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You ain’t a leftist if you haven’t left yet w/ Mohammed El-Kurd

The Red Nation | November 15, 2025



*Editor’s note: This episode was recorded on 9/25/23*

Jen, Demetrius, and Kiley sit down with Mohammed El-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) to discuss what is happening in El-Kurd’s hometown, Al Quds, settler colonialism, and the Palestinian/Native connection.

You can learn more about our guest here: https://www.mohammedelkurd.com/

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  2. @slampersand3145

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    Mohammed, my uncle was a Frito Lay guy and had a truck that was off limits to his 4 kids but when my sister and I would visit (Florida, from Georgia which is like a ten hour drive from ours to theirs) he would let us have whatever we wanted and my sweet Aunt Kathy would make "salsa" which is more like pico de gallo but very heavy on the sweet peppers.. anyway, my garden now, tomatoes and cucumbers are the only way.. but we in the SE get pickle worms (it's a night moth) and tobacco hornworms on tomatoes… I think the SE US Mesopotamia has more bugs than the Levant. Bless y'all. Free Falastin.

  3. @z23729

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    I love my Palestinian brothers and sisters so much! From Pakistan ❤ and I have to say I love these REAL American people ❤️ may liberation and justice be near for you both 🙏

  9. @Oslya1

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    I'm Native American these white colonizers occupying so-called "America" will soon be a minority in 2054, same goes for the illegitimate state of "Canada" in 2036.

    Make America Great Again? No. Make Turtle Island Indigenous Again? Yes. 🐢🏝

  10. @teffythomas944

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    Hello to Friends of The Red Nation,

    I agree with J. Sakai in him correctly saying that race is an identifyer of class in the United States. Such is the case simply because the U.S. is a European settler colonialist imperialist nation. The internally colonized peoples in the world are the exclusive phenomena of European settler colonialism in all of the European settler colonialist national formations in the world in which the U.S. is the leading such formation. In relation to those formations, the contradiction between the colonizers and the colonized is a class contradiction which obviously exists through race and thereby race is an identifyer of class in all of the European settler colonialist national formations. That is not to say that class difference does not exist among the European settler colonialists and among the internally colonized. Class difference exists within those two groups. However, in relation to the European settler colonialists, despite the class difference that exists among them, nonetheless they have the SAME CLASS INTEREST AS COLONIZERS. Now in relation to the internally colonized, all of them cannot have the same class interest as the colonized if the neocolonialist stage of the imperial capitalist system of the white nations (which include all of the European settler colonialist national formations) has taken hold of the internally colonized. Neocolonialism is the last stage of that imperial capitalist system in which that system continues to rip off and ravage The Wretched Of The Earth but through the outlandish notion that that system granted national independence and sovereignty to all peoples colonized by that system. What actually occurred was that that imperial capitalist system allowed the national bourgeoisies of all colonized peoples to set about political systems that were to be reflective of the interests of the imperialist nations. Such is what neocolonization of The Wretched Of The Earth entailed. The national bourgeoisies of all colonized peoples have always lacked capital and in neocolonialism those national bourgeoisies continue and sustain their class existence by being neocolonized puppet sellouts to and for the imperialist nations. Hence the internally colonized in their entirety cannot have the same class interest as the colonized if neocolonialism has its hold on them. Nonetheless, the races of the internally colonized are identifyers of their class stations.

    Sincerely and respectfully,
    Teffy K. Thomas

  11. @everly-rose-003

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    Lucky to live in a country that has made some reparations. so we don't individually have to leave. Still as I look at the changers from capitalism to technocracy and the wealth becoming the security of the 1%, everyone is becoming dispossessed. My heart and thoughts are with the people of Palestine as what is happening there is beyond belief

  13. @southpaw786

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    Thank you Red Nation, this is very heartening. Your beautiful spirit still burns bright illuminating the darkness of the past lighting the way to a better, more humane and just future.

  15. @shelbycole6368

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    I loved this episode so much!! Was so nice to hear Indigenous folx talk about international solidarity and the connections between struggle without having to worry about how their words sound to colonizer ears (seriously I feel like there is so few spaces where we can joke around). Sounded surprisingly joyful and hopeful! Tremendously enjoyed the laughter shared and discussion and was laughing along with yall. And super informative! This one is going to be a multiple repeat episode for me 🙂

  16. @beadmecreative9485

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    I am not Palestinians or native. I have been long observer of the Palestinian movement. I think Mohammad is being a bit too pessimistic. Palestinians have A LOT of orgs, political, cultural and historical that are talking about Palestine all the time, not saying there isn’t a huge Zionist movement to counter their stories. I am part of a persecuted group who literally have none of what Palestine has. So it makes me sad thinking how far we have to go for our own liberation. 😢

  19. @johnhirtle4300

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    As a 67 year old white person born and raised in the US, I have been on a quest for truth, having early on realized that things are not at all what they seem here. Interestingly, it is my profound affinity for the Oppressed People of Palestine that led to my finding the Red Nation space here, and this discussion put me in mind of something the late Great Russell Means said, which was to the effect of, regardless of race or ethnicity, "we are ALL on the reservation now". That resonated with me so much, because I have been more and more seeing through the propaganda and abject government corruption how the entire populace of this country, and indeed, most of the world is being colonized by dark, unseen political/financial forces that hid nothing in their genocide of indigenous people or abuse of black and brown people, but are now moving to enslave, and indeed, eliminate ALL of us using the same blueprint. Ironically, the salvation of human kind may well lie in the joining of an emerging enlightened homogeneous populace of all races and ethnicities sharing a common goal – SURVIVAL – based on the lessons learned in indigenous oppression and struggle. There is so much we can do togetherto combat ignorance and tyrrany ❤❤❤❤

  21. @teejatron9849

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    Friendly suggestion. Explain what #LandBack means earlier in the discussion. Then you can include people who don't already know, rather than turning them off from your message with "throw em in the ocean" comments, that don't get explained until an hour+ later. I'd like to emphasize that this is a friendly suggestion.

  23. @publicdomain1103

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    The thought that the apex creature on this oasis is going down due to .01 percent of corrupted input is worthy of a cosmic chuckle. ShakeUp XR. BDS the Bigs. Be the change. watch yur eyes.

  24. @misshelloareyouthere

    November 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    WE SHOULD BE ASHAMED ( INDIGENOUS)! Indigenous communities is not united between Mexican indigenous, red skinned indigenous , black skinned indigenous. Palestinian should be looking at indigenous in the USA and saying what is your problem . You're depened on white colonizers money . These white colonizers tell you who is indigenous and who is not. Indigenous. You let white people fake being indigenous . You don't claim your BlACK indigenous cousin. I wonder how many Palestinian know the history of blsck skinned indigenous people in USA. I hear EXCLUSION. Some of those black people being killed by police come from indigenous ancestry. This is sad.

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