Today, I take up office as Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights with a pledge to inject a #HumanRights perspective into the greatest challenges facing our societies and at the heart of @coe states’ agendas.
EU elections: Italian centre-left rallies behind ‘United States of Europe’ bid
Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (Italia Viva) and the leader of +Europa party, Emma Bonino plan to run at the European election with a joint “United States of Europe” list.
#Gaza / UN security council passes [a draft] resolution calling for immediate ceasefire, as US abstains
The UN Security Council voted today (Monday) in favor of a draft resolution including a "demand" for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire during the month of Ramadan, which ends in about two weeks, and for the "immediate and unconditional release" of the hostages. 14 countries supported the draft resolution, the United States abstained, since it does not include condemnation of #Hamas - but did not use its veto.
#France / Potential Prosecution of Franco-Israeli Soldiers for Crimes in Gaza War
The French Foreign Ministry announced on March 21 that legal proceedings could be initiated against Franco-Israeli soldiers who committed crimes in the Gaza Strip. Several viral videos on social media show binational citizens carrying out acts that may constitute war crimes.
[…] "The French people who are participating in the Israeli military campaign in Gaza for the past five months and who are committing well-documented war crimes will have to be prosecuted upon their return to France."
"Shocked and repulsed by yesterday's killing of innocent civilians in Gaza while desperately waiting for humanitarian aid," European Council President Charles Michel posted on X.
"An independent investigation should be launched immediately and those responsible held accountable," he said.
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said she was "deeply disturbed by images from Gaza" and added that "every effort must be made to investigate what happened".
Addis Ababa, African Union summit / Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accused Israel Sunday of committing “genocide” against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip
“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide,”
“It’s not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children,”.
Lula condemned Hamas’s 7 October attack on #Israel as a “terrorist” act but he has since grown vocally critical of Israel’s retaliatory military campaign.
#Netanyahu: "The comparison between Israel and the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler crosses a red line […] It trivializes the #Holocaust and attempts to hurt the Jewish people and Israel's right to defend itself."
#Netanyahu himself was accused of holocaust denialism when he suggested in the past the Palestinian National leader, Amin al-Husseini influenced the Germans toward the Final Solution.
He’s also responsible for this buffoon (attached photo) seen at the Security Council meeting on the Israel-Hamas war at U.N. headquarters on October 30, 2023 in New York City.
Yad Vashem chair Dani Dayan criticized his display, saying it “disgraces both Holocaust victims and the state of Israel” because Israel, unlike the Jews of the Holocaust, has the capacity to defend itself.
@oatmeal@israel@palestine we have to go beyond this stupid idea that only Israelos can decide what can and what cannot be compared to Nazism.
In order to do that you need to know history, not to be jewish or even less israeli.
The most similar example of what Israel is doing today is Nazism, and every free and rational person must be and is free to say it out loud.
#Israel / White supremacist Sweden Democrats meet Israeli Minister in Knesset
[….] On January 29, a delegation of senior members of the far-right Sweden Democrats paid a visit to Israel. Surprisingly, the delegation met a minister in the Israeli parliament, Knesset.
“It is clear that our respective parties, and even nations, have many common core values. Many of our problems are also similar, so there is much to be gained from an exchange of experience and deepened cooperation both at the national and party level.”
Hey all my boyfriend wants to do shrooms for his bday and I wanted to drop a question in here as I’ll be trip sitting. I have never done any psychedelic myself, i only smoke weed....
@GoddessOfGouda I also would say that splitting the dosage doesn't really makes a difference with shrooms, it only makes the trip longer.
If he did it before and he is confident he can handle that dosage (not for first timers I'd say) there is no need to delay... which makes me think: are you sure he took that much before?
Rule number one is be honest with your sitter: you have the right to know what to expect. That's the all point of having a sitter.
@HeartyBeast@roastedDeflator mediating? When? When no people and no Palestinian land is left? Let the slaughter ends and then "mediate" with the criminals? The real reason is that european governments can switch on and off their interests for human rights depending on the color of the skin of the victims.
@HeartyBeast@roastedDeflator If it isn't racism I don't know what else. We spent the last two years with the media and the politicians making a big drama every time a russian bomb hit a building in Ukraine even if noone had a scratch (and rightfully so), and now that we have bombs daily killing hundreds of civilians everything is bussines as usual? That is racism my friend.
We don't even have all those drama about Ukraine anymore, simply because the disparity would be too obvious.
About Ukraine and Russia I think you're missing my point: independently from who did what targeting civilians is wrong a d should be met with the same indignation. Which is clearly not the case in the EU: Russia can't do it, while Israel clearly can. This is solely based on the ethnicity of the victims.
The horror of the past has returned in a new guise, and the comparison of the Jewish ghetto under Nazism with the Gaza ghetto under Israel’s current fascistic authority must cease to be sacrilegious.
Good dosage for first time user?
Hey all my boyfriend wants to do shrooms for his bday and I wanted to drop a question in here as I’ll be trip sitting. I have never done any psychedelic myself, i only smoke weed....
Why is the EU silent on South Africa's genocide case against Israel? (www.euronews.com)
The first hearing in a landmark lawsuit against Israel enters its second day on Friday at the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ).