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@LetsRoc @palestine

Yes, but as clarification: the investigation of the #ICC (International Criminal Court) was already ongoing well before October 7th 2023: the case opened in 2015! It culminates with the arrest warrant against #Netanyahu & Gallant.

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It is distinct from the case opened by South Africa at the #ICJ (International Court of Justice), which in addition will address the ongoing #Genocide that Israel as a State is committing against the Palestinian people.

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Pass a resolution to boycott Israeli product, to divest your funds from companies that profit from apartheid.
The #ICC warrant and the #ICJ opinion are tools for you to pressure your every institution that you are a part of to comply with the 2005 Palestinian civil society call for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions #BDS against #IsraeliApartheid, until justice is realized.

Here's a place to start your research: act.progressive.international/watermelon/

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I ask the above because I see a lot of cynicism around the utility of the #ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant.

What that cynicism misses is that the warrant has cascading downstream effects to all countries that are signatories to the Rome Statute, and institutions within them.

If you are a member of a #union, or any democratically operated space, you have the duty use it to comply with the #ICC warrant, and the #ICJ advisory opinion before it.

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#Australia / Former Israeli government minister Ayelet Shaked has been denied a visa to come to Australia on character grounds

The ex-interior and justice minister was blocked from attending a security conference, with Home Affairs citing risks she could "vilify" Australians or "incite discord".

Shaked, who called the decision "shameful" and "anti-Semitic", has been a vocal defender of Israel's actions since October 7, stating Hamas must "surrender or die".

The Australian/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council condemned the visa rejection as "a disgraceful act of hostility towards a democratic ally".

theaustralian.com.au/nation/po or archive.md/JsE8e

Shaked verbatim as quoted in Israeli media:

[…] "This exposes the true face of the current Australian government - a government that has chosen to stand alongside Israel's enemies and damage the historic relations between the countries. This is an anti-Semitic decision and a dark day for Australian democracy."​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Shaked selected quotes indicative of character:

[…] “Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there. They have to die and their houses should be demolished so that they cannot bear any more terrorists,”

jonathanturley.org/2014/07/17/

Random commenter on #Ynet:

"It's not because you're Jewish, it's because you're a fascist and a criminal"​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Filmmaker Farah Nabulsi explains to #BBC host why the world doesn't need the #ICJ to tell us when a #genocide is happening right in front of our eyes.

"Strangely enough while I felt I could have & should have said more during this interview, I have never received more heartfelt messages & emails from random strangers around the world in reaction to it, than any other interview I have ever done. I guess HardTalk has a different kind of audience & the conversation resonated."
#Free Palestine

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“Statements... by Starmer [re] the bombardment of Vukovar to the #ICJ in 2014 highlight the.. cynical hypocrisy in which... Labour... is currently engaged.... [he] clearly and unequivocally condemns the killing of 1100 in Vukovar in statements... just a decade ago - the ruination of family homes; targeting of electricity, water and sewage systems and the destruction of the cultural fabric of Vukovar through the shelling of religious buildings, schools, kindergartens and public buildings."

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#Palestine / Beyond Legal Definitions: Israel's War on Gaza Marks Historic Shift in Global Understanding of Genocide

The magnitude of Israel's military campaign in #Gaza has fundamentally altered the international community's perception of #genocide, transcending traditional legal frameworks. As Dr. Lederman argues, regardless of how the International Court of Justice ultimately rules, Israel's actions in Gaza - characterized by systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure, mass casualties, deliberate starvation policies, and explicit statements by officials - have permanently linked Israel with genocide in global consciousness.

This represents a profound historical shift where the term "genocide" is no longer confined to strict legal definitions but has evolved to encompass the totality of societal destruction witnessed in Gaza. The implications of this shift will likely reverberate for generations, fundamentally reshaping how the world understands and discusses both genocide and #Israel's place in international relations.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

According to Dr. Lederman, Israel's current war on Gaza has transformed the understanding of #Nakba beyond its original historical meaning. While "Nakba" traditionally referred specifically to the 1947-1948 displacement of Palestinians during Israel's establishment, the scale and nature of destruction in Gaza has expanded the term's conceptual significance in two key ways:

1. The term has transcended its specific Palestinian-Israeli context to become a broader theoretical and empirical concept representing the total destruction of a society through multiple means - from displacement and military occupation to mass killing of defenseless populations through bombs, starvation, and disease, along with complete ecological devastation.

2. There is profound historical irony in that Israel's attempt to erase Palestinian identity through this war has instead elevated the Palestinian struggle to one of the most significant moral and political causes of our time, making the Palestinian experience universal and Israel's war in Gaza a crime of universal significance.

