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Delightful to speak with
@DougHenwood
about the far-reaching implications of the International Court of Justice's ruling on the (il)legality of Israel's 57-year-long occupation of Palestinian territory. TL;DR: international law says the occupation must end as rapidly as possible.
The ICJ has ruled Israel’s occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank illegal. We spoke with law of war scholar Heidi Matthews about the legal and political effects this ruling could have as the massacre in Gaza continues.
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Destroying water treatment plants is a war crime in its own right. Doing so in full knowledge that it will contribute to the spread of polio is evidence of genocidal intent.
As polio spreads in Gaza, IDF engineers blow up the “Canada well” water treatment facility and reservoir in Tel Sultan, Rafah, Gaza.
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This is one of the most dystopian images I've ever seen.
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The "evacuation" of Rafah is illegal. There are no "humanitarian" or "safe zones." Civilians are being forcibly displaced to areas totally unsuitable to human habitation. This is a crime against humanity.
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The ICJ was clear—Israel's responsibilities to the population in Gaza under the law of occupation are commensurate with its level of authority. In this context vaccinating IDF soldiers for polio while failing to ensure Palestinians are vaccinated is evidence of genocidal intent🧵
IDF to vaccinate Israeli soldiers against polio after high concentration of virus found in Gaza sewage
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No—as others have noted, Israel has no right to defend itself against any attack in the Golan Heights, as the Golan Heights is not Israeli territory—it’s occupied Syrian territory. Israel’s annexation of the territory is unlawful under international law.
Israel has a right to defend itself after a Hezbollah attack seems to have killed 12 children and teenagers in Golan Heights. We’re all agreed, right? So, do the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves after more than 15,000 of their children were killed by Israel in Gaza?
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This is exactly what the International Court of Justice found in July—that Israel has *already* annexed large parts of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force. What we see now is an intensification of that process.
The West Bank is being forcibly annexed.
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I am increasingly convinced that Gaza is
—and will be—the essential moral question of our time. But perhaps what’s even more essential is our collective failure to perceive the question.
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I’ve been writing a narrative analysis of the ‘lingerie genre’ of IDF Gaza photography. Key is the eroticisation of genocide & the role of gender performance. This sort of perverse “drag” is about constructing Israeli masculinity through the dehumanization of Palestinian women.
It’s the environment that stands out for me. The beheaded doll. Her body hanging from the fuse box door frame; all scenes we’ve been privy to with real Palestinian babies.
The obligatory 🍆 pic on the wall. These maniacs are equipped with the most advanced murderous machinery.
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The ICJ's written order and separate opinions will be released shortly. But my first reaction is that this is a big win for Palestinian advocates. Some will be disappointed that the Court stopped short of ordering a ceasefire. But... 🧵
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My hometown is the literal best 🏂
#Newfoundland
#StJohnsNL
#snowmaggedon2020
h/t Maria Cherwick (fb)
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It looks like the end of Israel’s unlawful military occupation. It looks like the removal of the settlements. It looks like the return of stolen land. It looks like reparations. And then it looks like whatever the Palestinian people freely determines for itself.
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The man tied lengthwise to the hood of a military jeep in the West Bank by Israeli forces has been with me for days. His name is Mujahed Abadi. This potentially constitutes the war crime of using human shields *but also* a number of other war crimes. 🧵
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Today will go down in the history of international law. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for arrest warrants against Netanyahu & Gallant and Sinwar, Deif & Haniyeh. It's a game changer in global politics & the Israel-Palestine conflict.🧵
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The “apology” is even more genocidal than the podcast
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Today, the
@CIJ_ICJ
heard oral arguments from Nicaragua, which has brought a case against Germany alleging that in providing political, financial & military support to Israel, Germany is facilitating the commission of genocide & has failed in its obligation to prevent genocide.🧵
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“By declaring them state lands, the Israeli government has opened them up to being leased to Israelis and prohibited private Palestinian ownership.” Land theft is a component part of colonial genocide as a social process.
BREAKING: Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.
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This is absolutely 100% disinformation. Under international humanitarian law violating the prohibition on employing human shields does NOT turn the civilians or their objects being used as shields into legitimate targets. Attacking civilians in this way is a war crime.
@Heidi__Matthews
Human shielding is a war crime, and it is recognized under the law of war that civilian infrastructures used by armies in this way are legitimate targets.
