An international conference on Palestinian prisoners opened in Geneva, bringing together international lawyers, legal experts, diplomats and rights organizations to pursue legal accountability for Israel over violations against Palestinian detainees.
Organizers plan to compile comprehensive legal files based on documentation, evidence and testimonies for submission to the International Criminal Court and European courts, while seeking to activate universal jurisdiction and pressure international institutions and parliaments to address the conditions of Palestinian detainees.
VIDEO | A major pro-Palestine demonstration was held in Dublin today, with thousands taking to the streets to condemn Trump, Netanyahu, and von der Leyen over their role in supporting Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Cardinal Pizzaballa is 100% right to condemn Trump's Board of Peace for what it is: a "colonialist operation".
It's a scheme designed to plunder Gaza's reconstruction funds, enrich Trump's & Kushner's buddies; obliterate Palestinian society & history; & cage the population.
Donald Trump’s so-called “#BoardOfPeace ,” scheduled to meet tomorrow, is literally a criminal conspiracy, created by two co-conspirators (US & Israeli regime) involved in a raft of grave international crimes, including genocide, apartheid, unlawful occupation, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and land theft. The purpose of the conspiracy is to complete the final phase of the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population, to consolidate the unlawful occupation, to steal the land, and to personally profit from the illicit proceeds of these crimes. Every individual that joins the conspiracy and any of its constituent parts, is a participant in these crimes and should be subject to individual criminal responsibility, political accountability, and public shaming wherever they appear. And, in any event, their personal legacies will certainly carry the stain of complicity for generations. #Shame
I've resigned from @hrw after 10+ yrs—most as Israel/Palestine Director—after HRW's new ED pulled a finalized report on the right of return for Palestinian refugees on eve of its release & blocked for weeks its publication in a principled way. Full story: https://t.co/npbjjwBqf5
.@hrw continues to block breakthrough report on Right of Return “A principled human rights organisation does not allow concern at being seen as challenging a political preference 2 take precedence over thecall to respect fundamental rights”@OmarSShakir https://t.co/1yMlGAvq1M
Israel’s decision to register vast areas of the illegally occupied West Bank as “state property” marks yet another de facto annexation move, a blatant violation of international law and a direct extension of the apartheid system Israel imposes on Palestinians.
This land grab will dispossess countless Palestinian families who cannot “prove” ownership under an illegal occupation that has systematically destroyed or denied their documentation since 1967. It formalizes decades of illegal settlement expansion.
At @Amnesty, we have long warned that such measures entrench Israel’s apartheid and perpetuate systematic human rights violations. This is a dangerous escalation that demands urgent international action.
Israel must end its occupation. Annexation, whether by force or bureaucracy, is illegal and cannot be normalized.
Read about our call to end the illegal occupation: https://t.co/3e6vVLYSfW.
Muhammad Dhaban died in Gaza today after an eight-month battle with Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare and life-threatening condition that requires intensive specialist care.
That care is unavailable because Israel’s military campaign has systematically devastated Gaza’s health system. Hospitals have been bombed, besieged, or forced out of service. Despite the ceasefire, medical supply chains have been choked, essential drugs blocked, and specialist doctors prevented from entering.
With fewer than 50 patients per day allowed to exit via Rafah and more than 20,000 patients awaiting evacuation, critically ill people are trapped in a system that has been deliberately shattered to accelerate the killing of Palestinians.
Menadue:
'Following the state sanctioned violence in Sydney, Anthony Albanese told us that we need to lower the temperature. But it is Anthony Albanese who has raised the temperature with his scant concern for the murder of over 70,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children. He refuses to let the word genocide pass his lips. Correspondence and analysis in The Lancet magazine suggests that in fact the number murdered at the hands of Israel and the IDF maybe as high as 240,000.'
'And then we had the shameful performance of the NSW Premier Minns who has for over two years supported the Zionist position and been highly critical of those who are concerned about the ceaseless killing of Palestinians. With his legislation on hate speech and support of the Zionist lobby it is not surprising that the NSW police went on a rampage. Many would be justified in thinking that Minns had their back.'
'What a contrast Sydney was on Monday when all other protests around Australia were well managed by cooperation between protesters and the police. That he was not so in Sydney. Professor Ben Saul of Sydney University and UN Special Rapporteur of Human Rights and Counter Terrorism pointed out that “domestic rights have been suppressed by illegal laws and aggressive policing and NSW is now one of the most draconian anti protest jurisdictions in the democratic world”'
'As Robert Manne put it so clearly about Israeli denial, “don’t mention the war.”
When will the Zionist lobbyists do some honest soul searching? Has it ever crossed their minds that Jews are less safe because of Gaza and their misuse and abuse of the term antisemitic?'
https://t.co/5Dlx7UurEf
🚨This Ramadan, make sure to boycott Israeli dates grown on stolen Palestinian land.
Watch our guide to boycotting Israeli dates below, and sign our petition to supermarkets to demand they take all Israeli produce off the shelves: https://t.co/PTHg6aNoAJ
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I am honored to have so many Jewish comrades and friends constantly reminding me what makes me who I am. As a European, the Holocaust -like the colonial crimes or Inquisition- is part of our History, horrid as it is; the past we shall never forget and must never risk reviving.
For those of us who lost many family members in the Holocaust, it is repulsive to see this suffering weaponised in defence of an apartheid state that is committing a genocide. As my mother, who survived in Vienna hidden in a coal cellar for years, taught us ‘Never Again is for all humanity. That is the lesson of the Holocaust.’
⬇️Statement by the OIC Group in Geneva regarding false allegations directed against the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Ms. @FranceskAlbs ⬇️
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is part of the war industry’s pillage of taxpayer dollars to enrich themselves at the expense of our health, education, social services and democracy. There is a direct line from the terror we inflict abroad to the terror inflicted at home. Our corporate-indentured political class will do nothing to halt this hemorrhaging of billions of dollars and slaughter of innocents. It will do nothing to wrest back our most basic civil liberties. It is up to us. And the place to start is Gaza where, as the Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has detailed in her reports, genocide, like war, is a lucrative business. Please support the campaign by dock workers within the U.S. and countries such as Greece, Italy and Turkey to block all weapons shipments to Israel. If we can organize to cripple the war machine in Gaza, we can cripple it everywhere.
https://t.co/DC23GRkWGr
Upscrolled is gaining traction, and for the first time it’s a platform where pro-Palestine voices can go without getting filtered like they do on traditional legacy platforms. This alone is enough to trigger absolutely outrage from entrenched Zionist networks used to shaping the narrative. When centralized control weakens, even slightly, panic follows. The reaction says way more than the platform itself. The real issue isn’t “misinformation” or “antisemitism”, it’s losing dominance over the information battlefield.
UN expert Francesca Albanese pushes back against antisemitism accusations by Israel and France for her comments at a panel.
“Anyone from the Pope to the Secretary-General has been accused of antisemitism for simply asking Israel to comply with international law.”
Much gratitude.
Hopefully other European states speak out too. Persecuting those who oppose apartheid may itself constitute the crime of apartheid: another count for the @IntlCrimCourt to investigate.
May domestic courts also probe apartheid's accomplices.