that's the problem.
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.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-joe-biden-can-still-slow-maga
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😐 https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/breaking-icc-issues-arrest-warrants
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.
Being a good husband and boosting my wife Ayesha’a small business, Equal Entrance—which focuses on women’s empowerment and elegant scarves and shawls.
Order link to her collection of hand made Silk Route Heirlooms from Pakistan: https://equalentrance.com/products/mother-mary-shawls
nostr:npub1u3tka63yynzpd40nryz2fsrw39tedrxgfjdxpdtwf4hsr90usxfskpc6ug Indeed. I think the real news this time is that the #IDF didn't kill the hostages, as they have so often in the recent past.
nostr:npub1uc0tcznkqrwhz3t89sj7zqllkevvlqyq9eyd5usyd2dga52jk6hqusnh76 Some reports suggest IDF killed 3 hostages as well. Waiting on confirmation.
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.
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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/
As you watch Justice Thomas and Alito explicitly endorse racism and gerrymandering, and even go as far as to slam the Brown v Board ruling—a reminder that this corruption is who SCOTUS has always been.
Here are the receipts: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/what-if-the-greatest-obstacle-to
Why we must divest from funding the siege on Gaza. My remarks before my city council last week make the argument historically, contemporarily, and looking towards the future—as the right and moral thing to do.
This is just absurd. Israel is invading Rafah and meanwhile…
“Biden administration’s report on whether Israel has violated U.S. and international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza has been delayed indefinitely.”
INDEFINITELY😐
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/07/israel-gaza-state-report-00156619
US House has just passed HR 6090 to expand the definition of antisemitism to include the criticism of Israel. This is a massive chilling of free speech and makes no sense.
Subscribe to my human rights project “Let’s Address This,” to help counter media bias and instead demand universal human rights: https://substack.com/@qasimrashid
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!😐
https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations
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
MAGA Logic:
-Abortion: Ban it
-Marijuana: Ban it
-Drag shows: Ban it
-Immigration: Ban it
-Public Schools: Ban it
-Dialogue on racism: Ban it
-Books by Black or LGBTQ authors: Ban it
-Guns: BANS DON’T WORK YOU SNOWFLAKES
#Lewiston
Horrific. I am Beside myself.
In Plainfield, IL, a 71 year old man is in custody for stabbing to death an 6-year-old Palestinian child named Wadea Al-Fayoume & nearly killing his mother.😓
The murderer stabbed the child 26 times & yelled "you Muslims must die!"😳
No charges filed yet. Police are investigating.
Please be safe my friends. Be diligent and look out for each other. God help us.
https://abc7chicago.com/plainfield-il-breaking-news-lily-cache-road-will-county/13914218/
