#dennis kusinich

[eretzyisrael]

A bunch of Americans are on a Syrian regime-sponsored propaganda tour of Damascus. They include the usual suspects—Max Blumenthal, Rania Khalek, Anya Parampil, Ajamu Baraka. The photos are posted by a woman named Yasemin. Can someone help identify the rest?

These people are literally trampling over graves. Look at this photo that Rania Khalek has posted, inviting people to admire the view. Saydnaya of course is the site of Assad's most notorious prison where at least 13,000 civilians were executed during the uprising.

If you want to understand why this is so hideous, read this @amnesty report on Saydnaya.

Saydnaya, Inside a Syrian Torture PrisonFor the first time ever you can see inside Saydnaya, one of the world’s most terrifying prisons.https://saydnaya.amnesty.org/en/saydnaya.html

 This Orwellian inversion of reality is so crude that it'd be comical if the subject weren't so tragic. Here Blumenthal stands before a poster of Al Kuwa Al Jaafaria—an Iranian-backed sectarian militia—& claims it shows Syrian soldiers who died fighting "foreign backed extremists"

Here Blumenthal dogwhistles Islamophobia to play up the regime's Islamists vs. Christian trope but seems unaware that years before Jaish al-Islam was formed, the building he is pointing to was used by regime snipers to kill over 30 peaceful protesters.

mentions Here is a video of unarmed protestors being shot at from the same building in 2011, long before Jaish al-Islam even existed. (Please see the video at the end of this thread. EY)

Some more members of the vulture tour identified. They are Paul Larudee, Rick Sterling, and Judith Bello. Larudee had siphoned money to Dennis Kucinich in 2017 to attend a pro-Assad gathering in the UK. Rick Sterling is member of the shady "Syria Solidarity Movement".

Here is a report on Larudee paying Dennis Kucinich money to speak at a pro-regime event in the UK, which the latter had to return during his failed bid for Governor of Ohio

Amended ethics filing shows Dennis Kucinich was paid $20k by pro-Syrian government groupKucinich initially did not disclose who paid him to give speeches in 2017.https://www.cleveland.com/open/2018/04/amended_ethics_filing_shows_de.html

Here @N_Waters89 has geolocated @RaniaKhalek’s position, who has kept the Saydnaya slaughterhouse, where tens of thousands were murdered, just out of her “breathtaking view”

Also note that the regime's approach to courting useful idiots is syncretic. Before the "anti-imperialist" solidarity mission, the regime hosted a far-right, identitarian, euro-fascist delegation.

The central figure in this vulture tour is Yasemin Zahra (@LaborOrganizer), who works for @mceanea and @uslaboragainstwar. It's hard to tell from her chirpy, tone deaf tweets from the site of a mass crime whether she's inordinately stupid or profoundly evil.