Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui
@sabreenaGS • 43,590 subscribers
Decolonial Anti-Imperialist Scholar Activist | Award-Winning Public Speaker | Author (DEI-Undone) | DEI+Justice | Social/Political Media Commentator.
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Blonde-haired, blue-eyed white people from Ukraine were celebrated for making home-made Molotov cocktails to defend their land, but the brown Arab Muslim, the Iranian, the Afghan, is far too “uncivilised” to have the right to resist. Their resistance is “barbaric” because it comes from an inherently “violent” culture. The selective application of international law and one’s right to defend themselves from illegal occupation and colonial violence has been revealed to be a complete contradiction in the west, and is no doubt infuriating. But we need to also understand how these “resistance” narratives are processed in communities. These narratives do not stay on our screens. They shape how entire communities see themselves. When Indigenous, Black, and other racialised peoples repeatedly see their histories, struggles, cultures, and resistance framed as dangerous, irrational, or inherently violent, many begin to internalise those messages. Some distance themselves from their own identities in search of safety, acceptance, or legitimacy. Others carry a deep, unspoken rage born from exclusion, dispossession, and the constant demand to prove their humanity. When people are disconnected from their roots, denied dignity, and taught to be ashamed of where they come from, they will still search for belonging. It’s a basic human need to feel a sense of community. The question is whether we create spaces that nurture healing, identity, and justice, or leave them vulnerable to finding belonging in places that exploit their pain.
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui151,280 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
I used to be a regular on CP24 News. After this last interview in 2024 in which I talked about why hate crime stats are distorted and misleading and consistently overrepresent so-called antisemitic hate incidences, a Zionist Canadian rag wrote a doxxing article about me and I was never invited on any msm again. Resharing this interview, since the “diabolical levels of antisemitism” hoax has been activated once more. I’ve been studying, writing and talking about hates crimes for 10 years. Happy to talk about it on any platform that is not owned or operated by Zionists.
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui124,185 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
“The danger of you, as a Muslim, watching films like #dhurandhar is not in the funding of an anti-Pakistan film, but in the internalisation of the subliminal messaging that makes you hate yourself and your community. IT MAKES YOU ULTIMATELY INTERNALISE THE ISLAMOPHOBIC PROPAGANDA”. People think it’s about one movie or one story… it rarely is; it’s what keeps repeating that helps manufacture consent for the ongoing violence against Muslims. Clip from @thepathwechoosee w/ @umerfarooquee coming this Monday. We talk about the “why” behind my advocacy, unpack imperialism and colonialism, and reflect on genocide, oppression, and what’s happening in the world right now. In this segment of the interview we are discussing internalised colonialism and Islamophobia.
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui77,202 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
I lost my academic job and my place within an institution because of my advocacy for Palestine. By conventional standards, that might look like failure - an unsuccessful career, an unsuccessful life. But my soul feels lighter. My conscience is clean. I wake up without the turmoil that comes from compromising my values. Success is not status, money, or institutional approval. Success is integrity, dignity. Success is being able to live in alignment with what you know is right and just. Success is freedom. By that measure, I have never felt or been more successful. الحمد لله
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui15,343 görüntüleme • 29 gün önce
They tried so hard to silence me. Dishonour me. Erase me. But, indeed… “God honours whom He wills and He dishonours whom He wills.” Thank you Penny Appeal Canada, my guest panelists - Abby Martin, Aaron Maté, Dr Myriam François, other speakers Mark Strong-Mr. Everywhere 🇬🇩, Sitti Soap and all the attendees - for the immense honour you gave me. This book DEIUndone (co-authored with my soul brother Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad (he/him)), and our official book launch event and fundraiser for Gaza at Toronto Reference Library is not just my win, it is a win for us all - our entire community, our entire ummah, all of humanity. 💛 We talked about the revolutionary book of an ousted anti-imperialist academic in one of the oldest and most iconic public libraries of Canada. And despite Zionist pressure to get our event cancelled, we were successful. We spoke the truth - about the right of Palestinian resistance, in a building that symbolises truth, knowledge, and freedom of thought and speech. This was also one of the first times in the last 2 years that a counter campaign - led by the wonderful Rabbi David Mivasair who galvanized the community to call and email the library to not cancel our event- overpowered the campaign of Zionists to suppress our voices. We smashed a ceiling yesterday! ✊🏼 Remember, if God wishes success for you, nothing and no one can stop it. Never be afraid to stand on the path of truth and justice. Read our book here:
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui11,849 görüntüleme • 24 gün önce
The irony is hard to miss. Overall, more than half (55%) of all U.S. Jews state that being Jewish is NOT about practicing Judaism - that it’s primarily about ancestry and culture. Moreover, in Israel, which is home to about half of the world’s Jewish population, approximately 44% of Israeli Jews self-identify as secular (hiloni). For decades, Zionists have claimed an ancestral THEOLOGICAL right to Palestine, yet most of the loudest advocates of this claim are not even practicing Jews and mostly identify as secular or atheist. So how does a religious claim become an ethnic one? Enter the term “ethnoreligion.” However, what most people don’t know is that the term was totally made up by Lawrence H. Fuchs in 1956 - an American Zionist scholar whose parents were European Jews. The concept immediately gained traction in the mid-20th century and helped advance the argument that Judaism is not merely a religion, but an ethnicity, thereby, allowing even those with no religious observance to claim a collective theological national right to Palestine. You have been lied to. Like every other religion in the world, Judaism, too, is a faith, not an ethnicity. This entire “ethnoreligion” argument deserves far more scrutiny than it receives, particularly given its role in justifying the displacement of Palestinians and the colonisation of their land. In this podcast episode, I unpack why I believe the “ethnoreligion” framework is intellectually flawed and politically convenient. I’m currently working on a detailed article tracing the origins and evolution of this concept. More soon.
