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Luigi.🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷🇵🇷🇻🇪<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiimperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiimperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiNazis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anticolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antizionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antizionism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anticapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiLiberalInternationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiLiberalInternationalism</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchist</span></a>⁩ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchopunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchopunk</span></a>⁩ #⁨anticapitalist⁩ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchocomunism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchocomunism</span></a>⁩ #⁨AbolishTheMonarchy⁩, #⁨abolishthestate⁩ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abolishisrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abolishisrael</span></a></p>
Luigi.🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷🇵🇷🇻🇪<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiimperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiimperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiNazis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anticolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antizionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antizionism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anticapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiLiberalInternationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiLiberalInternationalism</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchist</span></a>⁩ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchopunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchopunk</span></a>⁩ #⁨anticapitalist⁩ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchocomunism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchocomunism</span></a>⁩ #⁨AbolishTheMonarchy⁩, #⁨abolishthestate⁩ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abolishisrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abolishisrael</span></a></p>
Luigi.🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷🇵🇷🇻🇪<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiimperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiimperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiNazis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anticolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antizionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antizionism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anticapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiLiberalInternationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiLiberalInternationalism</span></a></p>
Luigi.🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷🇵🇷🇻🇪<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiimperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiimperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiNazis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anticolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antizionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antizionism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anticapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiLiberalInternationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiLiberalInternationalism</span></a></p>
IHC<p>🏆 Applications for the 4th edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize are ongoing until 30 September!</p><p>The prize will be awarded to an early-career researcher for "an article of historical research that deals with any topic or issue relating to the history of anti-colonial resistance and colonial empires".</p><p>👉 <a href="https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/amilcar-cabral-prize-04/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/amilcar-cab</span><span class="invisible">ral-prize-04/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryAwards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryAwards</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Am%C3%ADlcarCabral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmílcarCabral</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Pr%C3%A9miosDeHist%C3%B3ria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrémiosDeHistória</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiColonialismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Imperialismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Resist%C3%AAncia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistência</span></a></p>
🏳️‍🌈Jamez Re!nert🏳️‍🌈<p><a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Democrats" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> of <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23America" target="_blank">#America</a>, take note: THIS is how you deal with <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23fascists" target="_blank">#fascists</a>, <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Nazis" target="_blank">#Nazis</a>, the <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FarRight" target="_blank">#FarRight</a>, <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ICE" target="_blank">#ICE</a>. What are you waiting for? <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23News" target="_blank">#News</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23USNews" target="_blank">#USNews</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23US" target="_blank">#US</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23USPoli" target="_blank">#USPoli</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Politics" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23GOP" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23MAGA" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ICEout" target="_blank">#ICEout</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WhiteSupremacists" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacists</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Anarchism" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Socialism" target="_blank">#Socialism</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Communism" target="_blank">#Communism</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AntiCapitalism" target="_blank">#AntiCapitalism</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AntiColonialism" target="_blank">#AntiColonialism</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ClassWar" target="_blank">#ClassWar</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zug3xiilxtouicdnbxromksq/post/3lxctmnwrgs2o" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zug3xiilxtouicdnbxromksq/post/3lxctmnwrgs2o</a></span></p>
IYP - iyouport🏴<p>了解官方历史的另一面,就能以批判的眼光重新审视撰写历史的人, 以更好地理解被压迫者和阶级反统治斗争的历史基础。</p><p>在特朗普普京会面之际,阿拉斯加原住民为乌克兰、巴勒斯坦、及全世界遭受殖民压迫的人民发表声明:</p><p>🧬记忆总站更新 《“绝不与殖民者战犯达成交易”》<br><a href="https://iyouport.notion.site/25134ca2d46d805fb0dad1f8bcfeb367" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iyouport.notion.site/25134ca2d</span><span class="invisible">46d805fb0dad1f8bcfeb367</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/%E4%BF%84%E7%BD%97%E6%96%AF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>俄罗斯</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/%E7%BE%8E%E5%9B%BD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>美国</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/%E5%8F%8D%E6%AE%96%E6%B0%91%E4%B8%BB%E4%B9%89" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>反殖民主义</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/%E6%8A%B5%E6%8A%97" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>抵抗</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/%E8%87%AA%E6%B2%BB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>自治</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/Autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autonomy</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/%E5%B7%B4%E5%8B%92%E6%96%AF%E5%9D%A6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>巴勒斯坦</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/%E6%96%B0%E7%96%86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>新疆</span></a> <a href="https://m.cmx.im/tags/%E8%A5%BF%E8%97%8F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>西藏</span></a></p>
