Israel must immediately repeal the discriminatory death penalty law passed today by the Knesset, as it contravenes Israel’s obligations under international law.
The United Nations opposes the death penalty under all circumstances. The implementation of this new law would violate international law's prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
Additionally, this law further entrenches Israel’s violation of the prohibition of racial segregation and apartheid as it will exclusively apply to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Israel, who are often convicted after unfair trials.
Read @UNHumanRights earlier statement and analysis about the death penalty draft bill:
https://t.co/oHVrU5nomP…
This sick fascist psycho bastard is popping champagne for a law that allows 🇮🇱 illegal occupiers, 🇮🇱 war criminals, who kidnap Palestinians 🇵🇸 to then execute them
His words:
‘Soon we will count them one by one’
Boycott these 🇮🇱 Neofascists now.
Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran.
Meanwhile, the UK is letting US bombers land, refuel and re-arm.
Complicity is always a choice — and our government has chosen to drag Britain into an illegal war.
The darkness is spreading. All states of Western Asia have been captured or crushed by the tyrannical US-Israel Axis except for Iran, half of Yemen, and half of Lebanon. Lebanon has been free of colonial domination for only 82 years. The US-Israel Axis is working to end that by corrupting the government, trying to provoke a civil war, assassinating leaders, and bombing the country. The Israeli apartheid regime, with US backing, is again attacking Lebanon today, even as the regime carries out genocide in Palestine, occupies three countries, bombs Iran, and commits serial aggression and murder across the region. The job of an army is to defend the country from external enemies, not to threaten its own people on behalf of those enemies in hopes of appeasing them. History has taught us that tyrants do not relent through acquiescence, and that historic moments like this call for sumud, not complicity. The roots of the Cedar are fed by Lebanese soil, not by Washington or Tel Aviv. To disarm or obstruct the Lebanese resistance at this moment would mean the end of Lebanese sovereignty and independence, perhaps for generations. #Freedom
“I’m shocked at the way it took so long for the international community to respond to what was going on.”
Miriam Margolyes on why she’s been so vocal about Gaza.
#LateLate
The violence of this gesture. The racism. The dehumanization. The ruthlessness. The arrogance. The lawlessness. The bloodthirst. The unmitigated evil. This is the US empire.