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Workers Strike Back, @wrkrsstrikeback, is at the NYC protest against genocidal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin @netanyahu. Netanyahu needs to be arrested for war crimes. Netanyahu and the Israeli state are only able to carry out apartheid, a brutal occupation, and a genocide because of the political and military support from the Democratic and Republican parties, both of which serve the war-profiteering billionaires and multimillionaires. The antiwar movement needs to break from the Democratic Party in order to be able to achieve any breakthroughs. We need a new antiwar party for the working class.
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Democratic @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani promised during his campaign that he would arrest Netanyahu if he set foot in NYC. Since then, Mamdani has abandoned this promise, and recently announced that he will not be joining the protest campaign against Netanyahu. Instead, under Mamdani's leadership, the NYPD is arresting antiwar activists protesting Netanhayu. This is a horrific betrayal of the antiwar movement and the Palestinian people. Mamdani also re-hired Zionist and billionaire heir Jessica Tisch as NYPD Commissioner and endorsed Governor Kathy Hochul for re-election and Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries for U.S. House Speaker, both of whom are arch Zionist Democrats. The strategy of putting faith in the Democratic Party or in DSA's elected Democrats is a dead end for the antiwar movement. @wrkrsstrikeback is calling for a new antiwar working class party. - Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes! - End all military aid to Israel! Permanent arms embargo on Israel now! - End the genocide in Gaza and brutal occupation of Palestinian lands! - Build an independent antiwar working-class party!
🚨NYPD ARRESTS Susan Sarandon. "That's @SusanSarandon there." -@JordanChariton reacts to NYPD Arresting her at an anti-Netanyahu protest outside the United Nations in NYC
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Kshama Sawant retweeted
Don't forget Lebanon
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Stand With Gaza and the Occupied West Bank! Israel has continued murdering Palestinians in Gaza and has ramped up violence in the occupied West Bank. Join us to hear directly from Palestinian activists on the front lines of the struggle against apartheid. @wrkrsstrikeback National September Meeting Sunday, September 27th 12 noon PT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET Join over Zoom OR RSVP to come to our in-person meeting in Peoria, Illinois or Milwaukee, Wisconsin. workersstrikeback.org/events… Featured speakers: Manal Tamimi: Executive director of the Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee - West Bank Gamaal El Attar: CEO of the International Federation for Rights and Development @BeIfrd - Brussels
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Israeli occupation bulldozers uprooted dozens of olive trees from Palestinian-owned land in the village of Jaba, north of occupied Jerusalem.
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Statement of solidarity with Ehsan Ali & the Awami Action Committee Gilgit-Baltistan from Kshama Sawant, former Seattle City Council member and independent revolutionary socialist candidate for the US Congress (@cmkshama) ✊✊✊ #ReleaseEhsanAli #FreeEhsanAli #HandsOfftheAAC
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Kshama Sawant retweeted
Don't miss tonight's all new #EconomicUpdate with @profwolff & @cmkshama on ##Revolutionary #Socialism in the US Today here: piped.video/watch?v=J4cNnaKI…
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I have relocated from WA to WI I am interested in forming a chapter of @wrkrsstrikeback based in Milwaukee If you’re in the area hmu
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Kshama Sawant retweeted
Children bid farewell to their mother, Fida Toutah, shot dead by Israeli forces in central Gaza. Her “crime”? She was from Gaza, trying to survive amid the ruins. Another civilian life taken, another family shattered, another childhood scarred forever.
هدى نعيم Huda Naim
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Kshama Sawant retweeted
Hasan Piker and his supporters get so mad when you bring up how he’s just a Democratic Party sheepdog but that’s literally what he is. Why do they get mad for our accurate depiction of their politics? Piker uses radical language in order to win the trust of young people, and then uses that trust to tell them to Vote Blue No Matter Who
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Kshama Sawant retweeted
I told you guys it’s only a matter of time before Hasan Piker begins his election time “vote blue no matter who” pivot Shameless Democratic Party sheepdog
Hasan Piker: “The Republican Party has become a fascist party in America. It’s turning into a fascist party ideologically in the United States. Any way to erode their power, even if it means putting a establishment Democrat in their position, is still going to be beneficial”
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Kshama Sawant retweeted
At the request of the illegal “Havat Maon” settlers, Israeli forces detained five Palestinian children, aged 8–12, for gathering wild vegetables and flowers near the settlement.
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده
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Kshama Sawant retweeted
Israel has banned the entry of toilet seats and portable toilets into Gaza, classifying them as "dual-use" military items, as it does with sleeping bags, tarps, and wheelchairs. More than nine in ten Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced, most living in tents, after Israel destroyed over 90 percent of the territory's homes and infrastructure. The result: 87 percent of Gaza's households have no proper access to a toilet. Families dig holes in the sand behind a curtain. Sewage seeps into the soil beneath the tents, contaminating the ground and turning entire displacement camps into health hazards, spreading disease, skin infections, and contaminating water sources. A used, damaged toilet seat now sells for up to $700 in Gaza, when one can even be found. Israel has a ceasefire obligation to allow trade and basic goods into Gaza. It is using "dual use" as an excuse to deny two million displaced people a toilet seat.
