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Wesam Cooley retweeted
Replying to @Muslim
Sorry, but you are becoming a soft tool for promoting and normalising Zionists. And this has become very frequently salient. If this continues, please change your name to Zio-Muslim. Shame on you!
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My speech from today's Calgary Peoples’ Assembly protest discussing Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Palestine Action, and why Israel's days are numbered: youtu.be/JnC4LlDiTlo?si=6Jv4… via @YouTube
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Wesam Cooley retweeted
With Musk becoming first trillionaire, I’m going to reiterate that billionaires shouldn’t exist. Nor should one hundred millionaires or even ten millionaires.
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"[W]hen Zionist leaders like Netanyahu and Ben-Gurion talk about Palestinian people and Palestinian towns posing an ā€˜existential threat’ to the state of Israel, they are absolutely correct! Let me be clear: I don’t mean that Palestinians pose an existential threat to the lives of Jewish people in Israel, their safety or their security. What I mean is that insofar as Israel is to be characterised as a Jewish state, the Palestinian people will always pose a threat to it by the fact of their very existence, and the risk that they may ever exist in large enough numbers or concentrations to threaten Israel’s ethnic composition. The right of Palestinians in the diaspora to return, the political rights of Palestinians in the occupied territories to full democratic rights – in short, the rights of the Palestinian people – do pose an existential threat to Israel. This is what we mean when we say that Zionism is a racist ideology and that Israel is an inherently racist state. In addition to being founded on a racist settler-colonial mentality that gave no regard to the rights of the Palestinians, the actual realisation of Zionism’s aims necessitated the destruction of the Palestinian nation. Israel’s very existence as ā€˜Israel’, as a Zionist state, is premised on the denial of the fundamental rights of the Palestinians. It could not have been any other way." Excerpt from a speech I gave in London 8 years ago. Full text here: revolutionarycommunist.org/m…
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Wesam Cooley retweeted
Most of the Leftovers love Malcolm X and his words, only because he is already martyred. Anyone who speaks like him today, they will attack, until they are killed; then they'll pretend to love them.
Watch this interview where a journalist asks Malcolm X whether he is ā€œantisemiticā€.
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With their country enduring unprecedented bombardment and with the sounds of explosions all around them, the Iranian people continue to fill the streets in their millions, chanting and praying together even as the threat of death hangs over them all. The Empire unleashes its wrath upon them and orders them to submit, but this is a nation whose people stand defiant and united even in the face of some of the most ruthless violence our world has ever seen. Take note, capitalist nations (or as you like to call yourselves, "the Free World"): This is what it looks like when a nation is built on a foundation of brotherhood and self-sacrifice instead of hollow individualism. This is what it looks like when a people are so committed to their fellow countrymen that death itself no longer holds any power over them. Take note, crusader hordes from Europe (or as you called yourselves, "Settlers"): This is what it means for a people to be indigenous to a land. This is what it looks like when a people's roots in their land run so deep that all the bombs in the world can't pull them out. This is why the people of Iran fill the streets while the people of Israel fill the airports. Take note, you Northern barbarians who justified your global bloodlust with lies about your own superiority (or as you still call it, "Whiteness"): This is the blinding light of decolonization sweeping away your whole Dark Age system and ushering in a new world of actual, not imaginary, civilization. This is the glow of a new sun rising in the East. Take note, you parasites that live by sapping the life of half of humanity (or as you sometimes call yourselves, the "West"): This is the movement that has been germinating beneath your feet after being tended by the gentle, cracked hands of generations trampled under your jackboots. This is the steadfast people of the South rising up and shaking off your system of normalized exploitation, like seeds bursting through the very ground you stand on. This is the Intifada, globalized. These are a people who will never be defeated. Submit. Or face their wrath.
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Smith is going to steal the referendum and invite the US in to enforce the result. Smith is going to steal the referendum and invite the US in to enforce the result. Smith is going to steal the referendum and invite the US in to enforce the result. Smith is going to steal the referendum and invite the US in to enforce the result. Smith is going to steal the referendum and invite the US in to enforce the result. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Wesam Cooley retweeted
May 24
This you?
Replying to @Jvnior
Have you tried not to make rape part of your identity?
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I spoke to @BPofDisruption about the Calgary Police Service's extreme violence against protesters at the University of Calgary encampment, and the cover-up that followed: youtu.be/SM7Q0mRpg4U?si=idqi… via @YouTube
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It won't matter how many people mobilize to vote against separation if the UCP just steals the referendum with fake votes, like Trump may have just done with the unusually large number of mail-in ballots for the Republican Primary in Kentucky. In fact, this would be fairly straightforward to do if one were equipped with, say, a list of personal information belonging to all eligible voters in the province. And if the courts or any other body intervene to prevent a stolen referendum result from being implemented, Trump/Smith could just declare that body itself to be stealing the referendum and trigger a January 6-style crisis. The Trucker Convoy people that they've enlisted are more than capable of manufacturing such a crisis — especially if they have the collusion of, say, the Calgary Police Service, one of the most corrupt and unaccountable organizations in the country, with connections to the UCP, which for all we know could at this moment be receiving direct instructions and training from that new ICE office in Calgary. With enough anarchy, they could manufacture a situation that justifies the intervention of outside forces. And given that the issue in question would be a referendum result appearing to indicate popular support for separation and asserting Albertan sovereignty against federal Canada, it's not only Canadian forces that could claim a legitimate right to intervene "on Alberta's behalf" — especially if they have the consent of the Premier of the province. If that were to happen... well, as Marx says: "Between two equal rights, force decides." Let's wake up here folks.