Caro S.<p>Very much enjoyed this talk of Adnan Husein with Alana Lentin.</p><p>Lentin makes a good case that Zionism is where Western racial fascism and colonialism have always been headed. Clarified a lot to me about the hasbara "the West is next" and the unconditional support of Western governments and the support of fascists for Zionism.</p><p>They talk about many things, like CRT, the antisemitism of anti-antisemitism, and how anti-colonial and anti-racism concepts/terminology are used in service of the colonialism and racism of the status quo. Sounds like a very interesting book, good analysis. </p><p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3XK8g5U3DnM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=3XK8g5U3</span><span class="invisible">DnM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Counterinsurgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Counterinsurgency</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/RacialCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RacialCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TheNewRacialRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheNewRacialRegime</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zionism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span></p>
bignose<p>Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds says: Get out, and don't come back!</p><p>A victory in <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/SpiritIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpiritIsland</span></a> at Terror Level 2. After many turns using Wilds to hem in the Invaders and various Plants effects to damage and confuse them, a final assault by the <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/Dahan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dahan</span></a> (at high cost in lives) destroyed their last remaining City. The Invaders won't be back to this Island any time soon.</p><p><a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/SettlerDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerDestruction</span></a> <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://tabletop.social/tags/SoloFun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoloFun</span></a></p>
Proletarian Rage<p>The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Israeli parliamentarian Ofer Cassif, from the left-wing Hadash-Ta’al party, was forcibly removed from the Knesset podium on Monday night during a plenary session after quoting renowned Israeli writer and novelist David Grossman, who acknowledged in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica last week that, with “immense pain and a broken heart”, Israel is currently committing “<a href="https://todon.nl/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>” in <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>.<br>“‘For years I refused to use the term genocide, but now, after the images I’ve seen and after speaking to people who were there, I can no longer avoid it,'” Cassif said in his speech.<br>Haaretz said the session was chaired by deputy Knesset Speaker Nissim Vaturi, who interrupted Cassif, saying “That’s not a quote – that’s made up,” and demanded Cassif be removed from the podium, followed by Likud member Tali Gottlieb who shouted: “He will not say ‘genocide’ in here!” before Knesset ushers physically removed Cassif from the podium. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMVLt_ncn7E" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=BMVLt_ncn7E</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communist</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/internationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internationalism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/anticolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/TheOnlyDemocracyInTheMiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheOnlyDemocracyInTheMiddleEast</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/IsraelApartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraelApartheid</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/gazagenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gazagenocide</span></a></p>
IHC<p>🗣 The call for papers for the workshop 'The Organization of African Unity and the Struggle against Colonialism and Racism in Africa', that will take place in Lisbon on 13-14 November, closes on 8 August.</p><p>ℹ️ <a href="https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/oau-struggle/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/oau-</span><span class="invisible">struggle/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/CFP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CFP</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/OAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OAU</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/OrganizationOfAfricanUnity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OrganizationOfAfricanUnity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiRacism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiApartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiApartheid</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Multilateralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Multilateralism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Diplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Diplomacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/InternationalRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalRelations</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/CallForPapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CallForPapers</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Colonialismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/OUA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OUA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Organiza%C3%A7%C3%A3oDaUnidadeAfricana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OrganizaçãoDaUnidadeAfricana</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>Regional Resistance after the Gaza Genocide</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>This commentary considers the state of the West Asian regional resistance in July 2025, based on these premises:</strong></p><p>– The Zionist regime is the central enemy of the independent peoples of the region,</p><p>– Resistance is necessary for the survival of the Palestinian people and for that of the surrounding independent Arab and Muslim peoples.</p><p>– While Israeli weaknesses have been exposed, especially its dependence on outside weapons and money, a crushing military defeat is necessary to collapse the regime.</p><p>– While extremely courageous and steadfast, the Resistance in Palestine is unable – by itself – to impose such a defeat and so dismantle Israeli apartheid.</p><p>– International support is necessary to legitimise such a defeat and dismantle the Jewish supremacist / apartheid regime, the mother of all great crimes.</p><p>– The self defence provisions of the UN Charter (Art 51) are important but provide insufficient rationale for concerted and effective resistance action.</p><p>– Iran, in concert with regional resistance forces, is capable of imposing a crushing military defeat on the Zionist regime, and thus force regime change.</p><p>But what is the current state of Resistance forces, after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the collapse of independent Syria and the ongoing attacks on Lebanon and Iran?</p><p><strong>A note on method:</strong></p><p>These observations are based on the public record plus conversations with people in the region, including Resistance figures, plus site visits in Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Beirut and South Lebanon.