🧵 The latest round of sanctions against Israeli individuals & entities, announced by the UK, France, Canada, Norway & Australia are a step in the right direction, but fall far short of what is urgently required by third states under international law. /1
https://t.co/ngQs8dFL7O
Alongside @weizman_eyal, I won't participate in the #HayFestival because of @Airbnb being their main sponsor. Profiting from illegal settlements, advertising properties built on stolen land makes Airbnb not ''just a sponsor''.
We must stop normalising Apartheid with a click!
Former Prosecutor of ICC asking for its staff to be protected properly by an EU statute blocking US sanctions- statements of concern ring hollow when staff in reality have lives ruined. US aim is to bully and isolate, she claims. https://t.co/RpaIHxbj8Z
The UK again condemns Israeli settlements while it:
❌refuses to ban trade with them
❌keeps military accord w/Israel
❌keeps trade & partnership accord
❌continues arms exports
❌refuses to mention Israeli nukes
❌refuses to respond to ICJ ruling on OPTs https://t.co/2UkE0LIxOH
Queen Mary University researchers have identified 286 cases involving climate and Palestine-solidarity activists who were sent to prison for protesting for a total jail time of 136 years.
If this was in another country, wouldn't we call it authoritarian? https://t.co/4ndUyEfVe9
“It is thuggish and inappropriate, and it should be called out for what it is... It is bullying, coercion and power politics through other means.”
Former prosecutor calls for EU statute blocking US sanctions on #ICC members: https://t.co/X0Qh3oZjtU
At a live event for @zeteo_news with @mehdirhasan the actor Riz Ahmed says British Secret services tried to recruit him three times as an intelligence officer. The final time, the offer came from a senior BBC Executive (who he doesn’t name) …
BREAKING: ELSC & PILC have filed a complaint with the Bar Standards Board naming senior barristers and UKLFI patrons over alleged misuse of professional status:
• Lord David Pannick KC
• Lord Anthony Grabiner KC
• Stephen Hockman KC
🔗 https://t.co/1AAZEpB2Pj
2/ Israel's abuses against Palestinians did not begin on October 7. Sexual violence against Palestinians has been documented since the very foundation of the Israeli state, but this is nothing the NYT spoke about – so far.
https://t.co/9W7LBBVnbR
3/ Below are just some of the many reports and investigations documenting sexual violence specifically in the context of Israel’s unlawful detention of Palestinians; and these cover only abuses documented since October 2023. The reality is far older.
4/ In my report Torture and Genocide (March 2026), I documented how sexual violence in Israeli detention is rife against men, women and children alike.
https://t.co/X0mkNJwaJe
5/Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (March 2024)
Sexual & Gender-Based Violence Committed by Israeli Military & Security Forces against Palestinians
https://t.co/oy04iRm1J4
6/UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ''Detention in the context of the escalation of hostilities in Gaza, October 2023-June 2024'' (July 2024)
https://t.co/gZOKv7R3Pu
9/Al Jazeera
Investigating war crimes in Gaza (October 2024)
https://t.co/dRoo3hlUlO
Dying in ‘Hell’: The fate of Palestinian medics jailed by Israel, One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors may have been raped to death (November 2024)
https://t.co/kh7BAvkBLI