Sana Saeed

I always forget I’m here too.

According to @sanasaeed.bsky.social, mainstream outlets use stories that highlight the toll of human suffering in Gaza to defend themselves when accused of bias.

“These types of ‘good stories’ still diminish the role of the United States and Israel in the genocide itself.”

One Day, Zionists Will Continue To Deny This Riffing off Sana Saaed's essay riffing off Omar El Akkad

New from @attackerman.bsky.social: Considering the attack on Qatar, an essay by @sanasaeed.bsky.social, and a book by Omar El Akkad.

Can’t really bring myself to be a regular on this website 🥲

Sounds of Israeli bombardment tonight:

More tweets from those in Gaza

You’re here and not necessarily hearing / reading the experiences of Palestinians in Gaza in real time.

Here are just some of the tweets from Palestinians in Gaza as Israel turns this into one of the bloodiest nights of the genocide.

Agreed. One of the best films I’ve seen in awhile and she carried that film on her back, shoulders and in her eyes.

yeah the woman who starred in a film about the cruel discarding of aging women in the entertainment industry in exchange for the hot new piece of ass losing to, well, pretty much that ..is too on the nose.

Trump’s plan for “emptying” Gaza had headlines and reports using the word “ethnic cleansing” and referencing it as a violation of international law. 145 Democrats called it “morally indefensible”.

None of that for Israel’s actual crimes.

Israel wants to extend the war, not the ceasefire.

It’s campaign of starvation - a war crime - is presented just as a tactic to extend the first phase of the ceasefire.

Israel wants to extend the first phase because the second phase would require it to withdraw its troops from Gaza & end the war.

This act is unequivocally anti-Muslim, it is an intentional desecration of the holy month; it is another iteration of the ethnosupremacy that has been a defining feature of the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

At a time when Muslims are already fasting out of spiritual and communal devotion, Israel wants to starve them - there’s almost a humor in it for them.

There is something pathologically cruel—distinctly Israeli, in its calculated brutality—about starving a population that is 99% Muslim on the second day of Ramadan.

This is actually insane? They weren’t even US citizens?

Their deaths—at the hands of Israel—are being used as a war cry for continuing the extermination of Palestinians. It’s become abundantly clear that the culture and embrace of genocide in this country won’t be dismantled.

If we want to talk about a theater of macabre, that performs humiliation and desecration of the dead, the Israelis are its greatest playwrights.

We’ve had 16 months straight of IDF soldiers filming themselves and taking photos of themselves wearing Palestinian women’s lingerie, playing and desecrating the bedrooms of children they’ve displaced, stepping on skulls of decomposed Palestinians.. it’s never ending.

Incredible thing to write and publish while a video, taken by an IDF soldier, of dogs eating the carcass of a murdered Palestinian circulates on social media—not an outlier of Israeli treatment of the Palestinians they’ve killed, but the norm.

Because thats the thing: the only way to create empathy for Israelis and manufacture them as the primary victims is, as we’ve seen, through presenting Palestinians as worthy of receiving every type of violence.

Constantly witnessing the humanization of every Israeli - by our media, elected officials, everyone - through the genocidal dehumanization of every single Palestinian is really goddamn exhausting.

I also want to note that the New York Times is well aware of how ethically compromised (to put it politely) Screams without Words was because they shelved The Daily episode about it. They just refuse to takedown and issue a correction & apology for the original.

That is intentional. Just as it was intentional that the New York Times published a poorly investigated piece based on fabricated testimonies that was then kept up despite being completely debunked./3

It cannot be emphasized enough how hard you have to work when writing a report, when editing that report, to not refer to something that is clearly a type of violence (like sexual violence) as what it is. “Sexual violence” is not a legal term, so there is no legal caution to be taken here. /2

The NYT is single-handedly responsible for one of the foundational lies that was used to justify the genocide of Palestinians: ‘Screams without words’.

Between that & this, it really should end any discussion about the breadth of *intentional complicity* in genocide manufacturing by the NYT.

In September 2024, Israel sent a truck of 88 bodies to Gaza without any identification or explanation for how and where they were killed.

In 2019, the Israeli High Court ruled that Palestinian bodies could be held by Israel as a bargaining chip.

In July, Haaretz reported that there are more than 1500 Palestinian bodies held at the Sde Teiman torture camp, alleged to be primarily of Hamas fighters from Oct 7th. There are also bodies that Israel has taken from inside Gaza of Palestinians it had killed or stolen from cemeteries& hospitals.

According to the National Campaign to Recover the Bodies of Martyrs, the Israelis currently hold the bodies of at least 665 Palestinians in Israeli cemeteries and morgues, some since the 60s & 70s.

59 bodies are of children and 259 bodies have been held since Oct 7. /1

gonna try to be a bit more active on here again✨

A ceasefire doesn’t end a genocide.

From the Herero & Nama genocide to the Holocaust to the man-made famines that forged the global south, genocidal projects often achieve the most harm and extermination not through bullets and bombs but the purposeful spread of disease and starvation.

The CNN report also mentions the incident where aid trucks were looted recently, but makes no mentions of the fact that the gangs operate under the support of the IDF — an accusation made by aid groups.