</p><p>The rapidly changing security environment in West Asia, alongside the desirability of sharing timely perspectives, in between Round One (13-25 June) and an expected Round Two (perhaps September 2025) of fighting between “Israel” and Iran, has led to this rushed and abbreviated method, in point form and with limited referencing.</p><p>The perspectives and provisional conclusions are those of the author.</p><p><strong>Palestine since October 2023</strong></p><p>The Al-Aqsa Flood operation was a brilliant resistance initiative which galvanised the region and the world; reprisal massacres of civilians by the Israelis destroyed their image, despite all the doublespeak; the Israeli military was <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/october-7-and-the-palestinian-revolution" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">left utterly dependent on outside support</a>.</p><p>While the Israelis had provided special treatment to Hamas in the past, to foment a sectarian split with Fatah, Hamas has moved from its Muslim Brotherhood sectarian phase to full alignment with Resistance forces in Gaza and in the region.</p><p>It is not true that the Israelis created Hamas, nor that they knew in advance of ‘Al-Aqsa flood’; they knew of training but not of the timing, scope or audacity of the operation.</p><p>The open Gaza genocide (classical fascist reprisals against a civilian population) <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/03/most-people-across-24-surveyed-countries-have-negative-views-of-israel-and-netanyahu/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">galvanised the world against the colonisers</a>, only intransigent Western and Arab elites still back the regime. Constant Resistance in Gaza persists, despite the ongoing Zionist holocaust.</p><p>A key internal problem is the Palestinian Authority, which collaborates to repress resistance and maintain the deceptive ‘two states’ illusion – a cover for ongoing colonisation and apartheid. Nevertheless, armed groups associated with Fatah form part of the resistance.</p><p>Gaza resistance forces continue to impose heavy casualties on the Israelis (Fabian 2025). Though the resistance cannot be eliminated yet, its actions are insufficient, in themselves, to impose a final defeat on the NATO backed Israeli military.</p><p>Within Palestine, several resistance factions remain active, and the constant Israeli crimes help in recruiting the next generation. US sources say the Israelis may have killed about 15,000 Hamas fighters, but <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-has-added-up-15000-fighters-since-start-war-us-figures-show-2025-01-24/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">that a similar number of young recruits joined</a>.</p><p>While the al-Qassam brigades (of Hamas) has been the leading faction in Gaza, a coalition of groups remains active. Under <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/resistanceops/" target="_blank">#ResistanceOps</a>, Iran’s <em>Press TV </em>listed the daily activities of these groups from October 2023 until the “ceasefire” of January 2025.</p><p>As well as al-Qassam, the other main active groups in Gaza have been the al-Quds brigade (of Palestinian Islamic Jihad), the al-Aqsa Martyrs and al-Asifah (both armed wings of Fatah), the Abu Ali Mustafa brigades (of the PFLP) and several other smaller groups.</p><p><em>Press TV </em>has also listed Palestinian Resistance actions in the West Bank as well as “Axis of Resistance” actions against the Israelis, which have included those from Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Yemen and the Iraqi PMFs.</p><p>The courage and steadfastness of these young Palestinian fighters is extraordinary. They are the ones who woke the conscience of the world and of their regional partners.</p><p>As at July 2025, the Gaza Resistance <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-idf-soldiers-killed-14-injured-by-roadside-bomb-in-northern-gaza/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">keeps striking the Israeli invaders in Gaza,</a> causing many casualties, but never enough – by themselves – to impose a crushing defeat on the Israeli occupation. This is why the regional Resistance remains so important.</p><p><strong><strong>Lebanon since October 2023 </strong></strong></p><p>From October 2023 to November 2024, Hezbollah carried out courageous attacks on Israeli positions in South Lebanon and north Palestine, diverting Israeli forces from Gaza to the north, clearing most of the colonial settlements in northern Palestine, but losing at least 300 fighters from Israeli retaliation.</p><p>In September 2024, the Israelis carried out terrorist attacks in Lebanon, using exploding pagers, and bombing South Lebanon villages and south Beirut, where they killed Hezbollah commanders, including Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on September 27.</p><p>On October 1, 2024, Israeli forces tried an invasion of South Lebanon, but fierce Resistance in the south meant they could not capture a single village; defending just the village of Khiam (for example) cost more than 300 martyrs; the resistance effort in the South was not just from the two Lebanese Shia parties (Hezbollah and Amal), but many Palestinian factions joined in and suffered losses as wekk.</p><p>The Israelis penetrated Hezbollah communications for their assassinations, and detected weapons caches; they destroyed much of Hezbollah’s missile stocks.</p><p>With the invasion failing, the Israelis agreed to a ceasefire on November 27 (between the Lebanese government and the Israelis), including a Lebanese pledge to allow only the Lebanese army (which had never engaged the Israeli enemy) in the South; however, the Israelis have repeatedly violated this ceasefire agreement.</p><p>Hezbollah, on the other hand, refrained from responding to Israeli aggression after the ceasefire and has concentrated on rebuilding its networks and supply chains.</p><p>The Resistance defended the south, albeit at great cost, while the Israelis bombed Beirut freely, in the absence of any air defence; <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/the-death-toll-in-lebanon-crosses-3000-in-israeli-attacks-health-ministry-says" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">several thousand Lebanese were killed</a>, mostly civilians (and with many more injured and displaced), compared to only 100 Israeli soldier deaths (plus 900 injured).</p><p>The Lebanese Resistance, led by Hezbollah, prevented the October-November 2024 Israeli invasion of South Lebanon, yet was seriously weakened by aerial attacks.</p><p>We could speak of the performance of the Lebanese Resistance in three sections:</p><p>In gains, they:</p><ol><li>Distracted the Israeli military from Gaza and cleared most of the northern settlements</li><li>Reasserted their moral standing (in support for Gaza and in Shia-Sunni Muslim solidarity)</li><li>Maintained their strong, core popular support base.</li></ol><p>In losses they:</p><ol><li>Suffered some weakened domestic standing by “inviting” Israeli reprisals;</li><li>Lost much of their leadership, many fighters and many of their weapons;</li><li>Suffered huge civilian and residential losses and damage from the Israeli bombing;</li><li>Suffered weakened deterrence, with no effective air defence of Beirut or South Lebanon.</li><li>Lost independent Syria as a source of supply after the collapse of Damascus.</li></ol><p>The challenges they face include:</p><ol><li>The need to rebuild leadership, security and military capacity,</li><li>The need to develop a national air defence capability;</li><li>The need to consolidate Hezbollah’s domestic political standing while rejecting Israeli and US disarmament demands.</li><li>A need to face threatened aggression from foreign militants embedded in HTS-led Syria.</li></ol><p>In the current situation, the Lebanese Army (which from its US and French patronage has always has not confronted Israeli invaders) is being tested in its role to defend the south, while Israeli occupation, assassinations and home demolitions continue. For Hezbollah, rebuilding is proceeding quietly with new security systems.