Dr. Lederman notes that even within Israel, people have referred (gleefully, -OM) to events in Gaza as "Nakba 2", though this usage doesn't fully capture how the term has evolved to represent a more comprehensive form of societal destruction that even the term "genocide" doesn't fully encompass.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew regthink.org/genocidal-intenti

Dr. Samuel Lederman (שמואל לדרמן) teaches in the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies at The Open University of Israel. He is also a faculty member in the International Program for #Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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הפורום לחשיבה אזורית · מעשי ישראל בעזה ושאלת הג'נוסייד | הפורום לחשיבה אזוריתמלחמת ישראל בעזה עוררה האשמות כבדות על רצח עם, הנשענות על הצהרות מנהיגים ומדיניות בשטח. שמואל לדרמן בוחן את האירועים לאור המושגים - ולהיפך

Just finished listening to the last interview by #ElectronicIntifada with Craig Mokhiber. Really worth a watch. Among other things, Mokhiber talks about the continuity of pro-Zionist policies by both Republicans and Democrats, and how some of the worst scenarios that open with the Trump administration, such as the annexation of the West-Bank, are decades long processes where both parties endorse the same agenda.

Worth a watch: electronicintifada.net

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#BDS / #Thales #Imperva’s Israeli CEO and head of global R&D, is so proud he was able to maintaine his corporate duties while actively participating in military operations in #Gaza; that the #ICJ has determined likely constitute #genocide

[…] How did they accept the fact that their global R&D head has been in reserve duty for such a long time?

Moshe Lipsker: Even when I was inside Gaza, I managed to work. There are areas outside the combat zone where you could talk. There are other tech people like me who 'steal' half an hour here, two hours there, to work. There's no choice. Remember, we went through the acquisition in July 2023, and the agreement was to complete it by the end of 2023. On October 7th, reality changed. As the only Israeli executive in the company, I joined important meetings from Gaza - seeing me would help calm them down. I always said: no matter what happens here, Israeli high-tech will continue. In December, as agreed in the acquisition, everything was finalized. Plus, there's good management in Israel and abroad, and the business runs smoothly even when I'm not there at any given moment.

Hebrew ynet.co.il/economy/article/r1o

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Ok, so on the occasion of this coming up, let me share what I learned about this specific point from a legal blog post the other week (I want to say an verfassungsblog, but I'm not entirely certain).

My initial reaction was also “potayto, potahto” (“plausibly suffering genocide”, "plausibly having their right not to suffer genocide violated”), and yes, it is sophistry, but it's ever so slightly more sophisticated sophistry than just that.

So in principle, there can indeed be a two-step process, whereby the ICJ first assesses whether the plaintiffs plausible have the right in the first place that they claim to have been violated, without making any determination about whether a violation of said right occurred.

A good example is the case that Ukraine brought to the ICJ against Russia. Ukraine did not assert that Russia was committing genocide. Ukraine made the novel argument that its rights under the convention were being violated by Russia using claims of Ukrainian genocide against the residents of Donbas as a pretext for its invasion. In this situation, it makes sense for the court to first decide whether Ukraine plausibly even ‧has‧ such a right (not to have the convention abused against it), before addressing the question whether such a right has in fact been violated.

That is the principle behind the notion that the ICJ might make a determination of whether a right that might have been violated plausibly exists in the first place, without saying anything about whether it's plausible that it has in fact been violated.

The reason this is nonsensical sophistry applied to the Gaza genocide case is not that such a distinction cannot be made, but that in this case, the existence of the underlying right is not up for debate. Indisputably, the population of Gaza has the right not to be subjected to genocide. That's not a right that first needs to be established as one they "plausibly" have. That's a given. And THAT is the reason why the question of plausibility can only meaningfully be immediately applied to the question of whether said right is being violated. Because there is no prior question that needs to be subjected to the plausibility standard.

#Gaza #genocide #ICJ @palestine
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bird.makeupAlonso GurmendiSaying "the ICJ said there is a plausible genocide" and "the ICJ said the rights of Palestinians [not to be the victims of genocide under the Genocide Convention] are plausibly at risk of imminent & irreparable harm" is saying the same thing; first colloquially, then in legalese https://bird.makeup/@koshercockney/1856408055937937497

"UN should consider suspending Israel over genocide, says special rapporteur

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has called for UN member states to consider suspending Israel over the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its decades-long illegal occupation of Palestinian land."

➡️ aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed 📹

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Al Jazeera‘UN should consider suspending Israel over genocide’UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has called for UN member states to consider suspending Israel.
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