MALIK

from the river to the sea

writings on Palestine

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“My name is Malik Farrad Muhammad. I'm a 26-year-old
black/Palestinian pansexual Muslim (yes, hella
confusing). I'm an anarchist antifascist, anti-racist
abolitionist (yes, both cops and prisons) for my love of
freedom! My first protest was in high school: a walkout
staged after Treyvon Martin’s murder. From there, T
never really got active again until “Bernie or Bust” and
then, of course, the George Floyd uprising. I traveled the
country and organized and fought and was ultimately
kidnapped ransomed and now held prisoner here at OSP.
Thave a beautiful son and a loving family back home in
the Midwest. 'm also a veteran, I was a tanker in the
army — and no, I'm not proud that I was part of the
murder machine, so don’t thank me for my service. I
love music more than anything almost, am a guitarist
and aspiring pianist, all genres.

Not much else to say except that I'm a lover of freedom,
equity and equality, and will fight to my last breath for
it. Unlike those who may regret a thing they did to get
convicted or those who tempered their actions for fear
of the consequences, I regret nothing, if only not doing
more before I was caught. I will live for the people and
Tll die for the people because I'love the people, we who
want freedom cannot rest till it comes.”

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just
keep going. No feeling is final.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“All skin folk ain’t kin folk”

ahy 212028

Let me be clear: first off, I'm no antisemitic, but 1 am an anti Zionist, I'm
anti Zionist because I support Palestinians’ autonomy and freedom from
the state oppression and violence coming from the Israeli state. I do not
support the continued occupation of the homeland. From sea to sea,
Palestine must be free. I feel comfortable saying Isral is a racist state the
‘same way I say this country is. s at ts core from its inception been
racist, just as with Israel.

S0 for the Democratic party to condemn their colleague for calling Isracl
out on being racist is laughable. She had it right the first time, there need
not be any walking back your statements. Now of course, when she
referred to the state, she wasn't mentio
country, but rather the state and its policies, its policy makers, its actions
and violence. The state of Israel is imbued with racism, thus making it a
racist state. Same with the USA. Its inception is rooted in racism, its
policies and actions, laws and policy makers have routinely acted in racist
‘ways, making the current police state we live in racist as the police who

g every human living in that

enact violence on behalf of the dominant socioeconomic class.

‘You can 100% be pro Jew and be anti the Zionist idea of maintaining
occupation of Palestine and enacting violence and state repression. Stop
blindly supporting Isracl as ifit was support of the Jewish people. The
prime minister is a racist, he’s constantly been on the far right in policy
making and his agenda, and just recently had his whole country
protesting his actions. We must remember the old adage: “all skin folk

ain't kin folk” — by this we mean just because we look the same (maybe
even had the same struggle in ways), don’t make us alike or you looking
after my best interests. In this sense, just because the people of that
country have endured their own oppression and violence over the years,
doesn't absolve them of their government’s current sins. Just because
their prime minister is Jewish, doesn't mean he’s for the people or
progress. We've scen a party in Sweden with deep neonai ties come to
power, we seen a woman in Italy come to power with a base in Mussolini’s
fascist ideology. All people who may look like us or have gone through a
struggle don’t make them for us. Same with policy, all policy changing
ain't positive.

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‘We canlook at home with regards to the George Floyd changes to ban
certain practices and no knock warrants on behalf of Breonna Taylor or
even body cams. These policy changes were no more than appeasements
long overdue mind you and without addressing real changing to policing.
Body cams were never something meant for the accountability of police;
rather, it was tauted as something for officers to back themselves up in
their narrative. The slogan the company used to pitch body cams to police
was “when something happens, everyone sees a side of the story — make
sure its yours” it wasn't meant to make US feel safer, but for police to have
their own ability to say “look I feared for my life.”

‘Welook at prison “reform” as well when there was a huge push to get
prisoners to stop fighting fires for the state. Well, those same people like
doing that, for the skills they get the freedom they're allowed to have at
the fire camp rather than the walls of OSP, the lack of cops and actually
working with people. The same as when we look at divesting from prisons,
like our Governor did here in Oregon, rather than taking from the wages
of these overpaid babysitters with badges and racist ways they took from
the food budget. Meaning we get smaller portions, and older, worse meat
than we already get.

