Brendan Rowland

Graphic Designer, Love Comic Art, Sketching Portraits. Punk Laws Rule.
A Céad Míle Fáilte, from Ireland.

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

Rima Hassan wants to break four taboos in the French public debate on Palestine:

1) Recognizing Zionism as a colonial ideology
2) Defending the right of return
3) Discussing the legitimacy of armed struggle
4) Moving beyond the two-state paradigm

https://t.co/voMcRGjwzS

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

🇪🇸 İspanya

Benjamin Netanyahu: "İspanya, dünyanın en ahlaki ordusu olan İsrailli askerlere iftira attı. İspanya'ya Kiryat Gat'taki askeri koordinasyon merkezinden dışlanmasını emrettim. "

İspanyol yanıtı – Bakan Sira Rego:

"Seni iftira etmiyoruz; seni olduğun gibi tanımlıyoruz."
"Siz bir imha ve suç sistemisiniz ve hepiniz Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi'nin önünde duracaksınız."

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Videos show Israeli settlers attacking the Palestinian village of al Tuwani in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, setting homes, vehicles and a mosque on fire. According to Palestinian media, Israeli forces provided protection for the settlers during the assault.

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

The ICC is not a “kangaroo court.” It was created by treaty, the Rome Statute, which now binds 125 states, and its judges are elected by those states. The statement attacks Karim Khan personally, but Khan neither convicted Netanyahu nor issued the warrants. Under Article 58, a prosecutor may only seek an arrest warrant. Three independent judges must find reasonable grounds before one can issue.

On 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I unanimously found reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu bears criminal responsibility for starvation as a method of warfare, intentionally directing attacks against civilians, and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts. That is the Court’s ruling, and attacks on Khan do nothing to change it.

Nor does the ICC stand alone. At the International Court of Justice, an entirely different court, Israel is the respondent in South Africa v. Israel under the 1948 Genocide Convention. The Court has issued three binding provisional-measures orders finding that the Palestinians’ rights under the Convention are plausible and directing Israel to prevent genocidal acts and permit humanitarian aid at scale. Its March 2024 order addressed famine conditions in Gaza directly. That is the same factual reality underlying the ICC’s starvation charge.

The claim that the ICC has “no jurisdiction over Israelis” is equally false. Article 12(2)(a) is territorial, not national. Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute in 2015, and crimes committed on the territory of a State Party fall within the Court’s jurisdiction regardless of the accused’s nationality. A foreign national who commits a crime on someone else’s soil is not immunised by his passport, and Netanyahu is no exception.

If Mayor Mamdani’s Law Department concludes that the city has a lawful basis to act on the ICC’s warrant, then New York should enforce the law. The same principle applies wherever Netanyahu travels.

In practical terms, that means countries whose airspace Netanyahu’s aircraft enters should require it to land and arrest him.

European countries that are parties to the Rome Statute are treaty-bound to cooperate fully with the ICC under Article 86 and, when the Court requests it, to comply with requests for the arrest and surrender of a person under Article 89(1). They are not free to treat an ICC arrest warrant as optional simply because the suspect is politically powerful.

[The National @ScotNational]

Scottish voters have 'heard it all before', the SNP have said, as Andy Burnham promises to put Scotland at the heart of his plans for government 👇 https://t.co/Ht00ZhNBk5

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel has committed 3,795 violations of the “ceasefire” agreement since October:

🔸1,168 Palestinians killed
🔸3,734 wounded
🔸149 detained in what it described as Israeli “violations and abuses”

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/4fZEie1zir

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish actor Brian Cox has given BIGGEST SHOCK to Netanyahu 🔥

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Brian: What’s happening in Palestine is a travesty, a genocide at epic level. The way Israel has treated Palestine is unforgivable. 🔥

A lot of people stay quiet because they’re scared for their careers."

Takes guts to say that 👏

Massive courage. Actor with SPINE 👏

[GBC @GBC_Press]

The Spanish footballer walked onto the pitch with a little Palestinian girl wearing a hijab.

​Well done, the message is CLEAR!

[The National @ScotNational]

Today's front page of The National.

We published a timeline of a year of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. It's all here in black and white - the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don't look away.

[Amnesty MENA @AmnestyMENA]

Two years ago, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a historic advisory opinion concluding that Israel’s decades long occupation and annexation of Palestinian territory are unlawful.

Two years later, Israel continues to commit a plethora of violations and atrocious crimes against Palestinians, including as part of its campaign of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. Most states deliberately remain inactive enabling Israel to violate the rights of Palestinians with impunity.

Act now: https://t.co/m9lfZks1r8

#StopIsraelsEthnicCleansing

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

🇨🇦 | Canadian doctor:

“We saw everything with our own eyes, Israel is lying. Be brave and declare that this crime is a genocide!”

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

🇪🇸Certain victories remind us that freedom can still prevail.

Thank you Spain and to all those who continue to stand with courage and dignity on the side of justice.

#HastaLaVictoria

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Josep Borrell, the former EU foreign policy chief, has denounced the bureau of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for holding a "political vote" to remove Prosecutor Karim Khan instead of upholding judicial findings that cleared him of wrongdoing

https://t.co/kHhtSEX4Nm

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Two years ago today, the world’s top court ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal - and Governments must act to end it!

With over 80 MPs and Lords, I've called on the Foreign Secretary to introduce sanctions on Israel to meet our legal and moral obligations.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​Spain responded harshly to Israel's statements:

"We are not defaming you, Israel, we are describing you: You are a genocidal and criminal regime."

"You will all be held accountable before the International Criminal Court."

[Al Morrison @AlMorrison14]

So Burnham suggests more drilling of Scotlands oil to underwrite the failing Westminster finances
Be in no doubt they will tap off our renewables & then pipes to divert our water
All without any return to Scottish finances
We are being mugged in plain sight

[The National @ScotNational]

EXCLUSIVE: New research has revealed that the Scottish Government has invested almost four times more per capita than England when it comes to affordable housing https://t.co/HjVD1atWyO

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"Starmer on Wednesday told MPs that when he became UK Labour leader, 'we had just lost the 2019 election, which nearly broke my party. It was the worst result since 1935, and we were found to be institutionally antisemitic'"

This statement contained a serious falsehood. Many would call it a lie"

✍️ Opinion by Peter Oborne
https://t.co/FZZ6UGeLwi

[Paul Murphy 🇵🇸 @paulmurphy_TD]

Nobody wants a future where the majority of the internet and 'creative content' is AI slop.

That's the future unless we collectively pull the brake on generative AI.

This isn't a runaway train. The narrative of inevitability is propagated by Big Tech to try and profit.