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DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social

Writer, psychologist & educator here to learn & share info on politics, psych, education, history &, especially, structural power. Antifascist, anti-oligarchy, atheist. I boost what I find interesting, regardless of whether I agree with it. Resisting fascism includes countering disinformation with facts. I prefer evidence, not evidence-free opinion. Image: Rothko

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Interview

..with Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé about his recent trip to the US

Pappé was interrogated for two hours by federal agents upon arrival about his political views on Gaza, Hamas & Israel.

The FBI also demanded to know who he knew in U.S. Muslim, Arab & Palestinian communities.

Pappé was only allowed to enter the country after agents copied the contents of his phone.

Pappé says the Zionist project is beginning to collapse.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/21/ilan_pappe_airport_detention

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DrALJONES, to Israel
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Interview

... with war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody

"ICC Charges Against Netanyahu First Time Court Has Gone After Western Leader"

Brody says the charges are "a watershed event in the history of international justice. This is the first time that a Western or pro-Western leader is [the] subject of an indictment request.”

The warrants for Israel’s top leaders must still be approved by a panel of ICC judges.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/21/international_law_israel_palestine

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DrALJONES, to Israel
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Interview

...with Lily Greenberg Call, the first Jewish Biden official to publicly resign over Gaza

She says her resignation was motivated by her Jewish values. “I am really living in my Jewishness".

She criticized Biden & others for pitting Jewish safety against Palestinian rights, saying they are "using my community as justification for this slaughter, making us the face of the American war machine.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/21/lily_greenberg_call_resignation

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DrALJONES, to random
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Interview

...of Chris Hedges by the On Strike! podcast

...about Gaza & strategy for the movement

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/interview-with-on-strike?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=5xoug&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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"War crime arrest warrant sought. What next?"

"Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor, must request the warrants from a pre-trial panel of three judges, who take on average two months to consider the evidence" & make a determination.

Israel is not a member of the ICC.

Even if the warrants are issued, there is no immediate risk of prosecution, but the threat of arrest could make OS travel difficult.

12.45 GMT MAY 20 AJ UPDATES

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Opinion

On apartheid Israel

When apartheid South Africa came under growing international pressure at the UN, the General Assembly initiated boycotts.

It suspended South Africa, stripping it of its Member State rights & privileges.

The apartheid regime "could no longer be seated, speak or vote at the General Assembly & other UN organs.

"Apartheid South Africa changed course because it became a pariah & isolated regime"

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/20/ostracising-israel-at-the-un-should-be-a-priority

....2..

DrALJONES, to Israel
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Analysis

ICC punctures Israel’s shield of immunity

But the ICC charges are highly political:

charging only the two Israeli leaders disliked by Washington & letting countless others off the hook;

charging the Palestinians with “torture" but not Israel;

failing to charge Israel with genocide;

failing to charge Israel over West Bank etc. crimes over decades.

Hence, the ICC is feeding the false impression that history began on 7 October 2023.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/icc-warrants-both-historic-and-cynical?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=c8f7110575-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-c8f7110575-299283715

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Analysis

The failed US "Potemkin" pier - "seems it was designed not to work"

“The pier itself can only bring in 90 trucks a day. We need 500 minimum, more like 1,500, to meet the vast humanitarian need in Gaza,” said the American Friends Service Committee, which has worked in Gaza for 75 years.

"To think that we are playing around with building a pier. It is not serious aid. The pier is a distraction.

23.25 GMT MAY 21 AJ UPDATES

#USPol #Gaza ..

DrALJONES, to Israel
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Documentary

"The Settlers", 2016

"The settlement enterprise is a bubble that exists outside the legal system, the border system, the social system of Israel.

"400,000 settlers are living in the midst of 2.8 million Palestinians living under a separate set of laws, deprived of basic human rights within this territory with an economic status about one-twentieth of that of the settlers that live near them."
~Filmmaker Shimon Dotan

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=prqtXMSdeUw

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DrALJONES, to auspol
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Open letter on the persecution of whistleblowers

To the Australian Federal Government about whistleblower David McBride, who was sentenced to jail last week for exposing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan

Twelve advocacy organisations, including Amnesty International & Human Rights Law Centre, signed the letter to pressure the Australian government to end its war on whistleblowers.

Published in newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age

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DrALJONES, to Israel
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Interview

...with Lily Greenberg Call, the first Jewish Biden official to publicly resign over Gaza

She says her resignation was motivated by her Jewish values. “I am really living in my Jewishness".

She criticized Biden & others for pitting Jewish safety against Palestinian rights, saying they are "using my community as justification for this slaughter, making us the face of the American war machine.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/21/lily_greenberg_call_resignation

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Report

Graduating Yale students stage walkout in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

As President Peter Salovey began the traditional ceremony, around 150 students stood up, turned their backs, & exited through Phelps Gate, drawing cheers from peers.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3kp1LOUFuSA

#Yale #StudentProtests #BDS #USPol ..

