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A jihadi from al-Sharaa’s forces killed a #YPJ fighter yesterday, cut off her braid, and carried it as a sign of “victory” over Kurdish women who courageously led the fight against #ISIS, one of the most dangerous and brutal forces in the world. Today, Kurdish women responded by braiding...

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Notably, the panel on Syria doesn't have a single Kurd for representation, even though we all know about the YPJ female fighters who defeated ISIS. Those Kurdish women are there in Syria, and they've been subjected to a brutal massacre just in the last 30 days. There have been executions, mutilations, and decapitations; women have been thrown off buildings. The women who defeated ISIS have been subjected to a war of annihilation, and of course, not one Kurdish component is present on the panel. They are completely erased in that sense. And who speaks for women? A token Arab nationalist who plays the old card of, "I have a lot of Kurdish friends, so Kurds are represented," and "women are hardworking." She gives a speech of nothing, whitewashing every single massacre and justifying the erasure, on that very same stage, of any other minority that is not Sunni Arab nationalist or Salafi jihadist. She sits there with a straight face talking about the "great work" and the "great talks" that women are having across sects and breaking through factions, but it's totally not real; it's totally not happening on the ground. On the ground, you still have guns with smoke coming out of their barrels and an uncertain ceasefire that could unravel at any moment. But most importantly, you have the corpses of female fighters and civilians alike still riddling the streets, being eaten by wild dogs. And this is the narration. This repugnant assembly of vultures and tyrants, this is the narrative they're selling to the world.

Karim Franceschi

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The video shows these so-called Syrian government forces dressed like ISIS fighters — no patches, no insignia — openly praying for God to terrorize the kuffar and put fear in their hearts. They repeat phrases like “help us against the kuffar” and “put terror in their hearts.” Yet this is being sold as a “security operation,” and Western legacy media is running with that framing. The New York Times, in reporting by Raja Abdul Rahim, frames it as clashes between the Syrian government and a Kurdish-led militia. The BBC does the same, presenting it as fighting between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters. Frankly, Al Jazeera’s coverage is less biased than most Western outlets. I never thought I’d say that. Al Jazeera at least calls this what it is: a siege. They identify who is attacking whom. They show maps. They report that the Syrian Ministry of Defense issued an ultimatum and then launched the attack. Even though they mostly interviewed people from the so-called Syrian transitional government side, they still framed the aggressor correctly. What no one is saying is that, until very recently, these same forces were on global terrorist lists because of their ties to al-Qaeda. No one mentions that this so-called Syrian transitional government is a direct outgrowth of jihadist groups. Al-Nusra did not just “overlap” with ISIS — it was an ISIS branch, and its leadership came straight from ISIS. Al-Jolani himself was a lieutenant of al-Baghdadi. That is who these people are. And this video shows it clearly: these forces are praying for Allah to put terror into the hearts of the kuffar. This is not a war against a militia that violated an agreement. It is a war against Kurds who chose secularism, coexistence with Druze, Alawites, and Yezidis, autonomy, feminism, and a progressive political project. For that choice, they are labeled kuffar even though the majority of Kurds are themselves Sunni Muslims.

Karim Franceschi

15,591 views • 7 months ago