Stephan Backes 🔻

human rights • accountability • corporate liability • justice • BDS • 🔻 = struggle against racism & oppression • busy @FIANista (own views; RT ≠ endorsement)

[Tamam @TamamBeitJirja]

@dubravkasuica @Isaac_Herzog @EU_Commission @EU4MENAGulf @EUinIsrael @IsraelinEU Are you aware of the 1.2 million Europeans who signed the European Citizens' Initiative demanding the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement?

[Law for Palestine | القانون من أجل فلسطين @Law4Palestine]

1/5 NEW REPORT: A four-year investigation by Global Echo has found that agricultural products from illegal Israeli settlements are routinely entering EU markets, with their true origins often concealed, allowing them to reach supermarket shelves across Europe under Israeli labels. 🧵

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: "Greater Israel" is now marketed in London. Like in Montreal and in New York.
Apartheid without borders.

P.S. This explains why criticism of Israel is being restricted (and "anti-antisemitism" laws keep appearing). Apartheid is not only a crime. It is a business model.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

The decision by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties, a political body dominated by Western states and their allies, to suspend ICC Prosecutor Khan, despite the exculpatory findings of both the judicial panel that reviewed the case and the OIOS oversight body, can only be seen as just the latest step in a long campaign by the Israeli regime and its US and other allies to obstruct, delay, and punish the prosecutor and the court for their attempts to hold Israeli regime perpetrators to account, and to send a message to judges and future prosecutors: ‘challenge the Israeli regime and we will crush you.’ The full Assembly must overturn this scandalous action, and take concrete steps to protect the court and prosecutors from Israeli, US, and Western persecution. If they fail to do so, the still nascent ICC will whither and die on the vine, and with it, any hope of international criminal accountability in our time.

[Tamam @TamamBeitJirja]

I questioned in this op-ed why the abuse of flotilla activists has drawn more condemnation than the Gaza genocide.

The answer is: White supremacy that sorts victims but also predators.

Read it here on the @newhumanitarian: https://t.co/BmHt6hboAf

[Tamam @TamamBeitJirja]

🧵So why is this a problem ❓
👉 Because the EU continues to treat settlers as if they are a separate issue, rather than a core feature of the Israeli state, which has been built and sustained through policies of displacement and ethnic cleansing.

[Tamam @TamamBeitJirja]

1MILLION SIGNATURES FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. https://t.co/Nda3YAFan8

[Tamam @TamamBeitJirja]

Dear EU Commission,

Can you please stop hiding behind the image of being the "largest humanitarian aid donor" while maintaining business as usual with the very ones creating the "humanitarian crises" in the so-called "war-torn Middle East"?

Merci!

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

The 21-point plan is the #Gaza Riviera Plan in sheep’s clothing w threat of annihilation.

✔️no Palestinian self-determination
✔️Israel maintains control of borders, air & sea space
✔️co-led by Trump & Blair
✔️no accountability for a single person or company for #genocide

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

The UNGA voted overwhelmingly today to “endorse” the New York Declaration put forward by France & Saudi Arabia. Among its many problematic provisions, the Declaration supports a “stabilization force” (with many bad elements as well), instead of a protection force as such. But the resolution adopted today does NOT mandate a stabilization force. It merely called for one to be proposed in the Security Council, where the US will certainly veto it. The push therefore continues for an emergency special session of the UNGA under Uniting for Peace to adopt “further measures” in association with the one year UNGA deadline last year. Those measures could still include: sanctions, military embargo, denial of Israel’s credentials, a tribunal, anti-apartheid mechanisms, and a protection force. It is an uphill climb. But as the genocide rages, let all delegations say yes or no to the call for protection (not normalization) under the glare of publicity (not in the shadows of Turtle Bay).

[Stephan Backes 🔻 @Stepansky]

Pour obtenir une sorte d'amnistie,
elle feint maintenant l'amnésie???

Méprisable, honteux, infâme.

[Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein]

And that, folks, is a blanket lie. Don’t let Germany get away with this.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

Germany’s Annalena Baerbock, infamous for her active and enthusiastic complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people, for disseminating the Israeli regime’s genocidal propaganda, and for publicly justifying its war crimes, was sworn in today as President of the UN General Assembly. In her first address, she stumbled clumsily through a chain of empty platitudes and blatant hypocrisies, posing triumphantly from her podium of impunity. This day marks yet another stain on an organization already badly sullied by two years of inaction during a live-streamed genocide. Shame on the member states that willfully handed the keys to the UN to this ignominious figure, just as the UNGA is being called upon to act to stop Israel’s extermination of the Palestinian people. #Shame

[Stephan Backes 🔻 @Stepansky]

@DropSiteNews Not the slightest sign of moral integrity.
Despicable!

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

BREAKING 🇵🇸🇹🇳 The Global Sumud Flotilla’s principal boat, Family, has just been struck by a drone attack in the port of Tunis.

[Law for Palestine | القانون من أجل فلسطين @Law4Palestine]

45 UN experts have issued an urgent appeal for an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly to demand an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestine, as genocide and a man-made famine unfold in Gaza.
They endorse our call -along with over 1,000 organisations worldwide- for a UN-led international humanitarian convoy to coordinate and oversee all crossings into Gaza.
- Here is their statement: https://t.co/hZGOoYFkkY
- Here is our call for the Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy: https://t.co/SPxJsrgVWn

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

The Americans Stealing Palestinian Land. Settler ambitions are fueling the elimination of Palestinians and profiting from it. They live among us & benefit from US laws. A global criminal conspiracy.

#Zionism #Nakba #genocide #settlercolonialism https://t.co/7PE3Rv836Q

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Intentionally killing those on the ground who document the genocide will not make the genocide invisible. Rather the contrary.

[Law for Palestine | القانون من أجل فلسطين @Law4Palestine]

We condemn the United States’ unlawful and politically motivated sanctions against @alhaq_org , @pchrgaza , and @AlMezanCenter , Palestinian human rights organisations targeted solely for their legitimate work in documenting int'l crimes and pursuing justice in the face of ongoing genocide.
This is not only an attack on human rights defenders. It is part of a broader attempt to silence the Palestinian people and their allies worldwide, who are demanding dignity, accountability, and the inalienable right to self-determination.
Instead of punishing those defending HR and int'l law, States must respond to the ongoing genocide, starvation, and destruction in #Palestine by imposing sanctions on Israel and taking urgent measures to end its regime of settler-colonial apartheid and illegal occupation.
From Gaza to the Global South and beyond, we affirm: impunity must end. We will not be silenced.
All States have a legal and moral obligation to protect human rights defenders, uphold the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, and confront all forms of persecution, repression, and collective punishment.
Silence is complicity. Solidarity is a duty. Speak out. Mobilise. Defend Palestine. Uphold international law.
#LoudAgainstGenocide #EndImpunity #StandWithHRDs

[Al-Mezan الميزان @AlMezanCenter]

We condemn in the strongest terms the draconian sanctions imposed by The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on our organisations: @alhaq_org , @AlMezanCenter & @pchrgaza/1

[Al-Haq الحق @alhaq_org]

We condemn in the strongest terms the draconian sanctions imposed by The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on our organisations: @alhaq_org , @AlMezanCenter & @pchrgaza/1