Sarah Leah Whitson
@sarahleah1
Executive Director of DAWN @dawnmenaorg Formerly ED of MENA Division at Human Rights Watch
The new name of the street in front of the Saudi consulate in #LosAngeles
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.forward.com/opinion/757549…
Where is Samantha Power? nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi… @mehdirhasan @MouinRabbani @sarahleah1
Feed the Children of Gaza, no child should be starving.
Since Republicans regained control of the House in FY2024, its foreign aid appropriations bill has sought to lift human rights conditions on military aid to Egypt. This year it goes even further. A 🧵
Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee passed its FY2026 foreign aid bill along party lines. It includes drastic cuts the president requested. For the Middle East & North Africa much remains the same, but billions in unrestricted funds could mean significant change. A🧵
‘We faced hunger before,but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza :Imagine if they were your own children's or loved one's,How would you feel? These children have done nothing to deserve this life. @sarahleah1 @UN share.google/FkdGwM82UlVQYq…
Gaza is starving. This week, I spoke of the complexity of addressing this scale of malnutrition. It goes beyond food — Gaza needs skilled pediatricians, nutritionists, and other specialists to save innocent people, including children, from starving to death.
Massive disruption just now in the US Senate cafeteria to protest bipartisan support for Israel’s genocidal policy of starving and slaughtering the people of Gaza No free lunch for Gaza Holocaust enablers
Thomas Massie has proven a more reliable partner for the anti-war left than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries will ever be. currentaffairs.org/news/thomas-ma…
INVESTIGATION: The Israeli army is routinely attacking Palestinian rescue teams, paramedics, and other civilians in ‘double tap’ bombings designed to prevent them from saving the wounded after airstrikes. By @yuval_abraham @mekomit 972mag.com/double-tap-isr…
A terrifying development, as ICE seeks to strip political asylum from an Egyptian political activist who has been residing lawfully in the United States, for zero stated reason. mideastdc.org/publication/pe… East Democracy Center
"What I do think we have to recognize, is that the Biden administration paved the way, for some of the things that are happening today, in terms of a failure to protect student protesters" - Sarah Leah Whitson @sarahleah1 @DAWNmenaorg #StudentProtests #HigherEd #FreeSpeech…
‼️🚨Breaking news: France will recognize the State of Palestine
Fidèle à son engagement historique pour une paix juste et durable au Proche-Orient, j’ai décidé que la France reconnaîtra l’État de Palestine. J’en ferai l’annonce solennelle à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, au mois de septembre prochain.…
Incredible; have these two craven cowards, Josh Shapiro and Rahm Emanuel, said a word about the actual starvation and genocide in Gaza? nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/…
The Greater Israel caucus in Congress rejoices...
Historic moment in Israel: the Knesset just passed a resolution supporting asserting sovereignty over Judea & Samaria. These regions are not “occupied”; they are the ancestral heartland of the Jewish people. As Chair of the Friends of Judea & Samaria Caucus, I will continue to…
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“Christ died in Gaza” is not hyperbole. In every child dying of hunger, there is an innocent crucified while the world looks away. Today, Mary is Naima, Amal, Samah. Read more ⬇️ channeldraw.org/2025/07/22/chr…
BLINDED BY JORDANIAN POLICE: "What's shocking isn't only that #Jordan security forces beat & blinded a young Jordanian man in their custody, but that authorities have shielded the abusive forces from any accountability. @KingAbdullahII's failure to rein in the security…
Please tell me, what kind of person starves children to death? What kind of person shoots starving children?