S0 we must be ever vigilant that when we make demands and fight for
what's right, we must make sure we're not getting the wool pulled over
our eyes or appeased. But digress, in the same way I didn’t feel more
comfortable or safe or less oppressed in this country just because we had
ablack president, your support shouldn't be thrown to some leader and
their oppressive state because they've been oppressed before.

Stay woke comrades.
“On the current oppression,
subjugation, § genocide
of the people of Palestine”

February 22021

I first saw the attack on Israel on Oct 7th. I went to the hole the next day.
S0 from there I listened to the radio about it for a month. I cried and my
heart was heavy. I've kicked myself for not being free, not going to
Palestine and doing any aid work I can. Since I was a kid I dreamed of
going there, since I was a kid I've had a passion for freedom from
oppression over there (everywhere really). Now I'm stuck; helpless,its
infuriating.

Nowit's over 3 months into this conflict and the audacious actions of the
Isracli state are deplorable. It’s in no way comparable to the October 7th
attack. 1 think of this dialectically, both are true at the same time. Oct 7th

was an atrocity, AND lsrael is currently committing war crimes and a

genocide. The unrelenting support of the state by the world is also
despicable. The very notion that because genocide was coined during the
Holocaust does NC

imit it to one people or ONE nation’s actions. We
commented on genocide and ethnic cleansings in Africa. We condemned
North Korea for the atrocities committed against its own people. But
because it’s a US. ally, their actions are justified? They're somehow
immune to critique or subjeet to adhere (o the rules of war? That's asinine,
and JUST like the world sat idly by during Germany’s crimes, they are
doing the same now. Don’t WAIT until things become a broader conflict
for there to be action taken! By then itll be too late! By then history will
look back at the slaughtered Palestinians and acts of Isracl and judge

those sympathizers and their inaction as among those on the wrong side
of history. They will be judged harshly.

Make no mistake, Israel IS carrying out a genocide. Make no mistake, it's
happening in real time. Don't believe me? Listen to the rhetoric. I learned
2 LONG time ago, when someone TELLS you who they are, BELIEVE them.
Bibi has stated his intention to NOT end this conflict until the complete
destruction of Hamas. He's indiscriminantely bombing, he’s cutting off aid

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and access to the outside, he's stacked his government with individuals
who have repeatedly called for the end to Palestine. Their defense
minister advocated violence against Palestinians, his people have
suggested the nuclear option against Palestinians. Those are the people
you're dealing with. THOSE people are fanatics, THOSE people are war
mongering genocidal racists. I's not PALESTINIANS that should suffer
the aggression of Israel. Nobody says you should not defend yourself
against an attack, but those affected, by the state of Israels aggression are
not Hamas right now. It’s innocent civilians.

T'm 50 SICK of people being apologists for Israel and walking on egg shells
talking about them. Isracl I COMMITTING WAR CRIMES, THEY are the
aggressor at this point. If someone comes in your house and shoots at you
and robs you and leaves but you shoot them in the back, YOU'RE the
aggressor. So the same way individuals are held to a standard of
engagement, so should an ENTIRE NATION. That's what ROE [Rules Of
Engagement] are for. I have to say, my hat’s off to South Africa for
bringing this in front of the IC] and championing the people of Palestine.
EVERY nation would do well to follow suit and take ACTION before
history judges you harshly. Stand firm and DON'T water down your
stance. STAND WITH PALESTINE. From the river to the see, Palestine
shall be free, do NOT let that be co-opted and watered down by liberals or
eriminalized by conservatives. We stand AGAINST the Zionist agenda,
that does NOT make you anti-Jewish. Pro Palestine and two state solution
does not make you anti Israel. Condemning that country for genocide
does not make you anti-Jewish, not anti-lsraeli, it make you PRO LIFE,
PRO FREEDOM, PRO HUMANITY and anti authoritarian, anti genocidal.
Normalize dialects, as humans we must, and no it's not as complicated as
the news and liberals want to make you believe. NOTHING justifies
genocide.

T can't say it enough, Ull scream in to the heavens: from the river to the
sea, Palestine shall be free! End the genocide, protect the sanctity of
human life, protect the people of Palestine. In the face of injustice, do not
stay silent, no matter how singular your voice may sound.

