🔴 LIVE: Watch the ICJ proceedings as the court hears the South African government's case for an emergency order to stop Israeli military action in Gaza ⤵️
https://t.co/EylBG36BUp
South Africa legal team's Adila Hassim @CIJ_ICJ: “Genocides are never declared in advance, but this court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that shows incontrovertibly a pattern of conduct & related intention that justifies a plausible claim of genocidal acts.”
Either way this is gonna be historic.
If the court says there is ‘no risk of genocide,’ then Israel will know it can continue murdering innocent civilians under cover of international law, and it will empower tyrants and dictators the world over for years to come. In short, this bleak, broken world of ours will become even darker, even more dangerous.
If they rule to stop Israel, it unequivocally shows Israel cannot ethnically cleanse Gaza, and means US military support has to end (as they are subject to ICJ rulings, being a UN member), or at least change form, and so this could be a big step towards a free and sovereign Palestinian state.
It’s so big, I can’t help but think the Empire will win and humanity will lose—but Israel’s guilt is so obvious to anyone reading and watching along, and the cost so great in terms of precedents set, that I cling to glimmers of hope in spite of myself.
Please, fuck, please let justice prevail.
BREAKING: Manchester City FC have been fined £120,000 after their players surrounded a match official at their Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur FC
💔🇵🇸 Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer received a phone call from the Israeli intelligence, disclosing his location at the school where he sought refuge.
They explicitly stated their intention to kill him. To avoid endangering others, he left the school. Tragically, at 6 p.m., the apartment of his sister, where he sought refuge, was bombed. The attack resulted in the murder of Refaat and his sister and her four children.
"Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?"
"It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews"
Presidents of @Harvard
The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth.
Representative @EliseStefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again.
In short, they said:
It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews.
This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is:
“the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”
The presidents’ answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership.
Don’t take my word for it.
You must watch the following three minutes. By the end, you will be where I am.
They must all resign in disgrace.
If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.
Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world?
Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context.
To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.
On the bright side, our congressional leaders deserve accolades for showing tremendous leadership and moral clarity in their statements, by the questions they asked, and the respectfulness with which they conducted the hearing.
It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate.
If you have time, please watch the entire hearing. Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.
It is with a broken heart I share this video. But the world must know.. Governments must know what they are supporting, diplomatically and materially. This is happening every minute of every day in #Gaza. It is the mass murder of children. It is the industrial scale murder of a people.
Dr @AsimCP putting things into perspective..
Every Muslim and non Muslim with an ounce of humanity must speak up. Our taxes are being used to aid this genocide. It's in our name. We must speak and disown the actions of our governments.
#Gaza_Genocide#ArmPalestine 🇵🇸
تحرير القدس يبدأ بتحرير القاهرة
تحرير القدس يبدأ بتحرير القاهرة
تحرير القدس يبدأ بتحرير القاهرة
تحرير القدس يبدأ بتحرير القاهرة
تحرير القدس يبدأ بتحرير القاهرة
تحرير القدس يبدأ بتحرير القاهرة
🚨ISRAEL RAPED A 13-YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN CHILD
When the US State Department complained to Israel's gov, the IDF raided the NGO that documented the case of rape, "removed their computers & declared them a TERRORIST ENTITY"
per Josh Paul today, (former) Senior State Dep official
“Dear uncle, I wanna ask you something, is this real or a dream?!“ .. a little girl asked the doctor whilst receiving medical treatment after being injured by an air strike that bombed her home in Gaza. 3.12.23
Israel has categorised all Palestinians in Gaza into one of three groups: either terrorists, terrorist sympathisers or human shields. Speaking at @OxfordUnion just before #Israel resumed its mass murder and destruction in which hundreds of Palestinian innocent civilians were killed over the last 48 hours. The full speech and Q&A are below:
https://t.co/dHfgPZO3tg
https://t.co/PbhDft2ztQ
https://t.co/sGRzJK3NRU
هذه الأم تسأل المسعفين: هل ستعيش ابنتي؟
شاهدوا ابنتها أيها الكوكب القذر
شاهدوا ماذا فعل دعمكم لمن قصفها
شاهدوا وأنتهم تجهزون احتفالات أعياد الميلاد
شاهدوا وأنتم تدخلون العام الجديد وتتمنون أن يعم السلام عالمكم القذر
#GazaGenocide#GazaHolocust#Gaza https://t.co/YPEaJPZ0ir
In a developing country affected by wars, providing #amputee services requires a thoughtful and adaptable approach, considering the unique challenges of such environments #Gaza_War#Gaza#GazaGenocide#rehabilitation