Elias Zee

Carnival researcher | Activist | Outreach Worker | Spurs

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had 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 and scattered across the walls.

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.

I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.

I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.

I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.

O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.

Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif
06.04.2025

This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gary Stevenson asks why millionaires and billionaires are not being taxed more #BBCQT

When Fiona Bruce asks why he thinks a wealth tax will work when other countries have abandoned it

Gary Stevenson points out we did it before in the 50s, 60s and 70s, and it worked then, so it can work now 👏

[St Mungo's Unite @SMUnite]

A black worker with precarious immigration status is facing homelessness after @StMungos senior management unjustly removed him from the locum bank. Donate to his fundraiser to support him avoid eviction ✊https://t.co/XG1CpoWnDK #Unite #crowdfunding please share widely and RT.

[Valerie Bossman-Quarshie For Bunhill 2021-22-26 @ValerieABossman]

I returned back to #NottingHillCarnival to join old friends from the political sphere! I only experienced #GOODViBES with my ppl's!
Thanks .@lmhrnational @unisontheunion .@NEUnion for supporting the 56th year event. Carnival is one of the places whereby I feel that diasporan joy!

[Elias Zee @EliasZee]

At the end of yet another fantastic Notting Hill Carnival weekend, we should not forget the event's antiracist roots because they inform our struggles against racism and the far-right today. Article in @FarOutMag https://t.co/c1z0yY1LZI

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

🚨JUST ANNOUNCED: LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM IS RELAUNCHING🚀

⭐️@Palomafaith @lapsleyyyy @LiamBailey + more TBA👀

After a summer of antiracist resistance, let’s unite against division, celebrate our diversity and party with a purpose💚

Book tickets‼️https://t.co/ulHiAYVfLP

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

JUST ANNOUNCED 🚀

Campaign launch to stop the far right with @jeremycorbyn @biminibabes @DanielKebedeNEU antifascists from the front line and much more tbc

Keep protesting up and down the country. And come to this campaign launch to pull it all together ✊🏾

🗓️ Sat 17 Aug
📍 LDN location tbc

Tickets: https://t.co/HdpgTVLOcB

#StandUptoRacism

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

Walthamstow tonight ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

This is what a mass movement against the far right looks like @wfsutr

#StandUpToRacism

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

To those who stood against racism and fascism tonight, thank you. An immense show of strength, love and empathy.

No Pasaran ❤️

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

JUST ANNOUNCED 🚀

Campaign launch to stop the far right with @jeremycorbyn @biminibabes @DanielKebedeNEU antifascists from the front line and much more tbc

Keep protesting up and down the country. And come to this campaign launch to pull it all together ✊🏾

🗓️ Sat 17 Aug
📍 LDN location tbc

Tickets: https://t.co/HdpgTVMm29

#StandUptoRacism

[Shirin Hirsch @ShirinHirsch]

Well meaning colleagues and friends advising students and staff who are not white to stay at home for own safety. But our safety comes in our collective numbers, in refusing to be cowered. Fascists thrive on fear. All out in Manchester this Saturday!

[Love Music Hate Racism @lmhrnational]

One not to miss tomorrow @OmearaLondon with the extremely talented @SansSoucisMusic & @oscjerome
Tickets via @dicefm https://t.co/NnPqHmW702 #OMEARA #London #Stopthehate #Wednesday #ArtistsForHumanity

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

🥤💥Barrage against Farage: Kick racism out of the election💥🥤

🗓 THIS Sat 29 June, 12-3pm
📍Clacton Town Square, Piers Avenue, Clacton-on-Sea CO15 1FB

📢 Join anti racist activists making a splash in Clacton, with leafleting, music, and an anti-Farage bus driving around the town! Let’s show up against Farage and Reform UK’s politics of racism and hate✊🏽

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Promoted by Stand Up To Racism, PO Box 79407, London N17 1HP

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Julian Assange is free.

Julian exposed the crimes of the powerful. His incarceration was — and always will be — a grotesque miscarriage of justice.

Never stop fighting for the truth. Never lose hope. Never, ever give up.

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

It’s windrush day. Anybody ‘celebrating’ it without acknowledging both the lack of compensation for windrush victims or the moral bankruptcy of the Rwanda flights is not honouring the rind rush generation but traducing them.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

On this day in 1984, thousands of picketing miners were attacked by riot police in the Battle of Orgreave.

40 years on, we are still fighting for the truth, for justice, and for our right to strike.

Workers had my support then, and they have my support now.

[Hakim Adi @hakimadi1]

Stephen Lawrence detectives will not face prosecution (no surprises there!) https://t.co/LuiwiM3Kj4

[Love Music Hate Racism @lmhrnational]

In response to the snap general election, we have mobilised a non-partisan 'Stop the Hate' tour around the UK to oppose racism and bigotry being peddled in the election, through the unifying power of music.

Tickets here: https://t.co/H7yjppCSfr

[Elias Zee @EliasZee]

Ahead of carnival this year, read my article examining convergences between the Notting Hill event and antiracist movement Rock Against Racism during the 1970s.

[Ethnic and Racial Studies @ERSjournal]

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The Notting Hill Carnival & Rock Against Racism were 2 significant cultural and political movements of the mid/late 70s. @EliasZee examines convergences in the cultures of resistance practised by the 2 during the late 70s.

@SociologyGold, @lmhrnational

[Maxine Bowler for Brightside & Hillsborough @Maxine4Sheff]

🇵🇸 Today I handed in my nomination papers to stand as an Independent Socialist for Palestine in Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough.

Watch this video on why I’m standing 👇

Donate to my crowdfunder to take on Labour: https://t.co/zr8eLcahHj

@wearecollectiv_ @tf_politics