DrALJONES, to Israel
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Analysis

ICC punctures Israel’s shield of immunity

But the ICC charges are highly political:

charging only the two Israeli leaders disliked by Washington & letting countless others off the hook;

charging the Palestinians with “torture" but not Israel;

failing to charge Israel with genocide;

failing to charge Israel over West Bank etc. crimes over decades.

Hence, the ICC is feeding the false impression that history began on 7 October 2023.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/icc-warrants-both-historic-and-cynical?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=c8f7110575-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-c8f7110575-299283715

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Opinion

On apartheid Israel

When apartheid South Africa came under growing international pressure at the UN, the General Assembly initiated boycotts.

It suspended South Africa, stripping it of its Member State rights & privileges.

The apartheid regime "could no longer be seated, speak or vote at the General Assembly & other UN organs.

"Apartheid South Africa changed course because it became a pariah & isolated regime"

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/20/ostracising-israel-at-the-un-should-be-a-priority

....2..

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"War crime arrest warrant sought. What next?"

"Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor, must request the warrants from a pre-trial panel of three judges, who take on average two months to consider the evidence" & make a determination.

Israel is not a member of the ICC.

Even if the warrants are issued, there is no immediate risk of prosecution, but the threat of arrest could make OS travel difficult.

12.45 GMT MAY 20 AJ UPDATES

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Report

Graduating Yale students stage walkout in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

As President Peter Salovey began the traditional ceremony, around 150 students stood up, turned their backs, & exited through Phelps Gate, drawing cheers from peers.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3kp1LOUFuSA

#Yale #StudentProtests #BDS #USPol ..

DrALJONES, to auspol
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Analysis

"The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues"

"The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison.

"That is the point."

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-slow-motion-execution-of-julian?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=5xoug&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Assange #USPol #AusPol #UKPol #USImperialism ..

DrALJONES, to random
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Interview

...of Chris Hedges by the On Strike! podcast

...about Gaza & strategy for the movement

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/interview-with-on-strike?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=5xoug&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

! ..

DrALJONES, to Israel
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Interview

... with war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody

"ICC Charges Against Netanyahu First Time Court Has Gone After Western Leader"

Brody says the charges are "a watershed event in the history of international justice. This is the first time that a Western or pro-Western leader is [the] subject of an indictment request.”

The warrants for Israel’s top leaders must still be approved by a panel of ICC judges.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/21/international_law_israel_palestine

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DrALJONES, to random
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Interview

..with Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé about his recent trip to the US

Pappé was interrogated for two hours by federal agents upon arrival about his political views on Gaza, Hamas & Israel.

The FBI also demanded to know who he knew in U.S. Muslim, Arab & Palestinian communities.

Pappé was only allowed to enter the country after agents copied the contents of his phone.

Pappé says the Zionist project is beginning to collapse.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/21/ilan_pappe_airport_detention

..

DrALJONES, to Israel
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Documentary

"The Settlers", 2016

"The settlement enterprise is a bubble that exists outside the legal system, the border system, the social system of Israel.

"400,000 settlers are living in the midst of 2.8 million Palestinians living under a separate set of laws, deprived of basic human rights within this territory with an economic status about one-twentieth of that of the settlers that live near them."
~Filmmaker Shimon Dotan

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=prqtXMSdeUw

..

DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
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Opinion

On apartheid Israel

When apartheid South Africa came under growing international pressure at the UN, the General Assembly initiated boycotts.

It suspended South Africa, stripping it of its Member State rights & privileges.

The apartheid regime "could no longer be seated, speak or vote at the General Assembly & other UN organs.

"Apartheid South Africa changed course because it became a pariah & isolated regime"

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/20/ostracising-israel-at-the-un-should-be-a-priority

....2..

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We've been here before:

In the 1980s, Reagan & Thatcher followed a policy of 'constructive engagement' with apartheid South Africa & vetoed UN economic sanctions on the regime.

Both saw "South Africa as a bastion against Marxist forces in Southern Africa. Thatcher declared the ANC a terrorist organisation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_South_Africa_during_apartheid#:~:text=In%20the%201980s%2C%20both%20the,bastion%20against%20Marxist%20forces%20in

#Apartheid #USPol #UKPol ..

DrALJONES, to random
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Interview

with On Strike!

about Gaza & strategy for the movement

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/interview-with-on-strike?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=5xoug&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#OnStrike! #USPol #Gaza ..

DrALJONES, to auspol
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Analysis

"The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues"

"The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison.

"That is the point."

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-slow-motion-execution-of-julian?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=5xoug&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Assange #USPol #AusPol #UKPol #USImperialism ..

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