Islamophobia:

This individual has also either engaged in, shared or celebrated Islamophobia by perpetuating particularly egregious and dangerous stereotypes about Muslims, such as labeling them as terrorists and predators, or making baseless and dangerous allegations based on religion.

We condemn this as wholeheartedly as we do anti-semitism, and you should too because, as most of you know, our movement is a space for collective liberation and justice where all individuals are afforded the same freedoms, human rights and liberties as others. We will not stand by as either or any religion is demonized, vilified and misrepresented by the actions of a select few.

For decades, leading political figures and racist factions have tried to equate Islam with terrorism, extremism or criminal behavior, and we reject that notion wholeheartedly. This deceptive claim seeks to demonize and dehumanize Muslims by falsely asserting an intrinsic connection between Islam and violence when this couldn’t be further from the truth.

Islamophobia serves to both ignore and erase the diversity and richness of Islamic beliefs and practices and instead reduces them to dangerous stereotypes that negate the true beauty of Islam. To perpetuate these falsehoods is to perpetuate discrimination and hatred against Muslim communities, endangering their safety and well-being in an already politically charged climate.

If you ever witness any discrimination, bigotry, or racism in any form, we encourage you to always call it out, interrupt it (when safe to do so), and continue supporting your fellow humans in achieving freedom for all.

Dehumanization of Palestinians:

The systematic erasure of Palestinian history and culture is a well-documented effort that has been ongoing since the early 1900s. This erasure has taken many forms, including the destruction of physical records and infrastructure, the suppression of Palestinian voices and narratives, the appropriation of Palestinian cultural heritage and most visibly, the dehumanization of the Palestinian populace.

From the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, Palestinian records, literature, and cultural heritage faced deliberate and concerted efforts to obliterate their existence and narrative. This deliberate "archival silencing" has made reconstructing this period in Palestinian history incredibly challenging, yet the truths that remain paint a horrifying picture of the deliberate erasure and destruction of an entire population and its culture.

The dehumanization of Palestinians has been a deliberate policy, perpetuated through military operations, discriminatory laws, Israeli education and a pervasive culture that fosters prejudice. Dehumanising rhetoric, portraying Palestinians as "roaches" and "rats," lays the foundation for atrocities by stripping away their humanity in the eyes of the oppressor.

Widespread media narratives also project institutional biases ranging from depicting Palestinians solely as militants or desperate victims and erasing their normal daily life to embedding language biases around land, protests and resistance tactics. These patterns collectively indicate how public discourse within segments of Israeli society systematically dehumanize Palestinians while entrenching prejudices against them.

Falsely Equating 'Intifada' with Terrorism:

The malicious characterisation of the Palestinian Intifadas as acts of "terrorism" and "genocide" represents an insidious attempt to delegitimise and demonise the struggle for Palestinian self-determination and liberation from Israeli occupation. The Intifadas represented grassroots Palestinian rebellion against decades of Israeli occupation and were characterised by nonviolent demonstrations and civil disobedience centred around boycotts, tax strikes, protests, and other measures focused against the occupation.

It was only after intense oppression from Israeli forces that resulted in the brutal massacre of approximately 1,100 innocent Palestinians, many of them women and children, that protestors adopted more violent tactics, still limiting themselves to throwing stones and molotov cocktails in the face of intense military aggression and force. Similarly, 3,350 Palestinians would also later be slaughtered by Israelis during the second intifada, with tens of thousands more gravely injured, once again showing the violent and oppressive response innocent Palestinian civilians faced when protesting for their basic human rights and liberties.

It is important, however, to remember that according to the UN charter of 1948, UN General Assembly Resolution 2625 from 1970, Protocol 1, an amendment to the 1949 Geneva Convention, UN General Assembly Resolution 37/43 from 1982, and UN General Assembly Resolution 38/17 from 1983, the people of Palestine have the legal right to resist apartheid, occupation, and genocide using any and all means at their disposal, including violent armed resistance. Under the same laws and statutes, Israel has no legal right to "self-defence."

Therefore, the malicious characterisation of the Palestinian Intifadas as acts of "terrorism" and "genocide" represents an insidious attempt to delegitimise and demonise the struggle for Palestinian self-determination and liberation from Israeli occupation. To equate these cries for emancipation with "terrorism" or “genocide” is a purposeful act of dehumanisation that seeks to disparage and silence the Palestinian cause and render the victims of occupation and institutionalised racism as the aggressors, whilst sanctifying and absolving the state that has systematically stripped them of their homeland, rights and dignity through unrelenting violence, subjugation and displacement.

This documented pattern of falsely equating the Intifada with terrorism sustains the structures of settler-colonialism by inverting the roles of oppressor and oppressed and manufacturing consent for the ongoing genocide across Palestine.