For those of you wanting to make a difference, I do applaud you using
your voices, taking up space, making noise! Be loud and unapologetic! Get
in peoples faces, crash Biden’s parties like you did at his campaign rally!
‘That was beautiful! Don’tlet up! Don't relent! Those of you who CAN do

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more, DO MORE. I know some things may seem scary or daring, but be
daring. Don't send thoughts and prayers, send money, send food, let’s
crowd fund UNRWA, the organization just got defunded by several
nations over allegations by Israel. Fund their relief aid to Palestinians. And
for those of you as daring as me, book a flight, don’t think “what can just
me o, you can do a lot! Document, aid in recovering lost loved ones, give
your time, its more worthy that whatever capitalist soul-sucking job
you're giving your time to. Be a helping hand, a kind face in the face of this
hate and anguish. Shine a light.

Tenvy your opportunity to do those things, there wouldn't be a soul on
earth that could stop me going, Id spend my last, P'd risk it all, T have an
immense love for my homeland, but a more intense love for freedom from
oppression and a great disdain for the oppressors. Interrupt every event,
trend Palestine, trend anything and everything that can be done to aid the
cause, because it’s worthy, and don't let anyone stop you.

‘This has been heavy on my heart, 'l say it again and leave you with this:
From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free! Let’s make it so!

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Poems for Gaz:

May 14,2025

Genocide is no accident
International aid shouldn’t be this hazardous

Medics, doctors, ambulance erews, firemen, hospitals, even bombing
schools

Disastrous
Your excuse

“A professional misstep”

Not even an apology that’s long overdue
Nothing much a sorry could do

But the gall to wave it off with an excuse
Madness

Know this, we'll not pity you

When your day comes

To you who plot terror and destruction
Evil men orchestrating deaths
Construction, carving the world based on
Your presumption of authority

You're morally BANKRUPT
As devoid of substance as your currency
Avacaney of truth

‘The only truth is you're exterminating a people

aplanet

You

Evil men

‘Who gun down innocence
Rendering aid

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Twept that day
Theard the news

Seas that run red

With you

The oppressed

Innocent

Euphrates to Mediterranean

Seatosea

The promise of “freedom”

Looks bleak

The days are long

Nights rough

Tortured starved abhorred abandoned
By the whole world.

Tknow how you feel

S0l weep for you

AsThave since a child

Twait for you

AsThave since a child

Tobe free
Livelife with autonomy
Dignity andas I weep

To growing tragedy

The carnage and depravity

Knows no bounds

Trapped in this concrete grave

As more of you are buried under concrete
Rubble

Mass graves

Ten thousand come to see the pope
Millions dismayed

But eyes remain dry for Gazan lives

You matter

‘You more than exist

1t's tough

‘The road is dark and rough

But resist you must

NEVER quit

Trust not in nations

Don't hope for them to be your savior and bring peace

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Place your faith not with institutions of oppression
Trust the people

Find your hope

In relationships you make and hold

Derive your faith from the hand you hold

Those who know

Trust hope and faith and love

Future is unknown

What we know is the love we hold
“Tyrants and Collaborators”

Augont 10,2025

Idon’t understand the lack of urgency in this genocide. Countries are
careful not to be “too quick” to callit a genocide. War crimes, “sure,” they
say, breaches of international laws, “yeah, maybe,” but genocide, they
won't say. Perhaps because that would mean they HAVE to act. And act in
asubstantive manner. Currently, the best they can do s recognize
Palestinian statehood. Years late, as 150 countries already do, but France is
the first “influential” one? Is insane that unless countries say, I see

ing, then you pretty much don't exist. No
country has recognized the human rights abuses of Blacks. Yet it persists.

you," to recognize your suffe

France’s latest “I see you,” even they admit, is largely symbolic. They said
they're not naive enough to think anything can be done without the U.S,
‘which tells me this can be equated to when France told Poland to hold on
for two weeks, when Germany invaded, promising aid that never came.
Poland held on for over a month. How quickly did France fall next?

