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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 5h

Hamas made two huge strategic errors. One was to overestimate Iran's willingness to fight Israel. The other was to vastly underestimate the genocidal savagery of Zionist society. However evil they thought Israel was, they were being far too charitable.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 1d

I was wrong. The last two years has shown us that the western media is no better than the Russian media, and that we live not in liberal democracies but under racial hierarchy, propaganda and genocidal violence.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 1d

I personally apologise for repeating some of the lies in the first days. I apologise for being so naive as to think that the major western media outlets did fact-checking or that they wouldn't allow themselves to be used by a foreign state's propaganda campaign.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a good day for almost the entire western media and political class to apologise for spreading lies two years ago about supposed beheaded children and a supposed mass rape campaign. Time to explain why they participated in the demonisation campaign to facilitate genocide.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 1d

"I wonder why they are violent. Where are their Gandhis?" say genocidal racists as they incinerate babies and raze ancient cities.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a good day to remember the 2018 Great March of Return, an unarmed protest movement in which Palestinian civilians approached the fence separating them from their lands stolen by fascist militias in 1948. In response, Zionists murdered hundreds and disabled thousands.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a good day to remember the 2018 Great March of Return, an unarmed protest movement in which Palestinian civilians approached the fence separating them from their lands stolen by fascist militias in 1948. In response, Zionists murdered hundreds and disabled thousands.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 1d

Two years of full-scale genocide. 77 years of expulsion, massacre, apartheid, demonization, lies. Never forgive, never forget.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, they have. I just block Zionists, as I block every variety of fascist.

Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 2d

The British state has turned everything on its head for the sake of Zionist fascism.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 2d

A march in Manchester today of people waving the flag of the Zionist state. Not only does this hate march make Muslims, Arabs and many others feel terribly unsafe, it is waving the flag of a terror state actively engaged in genocide. Dozens more human beings were murdered by that state today.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 3d

We are using the word 'liberal' in different ways.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 3d

yes, released. still in Syria.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 3d

As soon as the elites believe that one group has the right to annihilate another, and participate in the annihilation, as soon as the feelings of one group are elevated over the lives of another, then society is dead, leaving only warring tribes. Same in the west as in the ME

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 3d

The day I stopped feeling comfortable in the country where I have nationality, and started feeling potentially endangered, was not whichever day Farage wins the next election, but 7 October, when the genocide accelerated.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 3d

It turns out, not surprisingly, that liberal values are necessary to underpin a multicultural society. If we are all equal and respected we can all get on. When genocide enters the balance, we can't.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 13d

Those who consigned millions of documents to the bin and painted over the walls of detention centers, who appointed war criminals to high position, are accusing Amer Matar of stealing documents 'for personal use'. I'm going to stop speaking now.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 13d

Apparently Amer is about to released. It's a great shame that the authorities (or perhaps just their friends) are covering their actions with a campaign of lies. There is no way he stole documents for his personal use. My respect for these people plummets with each lie they tell.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 13d

This is so depressing. It isn't a liberation if the revolutionaries are being re-arrested. Free Amer Matar now.

Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · 13d

Amer Matar from the Syrian Prisons Museum was arrested by the Syrian authorities.
Freedom for Amer!

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 18d

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Documenting the Means of Murder

The Syria Prisons Museum has now launched with an event in the National Museum in Damascus, and as a website here. The first in-depth investigation, complete with 3D virtual tour, witness testimoni…

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 24d

Hate thy neighbour and 'Christ is king'. Christianity dies in western societies but the Crusader ideology is continually reborn.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · Aug 22

Here I am on the Eon podcast talking about Suwayda and the need for constructive criticism qunfuz.com/2025/08/21/c...

Constructive Criticism

Here I am on the Eon podcast with some post-Suwayda constructive criticism for the Syrian transitional authorities.

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · Aug 1

1. 🧵“What I’m seeing is not a new home being built.” Zaina Erhaim and @qunfuz.bsky.social join @faisalalyafai.bsky.social on the podcast to discuss the terrible recent violence in Sweida, Israel’s bombing of Damascus and what’s next for Syria’s future.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · Aug 13

We had a really interesting conversation with Hussam Hamoud
about surveillance under ISIS and its effects on society. qunfuz.com/2025/08/13/t...

The Hisba Diwan

At the ISIS Prisons Museum you can now read our investigations into the Hisba Diwan, a supposed behaviour police force which the organization imposed on society in eastern Syria and western Iraq. Y…

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · Jul 29

I still think that's unlikely. The Alawi area on the coast has Sunni majorities in the cities. Sweida has a Druze majority but is separated from Israel by Sunni-majority Daraa. Most of the SDF north east is Sunni Arab, and both turkey and the US want it to remain part of Syria. Chaos is more likely.

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