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DrALJONES

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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 Trita Parsi on the Future of Iran After the President's death:

The only reason Raisi got elected was because the majority of the population actually boycotted the elections bcz the conservatives refused to let non-conservatives candidates run.

Now it has to make a decision: Is it actually going to allow other candidates to stand?

Parsi also discusses Iran's crumbling air fleet & the inevitable question of potential Israeli involvement.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/20/iran_ebrahim_raisi_death_helicopter_crash

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DrALJONES, to Israel
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Interview

... with analyst Mouin Rabbani on the International Criminal Court's move against Netanyahu & Gallant.

The charges against Netanyahu & Gallant include starvation of civilians, extermination, intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population.

Rabbani explains the significance for Israelโ€™s allies & signatories to the ICC:

"They now have to make a choice between Israeli impunity & obligations under the Rome Statute.โ€

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/20/icc_warrants_netanyahu_gallant_sinwar

#ICC #Israel #Hamas ..

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Presentation

...by Daniel Levy to the European parliament re western complicity in Israel's genocide

Israel's impunity has been a handmaiden to extremism.

Extremists such as Smotrich wear eradication, displacement & apartheid as badges of pride, & yet the west has normalized it. No one has cut relations with Israel.

"If European support is going to come with the price of continuing to be complicit, then take your attention elsewhere"

April 9, 2024
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4GuNN_ydI7I

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The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant & Hamas leaders

ICC prosecutor Karim Khan claims he has reasonable grounds to believe PM Netanyahu & Defence Minister Yoav Gallant bear responsibility for war crimes & crimes against humanity in Gaza, including starvation as a method of warfare, together with other attacks & collective punishment against the civilian population.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-20/icc-seeks-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-hamas-leaders/103871928

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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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@fabiocosta0305

You should be writing political thrillers... ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

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@fabiocosta0305

Re "Israel will NEVER give Bibi"

As a non-signatory, Israel isn't the issue - the point is that he can be arrested while travelling abroad.

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More info

"Israel is not a member of the court and does not recognize its jurisdiction in Israel or Gaza. But if warrants are issued, those named could be arrested if they travel to one of the court's 124 member nations, which include most European countries but not the United States."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/world/middleeast/icc-hamas-netanyahu.html#:~:text=Israel%20is%20not%20a%20member,but%20not%20the%20United%20States.

Mossad, schmossad...

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

#Israel #WestBankSettlements ..

DrALJONES, to Palestine
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Analysis & video

"The enabling role of Western countries when it comes to Israelโ€™s war on Gaza is even worse than their stance during the Nakba" in 1948. "We are seeing a transition from using ethnic cleansing as the main method" into genocide.

~Ilan Pappe, the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Pappรฉ was recently detained & interrogated by FBI when entering the US.

Re Israel's ethnic cleansing 1948 & 1967:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jQnKuzPX0Ls&t=8s

https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-anti-zionist-academic-ilan-pappe-interrogated-by-fbi-in-detroit/

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DrALJONES, to Palestine
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Panel "Britain & the Ongoing Nakba in Palestine"

"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was made in Britain. Britain created the conditions that made the Nakba possible." ~ Avi Shlaim

Panel
Prof Avi Shlaim
Prof Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Dr Chandni Desai

Panel begins at 10.38 min in:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WrI9sfyFJjk

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Israeli activists protect aid convoy to Gaza

A group from Standing Together travelled with a humanitarian aid convoy to protect it from illegal settlers & other extremists.

Last week, at least seven aid trucks from Jordan were stopped & ransacked by Israeli settlers.

19.30 GMT MAY 19 AJ UPDATES

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Some Morehouse College students & faculty walked out on Biden's commencement speech

Biden reportedly saw Morehouse College - where he gave the address - as a school where he was unlikely to face protests.

However, some students & faculty turned their backs or walked out during Biden's address.

Unlike at George Mason University where protestors interrupted him 10 times, Morehouse protestors did not disrupt his speech.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-at-morehouse?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=072f10f99d-Top+News%3A+Fri.+5%2F17%2F24_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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Analysis

The new McCarthyism aiming at university professors

More than 90 professors have been murdered & all universities obliterated during Israelโ€™s genocidal assault.

