Maya Wind

Author, Towers of Ivory and Steel | UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow @UCRiverside

[Maya Wind @mayaywind]

20 years ago @PACBI called for the boycott of Israeli universities. Responding to this call, I wrote a book investigating Israeli universities' complicity in settler colonialism. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom is out today @VersoBooks

[Hanna Alshaikh - هناء الشيخ @hanna_alshaikh]

They deserve the world

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

Israel is now officially a rogue state.

We urgently call on you to #DisruptComplicity now.

As a matter of life-or-death urgency, Palestinian civil society calls on you to block highways, ports, and facilities of complicit corporations — to end business as usual with a rogue, apartheid state and its livestreamed genocide.

https://t.co/WKyJalHcse

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

Today, we honor the memory of the thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese murdered during the Sabra and Shatila massacre — and call for peacefully disruptive actions from 18-21 September, the UN deadline for Israel to end its illegal occupation and apartheid. #DisruptComplicity

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Israel is annihilating what’s left of Gaza City. The crime of the century.

[Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR @pchrgaza]

‼️Breaking: PCHR's Headquarters Office in Gaza City, located in Al-Roya Tower, has just been completely destroyed by IOF's warplanes, as part of Israel's ongoing systematic attacks targeting high rise buildings in the City, in another war crime committed against the Palestinian people and their institutions.

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

Her name is Mariam Abu Daqqa, and she has worked day and night, like all of our peers in Gaza- in excruciating inhumane circumstances to do their job.

All so at the end @AP doesn’t even give courtesy of giving a name. Just passing news.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Live on air… Israel bombs civil defense teams as they try to retrieve the body of journalist Hossam Al-Masri, killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital.
Ongoing crimes before the eyes of the entire world.

[Mezna Qato @meznaqato]

How far Harvard Educational Review has fallen since it published Munir Fasheh's brilliant essay on community education in 1990, at the height of the first Intifada. https://t.co/IG2QzY05ee

[Mezna Qato @meznaqato]

One of my dear colleagues in Gaza, Ahmed Junina, wrote about what it’s like to teach while starving. https://t.co/3M3nq1n80Z

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

Israel has assassinated almost 270 Palestinian journalists.

This is aimed at suppressing coverage of its livestreamed genocide and creating a media blackout ahead of its plan to commit further atrocities. Take action now.

Read more: https://t.co/vy5H4DuHjQ

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

Westren media is complicit

[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.

[Institute for Palestine Studies @PalStudies]

"Children are not starving because food is scarce. They are starving because the borders are closed. Because aid is blocked. Because food convoys are targeted... Gaza is not starving. Gaza is being starved. And the world is watching."
@izzeddinshaheen

https://t.co/eBkY4tSnsg

[PACBI - BDS movement @PACBI]

300+ academics at German universities have signed a declaration of conscientious objection refusing collaboration with complicit Israeli institutions and universities. Their action is inspired by the Swedish Uppsala Declaration.

https://t.co/o4S5Wvk5FJ

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

1. The defects of Liberal Zionism are evident in this interview with David Grossman, one of the first liberal zionists to acknowledge that Israel is committing genocide: 🧵

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

In case you missed it, our conversation today on Israel’s famine in Gaza.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Never forget that this has been a “liberal” genocide before anything else. Liberals fanned its flames, manufactured consent for it, concealed it through media censorship and blackout, and prevented the translation of grassroots pressure into policy shifts to bring it to an end.

[Fady Joudah @FadyJoudah]

Starvation, once in motion, even after food & medical care become availabe, remains irreversible for so many of its victims. It's a greater sin than the sin itself to be have spoken only after the sight of skin-on-bones killed Palestinians. An unforgiveable "theology of empire."

[Mezna Qato @meznaqato]

To watch via internet cafe connection as a colleague in Gaza turns ever more gaunt, as they try to teach and research between dizzy spells and physical collapse, throws into sharp relief the many complicities of the academy at work. Divestment now.

[Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس @sharifkouddous]

The Gaza health ministry just put out an urgent bulletin saying “unprecedented numbers of starving people of all ages are arriving at emergency rooms in a state of extreme exhaustion and fatigue” and are at risk of death. This is Israel’s unchecked policy of forced starvation.