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I'm a law professor, and I'm here to say that our students -- not the self-styled public intellectuals of our day -- are our heroes.
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I can't overstate the significance of today's ICJ advisory opinion. Major takeaways:
— Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory* is illegal & must end as rapidly as possible
*this includes Gaza
— Israel's conduct amounts to racial segregation & apartheid
The
@CIJ_ICJ
will be delivering its advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian territory in just a few minutes. This is a Very Big Deal. My thoughts and reactions 🧵
You can watch live here:
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Another woman seeking to excuse a pattern of IDF looting and destroying Palestinian women and children’s most intimate belongings for sexualized photoshoots as “19-20 years old[s] in an actual war, fearing for their lives and […] behaving like kids for five minutes of respite.”
@Heidi__Matthews
@havivrettiggur
You have absolutely no idea what war means. Absolutely none. You live a privileged life in a privileged country with no draft and a professional army that almost never sees combat. American youth behave much more pathetically at *college parties*. These are 19-20 years old in an
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The absolute screed that
@havivrettiggur
composed in an attempt to explain this behaviour as the result of a wartime “hunger for normalcy, a grasping, however misguided and embarrassing, for the kind of necessary human silliness” tells me he’s triggered, and I’m onto something.
If the honorable professor had ever had the slightest experience of real military service in wartime - the thing she claims to be expertly analyzing - she wouldn’t fall back on vapid academic tropes like “constructing Israeli masculinity” to explain these pictures.
Westerners
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@calebscoville
@emilyjodell
It’s about work culture: sending emails in the night or on weekends can create the sense that others should be doing the same & that in fact there is no time off. This is especially true in the context of academic hierarchy & affects young women colleagues disproportionately.
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Eugene is an American who has bought a house in an illegal settlement
This is int’l law in the service of antisemitism. Even in the account of settlements as a violation of the State of Israel’s obligations under Geneva Conv, people living in such communities are not committing any crime; certainly non-Israeli nationals are not implicated in any
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We can expect a lot of disinformation as the world takes in the ICC Prosecutor's request for arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant (+ Hamas leaders). Key is the claim that the ICC 'doesn't have jurisdiction' over Israeli leaders. This is not true. Short 🧵
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Unsurprisingly, the architect of the axis of evil who lied us into the Iraq war is lying about my tweet. Tonight, Netanyahu directly used sexual violence allegations to demand that the world continue to support Israel in the use of “overwhelming force” to defend “civilisation”.
A distinguished Canadian academic expert on sexual violence can't condemn Hamas's crimes against Jewish women without adding a self-revealing "but ..." l
https://x.com/Heidi__Matthews/status/1732029225564049821?s=20
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~1,000 Palestinians are detained at Sde Teiman, which can only be described as an Israeli state torture camp. Prisoners are bound in iron cuffs, continually blindfolded, starved, beaten and publicly raped with sticks. We can’t say we didn’t know. We know.🧵
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Is wartime sexual violence a horrific crime? YES, with no mistake. But sex exceptionalism is also traditionally used to whip up support for entire military campaigns — we see Israel and the U.S. doing this now to justify a prolonged disproportionate air and ground war.
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Every country that has cut funding to UNRWA is complicit in the deterioration of the humanitarian situation of Palestinians in Gaza, which the ICJ has found is at least plausibly genocidal.
UNRWA lifesaving assistance is about to end following countries decisions to cut their funding to the Agency.
Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing. I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a
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The mask off racism in Canada right now is wild.
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Former ICJ President Donoghue engages in the ethical error of obtuseness (thx
@emilykiddwhite
) when she attempts hairsplitting between plausible "rights" and "claims."
TL;DR the Court decided there was, at minimum, a serious risk of genocide or related acts in Gaza. 🧵
Finally. We can put this “the ICJ ruled plausible genocide” bullshit to bed.
I’ve been arguing this for months, but in case you don’t believe me, here’s the actual President of the ICJ who delivered the ruling:
“It didn’t decide that the claim of genocide was plausible”.
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Ancient ethnic hatred discourse is morally, spiritually and politically bankrupt. It provides the scaffolding for genocide. It is a lie.
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Among other things, this means that in order for states to fulfill their international obligations under the Genocide Convention they must *do something*. For e.g., states exporting arms or military technology to Israel must stop.
