{"id":298129,"date":"2025-07-14T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=298129"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:29:37","slug":"imperial-hypocrisy-about-terrorism-hits-its-most-absurd-point-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/07\/imperial-hypocrisy-about-terrorism-hits-its-most-absurd-point-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Hypocrisy about \u201cTerrorism\u201d Hits Its Most Absurd Point Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa aka Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, ex-terrorist turned Syria’s president.
Image via White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (Public Domain)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cTerrorist\u201d just means \u201canyone who inconveniences the empire in any way.\u201d It really is that simple.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

8 Jul 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0The US has removed Syria\u2019s Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.<\/p>\n

The western empire will surely find ways to be even more hypocritical and ridiculous about its \u201cterrorism\u201d designations in the future, but at this point it\u2019s hard to imagine how it will manage to do so.<\/p>\n

Antiwar\u2019s Dave DeCamp writes the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cSecretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Monday that the Trump administration is revoking the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the al-Qaeda offshoot that took power in Damascus in December 2024.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cHTS started as the al-Nusra Front, which was the official al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria until the group\u2019s leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is now Syria\u2019s de facto president, rebranded. In 2016, Sharaa, who was known at the time as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, announced he was disassociating from al-Qaeda, and thanked the \u2018commanders of al-Qaeda for having understood the need to break ties.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cSharaa renamed his group HTS in 2017 and ruled Syria\u2019s northwestern Idlib province until he led the offensive that ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the end of last year. The US has embraced the new Syrian leader despite his al-Qaeda past, which included fighting against US troops in Iraq.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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