In 1945 Justice Jackson opened Nuremberg on a promise: the law binds ally and enemy alike,or it binds no one. Today his country targets the very institution delivering that mission- to spare a fugitive from trial.
Empire it was, empire it is. Where evil sits makes all difference.
Aimé Césaire wrote it in 1950 and Europe has been trying to ignore it ever since.
In Discourse on Colonialism, he stated plainly: what the "very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century" found unforgivable about Hitler was not what he did.
It was to whom he did it.
Hitler applied to European people the methods that Europe had been applying to African and Asian people for centuries.
The dehumanization.
The racial hierarchy.
The biological categorization that placed some human beings outside the protections extended to others.
The organized, bureaucratic, industrialized killing.
None of that was new.
The novelty was the victims.
When Léopold II ran the Congo as a personal extraction enterprise and killed an estimated ten million people — when his agents cut off the hands of Congolese workers who did not meet their rubber quotas, when they took photographs of the severed hands arranged in rows, European civilization was not seized by an unprecedented moral crisis.
It was a business story.
A question of colonial administration.
A management problem in a distant place populated by people whose deaths registered as statistics, when they registered at all.
Hitler's crime, in European memory, was not the method.
It was the application of the method to people Europe had decided were people.
That decision, who counts, is what Césaire was writing about.
It has not been adequately answered.
If you’re a reporter and you don’t explain to your audience that Israel is trying to buy the Michigan Senate seat for $50 million, you’re not a reporter. If you don’t explain to voters that a lobby for a foreign country is trying to control our Senate, you’re not a journalist.
Just a reminder that new Prime Minister Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq War, an illegal war that killed over a million people.
He joined Labour Friends of Israel, called BDS “spiteful”, praised Israel as a “democracy”, described the Balfour Declaration as “British values in action”, and still refuses to call the genocide in Palestine a genocide.
Not wearing a suit, having a northern accent, and getting rid of a lectern doesn’t make you a radical alternative. He’s the establishment’s last roll of the dice.
"Mi linaje familiar es asombroso, tengo el privilegio de conocer que mi linaje viene del rey David, somos descendientes del rey David, lo sabemos porque unos rabinos lo escribieron".
Isaac Herzog, presidente de "Israel", afirma de forma lunática ser descendiente del "rey David" y de un linaje familiar asombroso de sangre azul.
Realmente el origen familiar de este genocida es de Europa del Este, como casi todos estos colonos, su abuelo nació en Polonia y la parte de su abuela nació en Polonia y en Rusia.
Estos enfermos se inventan películas surrealistas en su cabeza para justificar el robo de Palestina.
Christian towns around Bethlehem are surrounded on all sides by settlers who steal their water and attack their families. They cannot freely move across their land and are blocked from going to holy sites in Jerusalem.
Listen to the mayors of these towns share their stories.
"Both sides have committed atrocities."
This sentence is used to achieve one thing: equivalence.
If both sides have committed atrocities, then there is no aggressor.
If there is no aggressor, there is no victim.
If there is no victim, there is no crime.
If there is no crime, there is no accountability.
"Both sides" takes a situation with a history, with a power differential, with a military budget on one side that exceeds the GDP of the other, with an occupying power and an occupied population, and flattens it into a symmetric conflict between two equally culpable parties.
It sounds like balance.
It is the elimination of context presented as fairness.
The person who breaks into your home and the person defending their home have not both committed equivalent acts by the fact of violence being present on both sides.
"Both sides" is what you say when you know who the aggressor is and have decided that saying so would be inconvenient.
There's only 2 countries in the world with illegal unchecked Nuclear Weapons.
North Korea and Israel
One of these countries has attacked 9 countries in the last 2 years and is committing a genocide.
It isn't North Korea.
A few days ago, Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh said these words to his lawyer: “This is the last time you will see me...they brought me here to kill me. I don't see myself surviving. This is the end”.
This man is a paediatrician.
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One more thing. Today is a mournful day for me.
12 years ago, my cousin, Mohammed Abu-Khdier, was kidnapped from his home in East Jerusalem by three Jewish settlers. He was beaten with tire irons, doused in gasoline, forced to drink gasoline, and then burnt alive.
I’ll never forget his death, I remember the night when his body was discovered, Mohammad’s mother called my mother. We were both in the living room, and I could hear the poor woman shrieking and crying in grief from across the room.
What is worse, is not just the murder, but the humiliations that the Jews brought to the family: within a week, Israel police had ‘leaked rumors’ to Israeli media that Mohammad was actually killed by his own family members for supposedly being a homosexual. Both claims being obviously untrue, and were very humiliating to his family.
Then, during his funeral, IDF detained another one of his relatives, Tariq, an American citizen from Florida. They dragged him into an alley and stomped this poor 15 year old kid unconscious. We know about this because there is recorded video of them doing it, and Tariq was even interviewed by George Stephanopolous.
I will never forget, I will never forgive. I wrote an article about his death on my substack two years ago, I hope you’ll read it, it’ll be below.
May God have mercy on your soul, Mohammed.