Yes. What Noam Chomsky says here is true
NOTE how in the UK, opinion polls show huge support for Palestinians BUT the political and media and financial elites insist on a policy of supporting and enabling Israel to carry out GENOCIDE
Thank you, Owen. That #BBC was among the least principled western media when reporting on Palestine, was evident. The depravity you describe was hard to fathom, though. There must be accountability.
Pope Francis knows Gaza 🇵🇸 is not a war:
"Yesterday, children were bombed. This is cruelty. This is not war.”
It’s a slaughter.
It’s terror.
It’s genocide.
https://t.co/pVD3QeTnHQ
The israelis broke her skull & both her legs, inflicted bruises and burns all over her body: they also killed Eline Qasem’s entire family, parents et al
International Criminal Court staff face coercion & intimidation after judges issued arrest warrants for israeli leaders for their grave war crimes in Gaza https://t.co/Ky8NQryKgw
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:
“This is what the settler colonial genocide is…It is the devastation of the group in order to take control of the land…The land is essential to understanding the intent that drives Israel’s 🇮🇱 genocide.”
It’s always been a land grab.
🇵🇸🇺🇦High time to repeal the Blair 'Labour' Government's anti-democratic Terrorism Act 2000 which is now being abused to persecute anti-fascists/Zionists, stifle lawful freedom of speech and muzzle lawful dissent against Zionist Israel's genocide in Gaza.
https://t.co/RbvbyLgAYu
If anyone ever doubted that the UK is a rogue imperialist state supporting brutal war, racist white supremacy, genocide & war crimes here is your proof
I've rarely been so ashamed my country.
France has just officially reversed its earlier decision to apply the ICC arrest warrant on Netanyahu 👇
All based on a completely bullshit excuse that "States not party to the ICC" have "immunities". Which is pure hypocrisy: Russia isn't party to the ICC either and they've never even raised this point after the arrest warrant on Putin.
In fact France, whilst cynically writing in their press release that they'll "fully cooperate with the ICC", actually directly violate the court's judgement by doing this given that the court explicitly noted that "the acceptance by Israel of the Court's jurisdiction is not required" since the ICC can exercise jurisdiction based on Palestine's territorial jurisdiction. This rejection of Israel's jurisdictional challenges means that any immunity claims are invalid.
And the worst part is of course the flip-flopping: I'd legit have had more respect for my country if they'd said this straight away instead of first doing the right thing and then reversing their position. Because it's plainly obvious that's because they were pressured into it and they caved like cowards, making a mockery of France's dignity (and international law) in the process.
Legally illiterate from Macron, and he knows it.
Neither Russia nor Israel are "a party to the court".
Ukraine and Palestine are. The ICC issued arrest warrants for crimes committed in these signatory states.
The West continues trashing an already imploding international order
@Getonthelash2@mailolstar That is not true though Lindsay, although ur probably not aware, Hamas offered a permanent ceasefire for 1967 borders a long time ago now.
It can't be called a war when one side doesn't have an army. This is a genocide. I saw with my own eyes Israel's
https://t.co/79ekZEPY2V
@Getonthelash2@mailolstar Lindsay do you not feel an illegal blockade & regular bombing called 'mowing the lawn', the killing of 200 Palestinians just between Jan & 7th Oct 23 & the beating of worshippers in Al Aqsa Mosque was not provocation? Nevermind the 8 decades of brutalisation & massacres?!
@Getonthelash2@mailolstar@MCourtWatch 2. Are good to look into. I don't support Hamas, I believe in secular organisations, but I do understand the conditions that created them, as much as I can. The situation is no different to South Africa & actually, even worse, as Desmond Tutu acknowledged. Israel is the oppressor
The Israeli Army Chief of Staff visited Britain YESTERDAY
The International Criminal Court Act 2001 obliges the UK to investigate, arrest, & prosecute suspected war criminals
Why was Halevi not detained for questioning about Gaza & Lebanon war crimes?
Was he granted immunity?