Iwant to pose the slippery slope argument regarding appeasement. We
saw how appeasement served Hitler, let’s put Bebe in Hitler's shoes. Quite
simple, he puts those shoes on every day, and people like Minister
Smutridge (1 don’t know how to spell his name and don’t care), who by the
‘way has the name of a bad guy from Star Wars, an operator of the Death
Star, a destroyer of worlds. Smutridge s his Himmler. When Hitler was
appeased, as Bebe is now, he tried to exterminate a people, wipe them
from the face of the earth. That is what's transpiring in Gaza. But if you
think Isracl will stop there, you haven't paid attention. Isracl acts with
impunity and bombs any nation it deems a threat. Lebanon, Jordan, Syria,
Iran, going so far as to set up Isracl occupied zones in the former. What
happens when they decide they need to expand their presence for the
safety of the Isracli people?

Hitler wanted the Rhineland and the Sudetenland, then marched across
Europe. Hitler felt entitled to those lands, as Bebe and his team of
sycophantic, psychopathic, zionist cucks feel entitled to Palestine through
their religious text. If you give a mouse a cookie, or if you appease a
tyrant, you'll abet genocide. Hamas is the enemy now, exemplifying the
Palestinian “problem.” If Isracl is allowed, as they are now, to wipe
Palestinians from that land and make it all Isracl, surely their next

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campaign to completely wipe out a terror organization wil take them to
‘Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria. Before you know it tactical domination of
the Middle East becomes the agenda of that particular settler colonial
state. Their goal is to see a Middle East dominated and controlled by Israel.
Marching East to Iran is Hitler’s march west, conquering Europe, laying
waste to everything in his path.

“They couldn't do that,” you say? Why not? They're given impunity to
commit genocide. What nation is sending troops to stop them? What
nation in the Middle East has a standing army to fight them? No one
thought Hitler could do what he did, not even Hitler, but each time, they
marched over a border, and as no one did anything, they just got bolder.
‘While Hitler had a larger force, Isracl has nuclear capabilities and the
backing of U.S, its bombs, drones, and Israeli tanks are actually better
than the U’s Abrams.

Point is, appeasing a tyrant is risky business, and the world is doing just
that. France and the rest of the world recognized Poland as they violated
their agreement to help them and let Germany lay it to waste. So
recognizing the state of Palestine — that already exists, as do the people
suffering and starving and dying — means nothing, The world is watching
the big bad boogiemen, Russia and China, imagining Russia waging a
campaign across Europe, because white people are cared about more.
Meanvwhile, there is a very real Hitler, a very real conquest being waged, a
genocide being carried out, and waiting for the U.S. to do something is
fruitless. The U.S. would benefit from Israel doing that. IU’s why the state
of Israel was created — to put another piece on the board for the U.S.in
the Middle East to counter Russia. It was said once that, “if there was no
Tsrael,[America] would have to create an Israel.” That is to say, America
would always prop up a power in the Middle East that could influence and
destabilize the region. So, perhaps the real tyrant, the one consistently
appeased...is the U.S.

“We are interconnected
& inseparable”

September, 205

Oursib in the UK, T. Hohxa, has direct action in her blood. For 28 long
days she resisted colonizer fascists. Every ounce of resistance is a win. She

‘won, we all did. Solidarity is the most important part of our movement. I
wouldn't have cared if she were asking for a PS5 and a 25in TV or a
chartered flight to Indiana. If you ride, we all ride!

Resistance is essence and solidarity foundational. International solidari
is imperative. If Palestinian prisoners know and care about the Pelican
Bay hunger strikes, then we should care about them and our siblings
everyday who are captured and held unjustly. Do not let imaginary

borders and fascist nations tell you it doesn’t matter because it’s
happening “over there.” All struggle is connected, all movements dire.
Direct action is imperative.

It's necessary for us to maintain cross-continent solidarity because “that”
isn't happening “over there” to “them” but oppression s “HE}
happening to “US” all. Our movements are stronger together. The people.

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are stronger together. Don't let them separate us. And remember as
Palestinians starve in Gaza, so do the unjustly held 12,000 Palestinian
prisoners, and the ones in US prisons and “detention” (death) centers,
prisons in the UK, Australia - they are all the same. The prisoners are
living under forced displacement, oppression, occupation. We are
interconnected and inseparable. Our resistance should transeend man-
made invisible lines.

Resist, together. Globalize the intifada. Its the only way to free Palestine,
and all oppressed people of the world.

Love Rage & Solidarity, Malik

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