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Canada's refusal to say whether it 'accepts the premise' of the genocide case against Israel feeds the misperception that states' agreement matters. It doesn't. The ICJ's ruling means all states have an obligation to act to prevent genocide in Gaza.
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It shocking - and frankly irresponsible - for pieces on Oct 7 sexual violence allegations to omit the crucial fact that Israel is refusing to cooperate with international investigations (International Criminal Court & International Commission of Inquiry).
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... the fact that the Court ordered the measures it DID, including directing Israel not to commit or incite genocide, indicates it has concluded that it is (a) plausible for Palestinians in Gaza to claim protection from genocide, and (b) that the need for protection is urgent.
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I think we can infer from this that *at a minimum* there is a serious risk that Israel will commit genocide. This is important because it puts *all states* on formal notice of the serious risk of genocide, which triggers states’ duty to take concrete steps to prevent genocide.
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The U.S. is unilaterally claiming that Security Council resolution 2728 is non-binding and therefore has no impact on its policy or the legality of Israel’s continued war. This is not so obvious… 🧵
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Just so everyone is crystal clear: I’m a professor of international criminal law. Do I think Hamas has committed international crimes? YES. Do I think Israel has committed international crimes. YES. Do I think international crimes are a good thing? NO.
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I’ve about had enough with the “law school needs less theory and more practice” hot takes.
Uncritical legal technicians — those taught to simply enact power without having spent a non-trivial amount of time thinking critically about our power structures — are not a social good.
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Another related point: I need to read the separate opinions, but my intuition is that it's a massive win that Israeli ad hoc judge Barak sided with the majority in ordering many of the provisional measures. He may have judged his own legacy as more important than Netanyahu's.
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The differential impact of Israel’s acts on children is an key factor in assessing genocidal intent. Children are crucial to the survival of all groups. Targeting children—including by causing serious psychological harm—is evidence of intent to destroy the Palestinian people.
A child found alone in Gaza in an area emptied of its residents. He's mortified & doesn't speak. No one knows what happened to his parents & family.
There are over 20,000 Gazan children orphaned by Israel since Oct 7 & over 21,000 children reported missing.
He's now at Al-Sabra
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An important read. It’s personally & collectively terrifying to cognitively confront what we all know—that with each reinfection more of us become vulnerable & fewer of us are meaningfully supported. For each of the past 3 years I’ve been infected twice=6 total known infections🧵
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The short story: this order on provisional measures will have an important and immediate impact on how states are required to act under international law. It will also radically shift the global conversation about what is happening in Gaza.
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Since I can't rely on my government to use my tax dollars to fund the lifesaving humanitarian services provided to Palestine refugees by
@UNRWA
, today I made my first personal donation.
It's quick and easy. If your means allow, please consider donating:
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The polio threat is even worse than I’d thought: even already-vaccinated children in Gaza aren’t well protected from the type 2 virus circulating. Not only that, but Israel is set to declare UNRWA—a key partner in vaccine campaigns—a terrorist organization & sever all relations.
The ICJ was clear—Israel's responsibilities to the population in Gaza under the law of occupation are commensurate with its level of authority. In this context vaccinating IDF soldiers for polio while failing to ensure Palestinians are vaccinated is evidence of genocidal intent🧵
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Actually, the ICJ went further than this. Israel’s presence as an occupying power in the entire Palestinian territory—“as a single territorial unit” encompassing the West Bank, East Jerusalem *and the Gaza Strip*— is unlawful and must be brought to an end as rapidly as possible.
The ICJ's Advisory Opinion is clear. Continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem is unlawful, and so are its settlement activities. Iceland calls on Israel to cease all activity that violates international law.
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On October 17,
@JillDunlop1
, Ontario's Minister of Colleges and Universities in
@fordnation
's government, launched a targeted attack against me, other professors, and students who have engaged in public speech supportive of Palestinians and critical of Israel's war on Gaza. 🧵
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I spent the day at the hospital w/my 3-yr-old who was feverish & barely eating x5 days (she has a bacterial infection & will be OK). I kept thinking: Would she have survived in Gaza? Would she have had clean water? Would she have starved? Would she have had access to medicine? 🧵
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It’s thoroughly disappointing and disgusting to see
@JustinTrudeau
deploy the racist trope of barbarity, contrasting Hamas heads as “bloodthirsty terrorists” with Israel’s “democratically elected leaders”, to whitewash — or “Westwash” — Netanyahu’s crimes.