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I advocate for one single democratic state across the whole of historic Palestine, in which all of its people, Muslim, Christian, Jewish or otherwise, may live in peace as equals with equal rights. I advocate for this because: 1) it is the only just way to end this conflict; 2) it is the only practical way to end this conflict; and 3) it is supported by the majority of Palestinian resistance organizations (though you'd never know this if your only source of information on the subject is Zionist media). This is a political demand and does not imply a call for violence against anyone, of any denomination, anywhere. I do not want to see any more killing. Every Palestinian prays every day for an end to the killing. But whether this conflict must be resolved through violence is not a decision I have the ability to make. It is not a decision any Palestinian solidarity organization has the ability to make. It is not a decision any Palestinian has the ability to make. The people who this imperialist system empowers with the ability to make that decision will not read this post and will not hear my voice. Nor will they hear the voices of any of the 15 million Palestinians who pray every day for peace and justice. The people who will decide whether this conflict will end in violence are named Donald, Benjamin, Itamar, Joe, Yoav, Pete, Jared, and a handful of other names known and unknown to the public. And these people have decided, every single day since October 7, 2023 (and on plenty of days before), to make that day a day when a Palestinian will die at their hands. Every. Single. Day. They make this decision, every day, not in order to protect themselves nor their citizens nor, as they claim, to protect Jews. In every respect, Israeli citizens and Jews everywhere become less safe by the day as a result of these decisions. Rather, the Donalds and the Benjamins choose to murder Palestinians every day in order to protect the Israeli State. In order to protect Zionism. In order to protect the apartheid and occupation system, the laws and institutions which keep the Palestinian people oppressed as second-class citizens in their own land. In order to prevent those Palestinians scattered to other lands by the ongoing Nakba from ever returning. In order to maintain the physical exclusion, and the legal subjugation, of the Palestinian people from and in the land of Palestine. It is for these reasons that these white men have decided to kill, torture, starve, imprison, and rape Palestinians in full view of the world for 2½ years and counting. The people with the power to decide whether bombs are falling in West Asia at any given moment are not named Wesam, nor Khaled, nor Mohamed. They are not named Refaat, Adnan, Anas, Hussam or Hind. Nor are they named Yahya, Hassan, Ali, or Ismael. They aren't even named Mojtaba, or Naim, or Abdul-Malik, or Obeida. These names belong to the people who live and die under the bombs dropped by the Donalds and the Benjamins. The people who birthed these names over generations of unbroken indigenous connection to the land that the white man is now fighting them over. Do not blame me, Wesam, for what the US Empire might be about to bring on itself (and you) in order to keep this racist settler colony in place. The time for peace is coming soon; but this Israeli state, this Zionist project, simply has to go. And it will — one way or the other.
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Behold! A Semite. People like this will claim Semitic identity, and on the basis of that claimed identity, will accuse people like me (an *actual* Semite, genetically, ethnically, with family and ancestors who are *actually* Semitic and *actually* indigenous to West Asia) of "anti-Semitism" for opposing their cultish obsession with committing genocide in my people's homeland.
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I can confirm this. I've also met Queer Palestinians, including in Palestine. Don't believe a single word the Zionists say about the people they are slaughtering.
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This was disclosed to me by a trustworthy source. It's a screenshot of a message in the Twitter inbox of Deborah Lyons, Canada's Special Envoy on Holocaust remembrance and "Combatting Antisemitism", 3 days after I was arrested and charged by the @CalgaryPolice for chanting "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". The message is from Kevin Lunianga, who at the time was a deputy director at Global Affairs Canada. In this message, Lunianga describes my arrest as "a big win in Calgary regarding hate speech" and asks Lyons about providing "expert support" to the Calgary Police Service, presumably to help them prosecute the case against me. He then inexplicably sends her contact information belonging to someone at the Calgary Jewish Federation, as well as a link to commentary on my arrest by the Jewish Federation accusing me of "publicly inciting hate". Why was the Calgary Jewish Federation included in private inter-governmental discussions about my arrest?
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During the Nakba, approximately 15,000 Palestinians were killed by Israel and 850,000 displaced. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed over 73,000 Palestinians (officially -- the real number is likely in the hundreds of thousands) and has effectively displaced the entire population of Gaza (which was about 2.3 million before this genocide began). During the ongoing Gaza genocide, Israel has killed over 5 times as many Palestinians, and displaced more than 2.5 times as many, in Gaza alone, as it did in the whole of historic Palestine during the Nakba.
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