Jessica Whyte
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Assoc. Prof. Philosophy @ Uni of New South Wales. Writes on economic sanctions, human rights, political economy. Tweets in personal capacity. RTs ≠ endorsements
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I wrote about how Israel mobilises a highly permissive interpretation of the international humanitarian law prohibition of starving civilians to portray its starvation campaign as a ‘tragic humanitarian crisis’’ and give legal cover to its genocide
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“They’re a brutal, ugly, inhumane people, and they have to be eliminated.” Those are the final words of Biden’s Hanukkah address. You can tell me he’s referring to Hamas. But then tell me why he refers to them as “a people”.
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Explain the ‘rules-based international order’ to me again.
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Imagine lecturing about the need for “fundamentally humanising each other” while backing a genocidal assault on 2.3 million trapped and starving people.
.
@SecBlinken
shares his perspective on the importance of finding and sharing our common humanity to break down barriers.
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“It is unprecedented to make an entire civilian population go hungry this completely and quickly. Israel is destroying Gaza’s food system and using food as a weapon against the Palestinian people.” | UN Special Rapporteurs.
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An IDF Commander has been ‘censured’ for demolishing Gaza’s Israa university without permission. But it wasn’t the demolition that earned the censure. “If you had submitted the request to collapse the university for my approval, I would have approved it,” his commander said.
Senior IDF officer censured over demolition of Gaza university without approval
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Ok, we have reached the ‘they are like mice’ stage of genocide apologia.
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Sydney/Gadigal land today — and for as long as it takes.
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Questioned about whether Australia is violating the International Arms Trade Treaty by selling “parts of the F35 Joint Strike Fighter that’s used by Israel” to bomb Gaza, Penny Wong says Australia only makes “non-lethal parts” of the F35, so that’s all good.
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“American leadership is what holds the world together.”
American leadership is what holds the world together.
Our alliances are what keep us safe.
And our values are what make us a partner that other nations want to work with.
We put all of that at risk if we walk away from Ukraine or turn our back on Israel.
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Inner West Council tonight after the Australian Labor Party councillors voted down a motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Utterly shameful.
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Of all the technologies of Israel’s genocide, these maps are among the most horrifying—meticulous cruelty disguised as humanitarian warning system.
Israeli occupation forces have declared West Gaza City a death zone, following the declaration of Gaza's downtown area as such yesterday. A week ago, they made the same announcement for the eastern part of the city.
Forcible displacement under threat of gunfire.
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1) “Israel is now massacring desperate, starving Palestinians seeking food for their slowly-dying children.” The flour massacre “forms part of an escalating pattern of fatal attacks by Israel on the Palestinian people it is deliberately starving, as they seek access to aid.”
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The ‘international community’ is looking pretty lonely over there in the right-hand column.
This is how state reactions look like at 19:00 GMT on the 22nd of January. I've added Japan 🇯🇵 and 121 states of the Non-Aligned Movement. For details as to why, see the main methodology thread. I will post a link below
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Israel at the ICJ: Israel “has been facilitating the provision of more and more humanitarian assistance for people in need throughout the Gaza Strip.”
A critically needed scale-up of humanitarian operations was prevented in the first two weeks of 2024.
Three in every four humanitarian missions to areas north of Wadi
#Gaza
were denied access by Israeli forces.
#AccessDenied
For more information 👇
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Dershowitz: “Accusing Israel of genocide is a form of Holocaust denial, since no one even suggests that Israel has extermination camps, gas chambers, or other mechanisms that exemplified the Holocaust.” I do hope to see how this goes down at the ICJ!
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A reminder that Al Kateb was stateless because he born in Kuwait as the son of Palestinian refugees from Gaza.
BREAKING: The High Court of Australia has ruled that indefinite detention is unlawful, overturning a 20-year old precedent of Al-Kateb that underpins Australia’s immigration detention regime
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Israel’s ambassador to the UN literally shredding the UN Charter in front of the General Assembly. Is there a better image of Israel’s approach to international law and institutions?
Watch: Israeli ambassador to the UN
@giladerdan1
used a paper shredder to shred the UN charter on the podium of the UN general assembly ahead of a vote that will give new privileges to the Palestinians at the UN
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The US vetoes a ceasefire resolution in the UNSC (again) and Israel bombs an MSF shelter in Al Mawasi, the strip of land it designated a 'safe area'. The US is sending a message loud and clear--Israel has a licence to continue its genocide.
Tonight Israeli forces conducted an operation in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis, Gaza, where a shelter hosting MSF staff and their families was shelled.
