Sheridan Stewart

Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs This is my will and my final message. If my words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you. God knows that I have given all my effort and strength to be a support and a voice for my people since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that God would grant me life to return with my family and loved ones to our original town of Ashkelon (Al-Majdal), occupied land. But God's will was swifter, and His decree is binding. I lived pain in all its details, tasted grief and loss repeatedly, yet I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is—-without distortion or falsification— hoping God would bear witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, those who besieged our breaths, and whose hearts were not moved by the shattered bodies of our children and women, nor did they stop the massacre our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine, the jewel of the Muslim world and the pulse of every free heart in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its innocent children who were not granted the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, their remains scattered on the walls. l urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward liberating the land and the people until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you with my family. I entrust you with the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter, Sham, whom fate did not allow me to see grow as I dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son, Salah, whom I wished to support and accompany until he grew strong, carrying my burden and continuing the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose prayers were the reason I reached where I did. Her supplications were my fortress, and her light my path. I pray God to ease her heart and reward her abundantly on my behalf. I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah Bayan, from whom war separated us for long days and months, but who remained faithful, steadfast like an olive tree trunk that never bends, patient and devout, carrying the trust in my absence with strength and faith. I urge you to gather around them and be their support after God Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast on my principles, bearing witness to God that I am satisfied with His decree, believing in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and everlasting. O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path to freedom for my people and family.

Forgive me if I fell short, and pray for me mercy, for I have remained true to the covenant, never changing or betraying it. Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your good prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025 This is what Anas ordered to be published upon his martyrdom.

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

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This is seriously beyond, BEYOND shameful and seriously fucked up.

To think… that this tripe is being distributed THROUGH AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT CHANNEL???!!!

Yes, we’re across the Rubicon.

Yes, this is fascism.

Yes, he’s an un-American, democracy-hating dictator.

I weep for our country.

To reiterate: there is no legitimate justification for this. Violent crime is at a 30-year low in D.C.

People are just walking around, going about their lives, acting like the governments we elected in the global north aren’t, right now, facilitating one of the most unimaginable atrocities in human history.

Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism.

"We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.

We watched him live through starvation and bombardment and do his job and then we watched him die.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

Less than two years ago, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza city merited a multi-day news cycle, with international outrage forcing Israel to issue denials and launch an absurd but ultimately successful attempt to muddy the waters with dubious theories about Gazans bombing themselves.

I genuinely think we should be asking the politicians who have suddenly found god on the question of genocide whether they will advocate for the kids who lost their goddamn diplomas and jobs for saying what they now agree with

Why So Few Politicians Are Speaking Up for Palestine A case study of the first Palestinian American elected to the Virginia State Legislature, Delegate Sam Rasoul, and the backlash he's receiving for speaking up

VA Dems are accusing VA Delegate Sam Rasoul of antisemitism because he condemns Netanyahu & zionism. So, I took his allegedly antisemitic quote & included it amongst 4 quotes by Israeli & Jewish scholars about Netanyahu & Zionism & asked readers to pick out Sam's.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-so-few...

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

I think that that's a profound question that arouses a lot of the biggest problems that have happened with Cuomo’s survival, Cuomo’s right to survival, in the electoral scene.

The Israeli military just killed him.

(Look at the photo caption)

Photo of a young, handsome smiling man with dark hair wearing a PRESS vest

Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAISharifo • Translated by Grok Relentless bombardment... For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City. [video of an missile exploding in the darkness]

@AnasAlSharifo A To Whom It May Concern, The occupation is now openly threatening a full-scale invasion of Gaza. For 22 months, the city has been bleeding under relentless bombardment from land, sea, and air. Tens of thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands wounded. If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people's voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop. Please share this message and tag everyone who has the power to help end this massacre. Silence is complicity.

⚠️ Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza.

A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted.

He was reporting until the moment of his death.

The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out:

“Silence is complicity.”

It really seems to be the US, England and France where the 'the public has a duty to reinvent itself to make itself more ideologically convenient for the politicians' virus is most advanced

it’s legit radicalizing stuff that people are being arrested for these beliefs while the political establishment is, at the same fucking time, starting to agree with them

You'll never be able to travel to US or work in education again if you attend this weekend's Palestine Action protest, say Met Police

Oh my days

It’s wild how Palestinians are (falsely) accused of not having allowed for a two-state solution, yet if you ask electeds from any party with power in the US, UK, etc., whether they support a Palestinian state, they act like this. Even Canada’s recognition is a sham.

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To push for the arrest of Yinon Levi, who’s since, calmly living his life as if he hadn’t committed that murder. #JusticeForAwdah

As an historian, I think it's bad when "blood libel" goes from denoting a very specific part of anti-Jewish history rooted in particular forms of medieval Christian anti-Judaism, to just meaning any criticism of Israel. A whole generation won't understand just how bad the actual blood libel was!

Excerpt from “What Tech Calls Thinking” by Adrian Daub (1/3)

Excerpt from “What Tech Calls Thinking” by Adrian Daub (2/3)

Excerpt from “What Tech Calls Thinking” by Adrian Daub (3/3)

One other thought here is this really sharp point from @adriandaub.bsky.social’s “What Tech Calls Thinking”

ICE looted their restaurant and tried to break into the safe. News chopper footage caught them backing their cars up to the door and carrying out cases of food.

How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza As Israel refuses to let in sufficient humanitarian aid, a leading expert on famine explains why even “flooding the zone” with food won’t be enough.

“If Netanyahu wanted every child in Gaza to be fed tomorrow, he could just give that instruction and it would happen.” One of the world’s leading experts on famine discusses the starvation in Gaza.

What's crazy to me is that the average voter totally agrees some of these "settled" subjects are very much not settled, and scholars just look at those members of the public like they're idiots who just need to open a book.

When the masses tell us what isn't settled, maybe we should believe them.

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