</p><p><strong>Syria since October 2023</strong></p><p>In early December 2024, just after the ceasefire in Lebanon, an invasion of NATO backed terrorist groups from Idlib and Turkey (let by HTS-Nusra) rapidly took over the cities of Aleppo, Hama, Homs and then Damascus, facing a near complete surrender of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).</p><p>This unexpected and rapid collapse of the SAA seems to have come from the purchase of a large number of Syrian commanders by the Qatari-Turkish side. It was soon followed by an Israeli invasion of the south and bombing of key defence installations.</p><p>The collapse of the majority of the SAA command was not along sectarian lines, as Sunni generals and those from the minorities appear on both sides. The traitors mostly remain in Syria, reportedly assisting the HTS regime from two bases, a luxury hotel in Damascus and from the village of Draykish, Tartous.</p><p>Russia intervened to remove the minority loyal commanders to Moscow, where (as with former President Assad) they remain; Russia rarely intervened in post-coup Syria.</p><p>Persecution of minority groups (especially the Alawis) and those associated with the SAA began immediately, but has been ignored by the Western sponsors of the HTS coup regime.</p><p>There are many rumours in Syria about how the SAA collapse occurred. Amongst the Syrian patriots (all of whom supported the SAA) there are some loyal to Assad who say he was kidnapped or betrayed, others say he was a traitor to leave without a word and to not stay and fight to the end.</p><p>There are also bad feelings towards the Russians, because they were seen to have the capacity to stop the HTS takeover, did not help resolve the occupation of Idlib (after a ceasefire which they organised in 2020) and, later, because they did not stop the biggest massacres which took place in Jableh, very close to Russia’s Hmeimim airbase.</p><p>However, from what I have heard, it seems that the fix was made by Syria’s enemies in Qatar and Turkey, and then Russia was faced with a ‘fait accompli’. With the command corrupted and the SAA dissolved, Russia then removed the loyal commanders (to Russia) and tried to protect its assets in Syria. I am fairly sure that Russia and Iran both concluded that, if the SAA would not defend Syria, they could not do it for them.</p><p>Many soldiers in the SAA would have fought (as they had for the previous 14 years), but, as a disciplined force and with their command corrupted, they dissolved.</p><p>After a one day resistance uprising on the coast, large scale reprisal massacres of the Alawi civilian community (in early March 2025) were carried out by gangs under the HTS umbrella.</p><p>Soon after, there were attacks on Druze and Christians.</p><p>HTS aligned gangs, pretending to represent Arab tribes, attacked majority Druze Sweida in July 2025. Hundreds were killed, but the Druze in Sweida resisted. The Israelis carried out some bombing of HTS bases and convoys in an attempt to portray themselves as the guardians and protectors of the Druze, but their masters in Washington persuaded the Israelis to disengage. The Western media falsely portrayed these attacks as tribal conflicts between Bedouin and Druze which the HTS was trying to resolve. HTS (which, despite its jihadist propaganda, had never attacked the Israelis) used false flag killings to fuel this disinformation, as they had throughout the long dirty war (2011-2024).</p><p>There is Syrian resistance, but it is weak and divided. The Alawis, who have suffered most, have no real leadership and are intimidated by the reprisals against civilians. The Druze are small and isolated. The Christians have suffered less, so far, except for the June 2025 suicide bomb attack on a church in Dwel’a (SE Damascus).</p><p>Washington’s claim to have been engaged in a “war on terror” has been exposed by its informal but open celebration of former ISIS /Nusra/HTS leader Jolani (al-Sharaa), installed as unelected President.</p><p>In the current situation, there is no effective Syrian state, and little prospect of an organised resistance to HTS/AlQaeda rule. No state yet recognises the Jolani regime, but Western governments are engaged in a de facto normalisation process. Syria’s role as a source of arms and other support for the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance has been neutralised, for now.</p><p><strong>Yemen since October 2023</strong></p><p>Soon after effectively defeating the US-Saudi-Emirati led ‘coalition of aggression’ in the 2015-2022 war, the Ansar Allah led revolutionary government in Sanaa, which controls 75% of the populated areas of Yemen (but is called ‘Houthi rebels’ by the Western media) decided to come to the aid the besieged Palestinian people in Gaza; they saw this as a moral obligation.</p><p>The Red Sea operations of the Yemeni Armed Forces, from late 2023, which had demonstrable mass support in Yemen, were <a href="https://www.saba.ye/en/news3486011.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">designed to impose a quarantine on the Israeli regime</a>, in accordance with their Quranic moral duty to help the oppressed and to comply with their legal obligations under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Yemeni naval quarantine forced Israeli linked shipping to avoid the Red Sea and, after some months, forced the <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/us-aircraft-carrier-forced-to-retreat-in-red-sea-after-attack-yemen-s-houthis-say/3435018" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">retreat of a US naval counter force</a>.</p><p>Ansar Allah officials have also confirmed (to this writer) that they felt their responsibility for the regional Resistance (and to Palestine) had ‘doubled’ since the fall of Damascus.</p><p>The Israelis keep bombing infrastructure and facilities in Yemen but, due to their poor intelligence and Yemeni air defence, have made minimal impact on Yemen’s military assets;</p><p>Yemen retaliates, striking the Israelis directly with domestically produced drones and hypersonic missiles.</p><p>In the current situation, Yemen maintains its operations in support of the Palestinian people and keeps communications with Iranian forces and Resistance groups in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon, ready to coordinate in a regional response to the Zionist enemy.</p><p><strong>Iraq since October 2023</strong></p><p>Iraq remains occupied by the US military, ever since they called out for assistance in 2014 (after a surge of US backed ISIS terrorism), in a moment of weakness. US occupation troops had previously withdrawn in 2011, but then they pretended to be “fighting ISIS”.</p><p>As it happened, ISIS was defeated in Iraq by the popular mobilisation forces (PMF) assisted by Iran. On many occasions, the Iraqi resistance blamed the US military for obstructing this fight and covertly helping ISIS.</p><p>Some of the PMF (mostly Shia but also from Sunni communities) are now formally part of the Iraqi state security forces, while some other groups remain outside, yet still working closely with the state; that latter group has occasionally attacked US occupation bases in Iraq and Syria.</p><p>Over 2024, some of the PMF groups launched missile attacks on Israeli facilities, in support of Hezbollah and Yemeni operations.</p><p>There is widespread <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraq-seeks-quick-exit-us-forces-no-deadline-set-pm-says-2024-01-10/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dissatisfaction in Iraq with the continued US occupation</a>, which heavily constrains independent policy; the parliament and government have demanded their withdrawal, but they refuse to leave, falsely claiming an ongoing mandate to fight ISIS.</p><p>More recently, Iraqi dissatisfaction focused on Iraqi airspace being used for the Israelis to attack Iran, against Iraq’s will. Some PMF factions stand ready to join with Iran and the Palestinian resistance to help remove the US military presence from the region.