We’ve been asked multiple times why did we pick Syria for the subject of a movie screening. We're told that our efforts are best put to Palestine to put an end to the Genocide of the Palestinian people at the hand of the Zionist Entity. But make no mistake, what we're doing here has everything to do with the liberation of Palestine and has everything to do with opposition to Zionism.
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There's a lot of popular energy rn condemning politicians for their complacency in this disgusting genocide being broadcasted on our phones. It is compromising politicians on both sides of the aisle, and we welcome that, we embrace that with open arms. But we also see confusion, we see the seeds of co-option being sowed in this movement, just as we’ve seen co-option of every movement in our lifetime and beyond.
There is a type of liberal who draws comparisons of the plight of the Palestinians to Ukraine. We see the calls for Regime change in Iran, we’ve seen the condemnation of the brave Yemeni people, based on the fact that they are a Religious people and therefore somehow “Reactionary”. And of course, we hear the calls for a Free Syria.
That's kinda confusing, don’t you think?
How can it be that Ukraine shares the same struggle as the Palestinians when, on the official government website, when asked about the ideal for his country after the war, Zelenski hails Israel as the Paramount model for what he wants in Ukraine? When the people who send upward of 80 Billion Dollars to Ukraine also send billions to Israel?
Liberals post Free Palestine on their social media. Do they know that no colonized people has EVER achieved Freedom without taking arms for a long arduous battle? How then can you call for the overthrow of the Iranian Government, when the Houthi’s in Yemen, Hizbollah in Lebanon AND HVMVS THEMSELVES are armed and trained by Iran? And when asked by a Journalist, who are your three biggest threats, Benjamin Netanyahu replied Iran, Iran, and Iran. How do you hope to see a Free Palestine if you support the deposition of their greatest ally?
We Charge WHO with Genocide?
These Liberals see themselves distinct from Conservatives, yet they find themselves as strange bedfellows because when these types of liberals call for freedom, they mean the same freedom promoted on the stickers of pick-up trucks in Bass Pro Shop. They both mean the American-style freedom, the kind of Freedom America brought to Iraq (Millions Dead). They mean the same Freedom they brought to Libya (The introduction of open-air slave markets and warring terrorist factions), to Afghanistan, and now they wanna Free Syria.
No, REAL and our affiliates do not promote such confused messaging. When we say Free Palestine, WE are very Specific with what we mean AND WE MEAN FREE PALESTINE FROM THE COLONIAL IMPERIALIST ZIONIST ENTITY.
I love how the resistance fighters use the term “The Zionist Entity” because they could just say Israel, but that would not do justice in describing what they are actually up against. Is the Zionist Entity JUST Israel? Did the Zionist entity begin its existence within the borders on the land of Palestine? Absolutely Not, it is an artificial relic left over from the British empire with the Balfour Declaration, artificially imposed on the Indigenous Palestinian People. It was a vain attempt to maintain itself as the predominant Colonial empire of the world. But the world changed, and colonialism can no longer be identified by fleets of white settlers showing up at your shores, it has evolved and become more sophisticated and cunning, it became Imperialism: characterized first and foremost by the vast financial networks spanning all over the world. A financial network exerts control by funding or de-funding countries according to the adherence to the will of Dynastic oligarchs.
The establishment of this Imperialist system is fixed in the historical moment sometimes referred to as the American century because it is the American ruling class that dominates the system of Imperialism. It has no parallel. We are not making a moral argument when we say No other country has established their own institutions of control such institutions like the world bank, The UN, The IMF. All of the countries demonized by the west operate in this context. Russia, China even Iran, with all their faults, are simply struggling to exert their sovereignty from America's Hegemonic power.
We must look at the big picture to understand that the Zionist Entity is simply an appendage to the larger body of western Capital, situated on Wall Street.
So Zionism did not begin or end with Israel itself, it actually begins and ends with Britain and the US, encompassing the so-called western world.
To truly understand the TRUE Zionist entity, we have to identify its core! It must be understood that the Zionist entity in fact stems from the US State Department, like nerves sending electric pulses to its extremities, America sends capital to multiple auxiliaries to maintain its place as the dominant world power. Places like Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, South Korea are all recipients of this capital because they further the goals of Imperialism. Goals explicitly made clear by state representative like Wesley Clark, an American politician and commander of US forces of NATO at one point who said that ten days after 9/11, he was given intel that the US was gonna attack and overthrow the governments of 7 countries in 5 years. Starting with Iraq, Afghanistan,Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan.
So to be Anti-Zionist it logically follows that you must be Anti-Imperialist. Meaning Anti-American and British financial oligarchs!
