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sylvia-on-the-run · 6 months ago

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"We vow to the days that you shall not be defeated… for victory grows where blood waters the soil."

The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades announces the martyrdom of the great national leader and combatant, martyr Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Al-Sinwar.

With great pride and honor, the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, announces the martyrdom of the great national leader and combatant, the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and the architect of Al-Aqsa Flood battle, and one of the most prominent symbols of Palestinian struggle, the heroic martyr Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Al-Sinwar.

He was martyred while bearing his weapon and ammunition, advancing the front lines among his comrades and our fighters, engaging in combat with the treacherous zionist gangs on the sacred ground of Rafah, the city of heroism and sacrifice. With his blood, he wrote the most noble meanings of sacrifice, standing as a fierce defender of our Palestinian people, the Arab nation, and the downtrodden, and fighting against the continuous zionist aggression targeting our existence and our right to liberate Palestine from the river to the sea and all occupied Arab lands.

The great leader "Abu Ibrahim" was a model of a national, unifying, and resisting leader—one who would never compromise and who stood at the forefront of the confrontation. Despite the deep sorrow over the loss of this great leader, who never ceased his resistance, we affirm that this loss will only increase our determination and steadfastness to continue along the path of the martyrs in struggle and combat until the last drop of blood is shed for the complete liberation and expulsion of the occupation from all our national Palestinian soil. We will reclaim all the rights stolen from our people and recover the occupied Arab lands in Lebanon and Syria, avenging the blood of our martyrs and leaders.

To the masses of our people, our nation, and the free people of the world: Our war is a war of existence. No matter how deep the wounds, we fight with absolute and unwavering faith in our inevitable victory, not just with morale. This is our eternal message to our steadfast people and to all who believe in resistance as the path to liberation and victory.

In conclusion, we, the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, extend our greetings to the Arab nation and all the free people of the world, and especially to our comrades and brothers in blood and struggle, and in the unity of fate—the Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas, and its military wing the Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, leadership, cadres, and fighters. We salute the spirit of the great leader Yahya Al-Sinwar and the souls of those who have lit the path to freedom and independence with their blood, on the noble path to Al-Quds. We also salute the hands still pressing on the trigger until freedom is achieved and the occupation is expelled.

Our vow is an eternal revenge that shall not fade. Glory to the martyrs, freedom to the prisoners, and healing to the wounded.

Tomorrow, the fog will lift from the hills… and we shall surely be victorious.

Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades The Military Wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 18 October, 2024

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politicaljewishblog · 29 days ago

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This just in, The Islamic Resistance Movement isn’t religious!

And calling a Jewish State satanist is definitely not antisemitism!

Look, I want there to be a lasting ceasefire, and it sucks for the innocent people in Gaza that the war is on top of Ramadan. But these leftist complaints online are so hypocritical and obtuse.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism · 6 months ago

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By Palestine Chronicle Staff

The Lebanese movement Hezbollah confirmed in a statement on Saturday the killing of its Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut on Friday.

“His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, joined his great and immortal martyrs, whose journey he led for nearly thirty years,” the statement read.

Hezbollah praised Nasrallah, stating that over the last three decades, “he led them from victory to victory, succeeding the master of the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance in 1992 until the liberation of Lebanon in 2000 and until the divine, sustaining victory in 2006 “.

If anyone still had doubts that the U.S. and Israel are determined to start World War III, this should settle the question. - redguard

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phobic-human · 5 months ago

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very ehhh of you to support Hamas, which are theocrats who aren't that supported in Gaza

that being said pflp are pretty based

No I wouldn't say it's very "ehhh" of me to support Hamas, I think it is an absolute necessity to support all Palestinian resistance, regardless of ideological difference. To exclude and condemn one movement but idolize another one is blind idealism. It just so happens that Hamas has been better at organizing and constructing a resistance movement than any other faction, and that has subsequently placed them at the forefront of armed resistance against israel.