</p><p><strong>Iran since October 2023</strong></p><p>Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, support for the Palestinian people has been set in the <a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/492115/Iran-s-support-for-Gaza-is-based-on-national-constitution-Raisi" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“principles of the country’s constitution”</a>&nbsp;and developed through a number of cultural, military and political initiatives.</p><p>Iran supports all the Palestinian Resistance factions, the Resistance in Lebanon, the Ansar Allah led government in Yemen and (previously) the Assad government in Syria (which in turn helped arm the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance).</p><p>However Iran’s direct engagement against the Israelis has so far only come through a self defence rationale, on three occasions: (1) True Promise 1 in April 2024, after an Israeil attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, (2) True Promise 2 in October 2024, after several Israeli assassinations, including of Palestinian leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Both these operations were demonstrative, probing Israeli defences and showing Iran’s missile capability.</p><p>Operation True Promise 3 was set to happen earlier, but only came about after the sneak Israeli attack on Iran on 13 June (in the middle of Iran’s much hyped indirect nuclear talks with Washington); Iran’s substantial retaliation in this 12 day war targeted Israeli military bases and infrastructure. After 12 days, with Israeli weapons stocks running low, President Trump intervened to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities and unilaterally declare a ceasefire; both sides accepted this, and both sides declared victory.</p><p>While Tehran did much damage to Israeli military and infrastructure, the Israelis caused more deaths, <a href="https://www.en-hrana.org/twelve-days-under-fire-a-comprehensive-report-on-the-iran-israel-war/#:~:text=Human%20Casualties%20from%20the%20Iran,of%20medical%20and%20local%20volunteers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">1,190 in Iran compared to 28 in “Israel”</a>; <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/these-are-the-28-victims-killed-in-iranian-missile-attacks-during-the-12-day-conflict/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">yet “Israel” claims Iran ‘targeted civilians’</a>. The Israelis hide their damages but admit that, in the second half of the 12 days war, at least <a href="https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/yes-iran-did-hit-israel-with-missiles/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">16% of Iran’s incoming missiles breached Israeli air defences</a> (Silver, Stephen 2025).</p><p>Currently, Iran has <a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/234525/Iran-replaces-damaged-air-defense-systems-with-new-ones" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">replaced its damaged air defences</a>,&nbsp;and will respond to a second attack from the Israelis, relying on the self defence right. Tehran needs a wider anti-apartheid mandate to respond (with its allies) with overwhelming force and destroy the Zionist regime. Yet so far, it has sought to contain escalation with Washington, which is likely to intervene in the event of an existential crisis for the Israeli regime.</p><p><strong>Overall: The Axis of Resistance since October 2023</strong></p><p>The Palestinian resistance has fought bravely since October 2023, despite its limited capabilities and despite the massive reprisals against the civilian population of Gaza and the renewed ethnic cleansing on the West Bank. The resistance has seriously weakened the occupation, but international sponsors keep giving the upper hand to the apartheid regime.</p><p>The Gaza genocide continues, fuelling the expansionist ambitions of the NATO backed apartheid regime.</p><p>Hezbollah and its allies prevented a wholesale occupation of South Lebanon, but were weakened by aerial bombing; Hezbollah is now quietly rebuilding and resisting demands to disarm.</p><p>The regional resistance lost Syria (which contained northern Israeli expansion and provided weapons to Lebanon and Palestine) but gained Yemen (which strikes the Israelis directly and blocks shipping supply to the Zionist regime).</p><p>Significant resistance support remains in Iraq but is constrained by the US occupation.</p><p>Iran was finally attacked directly by the Israelis (jubilant that they managed to drag the US into their aggression), but that attack unified Iran’s political factions and ensured strong retaliation.</p><p>It seems likely that the Israelis, after rebuilding their war inventory, will initiate a second round against Iran, perhaps in September; Iran has also been rebuilding its defences. Iran seems likely to maintain its retaliation on a self defence rationale, yet a new rationale is required to impose a crushing defeat on the Israelis, end the genocide and dismantle the apartheid regime.</p><p>Currently (July 2025) the initiative remains with the Israelis, but Iran and its regional allies have the capacity to bring down the Israeli regime.</p><p>When this happens, the post-apartheid dilemma will be defeating the rise of a revised “Israel” (i.e. the embedding of colonial privilege, such as land theft and diaspora immigration) by liberal Zionists, their sponsors and the comprador Arab regimes.</p><p>source: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/regional-resistance-after-the-gaza-genocide" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Al Mayadeen</a></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20561" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">20561</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/ansarallah/" target="_blank">#ansarallah</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-colonialism/" target="_blank">#antiColonialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/axis-of-resistance/" target="_blank">#axisOfResistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/hamas/" target="_blank">#hamas</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/hezbollah/" target="_blank">#hezbollah</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/iran/" target="_blank">#iran</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/lebanon/" target="_blank">#lebanon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/palestine/" target="_blank">#palestine</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/resistanceops/" target="_blank">#ResistanceOps</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/west-asia/" target="_blank">#westAsia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/yemen/" target="_blank">#yemen</a></p>
Don Trueten :antifa:#Haka #Maori Rulez!<p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/anticolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>Words for the colonized unwise -&gt; Please fuck all the way off with your personal PR statements about supporting Indigenous sovereignty, when you're still double dipping into colonial capitalism, financial benefit pools, with both of your bare feet, so to speak.</p><p>We see your hypocrisy, two-faced muthafuckas.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonization</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BIPOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BIPOC</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiCapitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiCapitalist</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BeAuthentic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeAuthentic</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Moderates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moderates</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Weakasses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weakasses</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Cowards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cowards</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialSlaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialSlaves</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Hypocrites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hypocrites</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WhiteLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteLies</span></a></p>
