Omar Suleiman
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being able to reign in any party that has committed an act of aggression or committed an act of injustice and hold them accountable. Any reasonable human being would say, yeah, you know what? There should be effective international bodies that can reign in parties that can't be reigned in domestically, that could stop the violence, that could assign blame properly,
and then have methods of accountability. The problem is, is that Israel has been made invincible in the international arena because of the United States. And then we wonder why there's such a rise in global anti-American sentiment. It's not because of American freedom.
It's because America is directly participating, the United States government is directly participating in the worst genocide that we have ever seen in our lives, right? Playing out on screen. you know, on social media. And we can't do anything about it. So I think that the point is, is that we need those international bodies. We need methods of effective accountability.
And I would love to see blame properly assigned and anyone that kills any innocent human being take into account, anyone that is guilty of a war crime, take into account. We have to ask ourselves, why is it that Israel has violated over 63 United Nations resolutions, has expanded its occupation, has killed over 600 Palestinians before October 7th? Why is it that Israel cannot be held accountable?
And so when you talk about words that get thrown around, that are used to justify violence against more innocent people, When I'm asked about terrorism, is it only terrorism if it's a non-state actor? If someone's sitting inside a room of suits and can press a button and terrorize thousands of people and murder innocent people with no consequences— How is that not terrorism?
So if terrorism is only to be assigned to non-state actors, then it's a word without function. In fact, it's a word that justifies more terror that has then rained upon innocent populations. We have to have moral consistency. Children should not be killed. Non-combatants should not be targeted. We can all agree upon that.
Why aren't there proper investigative bodies and then proper international bodies of accountability then? that can execute their findings in a way that makes the world a better place, in a way that actually brings about more peace. And so I think this is where we're at right now. This is the frustration, and this is the place that the Palestinians have been left.
It feels like there's a return to some of the days after 9-11, the dehumanization, the feeling of complete disregard for our humanity at the level of government, at the level of media. The feeling of an increase in surveillance, the feeling of an increase in bigotry, people are losing their jobs, and people are being berated on campuses, in grocery stores, and people are being killed.
I went to the funeral of a six-year-old boy. who was killed directly due to anti-Palestinian propaganda. And so I think that a lot of us are feeling a return to that, but we also refuse to be cornered into a position where we are told to perpetually condemn acts of violence and not speak about the violence that's committed against us here abroad.
So before Wadir was killed, Wadir was killed on a Saturday. It was the immediate Saturday after October 7th. I remember on Friday. media starts to reach out to every imam in the country, every Muslim leader in the country, and say, what are you gonna do about this global day of jihad? What are you gonna do about the global day of jihad? It's like, what are you talking about?
It's like, well, Hamas has called for a global day of jihad, so how are you gonna stop Muslims from attacking people? So it's Friday, and I'm like, well, this is the first I'm hearing from you. And I remember responding to a local reporter. Most people I just ignored. I responded to a local reporter. I said, I've got people in my community that have already lost 10, 15 relatives at that point.
Now it's 20, 30. And you haven't said a word. And now you're reaching out to me about the potential violence of Muslims in America. This is great. This is just like 9-11, right? What are you going to do to restrain you angry Muslims? from responding to what's happening overseas and responding to the call of a global day of jihad. Guess what?
This man takes out a military knife and attacks a six-year-old boy, a six-year-old Palestinian boy. By the way, it gets worse the more details that you know. And I recently had a chance to go and speak to his mom because she was in the hospital when I was there for the funeral. So I had a chance to visit her not too long ago. And she was attacked also. She was attacked first.
It was actually their landlord. So Hanan, the mother, was at home with Wadir, six-year-old boy. Landlord comes in and with absolutely no emotion, just charges at her. Starts with her. She was able to fight him off. He stabbed her initially seven or eight times with a military grade knife. She fought him off, escaped to call 911. And while she's calling 911, she hears Wadir.
Wadir ran up to the man, calling him Uncle Joe. because the landlord prior to that had been kind to them. Used to give Wadir toys. Wadir had an infectious, beautiful smile. Every picture you see of that kid, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful smile. And so Wadir runs up to him, says, Uncle Joe, he runs up to him to give him a hug, even though he's carrying a military grade knife with blood on it.
Because Wadir doesn't believe that harm can come to him from that man. And Hanan didn't think that he would do anything to her kid. Even in that fit of rage, the last thing that she says she heard was, oh no. You know, Wadir says, oh no. And then he starts to stab him 26 times, says you Muslims must die. Usually in a scene like that, police are hesitant to classify something as a hate crime.
It was classified as a hate crime the very same day. The thing is, is that who's complicit in that hate crime? What filled that man's head for him to believe that he was doing an act of good by murdering a six-year-old Palestinian boy? And in reality, Uncle Joe was motivated by President Joe Biden, who repeated a debunked report that there were 40 beheaded Israeli babies.
And he said, I saw 40 beheaded Israeli babies. The White House walked it back. afterwards in a statement that no one reads because it was factually false but uncle joe heard it and had been binge watching media about these violent palestinians and suddenly The propaganda overcame his own humanity and what he knew of that family. And he went in and ruined their lives.
And, you know, now, you know, just like any, any mom, you know, she hasn't moved the thing. His bike is still in the same place it was. Toys are still in the same place. She's left with this great void, this great emptiness. If that was the only crime, it would be enough. to wake this country up and say, oh no, this is not where we need to go. Oh no, right?
The last thing she heard him say was, oh no. If that was it, and I got the news, by the way, when I was ironically at a protest. We were protesting on Saturday, downtown Dallas, and I started getting all these texts about what happened in Chicago. Oh no, right? Like no Muslims attacked anyone. Media was in a frenzy over the global day of jihad.
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