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Replying to @cmkshama
Probably wouldn't have happened this way couple of years ago. Wonderful how things are changing
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I couldn't agree more.
It’s the height of hypocrisy for @AOC to say she'll boycott @edsheeran given her endorsements of genocidal politicians like @RepJeffries, campaigning for @KamalaHarris, and supporting Iron Dome weapons funding for Israel. But AOC empathizing with Ed Sheeran is unsurprising given that both of them have made it clear that their personal careers are much more important to them than using their internationally prominent positions to stand up against the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. In reality, the sellouts by @AOC are even worse, as an elected representative of the Democratic Socialists of America. If AOC had decided to use her elected office to fight the genocidal, anti-worker Democratic Party, she would have antagonized the party leadership but a majority of working people would have agreed with her. She could have combated establishment opposition by building mass movements of working people to support her, as I relentlessly did during my decade on the Seattle City Council. The cowardice and complicity of @NYCMayor Mamdani and AOC is what history will remember, along with the cover given to them by the DSA leadership. They claim to be pro-Palestinian but support genocidal politicians to ensure their own comfortable careers in the capitalist Democratic Party.
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Kshama Sawant retweeted
she also endorsed IHRA definition to criminalize criticism of Israel less than 2 years ago
The vote from @AOC yesterday endorsing the IHRA definition of antisemitism is beyond disgraceful—it marks her participation in a concerted attack on political dissent. It harms Palestinians, anti-Zionist Jews, and all who stand against US role in funding and perpetrating genocide
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It’s a beautiful thing to see ALL of @edsheeran’s opening acts — @finneas, @LukasGraham, and Aaron Rowe — as well as Sheeran's own backing band, Beoga, dropping out of his tour because of his capitulation to the Zionist billionaires. This international public shaming for Sheeran’s lack of courage and siding with wealthy promoters against Palestinian solidarity could not be more deserved, especially for someone who owns $400 million. It’s a victory for the antiwar movement that Sheeran’s tour is actually at risk of closing down because working and young people expect at least a modicum of courage from him in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. This is the type of public shaming that is urgently needed against the DSA electeds in the Democratic Party who purport to be pro-Palestinian but instead are giving cover to the the pro-genocide agenda of their party and Zionist leaders like Hakeem Jeffries.
As @macklemore’s example shows, ACTUALLY opposing the Israeli occupation means NOT putting personal careers ahead of the fight. Why? The apartheid Israeli state and its genocidal policies exist at the behest of the billionaires and multimillionaires who want to maintain control over the Middle East and their political representatives. Which means that Palestinian solidarity REQUIRES pissing off extremely powerful and wealthy individuals. Macklemore has shown that he's willing to do that. As have @KNEECAPCEOL and @BobbyVylan. As have the Filton 4 and countless working and young people across the world, including tech workers. Ed Sheeran, who has about $400 million in wealth, has decided to put his own money and career ahead of the need for Palestinian solidarity. Sheeran said: “I am not complicit… Just because I choose not to speak publicly, … it doesn’t mean I don’t care.” Yes, @edsheeran, you ARE complicit, as are any public figures with real influence and ability to build the movement against Israeli apartheid but who refuse to do so. This applies even more so to the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America and their elected officials like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who claim to be pro-Palestinian but whose many actions have shown otherwise. Mamdani has endorsed arch Zionists Kathy Hochul and Hakeem Jeffries. AOC has also endorsed Jeffries, and voted against cutting funds for the Israeli military with the idea that Israel should get “defensive” weapons so it can carry out genocide with impunity. Such actions constitute a whitewashing of Zionism and are geared towards keeping cordial relations with powerful Zionists and building careers in the Democratic Party. Instead of more whitewashing, our movement needs leaders who will wear the opposition and hatred of the Israeli and US ruling classes as a badge of honor, as I do.
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It’s the height of hypocrisy for @AOC to say she'll boycott @edsheeran given her endorsements of genocidal politicians like @RepJeffries, campaigning for @KamalaHarris, and supporting Iron Dome weapons funding for Israel. But AOC empathizing with Ed Sheeran is unsurprising given that both of them have made it clear that their personal careers are much more important to them than using their internationally prominent positions to stand up against the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. In reality, the sellouts by @AOC are even worse, as an elected representative of the Democratic Socialists of America. If AOC had decided to use her elected office to fight the genocidal, anti-worker Democratic Party, she would have antagonized the party leadership but a majority of working people would have agreed with her. She could have combated establishment opposition by building mass movements of working people to support her, as I relentlessly did during my decade on the Seattle City Council. The cowardice and complicity of @NYCMayor Mamdani and AOC is what history will remember, along with the cover given to them by the DSA leadership. They claim to be pro-Palestinian but support genocidal politicians to ensure their own comfortable careers in the capitalist Democratic Party.
🗣️ Rep. AOC tells @hicharliecotton she is boycotting Ed Sheeran because she says he's complicit in Robert Kraft and other stadium owners' efforts to silence Macklemore.
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