IHC<p>🏆 The applications for the 4th edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize are now open! The prize will be awarded to an early-career researcher for "an article of historical research that deals with any topic or issue relating to the history of anti-colonial resistance and colonial empires"</p><p>📅 30 September</p><p>👉 <a href="https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/amilcar-cabral-prize-04/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/amilcar-cab</span><span class="invisible">ral-prize-04/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryAwards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryAwards</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Am%C3%ADlcarCabral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmílcarCabral</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Pr%C3%A9miosDeHist%C3%B3ria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrémiosDeHistória</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiColonialismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Imperialismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Resist%C3%AAncia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistência</span></a></p>
IHC<p>Relembramos que, no Domingo, vamos assinalar o centenário de <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/FrantzFanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrantzFanon</span></a> com uma conversa em torno da sua obra. O encontro está marcado para as 17h, na Casa do Comum do Bairro Alto, com Flávio Almada, Francisco Vidal, Vânia Sanhá e moderação de Manuela Ribeiro Sanches.</p><p>ℹ️ <a href="https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/sair-grande-noite/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/sair-gr</span><span class="invisible">ande-noite/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiRacism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/LiberationMovements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiberationMovements</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiColonialismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiRacismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiRacismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/MovimentosDeLiberta%C3%A7%C3%A3o" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MovimentosDeLibertação</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonization</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Descoloniza%C3%A7%C3%A3o" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Descolonização</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Epistemology</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Epistemologias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Epistemologias</span></a></p>
JADe (he, him)<p>🚨 Fuertes vientos de cambio 🌬️</p><p>Estados Unidos gasta más que nadie en guerras (74% del presupuesto militar mundial), mientras que el Sur Global crece frenéticamente. China lidera en 57 de 64 tecnologías clave, Estados Unidos sólo en siete.</p><p>Los BRICS+ y el comercio Sur-Sur se dispara a medida que las naciones abandonan el dominio del dólar. Desde los golpes antifranceses de Burkina Faso hasta el resurgir de movimientos sociales de izquierda en América Latina, las naciones se sacuden el dominio occidental.</p><p><a href="https://thetricontinental.org/es/dossier-tricontinental-aniversario-sur-global-soberania/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetricontinental.org/es/dossi</span><span class="invisible">er-tricontinental-aniversario-sur-global-soberania/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/SurGlobal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurGlobal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/foreverwars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foreverwars</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/powerviolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerviolence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/brics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/trump2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump2</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/iceraids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iceraids</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/racismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racismo</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/racismoestructural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racismoestructural</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/neocons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neocons</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/neonazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neonazi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/anticolonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticolonial</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/anticolonialisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticolonialisme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/anticolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anticolonialism</span></a></p>
IHC<p>The programme for the conference ‘50 Years of the Independence of Portuguese Colonies in Africa: Processes, Legacies and Memories’, which starts on 17 July, is now available on our website:</p><p><a href="https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/50-years-independence-portuguese-colonies/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/50-y</span><span class="invisible">ears-independence-portuguese-colonies/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/50Anos25Abril" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>50Anos25Abril</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PortugueseColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PortugueseColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/LiberationStruggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiberationStruggle</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/ColonialismoPortugu%C3%AAs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialismoPortuguês</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AntiColonialismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PoliticalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaPol%C3%ADtica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaPolítica</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/GuerraColonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GuerraColonial</span></a></p>
reazonozaer<p>"People in Palestine and Los Angeles (and worldwide) are recording police as they attack peaceful demonstrations and also recording atrocities against civilians to share with the world, destroying narratives that normalize genocide and occupation."</p><p>"Fanon’s teachings are applicable on any scale of struggle, from labor struggles to wars of national liberation. His teachings on anti-imperialist and anti-colonial resistance provide strategies for survival and resistance against the capitalist system."</p><p><a href="https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2025/07/12/reading-fanon-in-the-age-of-ice-raids-and-gaza-genocide/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">struggle-la-lucha.org/2025/07/</span><span class="invisible">12/reading-fanon-in-the-age-of-ice-raids-and-gaza-genocide/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AntiImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AntiColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonialism</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>Understanding Yemen 2/2: Ansar Allah Values</strong></p><p></p><p>To understand how Ansar Allah-led Yemen defeated an apparently superior military force, led by Washington, and then directly confronted the Israelis and their sponsors in the Red Sea, we should return to the values and ideology of the movement.