Qasim Rashid, Esq.

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2024-12-18 17:49:24

Dylan Roof killed 9 Black people with the motivation to incite a race war—NOT charged with terrorism.
Luigi Mangione killed 1 CEO with the motivation to rebuke healthcare injustice—charged with terrorism.
Class warfare is when wealthy CEOs are a protected class but working Black people are not.

2024-12-13 17:55:42

A Florida woman has been charged with terrorism for expressing frustration at blue cross and blue shield for denying her health insurance claim.
Understand this fact -- this is not about silencing her. It is about silencing all of us. And we must peacefully but firmly resist.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/florida-woman-charged-with-terrorism

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.
2/2

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.
1/2

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.

2024-07-26 12:08:02

BREAKING: UK to withdraw its objection to ICC’s prosecution of Netanyahu AND is again funding UNRWA—stating that Israel has provided zero evidence of UNRWA enabling terrorism.
This leaves USA alone globally in defending Netanyahu’s war crimes.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/7/25/israel-war-on-gaza-live-netanyahu-not-serious-about-ceasefire-deal-hamas

2024-07-07 22:03:02

Today Haaretz published a report that IDF killed its own soldiers on 10/7, & The Lancet published a report that the actual number of Palestinians that Israel has killed is not 38K but 186K or more.
Documenting these facts here because I'd be shocked to see legacy media in the West cover it.

2024-07-07 21:20:11

Right Wing media claims VP Kamala Harris is the “DEI” candidate or "Didn't Earn It," which is wild because in reality, generating historic wealth through 2 billion acres of stolen land from Native Americans, enslaving Black people for 300 years, banning Asian immigration until 1965, & banning women from financial access til 1974 — all without paying a single red cent in reparations or restitution — is the living breathing example of not earning it.
Every MAGA accusation is a confession.

2024-07-05 13:53:52

The NY Times published this piece on July 4th, to convince Americans to NOT vote, written by a guy who DOES vote, a guy who is a right wing Christian nationalist, a guy who reportedly supported the January 6 insurrection, and a guy who cosplays Hitler.
Legacy media is absolutely failing us and hastening the downfall of democracy. Smh what a disgrace.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/734/214/032/241/065/original/3b09d8c4fde0d1fb.png

2024-07-04 23:56:01

Today I saw a video of Palestinian civilians pull a young girl’s decapitated head from rubble, another of a young girl with her jaw blown off, & reports of Netanyahu moving to annex the West Bank—yet 0 accountability for those committing these atrocities.
Anyway, Happy Independence Day.😐

2024-07-04 19:27:00

This July, 2024 remember the minimum wage hasn’t increased since July, 2009—but if it had increased with inflation & corporate productivity since the 1960s—it’d be $27/hr today.
Reaganomics trickle down scam has redistributed $50T from bottom 90% to top 1% and corporations commit $50B in annual wage theft from workers.
This July 4th remember there is no freedom and justice without economic freedom and justice. Unionize workers. Tax billionaires. Restore justice.

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!

2024-07-02 18:20:43

Before you yell at people asking why Biden is running again, recall this from 2019:
"Joe Biden has indicated he would only serve for one term if elected to the presidency and would not run for reelection in 2024. "If Biden is elected, he's going to be 82 years old in four years and he won't be running for reelection," a prominent adviser to the campaign said."
https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2019-12-11/joe-biden-suggests-he-would-only-serve-one-term-if-elected-president

2024-07-02 15:42:36

A reminder that what this SCOTUS has ruled is sadly not the exception—but a perpetuation of centuries of injustice.
Look at the receipts. It is a bitter truth that the US Supreme Court has been USA's greatest obstacle to justice for the American people. And if we do not launch a comprehensive effort to reform and reign in the Court, we set back human rights at least a century.
https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/what-if-the-greatest-obstacle-to

2024-07-02 02:50:49

Why expand SCOTUS?
It aligns with historical precedent
It aligns with American values
It helps restore SCOTUS legitimacy
https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/expand-scotus-and-save-democracywhile?r=fyvxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2024-07-02 01:36:52

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I wrote about the absurdity of SCOTUS’s recent rulings and why we need Dems to act immediately if we hope to protect our democracy https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/scotus-hurtles-the-usa-towards-dictatorship?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=fyvxf&utm_medium=ios

2024-07-02 00:32:53

This SCOTUS has overturned 40 years of environmental protection precedent, 50 years of abortion precedent, 60 years of Affirmative Action precedent, & now 248 years of limited POTUS power precedent—& Dems still refuse to even try to expand SCOTUS or impeach the Justices. Come On!