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui17,831 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Apparently, I wasn’t “civilized” or “professional” enough when I publicly lamented on the institutional crackdown on free speech and wrote about an image of a young Palestinian girl my daughter’s age who’s head was blown off by an Israeli bomb in 2024, so my teaching contract was not renewed at Sheridan College. The exact message was “your social media post went against the college’s code of civility and professionalism” for professors. Take this as a reminder that higher education institutions are colonial systems of oppression that use the same tactics of the colonizer. Don’t be too loud in your pain and rage when you watch your people getting slaughtered. And don’t complain publicly about HR discipline that feels discriminatory. Watch Black and brown people die, in a “civilized” manner please, and when we reprimand you about your advocacy, be institutionally oppressed more “professionally” please. If these “professional” institutions don’t care about 680,000+ dead Palestinian children, women, men, why should we suppress our freedom of thought and speech in order to protect Zionist “feelings” of discomfort? My message to these colonial institutions that claim moral and professional superiority: Take a moral stand against the genocide of oppressed occupied peoples, against colonial imperialist terrorism, and only then expect us to abide by your arbitrary institutional “moral values” and “professional” conduct rules.
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui32,549 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
What do you call the success of a self-published book written by an academic who was ousted from her job because of her Palestine advocacy? You call it collective success. Collective liberation. There is a very unique and distinct response I am seeing from people who attend our book-signing events and engage with us online. And that distinction is in the hope and feeling of victory that emanates from them. For far too long we have not only been silenced and our careers ruined, but we have seen our comrades arrested, charged, their freedoms and rights violated, all just for saying Israel should not be bombing, starving, sniping, burning alive in tents children, women, men - in Palestine. Lebanon, Iran - setting the entire region on fire to fulfill their colonial goals. And the fact this book says out loud all the things we are being told we will be villainised, criminalised, brutalised for saying, and the fact it has done so well (over 2000 copies sold in 2 months) is an act of liberation, not just for me, and my co-author Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad (he/him), but for everyone. This is not just my win, it’s our win. Buy the book here:
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui13,769 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Not much has changed in the way colonizers show their benevolence and humanity to subjugated peoples. Food is a human right enshrined in international law, but the absolute indignity of it being thrown at you like a falling crumb or the sheer violence of it landing on you like a bomb from the sky is only acceptable when you are not white. (Video: Wife of former French President Paul Doumer and her daughter throwing coins at a group of Vietnamese children in 1899)
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui19,819 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
Shawn Mendes’ concert statement represents a very important discourse-shift taking place regarding the genocide. We are now at the stage where it is FINALLY and much too late being widely accepted (except by the delusional and unhinged) that Israel is indeed committing a genocide against Palestinians. However, although accepting this horrifying truth about Palestinian suffering, the focus of liberal and elite western discourse remains on Zionist (masked as Jewish) feelings. Instead of using this momentum to stop and undo harm and hold perpetrators accountable, we are being forced to once again protect Zionist Jews from the world’s scorn because they are somehow not all responsible for the actions of their government, despite Jewish supremacy and settler colonialism being the foundation of Zionism as an ideology. Ironic, also, because Zionists have spent the last 2 years making it very clear they stand on guard for Israel no matter where they live. Poll after poll has shown an overwhelming majority of Israelis both in Israel and in the west denying death, destruction and starvation in Gaza, and manufacturing consent for genocide. Anti-Zionist scorn will and should be the only worldwide response to the crimes of Zionism. Every single genocide-endorsing and enabling Zionist (including the non-Israeli ones) have blood on their hands - the blood of almost a million missing and murdered Palestinian children, women, and men. Making Zionists and Israelis uncomfortable is the least you should be doing. Doesn’t matter if they happen to be Jewish. If a Christian or Muslim serial killer accused us of anti-Christian or anti-Muslim bias, would we excuse their crimes? Then why is that exactly what we have been doing with Zionist Jews who threaten us with the charge of antisemitism anytime they are held accountable for genocide? Why is Jewishness the ONLY faith identify that has been allowed to be weaponized and used both as a shield and as a gun?
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui18,427 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
Global Sumud Flotilla participant Yvonne Ridley 4 Glasgow upon release from illegal Israeli detention: “Many of you know that I spent 11 days in prison under the Taliban regime in 2001. Well, I will tell you something now that is straight from the heart, I would rather spend two months in a Taliban prison than two days with the Israelis. The Israelis were brutal, they were savage, they were misogynistic. The women prison officers were part of the patriarchy and they made our lives utter hell, so that’s something to think about that I’d rather do 2 months in Afghanistan than one more day in Israel”. Where my western imperial feminists at? Don’t we have some saving women from savagery in the ME to do? Or does that only apply when the men are Muslims or Arabs? 😒
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui12,308 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
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