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scientist and arms embargo organizer @carnationdsa @demsocialists npc | mapping the war machine | phd @caltech

Joined April 2020
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abdullah farooq retweeted
‼️Newly released @StateDept Inspector General report: State's backlog of open allegations of Israeli human rights abuses is so long that if it started reviewing them today it would take 12 1/2 years to review them all. lawfaremedia.org/article/new…
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abdullah farooq retweeted
Canada's unions passed a resolution calling on workers to refuse to handle weapons and military equipment destined for Israel. We stand with Palestinian workers in their fight for peace, justice, and respect for international law. canadianlabour.ca/clc-calls-…
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I voted for this - Nithya is not a candidate that we currently have the power to move towards our positions. I voted against the alternative resolution for one reason: this clause in it brings us much closer to a split at a time when our org is at its strongest ⤵️
Replying to @petersterne
The resolution on potential expulsion (which passed 15-12) calls on Raman to meet with DSA-LA leaders by Nov. 30 to discuss her position on BDS. If she does not affirm her support for BDS and sign on to DSA's campaign to stop weapons from being transferred to Israel through LAX by Jan. 1, then the NPC will begin a disciplinary process that could end in her expulsion from DSA. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Endless meetings are not going to move Nithya. We should focus on building a strong local campaign (with the full resources and support of our national organization) that can move her and other powerholders to oppose arms shipments from LA to Israel.
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Restricting the use of local resources for a campaign that is extremely popular locally will just mean that the chapter creates its own infrastructure to support its campaigns. This will validate the sectarian “local-dues only” impulse with no discernible positive outcomes.
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This goes both ways - if members campaigning for Nithya had organized her to support BDS months ago, an unendorsement campaign wouldn’t have any legitimacy
Our power on every terrain (including electoral) comes from our ability to organize majorities into mass campaigns that win, not from statements. But when electeds are only organized to support our demands with the threat of unendorsement, we validate this negative approach
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abdullah farooq retweeted
3\ Yitzhak Wasserlauf: "seize [Gazan] babies" & "dash them against rocks" Israelis rewarded him with a Knesset seat today
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abdullah farooq retweeted
2\ Hanamel Dorfman: "my only problem with the Nazis is that I was on the losing side" At his wedding, he danced with 2 knives pretending to murder Palestinians Israel's own security agencies had once described him as a "Danger to Society"
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abdullah farooq retweeted
Meet Israel's new Knesset members🧵 Moshe Feiglin: "As Hitler said, ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left.’ We can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza" "Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy"
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Our power on every terrain (including electoral) comes from our ability to organize majorities into mass campaigns that win, not from statements. But when electeds are only organized to support our demands with the threat of unendorsement, we validate this negative approach
Nithya Raman sending that email does show that National DSA does have leverage over electeds and is an important step in asserting membership as the leading force behind ALL spheres of DSA strategy including the actions of our electeds. Even incomplete this was a positive step.
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abdullah farooq retweeted
You’ve probably heard the name Elbit (now Twenty-Six Defense) before, but what is it, and why do we need to force it out of the U.S.? Join us for our arms embargo campaign launch call on 10/29 to learn more RSVP: go.dsausa.org/arms-embargo-l…
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abdullah farooq retweeted
Counter-take: The logic of international solidarity - that what happens in Brazil (from Amazon protection to viral pandemics) matters for what happens in the United States - has never in history been more plainly important.
Earnest take: I think it’s probably not healthy for the practice of democratic self-government that so many people have developed strong rooting interests in elections in countries they don’t live in.
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abdullah farooq retweeted
Photos of a jet that reportedly took part in Jordanian strikes on Syria that killed 7 civillans show two BLU-111 500-pound bombs equipped with JDAM bomb guidance kits. The lot number on one bomb is visible, showing it was manufactured in the US at McAlester AAP in 2019.
بيان صادر عن القوات المسلحة الأردنية - الجيش العربي سلاح الجو الملكي الأردني يُنفّذ عملية (الردع الأردني- حمود) استهدفت أوكار التنظيمات الإرهابية في الجنوب الشرقي السوري العملية تأتي انتقاماً لشهدائنا الذين قضوا في جنازة كنيسة حمود في الكرك يوم الجمعة الماضي يرتبط الإرهابيون الذين نفذوا هذا الفعل الإجرامي في حمود بهذه التنظيمات الإرهابية مقاتلات من سلاح الجو الملكي قامت بتدمير عدد من المواقع الإرهابية في الجنوب الشرقي السوري اسفرت العملية عن قتل وجرح العديد من عناصر التنظيمات الإرهابية وتدمير عدد من آلياتها نفذ صقور سلاح الجو الملكي الأردني بالتنسيق مع الحكومة السورية اليوم عملية نوعية استهدفت أوكار التنظيمات الإرهابية في الجنوب الشرقي السوري، أطلق عليها (الردع الاردني – حمود). وتأتي هذه العملية انتقاماً لشهدائنا الذين قضوا في جناز كنيسة حمود في الكرك يوم الجمعة الماضي، إذ يرتبط الإرهابيون الذين نفذوا هذا الفعل الإجرامي بهذه التنظيمات الإرهابية. وقامت مقاتلات من سلاح الجو الملكي بتدمير عدد من المواقع الإرهابية، واسفرت العملية عن قتل وجرح العديد من عناصر هذه التنظيمات الإرهابية وتدمير عدد من آلياتها. وتؤكد القوات المسلحة أنها تقف بالمرصاد لكل من تسول له نفسه المساس بأمن المواطنين، وتشدد على عزمها المضي قدماً في اجتثاث جذور التطرف والإرهاب وأنها ماضية في واجبها المقدس لحماية الوطن والمواطنين وصون مقدساته. رحم الله شهداء الكرك وحفظ الأردن عزيزاً منيعاً. #الأردن #القوات_المسلحة_الأردنية #الجيش_العربي
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abdullah farooq retweeted
As the genocide in Palestine continues and violence intensifies across the West Bank, the call for an arms embargo has never been more critical. DSA is proposing a total embargo that extends beyond just arms shipments. Join us on 10/29 for our launch - go.dsausa.org/arms-embargo-l…
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abdullah farooq retweeted
Parabéns @LulaOficial 🇧🇷 !!!!!!
BREAKING: Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the presidential run-off against right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro on Sunday, the electoral authority said, securing a fourth non-consecutive term. 🟠 LIVE updates: aje.news/vs1cfu
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abdullah farooq retweeted
Se ha detenido el fascismo en America Latina en Brasil. El pueblo brasileño libre logró frenar la avalancha de los bots falsos y el sistema electoral con software público y bien cuidado por la gente evitó fraudes, se salva la justicia social en Brasil y el intento extranjero de quedarse con sus recursos naturales. Muy bien Lula. Este es un triunfo para la humanidad y una derrota estratégica para las fuerzas de la oscuridad.
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