That's why All the leaders who are actively fighting, meaning, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and yes Syria, point to the US as the ultimately culpable party to the Genocide of Palestinians. And that is what’s missing here in the movement, the opposition to our own ruling class, as the culprit.
DOWN WITH…What?
It is very fashionable to say down with capitalist system but it's not as fashionable to concretely examine the systems of capital, the interest of oil billionaires who want to lay claim to the oil fields in Syria, the interest of weapons manufacturers who thrive on the sale of arms to terrorists whose bombs rain down on the homes of children, and banks who decide who is to be financed and who’s not and trap countries in an un-payable debt, and make money out of debt. But these entities, they don’t just deal in those respective fields, they also deal in the media, NGOs that train activists, Analytics companies that manipulate and produce statistics that convince people to buy their products and justify war, they lobby politicians, wacky waving inflatable tube men, who are animated by the gust of capital to distract us from our true rulers, flail both aisles are bought and paid for AOC to Trump.
Self-proclaimed radicals, socialist or social democrats and even communists say “Eat the Rich”. Never admitting, That would be biting the hand that feeds them.
It is the rich who fund the media they regurgitate, The New York Times, The BBC, Radio Free Asia who all promote a regime change narrative.
It is the Rich who fund the NGOs and mobilize activists on their behalf. Hire influencers to write and make videos for them. Who’s boards seat CEOs, State Department officials.
Like the Syria campaign and Syrian Network for Human Rights, who on their own financial documents, show the rich benefactors that they work for, figures like Ayman Asfari, a British Syrian Billionaire and CEO of Petrofac an oil company. And site sources backed by the Middle East Institute which features by Graeme Bannerman a staffer for the US Senate Foreign Relations an analyst for the US State Department specializing in Middle Eastern Affairs.
So don’t ask us WHY SYRIA because the answer is simple. We are ANTI-Zionist, in all its manifestations, We will UNCONDITIONALLY oppose them. Even when it’s not popular to. There are those say DOWN WITH ASSAD in chorus with the Zionist, as they sink their teeth into Syria. Do they not know that Hamas is in official alliance with Syria since 2011, and Syria has provided Humanitarian Aid, intelligence, funding and training to Hamas where the west is isolating and starving Palestine. What part of BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY is unclear. To condemn Syria’s government is just a roundabout way of condemning Hamas.
This system appears to us as something very alien, very demonic, people ascribe to it that character when it is called the great shatan. We see the lack of humanity of the imperialist system when it appears to us as debt, when it appears to us as the crumbling of a bridge, when it appears to us as led in water. They show us who they are.
Under One Sun
We now know Zionism, We know Imperialism. but do not know ourselves, the objective state of our movements and its players. And the interest of working people.
Very misguided folks get an impression of oligarchic rulers, that they are space aliens, or lizards or Demons from hell…and I of course don’t subscribe to these notions but can sympathize with them because the oligarchs who rule us appear to us as things that are very inhuman. The oligarchs make themselves known by their shapeshifting banks, sometimes appearing as Chase sometimes JPMorgan but it always bringing debt and poverty. With their Police, they abduct us, with their surveillance state they probe and prod us. They speak in tongues through their media, the depravity of figures like Dan Shnieder and PDiddy on full display, as a projection of their own sick minds. Legacy news stations perform their rituals, spreading their lies as incantations that put the average person under their spell. There’s nothing Human to be found in these structures.
Where can we find it? How does humanity make itself known? A man named Karl Marx would say humanity distinguishes itself with its drive to labor. The architect, builds beautiful mosques, Towers and bridges and within them we find warmth, and connection They stand as a physical projection of the human need for shelter and community. What we produce also produces us, A cook who feeds their family, their love and care is crystallized by a warm meal, and through it you come to know their kindness. A warrior sharpens his sword and in standing with it through life and death, their bravery is enshrined in that object. We dig up artifacts, through their composition, their artistry, their fixed position on our shared earth, we decode messages from our ancestors who speak in our most common language, the language of art. It is through art, a beautiful painting, a poem or a movie, all endowed with a human characteristic that we find ourselves in, that reveal ourselves to us.
So we are here, to discover the humanity of the Syrian people, through their arts, their labor and thought their work on these movies.
In the hopes that we afford them our own humanity. And Identify ourselves not with the institutions of Capital but the craft of people, who dream under the same moon, walk by step by step under the same sun, and they will take us to pay a visit to a place that we don’t know but is related to us intimately first and foremost, by our shared enemy, Imperialism.
The people who bomb, invade and terrorize the Syrian people, Are the same people who impoverish us, the same people who kill us in the street, Make us homeless. Solidarity is a buzzword, used in the same vein as “thoughts and prayers” but originally it meant to solidify. To become whole. To become one. Let us join in solidarity, real solidarity against the Imperialist.