Bear witness: Remembering heroic Anas al-Sharif

August 13, 2025

Heroic Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif was recently martyred in Gaza with four other journalist colleagues and left us a final inspiring message: “Yet I never stopped telling the truth as it is, without falsification or distortion – so that God may bear witness over those who stayed silent, accepted our killing, and did nothing to stop the massacre our people have endured for more than a year and a half”.

Similarly, the key imperatives from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust and indeed from all genocide and holocaust atrocities are “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”. Inspirational WW2 Polish hero Jan Karski tried to tell an unresponsive world about the Jewish Holocaust and the Polish Holocaust as they were happening.

Yet, for the West, genocide post-WW2 is almost exclusively done by non-Europeans that the US doesn’t like (see “The Politics of Genocide”). The Australian Government and Opposition are complicit in the Gaza genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Mainstream Australia under-counts over 10-fold the horrific Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google the phrase). Bear witness, inaction is complicity, silence is complicity.