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On today in Canadian racism, the keffiyeh has been banned in Ontario’s legislative building.
My statement on the Keffiyeh Ban at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
#onpoli
#HamOnt
#FreePalestine
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Instead of supporting independent investigations of wartime sexual violence and prosecution of perpetrators, Israel prefers collectively punishing Gazans. This is what cynical weaponization of rape in service of war looks like.
So many people demanding the Hamas Rapist Regime get off scott-free for the sexual atrocities of October 7!
Yes, it sounds blunt. That’s what this means.
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Today—while they were praying—Israel dropped three bombs on a school in Gaza City sheltering displaced Palestinians. ~100 are confirmed dead. This is the worst attack on a school since Oct 7. To believe Netanyahu wants a ceasefire is delusional.
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Apart from all the death, know that every single one of the 2.3m people in Gaza who are still alive has had their lives radically altered. They’ve lost homes, loved ones, body parts, mental & physical health, jobs, opportunities for education & nearly every part of their futures.
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“Under IHRA, Palestinians’ right to resist…can be characterized deceptively as ‘justifying the killing…of Jews…’ & thus as antisemitic & that is precisely how pro-Israel groups attempted to defame the students”: essential
@JoshuaSealy
in
@CDN_Dimension
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I’m in rural Canada right now. Due to a fire at a dairy plant at the weekend there’s no milk in many areas. Now imagine Gaza.
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This is absurd and threatening. The idea, alleged here, that it is antisemitic to insist that we get the facts right about crimes that have been committed is not an idea at all — it’s an open threat to truth and any prospect of justice in this hideous conflict.
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The International Commission of Jurists (
@ICJ_org
) is sounding the alarm about the significant risk of genocide in Gaza. This is not some 'fringe', 'radical left' or 'dissident' group. These are mainstream international jurists from across the world. 🧵
The blockade of Gaza, depriving civilians of water, food, medicine, electricity&fuel, may constitute the act of “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction”, under the definition of genocide
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I've proudly signed this statement supporting South Africa's genocide case against Israel👇
"We recognise that [the] struggles against apartheid & the racial calculus of genocide are crucial for upholding the internationalist vision of global justice"
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@Ostrov_A
@Heidi__Matthews
The insinuation that the only way for Jews to have a right to self-determination is through illegal occupation, annexation and settlement of Palestinian land is frankly very problematic
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Meanwhile in Canada, federal fisheries officers arrested two Mi'kmaq fishers and then released them barefoot and without cellphones. The men walked for six hours in the cold, fearing death. This colonial policing tactic is known as a "starlight tour."
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Today the ICJ is hearing South Africa's submissions on its request for additional provisional measures. "The very manner in which Israel is pursuing its military operations in Rafah, and elsewhere in Gaza," South Africa argues, "is itself genocidal. It must be ordered to stop."🧵
WATCH LIVE: South Africa opens the oral argument on its request of 10 May 2024 for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of provisional measures previously prescribed by the Court in the case
#SouthAfrica
v.
#Israel
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On Friday, the International Court of Justice found that all states are under an obligation “not to render aid or assistance in maintaining” Israel’s unlawful occupation of Palestine. Today, the U.S. Congress gave the responsible foreign head of state a standing ovation.
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As a parent, imagine deciding to give CNN permission to show the face of your dead daughter, killed in an air strike while playing foosball, in the hope it might make someone care
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exports will or could be used by Israel to commit international crimes, including genocide. Certainly the fact that states are now on formal notice that there is a serious risk of genocide should mean that preventing genocide in these circumstances means halting arms exports.
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Predictably, moments after the ICJ ordered *extensive* provisional measures against Israel because it found that the rights of Palestinians in Gaza not to be subjected to genocide were at risk of irreparable harm, we get this pre-written article spreading misinformation. 🧵
BREAKING: Top UN court rejects SA request to halt war against Hamas
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A reminder that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory violate the Fourth Geneva Convention. The UN Security Council has called the settlements "a flagrant violation under international law" that constitute a threat to peace in the region.
I’m appalled by the scenes outside of Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles. Intimidating Jewish congregants is dangerous, unconscionable, antisemitic, and un-American.