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@MouinRabbani
Eiland, if translations are accurate, seems consistently to refer to ‘the State of Gaza’ in these genocidal articles. It bolsters an argument that Israel is not just fighting Hamas but everyone in Gaza but it’s still odd no?
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“Whenever a nationalist leader gains a little stature, he is either deported or imprisoned (without trial), or he disappears.”
Edward Said, “Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims”. (1979).
BREAKING| Israeli media report that the national figure, Marwan Al Barghouthi, has been sent to solitary confinement under the pretext of establishing contact to plan for an Intifada in the West Bank.
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This was Refaat’s final post. He is right.
The Democratic Party and Biden are responsible for the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel.
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“Contrary to conventional wisdom that laments the end of the human rights era and suggests new solutions to safeguard it, it is rather long overdue to move beyond this discourse and imagine radically different egalitarian and progressive principles”…
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While children in Gaza have their legs amputated without anaesthetic, CNN (!) reports that the items most frequently denied entry by Israel include “anesthesia machines and anesthetics, crutches, generators, ventilators, x-ray machines and oxygen cylinders.”
New investigation: we explored Israel's ghost list of items that are being arbitrarily denied access to Gaza since October 7.
These include: Anesthesia machines, oxygen cylinders, crutches, solar panels, ventilators and water purification tablets.
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Each time I read that Israeli forces have killed the Director of Emerg & Ambulance Services at Gaza’s Ministry of Health, or bombed municipal employees while they fixed water pipes, I think of these words from the State’s response to an aid petition in the Israeli Supreme Court
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@jacobin
has just published this extract from my book The Morals of the Market on why so many neoliberal economists saw Pinochet’s coup as a ‘miracle’.
@VersoBooks
The threat that democracies would interfere with the logic of the market led Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and other neoliberal economists to support brutally violent dictatorships, like that of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
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Here’s the English version of this 2021 interview that’s just been published in German. “Human rights advocacy may well be less central in a world of state-directed capitalism, in which the language of national interests assumes a renewed importance.”
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Does burning people alive in their tents in a safe area count as ‘a lot of death and destruction’? Or is Israel conducting a ‘precise and proportional’ genocide?
.
@JakeSullivan46
on judging what Israel is doing in Rafah: "There's no mathematical formula. What we're going to be looking at is whether there is a lot of death and destruction from this operation of if it is more precise and proportional."
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I find it very troubling that the ICC prosecutor assumes Israel’s use of starvation is driven by a military logic, not a genocidal one, and describes Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza’s civilians as motivated by a perception that these civilians are ‘a threat to Israel.’
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US official: Israel ‘significantly refined’ its war plans after Washington asked “hard questions”
Israel: bombs ambulances, university, fishing boats, mosques, UN school, bakeries, solar panels, water tanks in last 24 hours.
Israel has significantly refined its plan for the military operation in the Gaza Strip following talks with Washington, a senior US official said:
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Israel’s war on Gaza’s universities continues. This is not ‘collateral damage’. This is the systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure, aimed at depriving the people of Gaza of a liveable future.
315 explosive mines were used to blow up the University of Palestine, central area of Gaza.
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Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong admits she halted funding to UNRWA (becoming complicit in Israel’s genocidal starvation campaign in Gaza), despite fact “she did not have all the evidence” about Israel’s allegations. Disgraceful!
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Thanks to
@tor_krever
and the LRIL for bringing together these incredible thinkers to reflect on international law and Gaza. I wrote briefly on talk of 'the end of human rights' and the breakdown of 'naming and shaming' faced with those who post their own atrocities on TikTok.
The London Review of International Law invited critical scholars to contribute short reflections on international law and Gaza. The collection of 47 pieces is published here:
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Eternal shame on all who licensed and continue to license this genocide.
The Israelis mounted concentrated bombardment on Rafah tonight, striking homes, slaughtering masses of internally displaced Palestinians.
More than 60 killed and many more injured within 30 minutes of intense bombardment.
#GazaHolocaust
#SuperBowl2024
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Rules-based international order.
NEWS
The International Criminal Court is being warned by members of Congress in both parties that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with U.S. retaliation.
Legislation to that effect is already in the works.
@AndrewSolender
scoops
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Liberal societies are so used to naturalising hunger and starvation that even when a state besieges and starves a people during a genocidal war, the catastrophic hunger it produces is reported as though it’s a natural disaster.
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The US vetoes a ceasefire again! Let this photo never be forgotten. And let all future US speeches about humanitarianism and human rights be treated with this derision they deserve.
NOW:
@USUN
once again blocks
#UNSC
action to stop the war on
#Gaza
by vetoing draft resolution which would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
@UKUN_NewYork
abstained and everyone else voted in favor.
