Sheryl Ono

Writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Monthly, The New York Times, LIFE, Newsweek, etc.

[Sheryl Ono @OnoSheryl]

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#FreePalestine #GazaGenocide‌

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨Today marks 1,000 days of genocide in Gaza. In this video we show ten of Israel’s most well-documented crimes

They're far from the worst atrocities they committed, but together they paint a clear picture of the brutality, deception & impunity that have allowed them to continue

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Israeli soldiers arresting a child on his way home from school highlights the harsh conditions Palestinian children endure under occupation: assault, arrest, persecution, torture, and expulsion from their homes.

[Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar]

If this were a photo of an Israeli hostage, it would be shown on every single news show with endless condemnations about the barbarity of the captors.

But it's a picture of a Palestinian hostage (one of thousands held by Israel), so social media is the only place you'll see it.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

What words exist in the English language to describe such crimes?

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

The UN inquiry’s findings that genocide is being carried out by Israeli authorities and security forces in Gaza - as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes - and additionally war crimes in the occupied West Bank - is due to what the inquiry found was the deliberate targeting of children - and it is horrifying reading. The details of the targeting are chilling. Children. Killed. Wounded. Tortured. Starved. Raped. On a mass scale

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a crime so dark it is difficult to comprehend

[Sheryl Ono @OnoSheryl]

@TrackAIPAC Astonishing. This clip needs to be everywhere.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel's cruelest & clearest genocidal act in Gaza was the deliberate bombing & burning of Gaza's fertility clinics & IVF centres

Over 5,000 embryos, unborn babies, murdered in a single strike!

How can anyone argue "it's not a genocide" when the evidence is beyond any doubt? Why would Israel systematically destroy Gaza's IVF clinics one by one?

[Sheryl Ono @OnoSheryl]

@PolitiKiss1600 @ryangrim @DarializaforNY So, tell your friend they met ten years ago in Lebanon, when she was volunteering at an educational nonprofit and he was working at a foreign ministry for the government of the U.K.

[Marcus Stanley @MarcusMStanley]

The most shocking part of this story is that the NYT had a former AIPAC Activist of the Year (Katie Glueck) write a piece devoted to detailing unsubstantiated claims from a professional Republican activist (Lyndsey Fifield) on how a left Democratic Senate candidate who has promised to take on Israel (Platner) was a lousy boyfriend and sold it as a legit journalistic scoop.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Sheryl Ono @OnoSheryl]

@warfareanalysis @DropSiteNews Horrendous

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

The destruction and extreme violence we have witnessed in Gaza since 7 October 2023 did not happen in a vacuum. They result directly from decades of dehumanization of Palestinians in Israel, which paved the way for the current catastrophe.

Since October 2023, the discourse led by political leaders and senior military officers has portrayed Gaza residents as a group whose lives are completely worthless, and the horrifying results on the ground speak for themselves: more than 72,783 killed, more than 172,779 injured and about 1.9 million forcibly displaced.

Watch Yuli Novak, B'Tselem’s executive director, speak about the process that led to the Israeli genocide in Gaza at the People’s Peace Summit 2026, organized by the It’s Time peace coalition.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

There are people behind their screens who see these rescue workers tending to a girl and her father, and they press a button and end their lives, then go get lunch as if they are not monsters who should be in prison for life

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

It is difficult to fathom how people can commit truly evil acts, such as genocide and the murder of children.

What is even more difficult to comprehend, is others ENJOYING and CELEBRATING images of those evil acts.

But that is what you get in Israel now, with parties of people watching and cheering videos of Israel blowing up villages in Southern Lebanon.

[Sheryl Ono @OnoSheryl]

@abierkhatib You should delete this. Unfortunately, the NY Times DID publish Israel's propaganda report, and so did most news outlets in the US. They ran it even though the report's author had been discredited as a fraud two years ago in Israel's largest newspaper.
https://t.co/xeEWR896Pd

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

🇪🇸SPAIN'S IRENE MONTERO GOES OFF ON EU VICE-PRESIDENT KALLAS: “Israel has been for 24 hours Kidnapping European Citizens And You’re SMILING?!”

“What would you do if it were Iran? If it were Russia?
But since it is ISRAEL, you smile and look the other way.”

“Shame on you”

[Sheryl Ono @OnoSheryl]

@KarenFactsLover @mattduss @AmiKaufman Hmm... maybe because
1) They didn't want polio spreading to their soldiers and coming home to them
2) They couldn't hide withholding the vaccinations when the World Health Organization and foreign governments were watching closely

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

In Jerusalem, protestors chanting “death to the Arabs” & “may your village” burn are protected by the police.

In Jerusalem, protestors with red, green, black & white flags are assaulted by the police.

Not so complicated after all. It’s called apartheid.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨This short film exposes the true story of Israel's creation, entirely through the words of its own founders

For decades, Israel’s lies have been carefully designed to demonize its victims. To ensure that no matter the crimes it commits, the children it slaughters, the world remains incapable of empathy for Palestinians, or at best, treats it with the same apathy that has allowed this to go on for as long as it has

On the 78th anniversary of its creation, it's time the world knew that Israel's past is not different from the brutal present the world is finally seeing