Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Human Rights Lawyer • Author • Dad Jokes • Host of The Qasim Rashid Show on Sirius XM • Substack Creator of “Let’s Address This”

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2024-08-24 03:35:14

Retoot if you agree the US needs to stop arming Netanyahu to bomb Palestinian civilians.
I want to follow as many people as I can who share this belief in basic human decency and international rule of law. We must stand united for justice and on the right side of history.
I wrote about this issue here: https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/breaking-biden-sent-netanyahu-35b

2024-08-23 03:28:50

A right wing Republican man who voted with Trump more than 90% of the time, voted to undermine voting rights, block gun safety legislation, and is anti-choice, got to speak at the DNC, but Palestinian Americans simply asking to be seen as human were denied a platform. How unfortunate.

2024-08-22 04:06:06

I’m live at the peaceful protest outside the DNC. The DNC is denying Palestinian Americans a voice at the convention.
As AOC just tweeted, “Just as we must honor the humanity of hostages, so too must we center the humanity of the 40,000 Palestinians killed under Israeli bombardment. To deny that story is to participate in the dehumanization of Palestinians. The @npub1zts…tw67 must change course and affirm our shared humanity.”
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-9RhHgNwqP/?igsh=MWt0azl4MmU4OWRpcA==

2024-08-20 00:15:46

UPDATE: Hamas has announced it rejects this deal because:
•It does not mandate permanent ceasefire and release of all hostages
•It keeps Israel occupying Gaza
•It keeps Israel controlling the Rafah border
Israeli officials tell Axios Netanyahu only said he accepted the proposal because he knew Hamas would reject it. Reminder that 2 months ago Hamas accepted Israel’s proposal & then Israel went back on its own proposal. Absurd Political theatre as genocide rages on. This is utterly horrifying.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/991/459/064/792/368/original/4d772d46d3d93b18.png

2024-08-19 16:43:41

Just now Netanyahu killed 7 members of the same Palestinian family, days after killing 4 day old twins, and a week after killing 100 in a school.
Remember, Biden doesn't need to "push" for a ceasefire deal. He can just stop arming Netanyahu and firing will cease. Americans, Palestinians, & Israelis all want it. Stop arming Netanyahu. Period.

2024-08-17 20:19:11

Before law school I thought the phrase "crime is often a social construct" was gobbledygook until a Professor pointed out that if a worker steals $50 from a cash register they go to jail but corporations annually steal $50B wages from workers & zero execs have ever gone to jail.😐

2024-08-17 16:59:59

Covered a lot this week on Let's Address This. Here's your weekly recap:
-Biden sent Netanyahu $20B in arms
-Olympics have a racism & misogyny problem
-Qasim Rashid Show Episode 132
-We cannot ignore the Sandwich Generation
-Debunking MAGA assaults on immigrants
-GOP is trying to steal 2024 election
-Israeli Army is (Still) using Palestinians as human shields
Read and Subscribe to support my human rights advocacy:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/lets-address-this-weekly-recap-4f1

2024-08-17 16:06:00

Usually when I write about Israel/Palestine I get emails from people objecting or claiming I "ignored context."
ZERO emails about my article documenting Israeli military using Palestinians as human shields. Even Netanyahu's staunchest supporters find it indefensible—yet USA still funds it. To be sure, these are war crimes. Why are we allowing our tax dollars to fund these war crimes?
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/israeli-army-still-uses-palestinians

2024-08-16 21:59:30

Kamala Harris is proposing $25K to first time homebuyers.
When my wife & I bought our first home we scrapped together every penny for years! And now Harris just wants to give people $25K? Seriously?
Well, all I can say is that I am 100% on board! This isn't complicated folks. Let's stop making people needlessly suffer. Let's meaningfully invest in working people. And let's elevate the American dream.

2024-08-16 17:10:06

"The Israeli high court ruled that the army's long-standing practice of using Palestinian civilians as human shields is illegal under international law."
This is not a ruling from 2024, it's a ruling from 2005.
Israel (Still) uses Palestinian human shields because they never stopped. It's past time the US Govt and the international community stopped funding these war crimes. Enough.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/israeli-army-still-uses-palestinians

2024-08-16 00:00:14

The latest reports confirm that the Israeli military is systemically:
•raping Palestinian prisoners
•using Palestinians as human shields
•bombing Palestinians in designated safe zones
These Are War Crimes. And all this while Netanyahu rejects his own proposed ceasefire and hostage release proposal after Hamas accepted it.
And rather than hold Netanyahu accountable, the US Govt is responding by sending $23B MORE in military aid. How can anyone defend this?? Where is the humanity??

