#Brazil has now joined the cast of countries who have taken up direct #BDS actions against #Israel, with Lula expelling the Israeli ambassador and recalling Brazil's ambassador from Tel Aviv.
"The occupation is illegal and must be brought to an immediate, unconditional and total end. The right of self-determination requires that UN member states bring Israel's occupation to an immediate end. No aid, no assistance, no complicity, no money, no arms, no trade, no nothing. All #UN members are obliged by law to end #Israel's presence on the territory of #Palestine, period."
Center of International Courts and Tribunals Director and frequent #Hague counselor Philippe Sands' powerful testimony at the #ICJ
#German police arrested this #Jewish woman at a pro-Palestine demonstration last night on #antisemitism charges, because apparently #Jews supporting #Palestine are antisemites while the Germans locking up Jewish leftists are the Jews of today ๐
#Zionism is the most violent ideology in the Middle East. It took Syria 2 years to kill as many people as #Israel has in 130 days, and Syria has a population of ~20 million. #Gaza has a population of 2 million.
If the #ICJ can't determine that this is #genocide the vast majority of the world will lose confidence in its authority, without which violence will be the primary medium for settling the world's million intractable national disputes, which would almost certainly place World War on the horizon.
In Addis Ababa today, #Brazil's President #Lula said, "What's happening to the #Palestinian people in #Gaza hasn't happened at any other moment in history -In fact, it happened when Hitler decided to kill the Jews [...] It's not a war, it's a #genocide."
37% of the activists arrested in #Germany on #antisemitism charges in the past 130 days have been #Jewish. #Jews make up less than 1% of the total population of Germany. Think about what that means.
Germans learned nothing beyond how to manufacture and promote a semblance of reconciliation in which Jews are a mere transference object through which Germans may be absolved of the crimes of Nazism and the #Nakba. When we no longer function as objects that Germans can transfer their responsibility for genocide onto โ when we no longer serve to act as an insurance policy on their responsibility for crimes of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the commercial war economy of the imperial core โ then suddenly Germans become the victims of antisemitism visited upon the German people by the Jews.
A society where that is even fathomable has not actually repented for the #Holocaust. Which is exactly why Germany is the world's #1 champion of the genocide in #Gaza.
Am I going hard on Germany non-stop on here? Definitely, I'm trying to spur German society into a moment of reckoning that could bring enough shame or doubt to stop this genocide, as is seemingly every Jew who lived there and had their career sabotaged by anti- #BDS outcasting & blacklisting practices, which as more of us speak out, appear to truly be a ton. And its not just us, but all pro-Palestinian activists; we just happen to make up the second largest demographic presence in the solidaridarity movement because we, unlike Germans, tend to take the Holocaust and its larger, unceasing, monstrous older sibling โ #colonialism โincredibly seriously.
@hp sorry I cant tell if thats sarcasm? Germany is one of the most fervent supporters of Zionism, its not their opinion that matters so much as their actions.
In a direct afront to #ICJ provisional measures and the #Genocide Convention writ-large, #Egypt, lead by Western-backed dictator #Sisi, is building a new #ConcentrationCamp in the Sinai desert at the behest of #Israel. A tent city surrounded by concrete walls. No more of a plan with what to do with the #Palestinians that will be ethnically cleansed from #Gaza and herded into the camp like caddle than there was in 1948. The difference being that its not being errected by the UN, and will not offer mobility outside of its confines: it is being designed entirely as a zone of exception from the responsibilities of sovereign authority. Thats a concentration camp.
โWe should all be calling for an immediate return of the hostages, for Palestinians and Israelis on both sides of the border to be protected, and a swift end to the conflict.โ
Yesterday this "heretical_i" guy told me that because I'm antizionist I lack the "Jewish genome". Fascist much?
He then took the image i posted of 26 demonstrators against the war in Tel Aviv and posted it saying that "thousands of left wing antiwar demonstrators" ๐
When someone tells you "the Israeli government doesn't represent the Israeli people, who are protesting Bibi all the time", show them images like this as well as the TelAviv Uni study that showed only 1.8% of the population thinks Israel is using too much force.
