Georgetown’s removal of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese comes after relentless pressure aimed at silencing voices consistently standing with Palestinians under occupation. This is a dangerous precedent for academic freedom and human rights advocacy. UN Watch said earlier in the week that Georgetown removed Albanese’s biography from its website.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial. During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well. Secretary Clinton’s remarks are not only inaccurate, they are also a shameful example of the lengths to which people complicit in genocide will go to to deny its existence.
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Breaking | Israeli occupation forces abduct at least 30 Palestinians, most of them are former detainees, while storming Nablus city in the occupied West Bank.
A severe winter storm is creating more hardship for Gaza’s forcibly displaced population, flooding tents as families try to cope without proper shelter, heat, or basic supplies due to Israel’s continued restrictions.
In Pictures— Rainwater flooded the tents of displaced Palestinian families due to the unprecedented destruction engulfed the infrastructure of Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in #Gaza City.
In war-ridden Gaza, heavy rains are once again flooding the tents of displaced families, leaving them exposed to the cold and wet winter.
With Israel blocking aid and reconstruction, tens of thousands remain trapped in fragile shelters that offer no protection from the harsh weather.
🚨Lufthansa has confirmed to us that its cargo arm is no longer shipping military equipment and components to and from Tel Aviv, citing UK regulations.
The company said it works with UK-based insurance underwriters "which means coverage for flights to Israel can only be granted if the shipment complies with UK export control".
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⚠️Winter storm Byron is expected to hit Gaza on Wednesday after battering Greece and Cyprus with heavy rains, lightning, and strong winds.
Gaza’s Government Media Office issued a statement saying the storm “carries real dangers, including the flooding of tents, the inundation of displaced encampments by rainwater, and the renewal of the tragedy endured by more than 1.5 million displaced people who have been living in dilapidated tents for over a year without any real solutions or alternatives.”
The media office added: “We hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for exposing displaced persons to the dangers of the climate, given its closure of crossings and its prevention of the entry of relief and shelter materials, including the prevention of the entry of 300,000 tents and mobile homes, in addition to the absence of alternative shelters.”
Heavy and long raining spell is to hit Gaza in the coming hours..
Displaced persons including me are living in tattered tents ⛺️ after IOF had destroyed our homes and forced us out of our cities..
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