We must remember Hamas are not these spooky islamist extremists akin to the Islamic State, Hamas allows Palestinians to follow other religions like Christianity in Gaza, it has destroyed no churches in Gaza unlike israel and isis. Hamas is also allied with Hezbollah and Iran, both Shia, despite being largely Sunni. Hamas fights along side both the PFLP and DFLP under the Joint Operations Room, if Hamas was so bad than why would the Marxist-Leninist groups be allied with them? Because they are all united in a common struggle against one enemy and cannot afford to be divided. Theocrat often rings out like a snarl word, Islam is an integral part of Palestinian culture and identity.

Supporting the Palestinian resistance without Hamas, is not supporting the Palestinian resistance at all. We are in the midst of a genocide and we can't just cherry pick which groups to support. When we condemn Hamas we are dangerously aligning with both israel and anti-Palestinian groups because that is exactly what they want, sowing division and shattering unity. I highly recommend reading The Thorn And The Carnation by Yahya Sinwar because it helps explain the rise of the Islamist current in Palestine at a time when the secular/nationalist current was negotiating with israel and selling out, meanwhile the leftist current had isolated itself because it was far too busy engaging in intellectual debate rather than reality.

So yes, I support Hamas and stand with them, because I can look beyond ideological lenses and see that they are at the center of the resistance. They continue to fight heroically in defense of their people, and their contributions to the armed struggle cannot be overstated. Like it or not Hamas is not going anywhere and we cannot fully support Palestine without them.

#asks

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workersolidarity · 11 months ago

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🇵🇸⚔️🇮🇱 🚀🚀🚀 🚨

RESISTANCE FORCES TARGET OCCUPIED PALESTINE WITH MISSILE BARRAGE

📹 Scenes from Resistance: the Mujahideen of the Al-Quds Brigades, belonging to Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), in cooperation with the Al-Ansar Brigades belonging to the Palestinian Freedom Movement, preparing for, and then launching, a missile barrage targeting the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 8 months ago

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The Courts

"When Thomas Bratcher asked Malcolm X to testify as an expert witness in the case of SaMarion v. McGinnis, he articulated the relationship between incarcerated Muslims and those outside through the metaphor of war: "The fighting man cannot win a war without the moral support of the home front." Black prisoners saw the courts as a breach in the walls, which allowed them to express their claims before the world outside. Jacobs wrote that "it is as if the courts had become a battlefield where prisoners and prison administrators, led by their respective legal champions, engage in mortal combat." Prisoners used testimony as part of what Berger has called "a strategy of visibility" to make their struggles known. Sostre later described the court as "an arena. It is a battlefield - one of the best. We will use these same torture chambers, these same kangaroo courts, to expose them." Testifying has its political roots in slavery and is central to the Black feminist tradition. As Danielle McGuire argues regarding the struggle against sexual violence in the civil rights movement, "testimony must be seen as a form of direct action and radical protest." Prisoners were fighting on the front lines, with courts as their battlefield, supported by a home front of Muslims on the outside. Writ writing and testimony were what Sostre called their "most essential weapons."

When Commissioner McGinnis took the stand as a defendant before U.S. district court judge John Henderson in October 1962, SaMarion was the only plaintiff from the earlier case of Pierce v. LaVallee. The trial differed in several significant ways from the one that had emerged from Clinton two years earlier. The Pierce ruling had not brought about the changes the NOI [Nation of Islam] had hoped for. Judge Brennan constantly berated NOI attorney Edward Jacko for trying to expand the case beyond the initial complaint regarding denial of access to the Quran, at one point even admonishing him to be a "good little boy." As Brennan saw it, the case had been resolved before it came to trial. He told Jacko "You are asking to purchase the Koran. Now, the Warden says you can have the Koran. Well, what is there left for me to litigate?" Jacko concluded with dismay. "I think that is the crux of the case." However the plaintiffs sought weekly congregational services conducted by Buffalo's Robert X Williams, correspondence with and visitation from ministers and access to prayer books and the Messenger magazine. They meticulously documented their losses of good time credit and years in solitary confinement in order to demonstrate religious discrimination.

