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The Kurds are the origin of the land, and the myth of migration is the weapon of the Baath and Jolani
The Abu Muhammad Al-Jolani government employs the same outdated approach practiced by the criminal Baath regime that has long since passed away—attacking opponents and dissenters, and slandering them with the foulest accusations as the best means of defending a shattered self, stabbed in its ideology, regional relations, and its absurdity in exercising power. Just as the Baath mobilized dozens of paid writers and fake pages to tarnish the reputation of every free patriot, the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham apparatus does the same today, using mobs of naive and rebellious individuals, chewing on lies and re-producing cheap propaganda. What is truly ironic is that both the old regime and Jolani and his followers converge on one point: fighting the Kurdish people. Here, the line between an Arab racist, fundamentalist nationalism and a dark medieval Islamic takfiri discourse blurs, turning the attack on the Kurds into a common denominator that justifies their tyranny and prolongs the lifespan of their crumbling control.
It is not surprising that when all means are blocked for them against the Kurds and their movement, they resort to the easiest pretexts: questioning the patriotism of the Kurds and labeling them as migrants. This is a rhetoric inherited from Baathist culture, built on miserable historical fabrications. After extensive studies in intelligence agency basements, the Assad regime fabricated the idea that Kurds are “guests” in Syria, and that the Syrian state— which is less than a hundred years old and was established by French colonial decree— is the one that granted them citizenship. Some of their spokespeople even went as far as claiming that Kurds came from India or from another planet, forgetting or being ignorant of the fact that Arab tribes present today in the Kurdistan region came from the Hail area in the northern Arabian Peninsula between 1880 and 1910, after losing to the Al-Azza tribe and the forces of the Saudi family— a clear ignorance of the region’s history before the birth of "the bastard Syria" itself. They ignore that it is they who should be accepting the hands of the French and British colonialists, who drew the borders of the “homeland” that they sing about today.
During the years of tyranny, the Baath did not stop at these falsehoods; they recruited hypocritical writers to promote them, headed by Muhammad Jamal Barout, who authored a book full of distortions. Qatar— the sponsor of terrorism and Arab nationalist thought— embraced this narrative, funded it alongside Turkey, and promoted it through mercenaries like Azmi Bishara and others who sold their pens. Today, with Jolani emerging as Turkey’s top man, he has reproduced the same story under a new guise: “We are not against the Kurds, but against Qandil!” In reality, in their vocabulary, “Qandil” means any Kurdish leadership or influential Kurdish voice in the Syrian movement. It is a false pretext, a rotten facade to express their outright hostility toward the entire Kurdish people.
The people of Qandil are not strangers—they are the people of Kobani, Qamishli, Afrin, Deryaik, Amuda, and Hassakeh. When someone confronts them with this truth, they revert to their old trick: claiming that Kurds are “migrants”! Thus, their mask falls, revealing their true nature—that they are not fighting a specific leadership but the entire Kurdish people.
From here, our people in Western Kurdistan must be clear: defending Syria as a democratic homeland free from Baathism and takfiri groups is a duty, but equally important is the duty to raise the banner of Kurdish unity. The “Qandil” is the same as the “Hulairi,” the “Amidi,” and the children of Hassakeh and Mahabad; likewise, the Arab speaks about “Arab unity” without being accused of separatism. The Kurd is a child of Greater Kurdistan, and his unity does not conflict with his defense of a free Syria for all its components—a homeland accommodating Kurds, Arabs, Druze, Alawites, and Christians—a pure land fit for a decent life, freedom, and justice.
Kurdish forces, especially the Self-Administration forces, the authority emerging from the Qamishli Conference, and the SDF, must clearly declare their positions in defending the region, the Kurdish cause, and the interests of the Syrian people in all their diversity. Neglecting the consolidation of decentralization and federalism means the nipping of democracy in Syria and the re-creation of tyranny in a new guise—tyranny immersed in terrorism and takfiri ideology, far more dangerous than the ethnic nationalist tyranny that we have experienced for decades.
Dr. Mahmoud Abbas