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Today I officially started my
@arc_gov_au
Future Fellowship on ‘Economic Sanctions after the Cold War.’ If you would like to be added to a mailing list for event notices or if you work on sanctions and may be interested in collaborating, please DM me or leave your details below.
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In response to SA's request to the ICJ for new provisional measures to respond to widespread starvation, Israel boasted of its support for aid agencies and claimed "more protective gear" for World Central Kitchen was "expected to arrive in the coming days."
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Our students have much to teach those who run our universities and lock their gates to shut out solidarity
@SFP_USyd
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The only democracy in the Middle East
Israel’s police chief says there will be 'zero tolerance' for protests in support of Gaza in Israel, threatening to send the demonstrators to Gaza 'on buses' ⤵️
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“I left my heart, memories and loved ones behind in Gaza, surviving a lifetime of racism and dehumanisation and many months of genocide, to suddenly find myself a ‘national security risk’ halfway across the world here in Australia.” Plestia Alaqad
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Solidarity with all the Melbourne Uni students currently facing disciplinary hearings for their participation in Mahmoud’s Hall and for standing up against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In the face of repression, they remind us what universities should be.
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This new
@oxfam
report is a gruelling read. It makes patently clear that Israel is deliberately and meticulously destroying the infrastructure that sustains human life in Gaza.
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Sydney/Gadigal land. Back again and still fighting for a ceasefire and a free Palestine.
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An excellent turnout at the Sydney University encampment, resisting intimidation and demanding the university end its complicity with Israel’s genocide.
@SFP_USyd
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Israel is systematically destroying everything in Gaza that sustains human life.
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Eight weeks of weeks of massacre, interrupted by a week-long ‘pause’. And eight weeks of uninterrupted protest, solidarity, love and rage in Sydney/Gadigal land.
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As Israel starves Gaza’s 2.3 million people, Haaretz runs a lifestyle piece about occupation soldiers cooking in the kitchens Palestinians have been forced from, wondering at their spice collections and savouring their olives, before demolishing their homes. This is sickening.
Haaretz has published (in Hebrew, not English) an incomprehensibly vile article in the style of a lifestyle cooking feature, about Israel's soldiers finding and cooking with ingredients in the kitchens of Gazans who had to flee their homes and are now starving.
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That Time interview with Biden is an utter train-wreck. Here he is on whether Israel has committed war crimes.
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There is some incredible critical legal writing on Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
@goldosuri
,
@MashaVelickovic
and I put together a reading list based on our own reading over these past seven months. We hope it’s useful to others. Apologies to those we have missed!
A while ago we asked
@j_e_s_s_whyte
@goldosuri
&
@MashaVelickovic
if they would collect a reading list on
#GazaGenocide
We really hope this collection of critical (legal) thought will be helpful as people try to understand events & prepare to teach them!
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Extraordinary that the only quotes in the ABC's article about the gang rape of Palestinians in Israel's torture camps are from Israelis who "show little sympathy for the detainees" because "these people don't deserve probably any rights."
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The Sharpeville massacre was in 1960. The U.S. was still vetoing UNSC resolutions calling for mandatory economic sanctions on South Africa in 1987. The U.S. now shields Israel from accountability for its massacres just as it shielded South Africa then.
I hear from diplomats that the US blocked the proposed language, rejected the attribution to
#IDF
. Negotiations on the draft statement isn't promising.
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This article on starvation in Gaza describes a child as being born and then dying “in a town stalked by hunger” and portrays this as a result of a “slower motion tragedy” of “collapsing access to food and medical care”— all seemingly without agents…
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‘with support from Australia’. Australia is now supporting a war against Yemen to defend Israel’s right to continue its genocide in Gaza. Shameful.
The statement from Biden on the airstrikes against Yemen.
Gaza, of course, is not mentioned once.
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“Instead of undercutting South Africa’s genocide case, Israel’s desired elimination of Hamas provides more proof that its actions satisfy the Convention’s definition of genocide.” An excellent piece by
@MsJamshidi
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“Australia's Defence department has refused to publicly release a copy of the deal struck with Israel on defence industry cooperation because it "could harm Australia's international standing and reputation". Inspires such confidence.
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“It seems, by its own actions, [Israel] has lent credence to South Africa’s argument that these humanitarian policies are part of the genocide and demonstrate, rather than disprove, Israel’s genocidal intent.”
@Alonso_GD
on the ICJ’s new provisional measures.
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A brilliant seminar at the LSE tonight on academic freedom after the destruction of Gaza’s universities, with
@RafeefZiadah
@NimerSultany
, Reem Al-Botmeh, and Safa Saadi Jaber, live-streamed to the new encampment.
