One must be beyond illiterate not to see the hypocritical use of antisemitism made by Israeli authorities and the likes. Yet so many Jewish people are standing against it, in the name of human rights and justice.
Dr Abu Safiya is hostage to an unlawful occupation which is committing a cruel, brutal genocide. He must be liberated. All hostages must be liberated. Palestinians and Israelis alike. And then, all of them must be liberated from Apartheid.
I have lost count of the offices of people in power I visited between May 2022 and September 2023, arguing for the need to release Ahmed Manasra. No one, from the HRC to the EU, could help set this devastated soul free - and no consequences. Israel has been allowed to thrive in its own impunity.
🔊Ahmed Manasra has been released. An immense relief, but not a success — just the end of the most painful chapter in a collective tragedy. Ahmed has endured years of torture, and his family has suffered with him. Nearly three years ago, I wrote: "To Ahmed we say, we have failed to protect you." Today, I say the same, to Ahmed and the millions we have failed.
❌ALARMING❌The Israeli government's formally announced intention to permanently annex the entire occupied West Bank is such a serious and egregious violation of int'l law, that if not halted, the collapse of the multilateral system built on universal principles (such as sovereignty, self-determination, primacy of int'l law) will be unavoidable.
Not to be missed for those in #Brussels. After failing to prevent and stop the most egregious violations and international crimes, the pursuit of justice remains paramount.
A shocking low for the #EU: one of its top leaders stands with Israel’s foreign minister, representing a state responsible for killing 50,000 people (in 16 months), 70% women and children, with Western made weapons, while over 200,000 more may die from life destroying conditions. All this as Israeli leaders openly call for ethnic cleansing. And the analytical framework Ms Kallas uses is :"both-sides" "in a new war". This, in Jerusalem, part of which remains unlawfully occupied. And not a word about Israel's obligation to end its unlawful presence in the next 6 months as ordered by the [@cij_icj]( ) and #UNGA. Under int'l law, states (and by extention organisations of states) MUST NOT recognize as lawful, or support, unlawful endeavours, yet that is exactly what this visit does. Why is the press not raising any of this? @npub125jm...s7qc
I agree with Luigi Daniele: The Israeli leadership is promoting the idea that "Palestinians deserve elimination and are responsible for their own destruction". Voilà a genocidal ideology. Victims of past genocides have all been portrayed as undeserving of existence, their survival as an intolerable threat, and the violence against them as justified. What is utterly shocking is to see this ideology being tolerated and even supported in many Western circles and beyond. Our collective inability to stop the ongoing destruction of the Palestinians, whether due to ineffectiveness, apathy, or cowardice, is shameful - a clear revealer of how past atrocities were possible. Read Daniele's analysis: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/opinion/opinion-global-collapse-of-moral-order-israel-kills-palestinian-children/3519741
Steven Kapos calls the global anti-genocide movement a "warm family". May this family keep growing: 1. as an antidote to the despair of living in an unjust world 2. to remind politicians that their wrongs are seen 3. for the Palestinians to know that they have not been abandoned
The UN's decision to reduce its presence in Gaza risks repeating past UN failures in Srebrenica & Rwanda. The UN must uphold its duty to do everything in its power to prevent genocide, and to end Israel's unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, as affirmed by the ICJ. If the determinations of the UN’s own principal judicial organ are not enough to compel more -not less- UN action on the ground, what are We The People’s to make of the future of the organization?