Abdel-Rahman Hamed

02/26/2024

sought to awaken America’s conscience.

America’s conscience (if one remains) is dwarfed by Aaron Bushnell’s. What of your conscience?

May Aaron Bushnell’s memory be a blessing.

01/08/2024

A precision strike on journalists, paramedics, and first responders.

Bulldozing and desecrating cemeteries.

Bombing schools, churches, and mosques.

Shelling hospitals.

Stripping civilians, including doctors and UN employees, down to their boxers—bound and blindfolded—before abducting them.

Daily massacres. More than 20,000 killed. More than 55,000 permanently disabled. Thousands more missing under the rubble. More than 1.5 million internally displaced—hungry, thirsty, cold, homeless, sick, injured, without sanitation, without bathroom facilities, without hygiene products, without baby products, and desperate.

More than half the population are children.

… all in an area the size of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the US.

12/18/2023

Founders of Hamas are:

• Al-Yazuri: part of his family was massacred in Beit Dras & the rest fled, when he was 𝟴 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗹𝗱, to Khan Yunis.

• Yassin: expelled, when he was 𝟭𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗹𝗱, from al-Jura (razed to the ground - a complete massacre) to Al-Shati.

• Al-Rantissi: expelled when he was a 𝟭 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗹𝗱 from Yibna to Khan Yunis.

Sit with that for a moment…

Now, reflect on what Israel is doing in Palestine today, and since 1948.

12/15/2023

Israeli officials admit that it has killed 10,000 Palestinian civilians in the last two months of its war in Gaza.

That’s about the same number as 𝒂𝒍𝒍 the civilians that have been 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑼𝒌𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 Russia launched its attack in 𝑭𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 2022.

Ukraine is a country of more than 40 million people. A little more than 2 million people live in Gaza.



Source: https://ukraine.un.org/en/253322-civilian-deaths-ukraine-war-top-10000-un-says

12/14/2023

Some of the people responsible for reporting the unconscionable number of Palestinian civilians killed in Israel’s war on Gaza (~18,600) have themselves been killed.

Researchers are comparing public health records with the hospital reports of those killed in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and finding they largely line up. The United Nations Human Rights Office believes the total death count is, if anything, an 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕.

Gaza has a pretty robust medical records collection, so this isn’t just a guessing game.



Reuters explains how we know what we know here: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-have-died-gaza-war-how-will-counting-continue-2023-12-06/

12/13/2023

Between 2008 and 2022, or over the course of 14 years, roughly 3,100 children were killed in the Iraq War. In 19 days in Gaza, between October 7 and October 26, an estimated 2,500 children were killed.



Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-have-died-gaza-war-how-will-counting-continue-2023-12-06/

02/13/2023

11/16/2022

Democracy… by facebook.

11/13/2021

American Muslims have intersectional identities ✊🏽 as Native peoples, Africans and descendants of enslaved and brutalized Africans, Asian Americans, Latinx people, and Europeans.

After 9/11, American Muslims were indicted en masse in the court of public opinion. The facts were irrelevant and public passions led to the passage of laws that ushered an era of state secrets, eroded privacy, and an unchecked government. These changes have deep and far-reaching reverberations.

Earlier this week, heard arguments on Fazaga v. FBI, an attempt by American Muslims to check the government’s mass surveillance of American Muslims and the FBI’s desire to dismiss the suit under the state secrets privilege.

Learn more below.

Thank you, Mariam Morshedi, for the platform to write the report on this important constitutional case. 🙏🏽
Follow Subscript Law for an expository analysis of cases.
Consult Hamed Law on claims.

Does the state secrets privilege apply to keep CIA contractors from testifying in Polish legal proceedings?

08/20/2021

In 1924, the US Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act, the severest immigration restrictions in U.S. history, which also gave birth to the national origins quota system.

In 1929, passed the Undesirable Aliens Act, commonly known as “Blease’s Law” after the White supremacist segregationist Klansman and anti-immigrant Senator Coleman Livingston Blease (D-SC). Blease’s Law explicitly identified and people as the “undesirables.”

In 1952, Congress enacted Section 1326 of the Immigration and Nationality Act using language from Blease’s Law, making it a [ ] crime for a person to enter the U.S. if they have been denied admission, deported, or removed. Penalties were stiffened five times between 1988 and 1996.

The government—Department of Homeland Security, through its agencies: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, , —actively targets immigrant communities of color, denying their admission into the U.S., delaying their applications, detaining them, and seeking their removal or .

In 2021, U.S. District Judge Miranda Du ruled that is . Judge Du determined the law violates the as it results in against Mexican and Latinx people.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a court ruling with potentially broad implications for U.S. immigration cases, a federal judge in Nevada found that a criminal law that dates to 1929 and makes it a felony for a person who has been deported to return to the United States is unconstitutional.

08/18/2021

can hold on to seized money indefinitely, even when people are not charged with a crime.

In , it’s so hard to get one’s money back. That’s a violation of rights.

Read the full investigative report by Saurabh Datar and Shannon Dooling.

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Massachusetts prosecutors can hold on to seized money indefinitely, even when people are not charged with a crime. In Worcester County, it’s so hard to get one’s money back, some legal experts say it may violate due process rights.