* PLEASE SHARE * This is the last time I want to talk about the immense harm of Khaled Beydoun & Shaun King to our community. Most importantly, I underline communal/self accountability & centering the voices of 🇵🇸 & Black folks during our struggles for liberation. 1/
Black women warned us for years about the harm of SK, as when he aired his call with a grieving mother of a Black child killed by police, without her consent. Like our martyr @itranslate123, many Palestinians quickly cancelled SK out of solidarity with the Black community. 2/
SK began heavily posting about Gaza this year till Instagram banned him, likely because as @JenanMatari explains, he disrespected 🇵🇸 bodies, showing nude photos of our men & children including private parts, despite being asked not to by Palestinians. 3/ TikTok @ nataliethehero
SK then tried to portray himself as a victim of anti-🇵🇸 censorship. Still, he not only falsely took credit for the release of Israeli hostages, but supported the Zionist ADL & an unjust 2-state solution. 4/ Screenshots are from gazzablanka on Instagram. TikTok @ nataliethehero
At the start of Ramadan, SK "reverted" to Islam & launched an "exclusive tour" with fellow non-🇵🇸 grifter Khaled Beydoun & @HCICanada. Besides glamorizing & profiting off our genocide (centering themselves/social capital), SK began faithwashing his crimes like Andrew Tate. 5/
Beydoun indulges in trauma porn/tourism, steals posts from Palestinians & promotes normalization with "good Zionists". When Gazan Ahmad AlShaer (gazzablanka) called him & SK out over grifting, they defamed him as a "coward" & "liar" respectively, sending death threats his way. 6/
Major 🇵🇸 activists rushed to defend Ahmad, including @dianabuttu, Alana Hadid, Salma Shawa (Anat International), & @JenanMatari. Like myself, they condemn the decentering of 🇵🇸 voices, & the disrespectful, threatening, divisive, & narcissistic behaviour of SK & KB. 7/
SK responded to backlash regarding his anti-Palestinian racism by arrogantly & condescendingly urging people to turn him into the police. He also mocked Palestinians, calling them "haters" & thanking them for boosting HIS platform. 8/
This brilliant clip from @_iamblakeley, urges us to call out harm from allies without fearing mob attacks & emphasizing how a movement that doesn't cultivate space for dissent or accountability is a *cult*. Celebrity worship must also go. 9/
Finally, as my friend @fibrahimo pointed out, there is a gendered dynamic where largely Black & Palestinian women are calling out male grifters. Are some of our men silent bc they benefit from global patriarchy? As a fasting Muslim, I close with these verses from the Quran. 10/10
@sasa_ghada @_iamblakeley So if I understand this correctly, you and @_iamblakeley are opposing SK only because he is NOT a Palestinian? You have no proof that he or Khaled has harmed or defrauded any Palestinian? Thank you for playing right into Z hands. P.S: Slandering while fasting isn't a good look