</p><p>Ansar Allah ideology comes from the Quranic Project of Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houhti, who was killed in 2004 during the six northern wars, carried out by the late President Saleh, following a green light from US President George W. Bush (Root 2013), as part of his “war on terror”; even though Saleh himself had been linked to Al-Qaeda (Jordan 2015). This Quranic Project shares values with many independence movements, some with the Iranian Revolution, along with some of its own distinct features.</p><p>Ansar Allah is a movement, not a party like Hezbollah. Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee (SRC), said, “The revolution is every member within the … Yemeni fabric who rejects corruption and … upholds values and freedom, rejects tyranny, guardianship, invasion and occupation and resists aggression, siege and blind subservience” (Almahfali and Root 2020; Sputnik Arabic 2018). The Yemeni people “are a people who reject injustice, humiliation, subjugation, arrogance and conceit. They are a people who, by nature, carry within their culture and awareness a revolutionary sense … [they] have always rallied and moved with those who reject colonialism … those who stand with the invader are rejected and denounced and remain agents and mercenaries in the eyes of the popular majority” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).</p><p>This movement grew with a charismatic leader, Sayyed Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, but it is not a personality cult. Sayyed al-Houthi “had a leadership personality, everyone that knew him loved him,” said Abdulkareem Jadban, an MP from Saada. “He urged people to face the [North] American hegemony after 9/11” (Root 2013). His ideas remain important, as should be obvious from the strong growth of Ansar Allah in the 20 years since Hussein’s death.</p><p>We could speak of the values of Ansar Allah under six themes: the defense of an independent nation and culture; Islamism through Quranic values; a culture of resistance in the face of hegemonic attack; clear identification of the enemy; social inclusion and avoidance of war; and the persistence of Yemeni customary law and tribal governance.</p><p>Understandings of these values are particularly important in view of several Western war myths that Ansar Allah are “Houthi rebels” who are “Iran’s proxies” and part of a “Shia crescent” destabilizing the Arabian Peninsula and the region. These myths disguise the revolution of 2011-2014, underline the refusal to recognize the new government in Sanaa, and help bolster UNSC resolutions, which legitimized the dirty war and siege of the country.</p><p>Some of the better Western analyses of Ansar Allah appreciate its local origins and that it has been influenced, but not determined or controlled, by the Iranian revolution (Gordon and Parkinson 2018); and that it builds on nationalist and republican roots which recognize religious traditions and authority (Almahfali and Root 2020). But most tend to turn against the Yemeni revolution for its Islamism and incompatibility with bourgeois liberalism (i.e. Anglo-American corporate rule with a semblance of individual liberties).</p><p>Despite that deep prejudice, there is huge popular interest in how Ansar Allah-led Yemen defeated the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression and then came fearlessly to the direct defense of the Palestinian people under attack by the Israelis in Gaza. I suggest the answers to these questions lie in popular support for Ansar Allah values. So what are those values and how are they seen in practice?</p><p>First, as an independence movement, Ansar Allah aims to protect and defend indigenous, inclusive Yemeni culture and values in the face of foreign intervention. This is a common theme of all anti-imperial and anti-colonial movements, including the Islamic Revolution of Iran.</p><p>The defense of independent cultures, values, and nations is a key global theme. We could go further, arguing that the central polemic today is not capitalism versus socialism or liberal democracy versus the rest, but rather a globalist dictatorship versus independent nations. In a supposedly post-colonial era, we still see this struggle for independence across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab and Muslim world.</p><p>Anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and anti-Zionism – counter-hegemonic struggles – are all consequences of this drive for political, economic, and social independence. In Yemen, despite the important national unification of the 1990s, there remained a corrupt regime that collaborated with the imperial power and its agents, making use of sectarian groups to divide and rule the nation.</p><p>Second, Ansar Allah shares with the Iranian Revolution an Islamic foundation of independent values based on the Quran – humility, honor, self-sacrifice, social justice, and social inclusivity – values which inform and sit alongside nationalism, anti-imperialism, and anti-Zionism (Panah 2008: ch.3; Almahfali and Root 2020).</p><p>Ansar Allah, from its Zaydi roots, while recognizing the Prophet’s Holy Family (Ahlul Bayt) and the Sayyed lineage, does not share the Shia doctrine of Twelve Imams (including the Mahdi) nor does it accept the infallibility of Imams (Almahfali and Root 2020). Mandated struggle against the unjust rule is one feature that the Zaydi tradition has in common with the Shia. In the tradition of Zayd ibn Ali, true imams must fight corrupt rulers; but imams are neither divinely ordained nor infallible and this leads to greater jurisprudence in Islamic law, preventing the idea of an imamate or strict religious rule (Almahfali and Root 2020).</p><p>Sayyed Hussein was deeply impressed by Iran’s Khomeini and Lebanon’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah because of their firm principles. He said of Khomeini and Nasrallah that, in their application of Islamic values, “we do not notice the doctrinal side,” and so there is room for jurisprudence (Almahfali and Root 2020). So, while the historic sacrifice of Imam Hussein (a central Shia theme) has entered Ansar Allah’s broad Islamic tradition, other more secular or non-doctrinal themes have developed, such as Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s stress on nationalism and social justice.</p><p>Recognizing the legacy of the leader of the Iranian Revolution, Sayyed Hussein said, “Imam Khomeini was a blessing to the Arabs if they had wanted liberation from Israel.” Sayyed Khomeini was “a great leader with a correct vision and a strong people.” It has been said that Iran’s Islamic Revolution both “does and does not” influence Ansar Allah (Almahfali and Root 2020). Ansar Allah extends the Zaydi principle of “commanding what is just and forbidding what is wrong” (Almahfali and Root 2020).</p><p>Importantly, Ansar Allah also parallels Sayyed Khomeini in placing a similar emphasis on a pure Islam of “the downtrodden and humble … the barefooted” [Al-Mustadh’afin] as opposed to what he called “American Islam … the Islam of comfort and luxury … of compromise and ignominy, the Islam of the indolent” (ITF 2014) – following the Quranic declaration (al Qassas 28:5) of “our favour on the oppressed.”</p><p>That responsibility to the oppressed and downtrodden [Al-Mustadh’afin] was fundamental to both Sayyed Khomeini’s initiatives in support of Palestine and to Ansar Allah’s Red Sea operations, after the Resistance’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.</p><p>Nevertheless, Ansar Allah leaders have made it clear that Yemen’s governance is for Yemenis to decide. “There is no Iranian intervention in Yemen. and the Saudis can inspect the missiles [we fire] … they are purely Yemeni made … We reject any sort of foreign intervention either by the Saudis, the Americans, the Egyptians or the Iranians” (Mohamed Ali al-Houthi in Ya Libnan 2015).