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Not sure whether this is satire or a threat.
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50 years on from the coup against Allende,
@evgenymorozov
is brilliant on his “radical, utopian and even otherworldly initiatives that still have the power to inspire us today”.
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“the targeted destruction of Gaza’s primary public library is a stark reminder that genocide is about more than just the premeditated mass extinguishing of human life; it’s also about the calculated, and often vindictive, destruction of a people’s culture, language, history”
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“These anticolonial forces are not uttering genocide as a code word to radio in air strikes. They are naming Western—especially U.S.—complicity with genocide.” An excellent piece by
@dcli
on Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the political significance of challenges to it.
South Africa’s willingness to file a case with the International Court of Justice is a sign that the old tactics used to police discourse about genocide have lost much of their power.
By
@dcli
:
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I am looking forward to speaking with
@samuelmoyn
on Tuesday 5th of March about all things liberalism: its history, its dire contemporary state, and whether it has (or deserves to have) a future. There’s still time to register with
@UNSWCentreIdeas
below.
MARCH 5 | Just a few weeks to go until Yale's
@samuelmoyn
and Institute Associate
@j_e_s_s_whyte
join forces for this unmissable event with
@UNSWCentreIdeas
. Register now.
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I wrote for the
@LPEblog
about the Biden Admin’s recent settler sanctions and the US’s history of using sanctions and financial war to punish Palestinians for resisting its shifting visions of ‘economic peace’.
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“History shows how belated and contested the conflation of decolonization with the formation of new nation-states was, and such histories help to make our own present seem less calcified than we might normally think.”
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“To die from the bombs is better than to die from this hunger. At least with air strikes, you die right away.” On Israel’s genocidal war of starvation in Gaza.
If we stay like this for another week, we will die en masse' | Middle East Eye
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“‘Believe Women’ does not, and cannot, mean ‘Believe the IDF’, the Israeli police or security force, or even those who claim to be feminist advocates.” An important and thoughtful piece by
@TanyaSerisier
&
@Heidi__Matthews
on the weaponisation of sexual violence allegations.
'Bombing Gaza Isn't Fighting Sexual Violence'. We cannot 'agree 'on just one thing' while we agree to disagree on... the annihilation of Gaza'
@Heidi__Matthews
and I on sex exceptionalism, selective outrage and the ongoing violence against Palestinians.
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CFP: Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: an International Workshop. Come join us in Sydney for this workshop that
@ntinatzouvala
and I are organising in December. Abstracts due July 1!
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US comments on South Africa’s ICJ suit are meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby calls South Africa’s 84-page suit accusing Israel of genocide “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”
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Parents in Gaza are forced to watch their children starve to death, unable to feed or save them. As
@tomdannenbaum
argues, siege starvation is a form of societal torture.
‘My child wakes up crying every night from extreme hunger, but I cannot find anything to feed him. All I can bring him is pieces of bread — and even this is becoming scarce.’
Ibrahim Mohammad reports.
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Who are the ‘human rights leaders’ who allowed themselves to participate in this shameful spectacle?
* Tirana Hassan, exec director, HRW
* Agnes Callamard, Sec.Gen. Amnesty
* Jodie Ginsberg, Pres, Cttee. to Protect Journalists.
* Michael J. Abramowitz, Pres. Freedom House
I joined human rights leaders for the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and in recognition of their courageous work. We know that when more people in more places have their rights respected, the world is more peaceful, more secure, more prosperous.
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Many thousands out again in Sydney/Gadigal land for a ceasefire and a free Palestine.
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“The grotesque nature of the law of genocide is that victim numbers are irrelevant. All that counts is intent.” Yes, the privileging of intent in the genocide concept shields massive military violence. But in Gaza, official Israeli statements of genocidal intent are everywhere.
I've written this text - "Why the International Community Made it so Difficult to Prosecute the Crime of Genocide" - for
@DAWNmenaorg
in relation to
#GazaMassacre
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Sydney/Gadigal. Every week for far too many weeks people are out demanding an end to genocide and a free Palestine. This spirit will not be broken.
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Go to hell.
Just arrived in El-Arish, Egypt, the hub for intl humanitarian assistance crossing into Gaza.
More must be done to protect civilians and accelerate the pace of life-saving assistance reaching the people of Gaza.
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As Israel’s allies attack UNRWA, this by Ihab Shalbak on Trump’s 2018 defunding reminds us Israel has long sought to destroy this institution of collective Palestinian life and the demand of refugees to return to their homes that it has helped keep alive.
