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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Thank you, Prime Minister Carney! I applaud your leadership and Canada’s shining example. Now let’s do what we can do get the aid-givers in and the warmongers out.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Does he think admitting this now will help him sleep at night, rescue his reputation, or save his soul? Sorry, but none of the above.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Once again, you can see Israel’s influence at the core of American politics. The demands on Harvard centred on “combating antisemitism,” which is code for suppressing any criticism of Israel’s genocide on Gaza. If Americans don’t see it now, they never will.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Why is the news still calling him “man mistakenly deported to El Salvador”? Doesn’t he have a name?

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Israel insisted for twenty years that it wasn’t occupying Gaza. If you can turn off all the electricity, internet, food, water, medicine, and aid getting to a place at will, you’re occupying it.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The US waited until its target entered a building full of innocent civilians and then bombed the entire building. Where have we seen that before?

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Remember when “Israel doesn’t bomb hospitals” was a thing Israelis said with stubborn pride, even against all evidence to the contrary? They’re not even pretending at morality anymore.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

50,000 is the number most often quoted as the number of people killed during the Crusader invasion of Jerusalem in 1099 AD. We still remember that almost a thousand years later.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I used to love Holocaust films. “Schindler’s List” and “Life is Beautiful” were among my favourite movies. But now I can’t watch them. I see them as propaganda pieces meant to manufacture support for a present-day genocide by evoking sympathy for the victims of a historical one.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A Poem for Palestine 🧵 We sat as one, my child, my wife In quiet joy, a peaceful life Then came a sound, a heavy knock The door swung wide, unasked, unlocked A family walked in through our door Set up their camp upon our floor We stood in shock, unsure, afraid, Yet kindness bid us let them stay

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you kill 440 people just to avoid a corruption trial, do you really need a corruption trial?

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The Democrats’ approval rating is at a historical low. Democrats, if your philosophy is “Rock bottom is a great foundation on which to build”… well, you’re almost there.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

ISIS burned one person and we rightly called them monsters. Israel burns tens of thousands of people, mostly children, but if we dare call them monsters we are antisemitic terrorists who must be deported.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Israel broke the ceasefire today. Bombs fell throughout Gaza. Hundreds died in one day. Tens of thousands more will die in the coming months. Millions will be displaced. The US will support the atrocities, and no one in the world will help. The sense of powerlessness is suffocating.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The 49th parallel is becoming the Berlin Wall of our time

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Israel insisted for twenty years that it wasn’t occupying Gaza. If you can turn off all the electricity, internet, food, water, medicine, and aid getting to a place at will, you’re occupying it.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Unless it’s for Palestinian rights, then you outta here.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The top brass of government violated the constitution to disappear and deport a Palestinian for exercising his free speech, yet it’s the Zionists we must protect from feeling unsafe. We really are in the upside-down.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The United States of 2003 would have started a war to bring freedom and order to the United States of 2025.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Incredible. “No Other Land,” a documentary made by Palestinians and Israelis, wins the Oscar. For two minutes, 20 million Americans get to listen to some truth and humanity.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I feel bad for Nikola Tesla. He didn’t ask to be part of any of this.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The DSM-5 defines Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) as involving a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with NPD often expect excessive recognition for their actions and may become resentful if they feel unappreciated.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Powerful stuff from Omar El Akkad’s new book “One day, everyone will have always been against this”

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I agreed strongly with this post and wanted to share it here. “Our principles should NEVER be contingent on the behaviour of our oppressor!”

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The arc of history bends towards justice but it loop-de-loops a few times in the early 21st century

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I know we’re all into joking that it’s “President Musk,” but I think we really need to avoid normalizing those two words together. We need to come up with a creative alternative. Something like “Wannabe Never Gonnabe President Musk”

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This is not an isolated incident. IDF soldiers call it the "Mosquito Procedure" (Procedure Yatush). It’s their common practice of using Palestinian civilians as human shields. Every accusation is a confession.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

So this guy used history’s biggest example of a two-state solution as an analogy to argue for a one-state annexation. Talk about missing the plot.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The stones they throw Build us a bridge

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you’re black, you’re worried. If you’re trans, you’re worried. If you’re Palestinian, you’re worried. If you’re a scientist, you’re worried. If you’re a federal employee, you’re worried. If you believe in democracy, you’re worried. If you’re not worried, you’re probably part of the problem.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Israeli police raided the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem and arrested its Palestinian owners… because a children’s coloring book was deemed “incitement to terrorism.” So here’s a link to BUY THAT COLORING BOOK from the publisher’s website.

socialbanditmedia.co.za

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA: A COLOURING BOOK

PRESS RELEASE: SOCIAL BANDIT MEDIA TO LAUNCH NEW CHILDREN'S BOOK ON PALESTINE From the River to the Sea: A Colouring Book Illustrated by South African-based artist Nathi Ngubane Activity ...

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

socialbanditmedia.co.za

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA: A COLOURING BOOK

PRESS RELEASE: SOCIAL BANDIT MEDIA TO LAUNCH NEW CHILDREN'S BOOK ON PALESTINE From the River to the Sea: A Colouring Book Illustrated by South African-based artist Nathi Ngubane Activity ...

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The problem is not whether Trump will displace the people of Gaza. He can’t. The problem is that the leader of the “free world” openly espousing ethnic cleansing and war crimes on public television without consequence shows how far we have lost the plot on human rights, fairness, and rule of law.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This is just one more reason why there is more criticism of Israel than of other conflict zones like Sudan or Ethiopia or Haiti. Those other conflicts don’t have the ability to alter our legal structures and our moral constructs the way Israel does.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

US Leaders for 58 years: “It’s NOT an occupation!” US Leader today: “We’re planning an occupation.”

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Trump and Netanyahu just said openly on television what a hundred years worth of American and Israeli leaders have been saying secretly behind closed doors. “We’ll just take your land now, thank you.”

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Netanyahu giving a surprisingly succinct defence of Palestinian resistance: “You want a different future, you got to knock out the people who want to destroy you and destroy peace.”

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

There’s probably a world in the multiverse where Elon Musk has cured cancer and harnessed clean renewable energy. Sadly, we’re in the universe that got the shitty version.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Things you trust because they were developed by scientists and entrepreneurs and regulators: Cars, planes, trains, computers, smartphones, drinking water, toilets, chemotherapy, surgeries, televisions, satellites, internet, etc Things you don’t: Vaccines

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This poem is presciently called “The Second Coming”

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Yes, it was DEI: “Donald’s Entirely Incompetent”

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Jan 29 marks the 1y anniversary of the brutal killing by Israel of 6-year old Hind Rajab, six of her family members, and the two medics trying to rescue her. If you don’t know her story, watch the video below. If you haven’t donated in her name, go to www.hindrajabfoundation.org

aljazeera.com

Bird’s Eye View: The Killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab

Bird’s Eye View examines what happened to Hind Rajab, the 6-year-old girl in Gaza trapped in a car.

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“The intolerable ease with which children are killed” is exactly the right phrase for the moral diagnosis so many have been feeling for the past fifteen months

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It is so darkly tragic that Holocaust Remembrance Day and Hind Rajab Day are, and forever will be, just two days apart. The first says “Never Again.” The other says “Look how easily you forgot.”

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Furqan Shaikh @furqanshaikh.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

aljazeera.com

Bird’s Eye View: The Killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab

Bird’s Eye View examines what happened to Hind Rajab, the 6-year-old girl in Gaza trapped in a car.

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