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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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I tried to google both The United Association for Studies and Research and its supposed founder, Mousa Abu Marzook. Now I don't know whether search engines are just literally incapable of finding things these days or what, but literally every result was some scare-mongering site about, like, "extremism" or "the islamic brotherhood" or "hamas networks operating in the US" or some such bullshit. You'd think if the UASR exists that they'd have a website or something I could find, but they sure don't seem to.
It pisses me off when people make comments on the internet with this much certainty, but I can't seem to verify even the very existence of the thing they're talking about. Mousa Abu Marzook appears to be a real person, a high-level hamas official, even, but beyond that, I just don't know how to find any info on this supposed "far-left academic think tank". It legitimately doesn't seem to exist, except to be referenced by "reports" on "extremism".
Ugghh, the internet has been pissing me off recently, I think I need to
The United Association for Studies and Research sounds so Vincent Adultman.
Admins, would it be possible to make
functional?
I don't even know how to search effectively anymore because of this bullshit, like trying to find any news info about Israeli violence before this year is impossible right now through search engines, hundreds of articles just talking about the current conflict and justifying genocide etc. You can't hardly even 'google it' to get to any concrete info about a situation.