Americans have a right to peaceful protest. But blocking access to a house of worship – and engaging in violence
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Two days after the ICJ ordered Israel to halt its offensive on Rafah, Israel has attacked a ‘humanitarian area’ in western Rafah, killing 27 Palestinians and injuring dozens. This is not where rockets were fired from. There are no hospitals with ICU units to manage the injuries.
A lethal massacre is unfolding against displaced civilians near the UNRWA logistics base in Tal Al-Sultan, located in the western part of Rafah. Israeli aircraft have shelled several tents in this area, resulting in numerous martyrs and casualties. Many have been transported to
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'The use of 2,000-lb bombs will crush the lungs of someone 300m away with the pressure wave. There is no way to use these weapons responsibly in densely populated areas.'
@FrankRGardner
Why US is taking the rare step of withholding weapons to Israel:
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Yesterday Israeli forces disguised as medical staff and civilians reportedly entered a hospital in the West Bank and extra-judicially killed 3 wounded combatants. If true, this is a war crime, and possibly a crime against humanity. 🧵
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Today the United States vetoed a Security Council resolution recommending Palestine for membership in the United Nations. 12 Council members voted in favour, with 2 abstaining (UK & Switzerland). Some 140 states already recognize the State of Palestine. A few notes 🧵
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A couple of high-level thoughts on Israel's response to South Africa's request for additional interim measures, including a ceasefire.🧵
(1) Israel relies heavily on both evidence of sexual violence and the spectre of sexual violence to argue its offensive on Rafah must continue
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This headline perpetuates Robinson’s racism, referring to Palestine as the “region where Israel was established”.
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Israel-based NGO
@btselem
has released a report on Israel's torture camps. Detainee testimonies reveal a "systematic, institutional policy focused on the continual abuse and torture of all Palestinian prisoners." This is further evidence of genocide. 🧵
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When we watched genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur we debated western military intervention. Watching genocide in Gaza today, we are barely beginning to debate ending western complicity.
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Human Rights Watch reports that Gazan workers detained in Israeli prisons were subjected to sexual violence:
"They [forced me to take] off all my clothes…and they took pictures of me.…They beat me intensely, I was naked during this, it was humiliating."
NEW: Israel held thousands of workers from Gaza in incommunicado detention for several weeks following the October 7 attacks.
"We stayed blindfolded and cuffed [with zip ties on our hands and feet] for 10 days," one man said.
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No, not right at all. Any feminist worth their salt needs to be attentive to the way women’s sexual victimization is used by men to promote their war agendas. Period.
@Heidi__Matthews
I appreciate that and you can appreciate that your post may be received as provocative. Like “oh those Israelis, making a big deal out of raping and drying women just to get the world on side”, right?
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The ICJ advisory opinion means that all states are legally obligated not to provide Israel with any “military material which could be used directly or indirectly to assist Israel in maintaining its unlawful occupation of the occupied Palestinian territories”:
@philippesands
UK should stop arming Israel after ICJ advisory ruling, top lawyer says
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Who are the perpetrators that must be held accountable?
We must condemn sexual gender-based violence. Allegations brought by
@UNHumanRights
experts' on
#SGBV
against Palestinian women in Gaza must be investigated and perpetrators held accountable. We believe women, condemn all forms of
#SGBV
, and advocate for justice in such cases.
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Note re my observation about whether states must stop exporting arms to Israel on the basis of these provisional measures. The details of domestic legislation will be important here. At a minimum, states should conduct thorough and transparent assessments of whether their arms
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PRESS RELEASE
Over 1,500 academics based at more than 270 higher education institutions in North America have signed an Open Letter condemning Israel's scholasticide in Gaza.
Full release:
Join the letter here:
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The Israeli Ambassador’s tiny little shredder antic — gorgeous prop comedy as it was — is leaving unremarked the sheer number of times he referred to the Palestinian people as ‘terrorists’. This is Radio Rwanda-level dehumanisation.
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"Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly" is a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions and a war crime.
Khan Younis |
Israeli soldiers from the 66th battalion film the mosque with a drone, observing that it is completely empty with nothing in it, having already been destroyed.
They proceed to blow it up, reducing it to dust ->
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The dehumanising statements by
@selinarobinson
of the British Columbia NDP (Canada’s “left” political party) demonstrate the continuity of the logic used to justify colonial genocide in Canada and in Gaza. 🧵
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Today a Québec court denied McGill's request for an emergency injunction that would forcibly dismantle the Gaza solidarity encampment, on the basis that it has been conducted peacefully without major incident.
