The United Nations’ Secretary-General António Guterres personally selected Pakistani-American Ayisha Siddiqa to be one of his advisers to help “accelerat[e] the implementation of his climate action agenda,” a 2023 UN announcement stated. On the surface, the new United Nations youth climate adviser seems legitimate, as Siddiqa was a Time Woman of the Year in 2023 and has co-founded two youth climate activist organizations.
However, it appears as though she was chosen for her history of social media posts that call for the destruction of capitalism, claim “terrorism” is used as a Western smear to justify its imperialism and attack White people for purportedly fueling humanity’s extinction vis-à-vis the climate crisis.
In order to qualify for the two-year assignment, criteria for candidates is a “demonstrated commitment to the UN’s values.” Regarding those ‘values’, Fox News has published some of Siddiqa’s social media statements:
“You want to know why I got into climate activism, it wasn’t because I wanted to protect the environment (although that is a very valid reason). I became involved [because] the West slaughtered, bombed and starved my people to death in the name of oil. And no one talks about it,” she wrote. “When I think of fossil fuel, I don’t think of pollution… I think of… organized terrorism and I think of demolished democracies at the hands of the West,” she wrote in separate posts in November 2020.
“Why is it that when non-white nations stand up against bombing, and pillaging of natural resources that they are immediately vilified. and that vilification is attributed to an innate problem in their psyche, or concept of living known as religion,” she posted in April 2021. “There is a reason why the phrase Islamic terrorism is only 60ish years old. This vocabulary was invented to justify covert Western imperialism.”
Siddiqa also mentioned Franz Fanon and Angela Davis, two Marxists thinkers who supported using violence as a means of liberation, in a post about Hamas as it launched thousands of rockets into Israeli civilian areas in May 2021.
In March 2021, she posted, “[T]he white man has brought life as we know it, to the verge of extinction.”
“The white man sits at the highest level of power in the world, the same way he has killed, looted and abused black and brown people for profit so has he the earth,” she posted in May 2022.
The UN adviser also ranted about how she believes White people should take a step down from power in the climate movement, saying it belongs to people of color.
“We’re allowing White people to have too much space,” she said. “[W]hite people have absolutely no prerogative or authority to lead the movement.”
Other posts singled out “Arabs” and “Arab nations” for being supposedly racist and colluding with White people in contributing to the climate crisis.
“[W]hite men… collude with other violent systems of power (like the Arab gulf) who hurt poor, black and brown people the most,” she said in a post about Saudi companies and “and other non-white ppl led mechanisms of destruction.”
Another post railed against “Arabs” for supposedly being racist and participating in slavery “to the most disgusting extent.”
Following the George Floyd riots of 2020, Siddiqa said, “America you looted every inch of this planet, raped and [pillaged] its brown and black people and now you are angry that your citizens are doing it to you.”
Around the same time period, she said, “racial harmony is fallacy.”
She posted a quote from Marxist Franz Fanon, “This is the age of revolution… for the great masses of mankind… never ceased to resist, to fight as well as they could, to live in combat. The combatant dignity of humanity was maintained… in the… little revolutionary vanguards bound to… its socialist future…”
“Psa: you can be Karl Marx reincarnated, but if you treat other people like they are insignificant… your ideology is worthless. especially if you’re a man, especially, especially if you’re a white man,” Siddiqa said on X.
“We are in the height of capitalism. Never before did billionaires exist due to this amount of exploited labor, not in Marx, Lenin, or Trotsky’s time. Which is to say- if their critiques were written today, imagine how much more radical, subversive and shocking they would be,” she said.