The Pince case demonstrated the steep challenge for prisoners during the era when the courts followed a hands-off policy. Judge Brennan did not believe the judicial branch should be involved in matters of prison discipline to begin with. He opined:

This Court didn't put these men in jail. This Court didn't commit the crime for which they were convicted. This Court didn't try them. This Court didn't sentence them. This Court didn't control them, so that you must turn somewhere else to settle those other things.

He argued that naming the warden of Clinton had little bearing, since he is "hot free to run his prison as he likes," and suggested that if the plaintiffs "wanted something, to get a decision that would bind them, No. 1, you would have to bring in the Department of Correction." Perhaps heeding this advice, the men added Commissioner McGinnis to the SaMarion suit.

The state defense attorneys raised the ante by claiming that members of the Nation of Islam were not in fact "true members of the religion of Islam." Calling the tenets of the NOI "preachments of hate [and] race prejudice," Deputy Attorney General Robert Bresinhan outlined what would become the standard argument of the state against the practice of Islam in prisons: that the NOI was a political group acting in the guise of religion and posed clear and present danger to the prison as an institution. He told the court:

It is our position that every activity in a prison must be supervised and it is our position that religion, the guise of religion, does not give a prisoner or anyone else the right to come in and violate those security rules.

As court-appointed attorney Richard Griffin later recalled, since religious orthodoxy was taking center stage, it was "clear that I needed an expert witness and I decided to contact Malcolm X to see if he would testify."

Bratcher wrote Malcom X optimistically before the trial that

This trial promises to be the last one in the Muslims fight for Religious Freedom. This writ is taken out on behalf of the 60 Muslims in Attica Prison. This writ covers all grievances. We have compounded so much evidence - over a period of two years. - against the defendants - Paul D. McGinnis and Walter H. Wilkins-that under its magnitude, these two tyrants must fall.

In its breadth, testimony, and implications for future policy, SaMarion surpassed previous cases in its capacity to decide the future of the Nation of Islam in prisons.

Bratcher correctly anticipated the state's defense in his letter to Malcolm X a year before the trial:

From the Attorney General's answer to my writ, I can see that his main argument is going to be in the presenting of certain publications out of Books, magazines, and papers about the Muslims.... He is going to try and justify the warden's violation of our constitutional rights by submitting these published reports to the court saying that we are preaching hare and we are a fanatical group not recognized by the rest of Muslim World.

As the state began to outline its defense that the NOI was an illegitimate religious group that threatened prison security, Bresinhan's questioning of key witnesses revealed its central strategy: to delegitimize the Nation of Islam's religious standing. Recognizing that "this is the only loophole (Bresinhan] has," Bratcher told Malcolm: "I plan to close this hole up forever. The 'Key' wittness [sic] I am depending on you to 'seal' our victory Minister Malcolm X.

This decision set the stage for a four-day showdown between Malcolm and the state's witness, Columbia University professor Joseph Franz Schacht. While Malcolm admitted openly in court that he had an eighth grade education, had no formal theological training, and could not speak Arabic, Schacht had a "masterly knowledge" of the language, and his book Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence - which discussed the historical development and sociological implications of Islamic law-was considered a seminal text in the Western study of Islam. Yet Malcolm weaved around the state's probing questions regarding his expertise. When asked if he had a degree in theology, he replied that if

my understanding of the word 'theological" is correct, the study of God, the science that deals with religion and the study of God, I studied theology in that sense under the Honorable Elijah Muhammad about our God.

When pressed on the length of his education, he replied, "I am still studying." When interrogated on whether or not he was ordained or had a written certificate permitting him to proselytize, he reminded the court that "Jesus sent his disciples forth with no written certificate or anything but his approval." Malcolm's testimony was so convincing that when Schacht took the stand and listed his memberships in the Royal Netherlands Academy and the Arabic Academy in Damascus, and his honorary degree in law from the University of Algiers, the judge responded, "I don't think it is quite thoroughly clear at this time to qualify him as an expert."

