Osama bin Laden’s letter goes viral on TikTok — RT World News

More than 20 years after the assaults that ignited the US ‘War on Terror,’ Osama Bin Laden’s anti-Jewish letter justifying terrorism towards Americans has resonated on social media and captured the imaginations of pro-Palestinian activists amid the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Videos with the hashtag “LettertoAmerica” have been considered greater than 13.5 million occasions on TikTok, apparently starting with a publish on Tuesday by a person named Lynette Adkins. “I need everyone to stop what they’re doing right now and go read – it’s literally two pages – go read ‘A Letter to America,’” she stated. “And please come back here and just let me know what you think because I feel like I’m going through, like, an existential crisis right now, and a lot of people are, so I just need someone else to be feeling this, too.” 

Other customers reacted equally to the not too long ago rediscovered letter, which is over 20 years previous. Another TikTok person who claimed to be struggling an “existential crisis” stated of the letter, “I will never look at life the same; I will never look at this country the same.”

For his half, US Senator Marco Rubio steered in a publish on X (previously Twitter) that the reactions present terrorist sympathies: “They now understand terrorism is a legitimate method of resistance against ‘oppression,’ and America deserved to be attacked on 9/11.”

Bin Laden, who addressed the 2002 letter “to the American people,” condemned the US for supporting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and argued that Jews managed American insurance policies, capital, and media. “The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased,” he wrote. “Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution toward this crime must pay its price – and pay for it heavily.” 

The Al-Qaeda founder went on to name for the blood of Palestinians to be avenged. “It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression,” Bin Laden stated. “Do not await anything from us but jihad, resistance, and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that, after America has attacked us for more than half a century, we will then leave her to live in security and peace?”

The UK’s Guardian newspaper had posted a duplicate of the letter since an English translation was first printed in November 2002. The outlet took down the doc on Wednesday. A spokesman for The Guardian informed Fox News that the paper had eliminated the letter as a result of it was being broadly shared on social media “without the full context.” The web page now hyperlinks to an article that gives context.

Adkins, the social media person who posted the letter on Tuesday, features a hyperlink on her TikTok web page to a fundraising web site for “Palestinian rights.” The web site requires a ceasefire in West Jerusalem’s conflict with Hamas, saying the Palestinians in Gaza are “living through genocide as Israel bombs, starves, and displaces them.”