Here's What We Know
We know that this is not about Iran’s people, it’s about Iran’s oil and wealth.
Eman Abdelhadi
Here’s what we know.
We know that the U.S. government is once again lying to us — the U.S. public. Iran poses no threat to the American people.
We know that Israel and the United States started this war, that they have once again broken international law to violate yet another nation’s sovereignty.
We know that states have a right to defend themselves, and that includes Iran.
We know that this war is illegal according to U.S. law. It was neither approved by the U.S. congress nor the American people. This war has no mandate.
We know that the United States has destabilized much of the world through intervention, after intervention, after intervention. None have benefited the American people.
We know that bombs have never liberated anyone.
We know that this is not about Iran’s people, it’s about Iran’s oil and wealth.
We know that this attack protects the political career of the war criminal heading the Zionist entity.
We know the Zionist entity is a wolf in wolf’s clothing. Already their victims include a sports complex and a girls’ school, already they have killed civilians. Israel committed a U.S.-funded, live-streamed genocide against the condemnation of the entire world, that slaughtered more than 70,000 Gazans in two years. We know Israel cannot be trusted to liberate anyone.
We know that Israel has broken the so-called ceasefire agreement in Gaza hundreds of times with no consequence from the United States. Is this a partnership we want to take into yet another endless and destabilizing war?
We know that the ruling class tries to use wars to distract us from our own stagnant wages, rising housing and grocery costs, and falling standards of living. Destroying yet another country will not make us safer, it will not make our lives easier, it will not address any of the issues we have within our own borders.
We know that to stop this unjust and illegal war, we have to stand up — united across movements and communities — to say “de-escalate now.”
Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist and writer who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, religion and politics. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the University of Chicago, where she researches American Muslim communities. She is co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 – 2072.