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The ‘international community’ thwarted by one US veto.
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Our new issue is out! With a rich dossier on global history and decolonization, plus
@ntinatzouvala
on the unwilling and unable doctrine and Nicole Georges on hunger strikes in Guantanamo.
@HumanityJ
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“There are no statistics on the number of children who have already died of hunger, or the number of people dying because they can’t get dialysis or chemotherapy, or obtain their high blood pressure medication or insulin.” | The Epidemiological War on Gaza
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Indeed: “the ICC’s failure to hold to account those responsible for the most serious crimes in the Palestine situation would constitute a serious challenge to the existence of the entire international justice system set up under the Rome Statute.”
Opinio Juris has just published my post on 'The
#ICC
Prosecutor’s Double Standards in the Time of an Unfolding
#Genocide
'.
#Gaza
#CeasefireNOW
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This is an excellent article and I agree with the powerful critique of the limits of the genocide concept. Yet numerous official statements make it difficult to avoid the conclusion that Israel precisely intends to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinian people as such.
The
@BostonReview
has published my views on the Gaza-genocide debate. I resist the temptation of deciding "genocide or not" to highlight the just-as-troubling acceptance of permanent security's terrible violence in international law and politics.
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Some more impeccable international legal argument from Dershowitz:
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Palestinians are forced to argue, reason, give facts and figures, cite international law to explain why they should not be eliminated. These academic defenders of Israel are so convinced of their moral authority that they offer nothing but moral outrage to defend a genocide.
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b) work with the international community to end the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza and its nearly one million Palestinian children and to restore access to food, electricity, water, fuel and medicine for around 2 million Palestinian civilians living in Gaza.
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A good time to re-read this on the Permanent Siege of Gaza “while other siege regimes typically seek a defined endgame such as changing the behavior of a targeted actor, Israel’s siege of Gaza is unique in its permanence: It is the endgame.”
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Really looking forward to the law-abiding state of Israel thanking the International Court of Justice for its authoritative opinion, and rapidly dismantling its
settlements and ending its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including Gaza.
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This is such an important resource—a brilliant collection of archival material from the history of Palestinian revolutionary praxis. It’s great to see it back online!
We are proud to announce that the Palestinian Revolution digital teaching and research resource is back online! It is kindly hosted by the Department of International Development (ODID) at the University of Oxford.
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A call from Gaza “to resist the ongoing campaign of scholasticide in occupied Palestine, to work alongside us in rebuilding our demolished universities, and to refuse all plans seeking to bypass, erase, or weaken the integrity of our academic institutions”
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Australia approved 322 defence exports to Israel over the past six years. “Australia’s role in exporting arms material to Israel must be exposed.” —
@rawanarraf
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@xcorat
@tommymiles
Sorry, I lack the expertise Wong has in distinguishing lethal from non-lethal parts.
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And thanks to
@DylanInnerWest
for moving the motion and speaking powerfully in support of it.
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Read
@ntinatzouvala
on South Africa’s case at the ICJ and how the focus on Israel’s infliction of ‘conditions of life' calculated to bring about the destruction of Palestinians in Gaza opens space for, indeed demands, a structural analysis of the political economy of genocide.
Today,
@ntinatzouvala
argues that South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ should be seen as an effort to make a political-economic understanding of genocide legible within the restrictive framework of the Genocide Convention.
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“People have explained U.S. failures to respond to specific genocides by claiming that the United States didn’t know what was happening…I have found that in fact U.S. policymakers knew a great deal about the crimes being perpetrated.” Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell.
Our humanitarian partners working in Gaza tell us that conditions are worse now than ever before. Israeli military operations & closed crossings are making it extremely difficult to distribute aid.
Today I convened fellow donor govts to surge our response to those in dire need.
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If I hear another person use the words ‘tragic’ or ‘tragedy’ I will throw my copy of Antigone at them.
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The words they couldn’t support:
"That Council call on the Australian Government to:
a) urge for a ceasefire and peace negotiations, and
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@MouinRabbani
Thanks. Very helpful. And, as Israel has never accepted that Article 44 of AP1 applies to its conflicts with Palestinians, it wants its international war of ‘self defence’ without having to recognise Palestinian fighters as privileged belligerents entitled to PoW status.
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Netanyahu has long fantasised that Palestinians would abandon their right to self-determination for ‘economic peace’ but this plan to rebuild Gaza ‘from nothing’ as a free trade zone and electric car manufacturing hub fully reveals the genocidal underpinnings of this ‘peace’.
Netanyahu‘s “Gaza 2035” plan to build a free trade zone on the rubble of Palestinian territory with rail service to NEOM
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