2024-07-01 16:00:50

SCOTUS Update:
•Bribery is all good
•Being homeless is a crime
•Being an insurrectionist is not a crime
•Corproations can pollute at will & government cannot stop them. Also lol climate change.
•No immunity for unofficial acts, but as long as POTUS can make some lame excuse that his obviously criminal act is in pursuit of some official act, then POTUS gets absolute immunity. SCOTUS delays the case past Nov 5 & lays groundwork for dictatorship.
If we hope to save our democracy—Expand The Court.

2024-06-29 16:56:47

SCOTUS criminalizing the homeless is much like how in 1933 Nazis passed a law "against Habitual & Dangerous Criminals,” which relocated beggars, homeless, & the unemployed to concentration camps.
Even worse—Nazis built their laws off USA’s Jim Crow laws. Princeton Professor Whitman writes in his book “Hitler’s American Model ,”Nazism triumphed in Germany during Jim Crow USA. Did the American regime of racial oppression inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes.”
Full circle fascism.

2024-06-28 13:14:18

While watching the POTUS debate, I reflected on Sally Claire’s wisdom:
“If someone says it's raining, and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the f*cking window and find out which is true.”
It appears neither Tapper nor Bash got that memo. Between incompetent moderators, a perennially lying Donald Trump, & a President Biden unable to articulate his point—we all lost
https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/recap-on-the-first-presidential-debate

2024-06-25 18:04:19

Blinken: Israel agrees to ceasefire & release of all hostages
Biden: Israel agrees to ceasefire & release of all hostages
Bibi: Israel REJECTS ceasefire or release of all hostages—now give me more bombs
Biden/Blinken: OK...but we're canceling Brunch
I hope at the minimum people will realize that Netanyahu has never cared about the hostages or ending this siege. Now let's act accordingly.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-06-24-2024-f5de2ed8288ac3cdb02c4e9e2fbaeda1

2024-06-24 22:11:27

To recap:
•Israel rejects the binding UN resolution it previously agreed to
•Israel refuses to release the 3500 Palestinians it holds in indefinite detention without charge or trial
•Israel won't leave Gaza & now announces plans to annex the West Bank
This All Violates Int'l Law.
It is outrageous that the US Govt continues to fund these war crimes & mass murder of Palestinians. Where is the accountability & where is the international rules based order we keep hearing about? Horrific.

2024-06-24 16:27:10

Reminder on Dobbs' 2 year anniversary that 9 of top 10 states with lowest infant & maternal mortality rates are Blue states that protect repro health & 16 of top 17 states with highest infant & maternal mortality rate are Red states that restrict repro health—because abortion bans do not decrease abortion rates, they increase the death of women and children.
MAGAs banning abortion access was never about life, it was always about control of women.

2024-06-21 14:40:17

SCOTUS rules 8-1 that police can remove firearms from domestic abusers. Given that the leading cause of injury to women are men, & women are most likely to be killed by men, this is absolutely the correct ruling.
Justice Thomas dissented, b/c he's absurd.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/politics/supreme-court-guns-rahimi/index.html

2024-06-19 23:38:00

A really easy call to action -- help me get 500 letters written to Congress to demand they expand Medicare.
Deadline is midnight tonight EST. I figure with 64K amazing followers here, we can find 500 to click and take 5 seconds to send their letter.
Are you in? Please sign & retoot. ❤️✊🏽
https://bit.ly/3VxlnKX

2024-06-15 21:37:44

Me: Billionaire philanthropy is PR. Tax billionaires
Troll: Lol you trust Govt to spend our money?
Me: Yes the Govt elected by We the People, who is accountable, & can be voted out
Troll: Govt is bought
Me: By who?
Troll: By billionai—...
Me: ...
Troll: Ok Tax billionaires

2024-06-15 04:32:10

The House just passed an $895B Pentagon budget—yet 1 in 6 American kids are food insecure.
Tesla board approved a $55B payout for EIon—yet just laid off 10,000 workers.
Exxon made $28.5B profit—yet paid a 2.5% tax rate.
This is what class warfare against working people looks like.