Israelis are settlers, a small portion of whom are descendants of Holocaust refugees (the majority of whom settled in France, according to the claims commission); only their shared interests in advancing the genocidal Zionist project makes them "a people"; not that they are Jewish, as too many Jews, including the oldest bodies of rabbinic authority, reject the Zionist political project. I am Jewish and have nothing in common with most Israelis; I am not a part of their people โ last time I tried to go I was denied entry due to my activism; Israel is therefore obviously not the state of the Jewish people, but the state of the Jewish Zionist settler-colonial political project. It would be antisemitic to not distinguish the two, because that implies that Judaism โ an explicitly antinationalist religion the laws of which prohibit violence except in the most extreme circumstances โ is inherently driven to ethnonationalist violence.
Pretending that large swaths of the country opposes the genocide of #Palestine is an obvious lie. They fill the streets in the tens of thousands when a politician who wants to take their healthcare away steals an election; when Palestinian children are mass murdered, their limbs scattered across the tent cities they've been told to flee to as the bombardment intensifies for all the world to see, they show up in mere tens.
#Zionism is a fascist ideology that needs to be removed from power and refused recognition under international law. There is no way to distinguish it from what is happening now.
A core component of #Zionist ideology is that they refuse to live in an Arab/Palestinian majority society. That makes Zionism utterly incompatible with the most basic human rights. It means that Israel is constantly widening the conditions of immigration to incentivize more and more #European settlement, while increasing their criminal practice of non-consensual sterilization of non-white communities such as Ethiopians and Eritreans. Some studies suggest a majority of Russians moving there today are not even Jewish. Having spent time defending Palestinian demonstrators in Hebron, ive seen the large settler recruitment tours, many of which are full of redneck Americans that don't appear to be in anyway #Jewish from my experience of growing up Jewish in the American south.
Ethnonationalism is never a good thing. Palestinians were incredibly welcoming when we first arrived, until Zionist terror attacks and land grabs in the 20s and 30s triggered the Arab revolts. And yet, given all that they have gone through, the 2018 Hamas Party program still dedicates itself to forming a democratic government where any Israeli who is prepared to follow the law โ including their planned land reform โ will be given citizenship.
Following Edward Said, Steve Salaita and my professor Judith Butler's lead, in the naughties and early 10s, I was a proponent of the so-called #binational solution. But after spending time there, and hearing out the frum community that considers a stare of Israel to be a sacrilege on the Jewish faith, I honestly believe that what is needed is a simple state of Palestine. #Palestine is generic and of long historical precedent; #Israel is an ethnonationalist colonial program that exists in stark violation of Jewish law. It is irrational, and only exists to give a olive branch to a fascist ideology that has proven to be entirely genocidal.
So, numerous Israeli families went to the ICJ against Hamas, because they are understandably going through hell with their family members being held captive. Nothing wrong with that. I get it and agree.
I just want you to remember that I call it now, the ICJ will rule against Hamas in no-time, whilst also stalling with providing the Palestinians with any real resolution.
@tzafrir@rad@ScepticalScot1@palestine yeah it they can file a futile case but it doesn't change the fact that the ICJ doesn't charge individuals but rather states, it will be dismissed, I will paypal you $20 they win because I know they won't, thats pure theater lol
ใ A world-historic confrontation is now unfolding as #SouthAfrica exhorts the #ICJ to deliver an emergency ruling on the imminent #genocide in #Rafah. It's South Africa demanding an equal place under the sun for the world's colored peoples versus #Israel holding fast to a sacrosanct principle of the #Jewish State, "Schwarzes need not apply." ใ
โ Dr. Norman Finklestein #gaza
@heretical_i I'm not from the genome???? What are you a Nazi???? What makes someone "from the genome"? being a Zionist??? You are disgusting filfth and no, Italians being more racist doesn't excuse Jewish racism which is terrible and systematic in Brooklyn. My family are Litvaks from East Flatbush you fucking fascist zionist freak, but I will wear the badge of "not being from the Zionist genome" with pride now that you've brought it to my attention.