2024-08-15 22:16:48

The GOP is trying to steal the 2024 election through voter purges and voter suppression—and legacy media is asleep at the wheel.
Here’s how the GOP is doing it, and what we need to do to stop fascism in America.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-gop-is-trying-to-steal-the-2024

2024-08-13 03:49:26

The 4 most absurd things about Musk & Trump blaming immigrants for crime are:
•Musk is an immigrant & is credibly accused of violating election laws
•Trump is a convicted felon
•Immigrants have lower crime rates than born U.S. citizens
•Violent crime is at historic lows
All they do is ⛽️💡smh

2024-08-12 04:22:20

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Swiss NGO, has found ZERO evidence of a Hamas military presence at Tabeen school where ~100 Palestinians were massacred by the Israeli government using American bombs.
Zero. Evidence. Of. Hamas.
Yet another war crime
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/08/11/palestine-rights-monitor-finds-no-evidence-hamas-presence-school/7561723397424/

2024-08-12 00:57:20

It's bad enough to shame people for voting based on the primary issue of stopping genocide, but it's even worse to claim they're a "one issue voter."
The money being spent on bombing Gaza could be spent on paying our teachers, funding our healthcare, fixing our roads, or making college affordable. But instead its being used to kill innocent children.
Stopping genocide isn't one issue. It's literally every issue.

2024-08-10 13:31:44

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You want the hostages released? Hamas agreed to Israel's ceasefire and hostage deal two months ago. Isreal then rejected its own deal. And Biden has since admitted Netanyahu lied to him about wanting to see the hostages released.
How is anyone still defending this? When will there be accountability for this genocide? We are in month 11 of this genocide. We need action. Full stop.
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2024-08-10 13:31:33

BREAKING: Less than 24 hours after Biden approved another $3.5B in arms to Netanyahu, Netanyahu bombed Palestinian civilians taking refuge in the Al-Tabeen School, killing at least 100 more innocent people.
It's like multiple Uvalde massacres every day, except instead of just standing by and watching the mass murderer murder children, you keep arming him to murder more children. Insanity.
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2024-08-09 21:26:24

BREAKING: Imane Khelif wins Gold at the Paris Olympics!
She overcame incredible odds, the world's best boxers, and immense misogyny and Islamophobia to take home the gold. Congrats to her, her parents, her entire team, and to all Algerians. Mubarak!
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/imane-khelif-fights-the-worlds-greatest

2024-08-08 14:16:49

Centering this critical conversation on the atrocities in Gaza legacy media is refusing to center:
•Polio is spreading due to lack of water
•Israeli soldiers are raping Palestinian prisoners & Israelis are protesting accountability for the rapists
•Biden admits Netanyahu lied about hostages
The urgency to address and stop this genocide cannot be overstated. Here's the updates you need to know:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/media-moves-on-while-netanyahu-continues

2024-08-08 02:47:12

Just saw Kamala Harris’s response to protestors and y’all this ain’t it.
This was a golden opportunity to show empathy to people in deep pain because their family is suffering torture, famine, displacement, & genocide. They don’t want Trump to win. They want the suffering to stop. Don’t push them away. Invite them in.
She should remedy this asap. This is the moment to lean into empathy and humanity. These aren’t MAGAs you shut down—they’re people willing to vote for you. Hear them.

2024-08-06 23:46:03

Harris tapping Walz is another step in the right direction for justice for Palestine.
But let's be clear—we are nowhere near justice.
It's critical we keep the pressure on to uphold international law, US Leahy Laws, and stop this genocide. That cannot be ignored.

2024-08-06 13:33:24

BREAKING: KAMALA HARRIS PICKS TIM WALZ FOR VP!
Walz brings an incredible record to the ticket:
•Served in the Nat'l Guard 24 yrs
•Public school teacher 20 yrs
•Congressman 12 yrs
•MN Gov 6 yrs
•Pro working families, raised corp taxes, is anti-fracking, is pro free school lunch
•USA's first female Native American Gov Penny Flanagan succeeds Walz
Let's Go! Let's win this in a landslide. ❤️✊🏽

2024-08-06 00:08:28

If Kamala Harris taps Tim Walz for VP & they win, then Peggy Flanagan becomes Minnesota's Governor, & would be the first female Native American governor in US history.
In US HISTORY!
In 248 years we've never had a female Native American Gov. This can be a critical step forward.

2024-08-05 17:24:52

Right now British white supremacists nationwide are stabbing, arsoning, & looting Muslims & immigrants—& virtual silence from world leaders.
Where are the public statements of condemnations & gestures of solidarity? Islamophobia remains a globally acceptable form of bigotry.😐

2024-08-05 17:12:03

With news today that the stock market is down, and MAGAs capitalizing on it to allege the Biden economy is bad, your PSA that the stock market is not the economy. The top 10% own 93% of stocks in America.
Meanwhile, 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 27% of Americans are house poor, & USA has the worst wealth & income inequality in developed nations.
Stop letting stocks be a measure of economic health & start demanding economic justice for all people in this country.