2024-06-14 20:43:21

At 110 Viola Fletcher is the oldest living Tulsa Race Massacre survivor.
She's lived through 44% of US history, survived white supremacy terror, & suffered 50 years of Jim Crow—& after waiting 103 years for reparations—an all white Oklahoma Supreme Court said NO.
What a disgrace.

2024-06-12 14:00:18

Who is igniting antisemitism in America?
I looked up the ADL data on antisemitic hate crimes in America. The ADL H.E.A.T. Map data goes back to 2002. If you had to guess what percentage of antisemitic hate crimes were from Muslims vs Leftists vs Right over the past 22 years, what would you guess? Hold that thought & look at the receipts first.
https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/who-is-igniting-antisemitism-in-america-e2b

2024-06-11 14:27:09

Given Alito's disdain for precedent given his overturn of Roe, his disregard for US Constitution given his pro insurrection flag, his disregard for confidentiality given his diatribe admitting lack of impartiality—why is he still on the bench & is there any doubt he leaked Dobbs?

2024-06-09 03:25:49

I recall applying for my law license & having to disclose toll violations & parking tickets from a decade prior that were less than $100.
Absurd that as a sitting SCOTUS justice, Clarence Thomas got $6M in gifts & didn’t require disclosure or recusal.
Where's the accountability for his corruption? How can SCOTUS be deemed legitimate when one of its members is bought and paid for?

2024-06-09 00:12:50

The UN is placing the Israeli Military on the global blacklist of offenders that harm children.
Israel's siege on Gaza has killed more than 15,000 children. This is in addition to the ~1000 children Israel annually detains w/o due process or charge or access to parents or legal counsel, where more than 80% are physically and/or sexually abused while in custody.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/middleeast/un-israel-global-list-children-intl-latam/index.html

2024-05-29 01:55:06

WOW this is incredible & terrifying.
Israel spent over a decade spying on ICC prosecutors to "retroactively investigate incidents of interest to ICC to prove Israel’s legal system is accountable."
Meanwhile Israel has banned all journalists from Gaza and has killed 100+ journalists. This is totally what you do when you're not guilty of war crimes.
How much longer will the USA, UN, & the world enable this injustice?
https://www.972mag.com/icc-israel-surveillance-investigation/

2024-05-28 22:49:03

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Not "finish the war."
Not "bring hostages home."
Not even "finish Hamas."
But "Finish Them" hours after a strike mass murdered 44 civilians including 32 children—burning them to ash & decapitating them.
This is an open call to genocide & to ignore that is to be complicit.

2024-05-28 22:26:56

As a South Asian American, let me apologize on behalf of the disgusting racism and vitriol of one Nikki Haley.
I will continue to work towards justice and I hope to have your support. To join up, Subscribe here: https://substack.com/@qasimrashid
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/521/065/551/882/894/original/b09fba1c89f0ce67.mp4

2024-05-27 16:43:37

Just to be explicitly clear.
After Israel condemned the ICC for accusing them of deliberately targeting civilians, Israel forced Palestinians into a safe zone where they wouldn't be bombed—then Israel bombed & killed 32 children in that safe zone.
They burned Palestinians alive. On purpose.
ICC: Prosecute these war crimes.

2024-05-24 22:20:43

To recap so far:
•ICJ orders Israel to cease all military operations in Rafah
•ICC presses forward on war crimes charges against Israeli PM
•US State Dept reports Israeli military used US weapons in violation of int’l law
•NYT & NBC report IDF targeted civilians
•Dozens of NGOs demand ceasefire & diplomacy
If international rules based order has any meaning, then the above must matter. The above must be acted upon. And those yet silent are complicit, and history will remember them accordingly.

