Habib Chenguiti

Development Economist. Dev Finance Strategist. Tweets = own opinion.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

A girl in Gaza AFTER and BEFORE the starvation imposed on Palestinians by the world's ..."most moral army"

[Stop Arab Hate @StopArabHate]

🚨 “No man would want to touch you”

Dr. Richard Mole is a professor at @ucl in London. To raise awareness:

📧 [email protected]

[Abir Kopty @AbirKopty]

This German “journalist” says “animals have more dignity than Palestinians”.
@ndr and @WDR must apologize and fire this fascist journalist.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Habib Chenguiti @HabibChenguiti]

Child labour is an abomination, child emprisonment is a total moral failure.

The absolute least you can do is to use your freedom-to-consume responsibly and wisely.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

"Every prisoner who's inside with you is your brother. They're all like you — imprisoned for their love of the homeland.”

A Palestinian father gives advice to his 14-year-old son before the boy begins a one-year prison sentence for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli settlers.

[Habib Chenguiti @HabibChenguiti]

About time African countries shake off the egregious colonial institutions.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Falling like dominoes: Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye says France should close all military bases in Senegal, asserting that their presence is "incompatible" with the country's sovereignty.

“There will soon be no more French soldiers in Senegal.”

[Yves Combe @CyniqueDeGauche]

30 que je suis professeur de mathématiques.

Nombre:
- de remarques de ce type: 0;
- de fois qu'un collègue a raconté avoir eu ce genre de contestation: 0;
- de fois où j'ai pu lire ce genre de contestation sur les listes de diffusions ou forums de profs: 0.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam @pularjs

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says https://t.co/4f30gQ1zRw

[Habib Chenguiti @HabibChenguiti]

How is this islamophobic character not the immoral equivalent of black face?

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Sacha Baron Cohen returns as Borat to give his thoughts on Donald Trump & Kamala Harris.

“Mr Trump, you say in Ohio people are eating the cats & the dogs, which restaurant do they serve them at? Can you get a reservation?”

[Habib Chenguiti @HabibChenguiti]

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[Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier]

Ce soir, la justice sociale a gagné.
Ce soir, la justice environnementale a gagné.
Ce soir, le peuple a gagné.

Et ça ne fait que commencer !

#VictoireNFP #ElectionsLegislatives2024

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Besties, let’s make her famous…

“ that f****king free Palestine, stick in your ass”

Those monsters are offended by a piece of clothing while committing a televised genocide.

[Stop Arab Hate @StopArabHate]

🚨 UPDATE: Jonathan Kaye has surrendered and turned himself in to police in Brooklyn, where he faces 2nd and 3rd degree assault charges

[Habib Chenguiti @HabibChenguiti]

Well done @Channel4News for holding a mirror up to the British society.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Exclusive: Undercover inside Reform’s campaign - evidence of homophobia and canvasser's racism

Watch the full report by @darshnasoni

[Habib Chenguiti @HabibChenguiti]

The grift levels are comical. This is beyond parody.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Conservative candidate Philip Davies bet £8,000 against himself winning in the general election

That's almost the UK state pension for an entire year 😱

He may need to update his website which reads, "Your interests, not self interest"

[Stop Arab Hate @StopArabHate]

🚨 What is going on, @Google? There is no indication that Elizabeth Wolf is a “Muslim woman”

[Habib Chenguiti @HabibChenguiti]

Is anyone surprised that such vile creatures are supporting the Gaza genocide?

[Jonathan AC Brown @JonathanACBrown]

Holy*#%* !!

[Aeiro S @SerioMesV]

@CAIRNational This is the criminal

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

More than a million people have watched the trailer for our new documentary - have you?

[Dan White : Disability Campaigner / Author / ♿️ @Danwhite1972]

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