2024-08-05 03:46:24

Walz vs Shapiro is a major contrast
Walz was a public school teacher
Shapiro is pro vouchers
Walz raised corporate taxes
Shapiro is pro corp tax cuts
Walz is anti-fracking
Shapiro is pro fracking
Walz rejects MAGA money
Shapiro took $100K from Yass
Walz is the best VP pick👍🏽

2024-08-04 17:10:31

Watching Imane Khelif's father embrace his daughter to elevate her and praise her (and without resorting to anti-trans fearmongering btw) has been a breath of fresh air during these Olympics.
He's lifting Imane up without tearing anyone else down. That's fatherhood. That's love.

2024-08-03 22:19:53

Haaretz cites U.S. Official to report that Biden Realized Netanyahu Lied to Him About Hostage Deal
Everyone knows Netanyahu is a liar. It's who he has always been. He lied to invade Iraq. He lied to break up the Iran nuclear deal. He's lying now about the hostage deal.
STOP FUNDING HIM. STOP THE GENOCIDE.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-08-03/ty-article/.premium/u-s-official-biden-realized-netanyahu-lied-to-him-about-hostage-deal/00000191-19c0-d051-a3f7-d9cc68ce0000

2024-08-03 15:02:04

WW tears are so powerful that Angela Carini will get $50K Olympic prize money for dropping out of her bout against Imane Khelif after 46 seconds.
"I couldn't look at her tears" Int'l Boxing Assoc President Kremlev said.
Khelif gets demonized. Carini gets paid. What a world.

2024-08-03 01:26:02

Paris Olympics have:
•Russian athletes competing despite Russia invading Ukraine
•Israeli athletes competing despite Israel committing genocide of Palestinians
•A Dutch athlete competing despite being a literal child rapist
But the most hate by far is reserved for an Algerian Muslim woman because she committed the crime of being good at boxing 😐

2024-08-01 19:43:31

The MAGA Trump attacks on Kamala Harris's identity are not only overt racism, they're a revival of a deep historical right wing hypocrisy. And worse, legacy media continues to let racists off the hook.
Here's how we respond & protect our democracy:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/maga-racism-and-media-failures

2024-08-01 17:06:18

Nimarata Nikki Randhawa ran as Nikki Haley
Piyush Jindal ran as Bobby Jindal
Raphael Cruz ran as Ted Cruz
Meanwhile—Barack Obama ran as Barack Obama & Kamala Harris is running as Kamala Harris & MAGAs accuse Dems of identity politics
Every MAGA accusation is a confession

2024-08-01 14:29:46

Great that journalist Evan Gershkovich has been released from Russia.
And to keep it 100, I find it revolting that so many who have not said one word about the 160+ journalists killed by Netanyahu, or condemned his ban on journalism—now extol the virtues of a free press.
Racism, hypocrisy, & cowardice. Selective activism is a cancer on society.

2024-07-31 20:36:33

In the last 24 hours the Netanyahu regime has:
•Killed journalist Ismail al-Ghoul
•Assassinated ceasefire negotiator Ismael Haniyeh
•Defended rape of Palestinian civilians after imprisoning them w/o charge or conviction
•Bombed Lebanon
Indefensible yet 100% USA funded. Smh

2024-07-31 16:13:10

If Hamas assassinated Israel's ceasefire negotiator, legacy media & the White House would rightly erupt in outrage at Hamas' pro war injustice.
The Israeli military just assassinated one of Hamas' lead negotiators for ceasefire, in a third sovereign nation no less, and crickets from media & the White House. Zero condemnations.
If you care about releasing hostages, you don't kill the person negotiating their release. Yet another reminder that for Netanyahu, it was never about the hostages.

2024-07-02 19:15:31

Here’s the thing — Dems need to feed their base. Dems had the House, Senate, & White House for Biden's first 2 years and refused to expand the Court. Despite the absurd SCOTUS rulings since, Biden still says he won't work to expand that court.
Telling the Dem base to "vote harder" without a clear vision of reform misses a golden opportunity to win.
Feed the base. Paint the vision. Act!

2024-05-19 21:03:31

Senators Rubio, Vance, & Scott, among others, refuse to say they'll accept election results
SCOTUS Justices Alito & Thomas are actively in support of insurrectionists
Speaker Johnson wants the Bible to supersede the Constitution
Fascism isn't headed to America—it's already here.