Omar Suleiman

And when people come up to me and say, we're opposed to Islamophobia, we're opposed to Islamophobia, but they support that.

I tell you, you're not opposed to Islamophobia.

How can you be opposed to Islamophobia when you traffic in the same framings and dehumanization?

that enables the viciousness towards Muslims here and Palestinians over there, that they do not deserve to be treated like equal human beings, like full human beings.

And that based on historic claims, a guy can fly from New York into a historic neighborhood in Jerusalem and kick out generational families with military guns next to them.

What does that sound like?

How's that normal, right?

And so I think that if people take the time to read, people take the time to investigate,

then they come to this conclusion themselves that this is unacceptable.

And that you can't put, and this is one of the problems with the framing of Israel-Palestine, is that you're equating occupier and occupied.

You're equating the two sides of the conflict.

And it's not a conflict, it's an occupation.

There is such a disparity of power here.

that you cannot equate the two sides.

Malcolm X would say, you clip the bird's wing and then blame it for not flying as high as you do.

You can't do that to a people and just equate them with their occupier.

It's an atrocity.

It requires us to challenge it.

And I'm hopeful that

at the current movement of Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and people of all faiths that are saying enough is enough, that thresholds have been crossed here, that this is an atrocity that cannot continue.