2024-05-21 22:43:16

It's not just Republicans in states like like New Hampshire & Missouri who are trying to protect child marriage.
The United States has a child marriage epidemic, and it's worse than you think.
My recent OpEd: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/america-has-a-child-marriage-epidemicand

2024-05-21 18:08:41

Israel’s military is tipping off far-right settler terrorists to the location of aid trucks delivering vital supplies to Gaza to block delivery.
This. Is. A. War. Crime.
Israel is claiming “Hamas” is diverting aid. That is a claim all relief agencies reject. US officials also state Israel has offered no evidence to support allegations that Hamas is diverting aid.
Imagine being more upset at ICC for prosecuting this than at the famine its enabling: https://t.co/t9umHxFsUQ

2024-05-20 17:31:22

Blinken on ICC Warrants for:
•Putin: "Anyone who's a party to the ICC and has obligations should fulfill their obligations & turn over Putin."
•Netanyahu: "US rejects the ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants for Israeli officials & Hamas."
Biden on ICC Warrants for:
•Putin: "The ICC warrants against Putin make a very strong point. He's clearly committed war crimes."
•Netanyahu: "The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous."
Smh

2024-05-20 12:41:36

BREAKING: ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC announces arrest warrants for Hamas leadership for war crimes and Israeli leadership for war crimes.
Both should stand trial. No one is above the law. This is how we protect international rules based order.
I’ll post a detailed analysis soon.

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.

2024-05-15 03:58:47

To recap the last 24 hours:
•No UNRWA aid allowed, period
•No aid trucks in Gaza since May 5
•Israeli settlers destroy aid near border crossing
•White House approves $1B more in military aid to Israel
Embodying "money for war but can't feed the poor" in all it's shamefulness

2024-05-10 15:43:59

Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden to veto bill equating criticism of Israel to antisemitism—specifically objecting to the IHRA definition of antisemitism as criticism of Israel.
Biden should listen, and focus on combatting actual antisemitism.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4651826-jewish-professors-biden-antisemitism-legislation/

2024-05-09 00:23:30

I cannot logically discuss Israel/Gaza with people who believe this atrocity began with Hamas war crimes on 10/7.
If you ignore a 60 year illegal military occupation, 700K illegal settlements, a two decade blockade, 7000 Palestinians indefinitely detained in Israeli prison w/o charge, 800 Palestinian children indefinitely detained in Israeli prison w/o charge & denied access to counsel or parents, & at least 240 Palestinians killed by IDF from 1/1-10/6/23—then you are not engaging in good faith

2024-05-07 19:38:31

There are 600,000 children in Rafah. They have nowhere else to go. If you support an invasion of Rafah, you're saying the lives and well-being of those children don't matter.
If you saw those children as your own, opposing the invasion wouldn't be a question. If you don't see them as your own, it's because they've been dehumanized to you. Otherwise no person with a conscience would look at an innocent child, let alone 600,000 innocent children, and agree they deserve to be bombed and killed.

2024-05-07 03:14:16

Incredible. Read the text of the ceasefire agreement.
The ceasefire mandated release of ALL Israeli hostages, a permanent & indefinite ceasefire—meaning Hamas could never offensively take up arms against Israel again—and Qatar, Egypt, USA, & the UN serving as Guarantors.
Israel still said no.😐
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/text-of-the-ceasefire-proposal-approved-by-hamas

2024-05-06 15:28:57

Its Govt has banned Al Jazeera from reporting.
Its military has killed ~150 journalists reporting inside Gaza.
Pro war Senators have threatened the ICC Prosecutor if he issues a warrant for its Prime Minister.
Are we seriously to believe these are the actions of a nation following international law?

2024-05-04 17:15:15

All this time the Right has claimed te anti-war protestors are antisemitic & funded by billionaire Soros (said w/o a hint of irony).
We now know a billionaire in fact funded the violent pro war mob that attacked peaceful protestors at UCLA.
Every accusation is a confession.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jessica-seinfeld-and-bill-ackman-fund-pro-israel-counterprotests-at-ucla

2024-05-03 01:49:52

REPORT: 99% of pro-Palestine protests at US colleges have been peaceful, despite remarks from Biden & other politicians calling such demonstrations as violent.
This misinfo is exactly how they’ve tried to derail every civil rights movement in US history.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/may/01/university-protests-pro-palestinian-demonstrators-arrested-latest-news?page=with%3Ablock-6633bff08f081efe1175c36c

