Pierre Motin

Responsable plaidoyer à la Plateforme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine @PFPalestine, chargé d'enseignement à Sciences Po Toulouse #droitshumains

[amnestypresse @amnestypresse]

[Important] @amnesty international dénonce les sanctions américaines de cette nuit contre trois prestigieuses organisations palestiniennes de défense des droits humains pour avoir... collaboré avec la CPI sur les crimes de guerre à #Gaza
https://t.co/34LmrPXlMn

[Yehuda Shaul @YehudaShaul]

Here is an Unofficial Translation of the Settler Leadership Letter asking the government to apply the northern Gaza model to the West Bank.

The UK and the EU should sanction all the settler leaders who signed this letter.

[France à Jérusalem 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 @FranceJerusalem]

En cette journée internationale des droits de l'Homme, remise à Hébron du prix 🇫🇷-🇩🇪 des droits de l'Homme à @Issaamro, militant palestinien dénonçant la colonisation et l'occupation au coeur de sa ville. Prix décerné dans la rue, devant le checkpoint Azawiya, les autorités israéliennes ayant refusé l'accès du Consul général de France @NKassianides et du représentant allemand @GermanRepRama. Pensée pour les Palestiniens d'Hébron qui vivent cette situation au quotidien.

[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

[Pierre Motin @PierreMotin]

@gastonmontefior Amnesty considère que les massacres du 7 octobre 2023 sont des crimes de guerre. Je vous renvoie à l'excellent rapport de Human Rights Watch à ce propos : https://t.co/Hg43Zor5h6

Et gardez vos délires sur les frères musulmans et l'ultra gauche pour vous, merci.

[Pierre Motin @PierreMotin]

Amnesty International accuse Israël de «génocide» à Gaza dans un rapport https://t.co/bASpC4Eqck selon l'ONG, les autorités israéliennes ont démontré leur intention de détruire physiquement la population des Palestiniens de Gaza.

[Pierre Motin @PierreMotin]

🚨 Pour tout comprendre des raisons pour lesquelles Amnesty International considère qu'un génocide est commis par Israël dans la bande de Gaza 🔽

[amnestyfrance @amnestyfrance]

Un génocide est commis par l’État d'Israël contre les Palestinien·nes à Gaza.

C'est ce que nous prouvons dans notre nouveau rapport d’enquête. 👇

[Martin Konečný @MartinKonecny]

🧵A few more points on the French position on the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

Bottomline: there's very likely no immunity for Netanyahu in France, despite the MFA announcement last Wednesday.

There have been 2 developments since then:

[Pierre Motin @PierreMotin]

Mandats d'arrêts de la Cour pénale internationale : selon @francediplo des immunités s'appliquent à Benyamin Netanyahou et Yoav Gallant. Un raisonnement qui n'avait pas du tout été repris pour le mandat d'arrêt à l'encontre de Poutine. Scandaleux. https://t.co/s6KGd2RAAe

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

What do I make of the French statement with respect to #Netanyhau's immunity from @IntlCrimCourt arrest? https://t.co/lcz2I7dpVF, a short thread.

[BFM @BFMTV]

🔴 ALERTE INFO
Mandat d'arrêt contre Netanyahu: Barnier affirme que la France "appliquera ses obligations"
https://t.co/pZAYg1zQF6

[Gérard Araud @GerardAraud]

Que la France ne respecte pas les mandats d’arrêt de la CPI serait incompréhensible.

[Mauricio Lapchik @MauricioLapchik]

All right.

[Pierre Motin @PierreMotin]

La Cour pénale internationale émet des mandats d’arrêt contre Benyamin Nétanyahou et son ex-ministre de la défense Yoav Gallant, accusés de crimes de guerre et de crimes contre l’humanité https://t.co/BeYF0dSBGI Une excellente nouvelle pour la lutte contre l'impunité

[Martin Konečný @MartinKonecny]

Borrell is proposing EU ban on import of products from illegal Israeli settlements.

To make it easier for the EU, we've drafted the decision for them - by tweaking the 2014 EU ban on imports from Crimea.👇

Will the EU apply the same standard in the Middle East as in Ukraine?

[Libération @libe]

Proche-Orient : pour la présidente de MSF, «nous sommes face à une campagne d’anéantissement de la population de Gaza»

Isabelle Defourny s’alarme de l’arrivée de l’hiver alors que l’aide humanitaire est bloquée ou pillée

Interview :
https://t.co/OLsO6u7Fwl

[Pierre Motin @PierreMotin]

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UE pour les affaires étrangères propose aux États membres d'interdire l'importation des produits des colonies.

[Josep Borrell Fontelles @JosepBorrellF]

After a year of unheeded pleas about the situation in Gaza, we cannot continue with business as usual.
I have proposed to EU Member States to ban import of products from illegal settlements and to suspend the political dialog with Israel.

Read my blog:

https://t.co/n9BM5UbW5n

[Hugh Lovatt @h_lovatt]

The EU should suspend its Association Agreement w/ Israel.
@ECFRMena's research shows it has taken similar action in the past against 15 countries (often for reasons less serious than ethnic cleansing, apartheid, starvation)
Why is the EU treating Israel with such exceptionalism?

[Johann Soufi @jsoufi]

📣 « Des nourrissons ainsi que des enfants malades et blessés ayant besoin de soins intensifs sont tués sous des tentes, dans des incubateurs et dans les bras de leurs parents ». @UNICEF

Si cela ressemble à un génocide, c’est probablement parce que c’en est un.

[HRW en français @hrw_fr]

❗️Le Parlement israélien envisage d’adopter un projet de loi qui interdirait à l’#UNRWA, l’agence de l’ONU qui fournit une aide humanitaire cruciale à #Gaza, d'y poursuivre ses opérations. Ce projet de loi aurait des conséquences dévastatrices, et devrait être retiré.