Sana Saeed
@SanaSaeed
media critic, writer; currently uncouth. prev: Al Jazeera 🍁
In these dark moments, I’m reminded of these words by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish
“They were martyred while sleeping and hungry” — Victims killed in their sleep inside their tents after the Israeli occupation bombed them west of Al-Shati refugee camp.
People are watching a system that is using mass starvation on tens of thousands of children in Gaza while severely punishing those protesting it and leadership of the nominally liberal party say absolutely nothing about it or openly cheerleads it.
BREAKING: Columbia University has announced mass sanctions on nearly 80 pro-Palestine protesters — they have been suspended for 1 to 3 years or expelled from Columbia for joining a protest at the university's Butler Library in May this year, according to Columbia University…
Hundreds of high-profile Western journalists are complicit. And, here's the thing, many of them genuinely believe that all they're doing is being objective. After 25 years in this business, I know the hubris well.
"Horrific massacre 10 martyrs, including 6 children and a paramedic, and others injured in the occupation's bombing of a house inhabited by displaced people from the Mushtaha family northwest of Gaza City"
The real danger isn’t just that the West is enabling or even partaking in genocide by starvation, but that it is now chillingly comfortable being seen as complicit in it. It's a horrific type of comfort that tells the world, “we know what this looks like and we don’t care.” In…
ABC, NBC, CBS News ran token reports on Gaza starvation yesterday and had all the tropes: -“Hamas-run health ministry” -Centering Israeli denials -Framing it as the unfortunate result of a new “military offensive” -Zero mention of open Israeli starvation and de-population plans
This is such a critical point: starve the people, create desperation, beget chaos, justify increased violence including forcible transfers of populations out of Gaza. Palestinians have resisted every aspect of this genocide, meant to destroy their capacity for life, but…
On the @DropSiteNews livestream @MouinRabbani points out that Israel is starving Gaza to bring about social collapse there.
A emaciated body, crutches by his side, and blood covering his head... This man was martyred, starving and injured, in an Israeli bombardment targeting the tents of displaced people in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza. جسد هزيل، عكازان بجانبه، ودماء تغطي رأسه... هذا الرجل…
Let the record also show that AOC has posted on X & BlueSky about herself and her ‘record on Palestine’ more than she has about Palestinians being starved to literal death by the Israeli and U.S. governments.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention – named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide – says it plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU…
AOC adopted a smug posture to justify her indefensible vote to send more money to the Zionist regime. Her indifferent tone was not incidental. By saying “of course I voted no,” as if this were a political no-brainer, she’s attempting to revive a defunct electoral adage: that…