2024-05-01 03:29:26

Columbia's website cites the 1968 violence it deployed against students and triumphantly declares, "Columbia is a far different place today than it was in the spring of 1968."
Columbia's actions tonight, 56 years to the day, to once again deploy police against students protesting war, prove otherwise.
My latest: https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/history-repeats-on-college-campuses?r=fyvxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

2024-04-30 16:57:48

Watching young people risk it all for justice reminds me Claudette Colvin was arrested at 15 for denying a seat to a white woman, John Lewis suffered police brutality at 20, Feds killed Fred Hampton at 22, Robert Smalls stole a Confederate vessel at 22, Muhammad Ali refused the Draft at 24, MLK led the bus boycott at 26, & Harriett Tubman began the Underground Railroad at 27.
They were criminalized, beaten, & killed—& history proved them right eternally. We'd be wise to listen to young ppl now.

2024-04-28 17:54:19

This tragedy hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves.
Frank Tyson, a 51 year old Black man, is dead after police tackled him and pinned him with a knee on his back. He gasped “I can’t breathe” 7 times & cops told him to “Shut the f**k up, you’re fine.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bodycam-video-shows-handcuffed-man-telling-ohio-officers-cant-breathe-rcna149334

2024-04-28 01:20:31

Why are pro genocide Nazis treated better by the state than anti genocide college students??🤔
Subscribe here to support my human rights advocacy: https://substack.com/@qasimrashid
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/346/212/662/728/809/original/e945866bcc4ca1e7.mp4

2024-04-27 18:35:08

Over the last six months Russia has killed 143 Ukrainian journalists, refuses to allow access to western journalists, & claims it investigated itself of any alleged wrongdoing & concluded that it followed international law in every instance—so we should trust them.
Sound ridiculous?
Because it is, and guess what, this isn’t Russia—it’s exactly what Israel has done.
The difference is we are helping defend against Russia but helping arm & enable Israel.
Where is the accountability?

2024-04-24 16:32:20

President Biden has signed a bill to effectively ban TikTok.
Meanwhile, we've watched Facebook admit to enabling Rohingya genocide, help to manipulate the 2016 election, sell our private data, cause massive PTSD to its own employees, and currently let Israeli military spy on Palestinians—face zero meaningful accountability whatsoever—but it's a good thing we've banned TikTok, because, you know, for safety.
Just absurd and dangerous hypocrisy. smh.

2024-04-19 23:13:46

College kids today grew up with our nation at war their entire life, the worst economic inequality in a century, multiple economic collapses, exploitative tuition, unaffordable housing, inaccessible healthcare, a climate in crisis, a devastating pandemic, creeping fascism—& yet the powers that be are *surprised* that college students are also unrepentantly angry about genocide???

2024-04-15 20:56:58

Your Tax Day reminder that the IRS estimates billionaires avoid $150B in annual taxes & DOL estimates $50B in annual wage theft.
That $200B could pay for 4 year public college, insulin for all who need it, & end homelessness in America.
We can satisfy those in need—but not billionaire greed.
Tax billionaires. Invest in working people. Save our economy.

2024-04-08 04:44:41

Handy guide for April 8 I learned from an astronomer once upon a time:
☀️ — 🌙 — 🌎 = Solar Eclipse
☀️ — 🌎 — 🌙 = Lunar Eclipse
🌎 — ☀️ — 🌙 = Apocalypse
Enjoy! And wear your safety glasses, especially in case of apocalypse!
EDIT: Credit to [@AstroKatie](https://mastodon.social/@AstroKatie) (who I just happily learned is on Mastodon)

2024-03-30 01:38:07

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2024. That’s a 25,714% markup.😳
That isn’t inflation. It isn’t supply chain issues. It is 100% corporate greed. #MakeInsulinFree

2024-03-23 01:20:33

I was going to take time off social media after my campaign for Congress, but the guy I lost to just voted for a budget that strips UNRWA funding—ensuring the further deliberate starvation of 2 Million Palestinians.
Cruel, soulless, & barbaric.
Taking time off from demanding justice is a luxury I can't afford. Stay tuned as we continue to build, because the work for justice can't wait.