</p><p>Third, dedicated resistance is a step beyond simple claims of political independence. Resistance is a commitment in the face of a hegemonic attack. Ansar Allah stresses active defense of the nation and culture in the face of those who “occupy our countries and wage war against our religion” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001b). That includes the duty toward other oppressed Arab and Muslim peoples, especially the Palestinians. One Ansar Allah leader explained to me: we oppose war, but fighting in self-defense and in defense of the oppressed is both permitted and mandated. This moral obligation to support the oppressed comes before political considerations and helps explain Ansar Allah’s unhesitating confrontation with the Israelis and the Anglo-Americans.</p><p>An Ansar Allah cultural leader explained to me that, historically, the Muslim communities in Yemen’s highlands, farther away from colonial invasions (mainly Zaydi), had maintained a stronger resistance to invading cultures than those (mainly Shafi) on the coast.</p><p>Secular parallels are made to stress the necessity of resistance and social transformation, in defense of indigenous culture. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, “The scale of the conspiracy [against Yemen] has pushed the people to engage in a long-term battle until … victory, just as revolutions around the world, including the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, triumphed” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).</p><p>The steadfastness of Ansar Allah has become a thing of legend. They have repeatedly vowed to maintain their support for Gaza even after multiple bombing attacks by the Israelis and the Anglo-Americans (Abdul Malik al-Houthi 2025). Those Red Sea operations have established the Yemeni resistance as an icon for the world (Tuboltsev 2025). Even conservative British bodies recognize that the Yemenis are “diversifying their alliances and deepening their military capabilities, leveraging regional conflicts and pragmatic partnerships to expand their influence beyond the Iranian-led ‘axis of resistance’” (Ardemagni 2024). Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have rallied in support of these commitments by Ansar Allah leaders (MNA 2025).</p><p>Fourth, clear identification of the enemy is a distinct emphasis in Ansar Allah’s ideology. Sayyed Hussein put this in the context of a world where North Americans elevated former collaborators like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to the status of ‘enemies’ of the imperial powers, but these were false stories designed to fool people. “Thus they direct people towards imaginary figures and illusory danger.” We are in a “civilizational struggle,” and “the Jews know who really poses a threat to them,” and this is why in Iran they chant “Death to America, death to Israel” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001a).</p><p>In this deceptive world, Yemen must clearly identify its enemies, including cultural enemies, so as to empower and focus the masses in their popular struggle. Hussein added we must “train ourselves and our children to carry enmity towards the enemies of God – the Jews and the Christians.” Borrowing from Iran but building its distinct Yemeni character, Hussein railed against the US attempts “to force their culture upon us, to occupy our countries and to wage a war against our religion” (Almahfali and Root 2020).</p><p>While Ansar Allah shares with Iran the slogans “Death to America, Death to Israel”, in their political sense of opposing those regimes, Sayyed Hussein also demanded recognition of the cultural assault from “Jews and Christians”. Has “the Ummah [Islamic community] reached a point where it cannot stand up to the Jews?” he asked. Quoting the Quran (Al Baqarah 2:120), he said, “Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with you until you follow their religion” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001a). By this, he means they force us to adopt their ideas and terminology.</p><p>Hussein spoke of the need to “train ourselves and our children to carry enmity towards the enemies of God – the Jews and the Christians. Enmity in Islam is positive and important. If you carry genuine enmity towards America and Israel, if the leaders carry genuine enmity, and if Muslims carry genuine enmity, then they will prepare themselves to be able to face the confrontation. But if there is no real enmity then they will not prepare” (Hussein Badr Din al Houthi 2001b).</p><p>The same confusion applies to opposing a particular Israeli regime rather than the usurping entity itself. Hussein said, in his time, they spoke of “Sharon’s government [referring to former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon] but not Israel … Israel is not considered a problem, not even its existence is seen as a problem. So they say Sharon’s government” (Hussein Badr Din al Houthi 2001b).</p><p>The cultural influence of these Western colonial cultures, beyond just the invading occupation projects and the Zionist entity, was therefore part of the enemy that sought to “wage war on our religion.” Hussein decried the colonization of Arabic and Islamic language so that, for example, “jihad” (in its original sense of a holy or spiritual struggle) has been virtually disqualified as an aim (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001b).</p><p>Fifth, Ansar Allah leaders have stressed their commitment to social inclusion within Yemen and their desire to avoid war. There is much evidence of this. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, “Yemen has not fired the first shot in the war … rather it is resisting and will triumph over the richest and strongest countries” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).</p><p>Recall that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was the one who declared war against Ansar Allah and killed its leader Hussein in 2004. Nevertheless, after the Revolution and until the 2017 betrayal by Saleh, Ansar Allah included him in its Supreme Political Council. Many from the GPC, the main opposition party, are still included in Yemen’s revolutionary government. Others have defected to Ansar Allah from the Muslim Brotherhood. This is another reason why it is absurd to call the Sanaa government “Houthi rebels”.</p><p>Ansar Allah did not simply seize power in 2014; it filled a political vacuum left by the collapse of both Saleh’s regime and his transitional regime, plus the widespread rejection of the repartition proposals from the GCC (Popp 2015).</p><p>After the US-Saudi coalition declared war on the Sanaa Government, Ansar Allah leaders were ready for peace talks in 2015, without conditions. It was the puppet Hadi regime, which made demands that Ansar Allah surrender territory before any talks, which killed that early peace process (Ya Libnan 2015).</p><p>Sixth, the preservation of customary law and tribal governance continues to play an important role in Yemen and has long had a relation to state law, but its composition has changed since the rise of Ansar Allah (Worth 2016).</p><p>Tribal authority and mediation are used for everything from land disputes to justice over violent conflict (Mojalli 2015), and relations between local clan authorities have been a factor in the national war of liberation against the Coalition of Aggression and its sectarian agents.</p><p>It has been said, by some hostile sides to Ansar Allah, that their system of regional supervisors or mushrifin (Carboni 2021; Mugahed 2022) has weakened tribal authority.</p><p>Yet, principles of customary law seem to have remained well incorporated into Yemeni leadership and justice. In this way, traditional authority and many social norms remain embedded in Yemeni Islamic principles. For example, the use of the Yemeni dagger (jambiya) is regulated by both traditional and state law. It is often displayed, but there are penalties for withdrawing it or making threats with it.</p><p>In sum, Ansar Allah is a genuine, Indigenous Yemeni movement that led the only real and successful revolution of the so-called “Arab Spring”. It has been subject to dirty war and siege by Washington and its allies precisely because it is an independent movement. The Yemeni Revolution shares many values with the Iranian Revolution but remains a distinct revolutionary force and a key addition to the regional resistance, especially since the collapse of Damascus. 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