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Reinstated U of O resident
@yipengGe
on how smear campaigns against pro-Palestinian speech work: “The attacks are meant to discredit, call into question someone's character and integrity, and really take them down as a professional, to isolate them…":
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The number of women coming in hard in defense of IDF soldiers defiling Palestinian homes and playing with Palestinian women’s lingerie is… impressive
Imagine a world where this supposed IHL expert was as bent out of shape about Hamas’ takeover and destruction of civilian life in Gaza wreaking catastrophe across the region as she is about IDF soldiers doing stupid things with lingerie.
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This tweet has garnered a bit of negative attention, including an alumni message sent to the entire
@OsgoodeNews
faculty demanding an apology and that I be "reprimanded". For those wishing to learn more about my argument, here is the text of a letter I wrote to my colleagues:
Is wartime sexual violence a horrific crime? YES, with no mistake. But sex exceptionalism is also traditionally used to whip up support for entire military campaigns — we see Israel and the U.S. doing this now to justify a prolonged disproportionate air and ground war.
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Boomers be like “I went to Vietnam so I could die for Applebee’s in my 70s”
Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their grandchildren
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The ICJ ordered Israel to report today on its compliance with provisional measures ordered one month ago. It's not clear whether the report will be made public, but
@hrw
has found Israel has failed to enable the provision of humanitarian aid as ordered. 🧵
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Our bodies are weakened, our hearts are broken, our intellects are contorted and manipulated and exhausted, all our systems are stressed. It’s been a day. But we’ll keep going tomorrow. Palestine will be free.
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50,000 children in Gaza now need treatment for *acute* malnutrition. That’s 2,500 school classrooms of kids. Instead of consuming photos of these child victims, imagine your own children. Imagine, concretely, what it would take for your child to become acutely malnourished.
With continued restrictions to humanitarian access, people in
#Gaza
continue to face desperate levels of hunger. Over 50,000 children require treatment for acute malnutrition
@UNRWA
teams work tirelessly to reach families with aid but the situation is catastrophic.
#CeasefireNow
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The settlements are not just “contraventions”—they are flagrant violations of international law and war crimes under the Rome Statute of the ICC, as well as crimes under Canadian law. Canada should sanction all Israeli leaders who contribute to the expansion of the settlements.
1/2 Canada firmly opposes the Government of Israel’s decision to approve new settlements in the West Bank. Unilateral actions, such as financially weakening the Palestinian Authority and expanding settlements is in contravention of international law.
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Thinking a lot today about how one can be both oppressed and an oppressor at the same time, and how this ambiguous status is actually central to processes of colonization. My ancestors settled Newfoundland as indentured servants *and* actively displaced the indigenous Beothuk.
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In the wake of revelations of systematic torture and abuse in Israeli detention centres, Ben Gvir says he has "proposed a much simpler solution, of enacting the death penalty... which would solve the overcrowding issue." This is genocidal rhetoric.
הגיע הזמן לפרק את הספינים, ולענות למבול התדרוכים וההאשמות השקריות של השב"כ ודובריו בתקשורת.
מאז שנכנסתי לתפקידי כשר לביטחון לאומי, אחת המטרות העליונות שהצבתי לעצמי היא הרעת תנאי המחבלים בבתי הסוהר, וצמצום זכויותיהם למינימום המתחייב על פי חוק. כך התחייבתי לבוחריי ולעם ישראל עוד
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No, she will advance the class and political interests of women *like her*
One of the major failings of white liberal feminism is the belief that “women” as a unified group share the same interests
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to be replaced by a woman who walked through every door that Ginsburg opened for her so she can promptly use her position to shut them all for others behind her.
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The inability of the west to see Israel’s descent into warlordism is terrifying.
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As Israel expands its operations in Rafah, the UN says 150,000 Palestinians have now been forcibly displaced to areas unfit for human habitation. Forced displacement not only anticipates atrocity, but is an atrocity in and of itself.
We’re deeply concerned after IDF ordered further evacuations out of
#Rafah
today leading to forced displacement. Worried about catastrophic impact of possible full-scale offensive on Rafah, including atrocity crimes. Civilians must be protected. Rafah incursion must be stopped.
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