After establishing his religious credentials, Malcolm used the courtroom as a stage to articulate his political views. Almost a year before delivering his most widely remembered speech, "Message to the Grassroots," Malcolm explained the difference between a "House Negro" and a "Field Negro" to a federal judge. The former, he emphasized, had no support from the Black community. "He is a leader in public relations, but when it comes to actual following among Negroes, he has no following. That is how you can tell him." When asked about the Nation of Islam's opposition to integration Malcolm pivoted to the difference between racial separation and racial segregation. "Segregation means to regulate or control," he explained. "A segregated community is that forced upon inferiors by superiors. A separate community is done voluntarily by two equals."

The deputy attorney general tried to return to the point that the NOI taught violence and fomented an unsafe environment in prisons, adducing confiscated material that said "To combat the Negro, convert him or annihilate him is the holiest task of the faithful." This statement, Bresinhan reasoned, was clear evidence of the violent aims of the Nation of Islam. Yet again, Malcolm thwarted the cross-examiner. To destroy the "Negro," he explained, "is to destroy the stigma that makes this Negro a Negro. By converting him you annihilate, annihilate the ignorance and lethargy and immorality and things that sort." No Black person calls himself a Negro except those in America he continued. "The white man respects the Black man, he disrespects the Negro." Malcolm and the Nation of Islam sought to destroy a denigrated notion of Blackness defined by white society as "Negro" and replace it with an exalted, self-determined definition signified as "Black."

Malcolm's rhetorical sleight of hand was not evasive but didactic. Judge Henderson addressed Malcolm specifically at one point, remarking his changed understanding of the term "Negro":

I was taught in my early life that the word 'Negro' is a mark of respect to the Black man. I learned yesterday for the first time that there is a preferred name, the Black man, I take it. I am not used to that and when I refer to the Negro in my discussions to you, I am not doing it with a mark of any disrespect. I was always taught and I thought of it as a mark of respect. I want you to understand that.

While Henderson had, in effect, apologized for and excused his racism in the same remark, his high regard for Malcolm's opinion shifted the tenor of the trial. As Griffin recalled, Henderson was "impressed by Malcolm and his testimony" and "respected Malcolm for his clear statements and responses." Bresinhan, likely attempting to curry favor with the judge, then began adopting the phrase "the American Black Man'' in his questioning. Malcolm's testimony, which lasted for three days and constituted over 20 percent of the trial transcript, persuaded the judge to rule that the Nation of Islam was a religious organization. Even more importantly, Malcolm's expression of his political views took center stage and fundamentally altered the discourse and scope of the case.

Malcolm's testimony radically expanded the case beyond the issues of religious counsel, correspondence, and access to literature. It articulated the NOI's critique of civil rights leadership and questions of self-determination, citizenship, and racial identity. In Malcolm's own intellectual development, his trial testimonies played a central role in developing his political ideas and rhetoric. Before the October 1962 trial, he frequently used "Uncle Toms" to deride civil rights spokespeople such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, and Roy Wilkins. After the trial, he developed the contrast between the "House" and "Field Negro," which drew parallels between slavery and the present in an incisive but more historically rooted analysis. The courtroom served as a space where the NOI articulated its views and developed its broader critiques of the civil rights movement, the prison system, and American racial liberalism. As Malcolm X's three days on the witness stand demonstrated, prison litigation should not be measured in legal victories alone but should be seen as part of a wider arsenal of political strategies, ranging from fighting for constitutional rights through the law to engaging in direct-action protests such as sit-ins, hunger strikes, and takeovers of solitary confinement, which widened the Black freedom struggle during the 1960s.

- Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. p. 77-80

#nation of islam #religion in prison #black freedom struggle #racial segregation #prisoner trials #african american history #those who know don't say #reading 2023 #prisoners' rights movement #prisoner resistance #prisoner organizing #expert testimony #new york prisons #california prisons

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tamamita · 6 months ago

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remember that time they compared hamas to isis?

The average lib and their understanding of geopolitics is insane, because Hamas is not in any way affiliated with DAESH.