Globally, academics in various fields have been targeted by pro-Israel groups - fired, suspended, or removed from the classroom for pro-Palestine, anti-Israel speech.

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/16/university-college-professors-israel-palestine-firing/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

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Interview

Powerful description of Nakba

Today's Israeli govt are descendants of those who created the 1948 Nakba.

Netanyahuโ€™s father, Benzion, belonged to the terrorist organization that ethnically cleansed Yaffa.

And Yoav Gallant's father named him after Operation Yoav, which led to the expulsion of southern Palestine into Gaza.

The children of those that committed the Nakba are banning its commemoration so as to hide the crime so as to continue it.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/15/nakba_day

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@JoBlakely

Thanks, Jo. Will give it a watch.

Here's an interesting interview with the director:
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1401&context=jrf

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Powerful mini doco

...from Prof Danny Shaw, City College New York, who got fired & arrested for protesting against Israeli & US actions in Gaza

Shaw was accused of antisemitism & fired for his outspoken criticism of Israelโ€™s actions & the use of US weapons & money in Gaza.

โ€œThey try to label us as terrorists, but what are our crimes? Student encampments, books, the truth?โ€ says Shaw.

https://aje.io/29g1kk?update=2909427

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Video evidence of NYPD punching, brutalising, & arresting peaceful protesters

"New York police have beaten & arrested several protesters at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Brooklyn."

As the protesters reached an intersection, "officers rushed in & grabbed people out of the crowd seemingly at random.

"Officers tackled multiple protesters to the ground & then proceeded to punch them."

~Katie Smith

3.00 GMT May 19 AJ UPDATES

https://aje.io/29g1kk?update=2909372

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DrALJONES, (edited ) to Palestine
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"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was made in Britain. Britain created the conditions that made the Nakba possible." ~ Avi Shlaim

Panel discussion:

"Britain and the Ongoing Nakba in Palestine"

Panel
Prof Avi Shlaim
Prof Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Dr Chandni Desai

Panel begins at 10.38 min in:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WrI9sfyFJjk

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"Death protest" by Oxford students at the entrance to graduation ceremonies.

Students have been protesting for 13 days demanding the university sever relations with companies profiting from Israelโ€™s war on Gaza.

The peaceful protest was met with a security guard kicking a number of students & demanding they leave.

10.30 GMT MAY 19 AJ UPDATES

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DrALJONES, to Palestine
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Analysis & video

"The enabling role of Western countries when it comes to Israelโ€™s war on Gaza is even worse than their stance during the Nakba" in 1948. "We are seeing a transition from using ethnic cleansing as the main method" into genocide.

~Ilan Pappe, the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Pappรฉ was recently detained & interrogated by FBI when entering the US.

Re Israel's ethnic cleansing 1948 & 1967:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jQnKuzPX0Ls&t=8s

https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-anti-zionist-academic-ilan-pappe-interrogated-by-fbi-in-detroit/

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Analysis

"Bidenโ€™s floating pier off Gaza is... a Potemkin Village"

The US practices theatrics while refugees starve amid rivers of shit

While the pier "isnโ€™t completely useless, it cannot replace overland truck deliveries.

"At most it will supply 150 trucks daily, when 500 are needed.

"It is a PR band-aid on the gaping wound of.. genocidal blockage of aid."

https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/theatrics-starving-refugees.html

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@ceartas

๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ It's the thought that counts... the thought that you can fool most of the people for most of an election campaign....

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@Infoseepage

Yes. The US administration is a knowing partner in genocide by starvation. And no doubt has its own purposes for the pier.

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Interview

...with Lara Friedman & Rabbi Jay Michaelson on the Antisemitism Awareness Act

"There's something innane about this: in order to engage in criticism of Israel, you have to be an antisemite"
~ Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East Peace.

The US Senate is expected to vote soon on the Antisemitism Awareness Act.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2024/5/17/will-the-antisemitism-awareness-act-repress-free-speech

#Antisemitism #Censorship #USPol ..

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@Eka_FOOF_A

Yes. And, given that many of the pro-Zionist, white-supremacist warmongers are actually anti-Jewish, I have to wonder if that's part of their goal.

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@Eka_FOOF_A

Re "called a person Zionist for eugenic reasons"

That statement can have more than one meaning...

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