DAESH does takfir (excommunication) on Hamas, because of their insistance on national liberation. Whereas Hamas does not seek to establish a global caliphate or an Islamic state for that matter.

Hamas is a national liberation movement, it does not carry out attacks against any other foreign entity. DAESH does

DAESH is a Wahabist group that promotes a strictly traditionalist perspective on Sunni Islamic jurisprudence. It disavowes the idea of emulating a school of thought for Sunni Islamic jurisprudence and religious opinions.

Hamas and most Palestinian Muslims follow the Shafi'i school of thought for Sunni Islamic jurisprudence. Their interpretations clash with the Wahhabists.

Both DAESH and the Zionists see Hezbollah and the wider Shi'a resistance movement as their primary enemies; Hamas are allied with the resistance. At one point, DAESH misfired at the Settler colony and have subsequently apologized.

The settler state has largely been supportive of the Salafist rebel factions in the SCW against Assad and the Axis of resistance, and did not actively try to repel DAESH despite being at the borders of the Golan Heights

DAESH wants to see the total and complete extermination of Shi'as, Alevis, Alewites, Druzes as well as Sunnis who do not pledge their allegience to them. Christians and Jews would be allowed to live on the condition they pay the Jizya (poll tax).

DAESH is not concerned with the abolishment of the colonial state entity, Hamas is.

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27moremoons · 3 months ago

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Palestinian political leaders comment on the incoming ceasefire implementation:

🟢 Hamas Political Bureau member Bassem Naim:

The issues surrounding the ceasefire agreement were resolved in the last few hours.

Netanyahu no longer has an opportunity to evade the agreement, and Ben-Gvir's [potential] resignation marks the beginning of "israeli" political collapse.

Netanyahu attempted to play his repeated tricks but failed to achieve the objectives he declared at the start of the aggression.

The agreement includes implementing what the resistance previously announced as conditions for accepting the ceasefire agreement.

We broke the occupation's will, and our grand project remains resistance toward liberation.

We are moving forward to implement the ceasefire agreement on Sunday [January 19th] despite the enemy's approach of stalling and evasion.

🟢 Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri:

Netanyahu's claims about the [Hamas] movement reneging on items in the ceasefire agreement are baseless.

The occupation seeks to create tension at a critical time, and we demand that it be obligated to implement the agreement.

We call on the current and upcoming U.S. administrations to compel the occupation to adhere to the agreement.

There is no room for debate or Netanyahu's evasion of implementing the ceasefire agreement.

⚫️ Palestinian Islamic Jihad Deputy Secretary-General Mohammed Al-Hindi to Al-Arabi:

Netanyahu no longer has any chance to place obstacles in the way of the ceasefire agreement.

The agreement includes the release of 250 prisoners serving life sentences.

The withdrawal from the Salah al-Din axis will occur gradually and conclude by the end of the first phase of the agreement.

"Israel" and the United States have failed to impose a "day-after" scenario for the war.

We agreed to an Egyptian proposal with Arab backing to form a relief and support committee for Gaza.

Everything is finalized. The deal is done. Netanyahu has no room to maneuver or obstruct.

⚫️ Palestinian Islamic Jihad Political Bureau member, Sheikh Ali Abu Shaheen, to Palestine Today:

The delay in the "israeli" announcement is due to internal reasons, and today’s situation differs from the past—there is no room for maneuver.

Continued aggression against Gaza will trigger reactions in the region, and the occupation is obligated to adhere to the agreement.

The U.S. has acknowledged the failure of the military option in the Gaza Strip.

The resistance is the guarantee for the Palestinian people and will remain ready on the battlefield.

"Israel" achieved nothing in Gaza or Lebanon but destruction and massacres.

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine International Relations Officer, Dr. Maher Al-Taher, to Palestine Today:

The steadfastness of our people and their resistance forced the occupation to sign a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

The struggle with the occupation continues. The enemy will not be able to maintain its presence in Gaza as it will pay a heavy price.

#palestine

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