A 7-year-old girl from Gaza, Zeina Al-Ghoul, told her mother: “When I’m martyred, I’ll tell God to stop the war.” Zeina was killed while standing in line for a piece of biscuit. #CeasefireNow #FreePalestine
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A 7-year-old girl from Gaza, Zeina Al-Ghoul, told her mother: “When I’m martyred, I’ll tell God to stop the war.” Zeina was killed while standing in line for a piece of biscuit. #CeasefireNow #FreePalestine
“A country that bled and starved for independence now bows and scrapes for the favour of foreign boardrooms.” www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... #speirgorm
The clearest case of genocide to come to the Court. Prof. William Schabas, on the US, Germany, Canada, and others: “To the extent that they are providing material assistance of a significant nature, they can be held responsible as accomplices to genocide.” www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
Great questions. Complete non-answers.
The Commission's response and my follow up question - what about Xtend, when the Cordis (EU website for research projects) page for the Xtend project links directly to the current Xtend website selling "military grade drones"?
My question to the European Commission: given that the EU member states disagree so their proposal for a partial suspension of Israel from Horizon is stalled, will they go ahead with action themselves, eg take back grant money misused for military ends?
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say - BBC News share.google/pkRMwQjFOSAw...
Israel says they are all duped by Hamas.
New MSF report on #Gaza. Based on medical data, patients’ testimonies, and first-hand medical witnessing at two MSF clinics in Gaza, the report finds violence by Israeli forces & private American contractors against starved Palestinians at GHF points. #genocide #intlaw msf.org.uk/article/msf-...
The IAGS has declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
"When you live to be over 70 it is sometimes tempting to think that you have seen it all and that nothing much will shock you. Then you hear something that stops you in your tracks, causing you to re-assess your definition of evil."
Israel says they are all duped by Hamas.
'...@reuters.com & @apnews.com repeated the #Israeli army’s claim that a “Hamas camera” was the target without questioning the story, even though their own colleagues were among the dead. Reuters photographer Valerie Zink resigned in protest...' www.youtube.com/watch?v=-271... #Gaza #Journalism
Why are States that claim to abhor genocide still trading with and supporting Israel?
Germany blocks EU sanctions against Israel en.globes.co.il/en/article-g...
📚 Israeli Educators Plead for Peace and Protection of Children “We, educators from all over the country, call for an end to the violence and suffering affecting children in Gaza and Israel. We demand that the killing, 🧵
Police have charged a further 46 more people with supporting the banned campaign group Palestine Action, bringing the total facing prosecution related to protests in London to 114.
“Even if these things are unimaginable today, one day there will be a Gaza tribunal that will legally address the genocide of the Palestinian population and restore some of its dignity to the victims. bbc.in/47jCvvf”
An important update from Francesca Albanese, special UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The flotilla fully complies with International Law. Any attempt to violate the flotilla’s mission is a violation of International Law which @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has said she will uphold. Empty words, Ursula?
Israel says they have been duped by Hamas.
Indeed he was.
Thank you.
What a far-too-late, absolutely bare minimum resolution. Its only concession is that Israel has met the LEGAL threshold for genocide. And as @zsamudzi.bsky.social has asserted, “That genocide is a crime is probably the least important thing about it.”
www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...
Also www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n... and over a year old.
genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
The Association has previously recognised genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Armenia, and Myanmar.
Make your own call. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
US says a finding of genocide can only be made by the International Court of Justice. - @news.rte.ie
Israel says the world’s genocide scholars in IASG are dupes of Hamas. Seriously desperate.
🇮🇪🇺🇦 Ireland is ready to contribute to providing security guarantees for Ukraine, — Zelenskyy following a conversation with Irish Prime Minister
Top 5!! ☘️🇮🇪 “On the global stage, the country (Ireland) maintains a military neutrality (which prevents it from being an official member of Nato, one of only four European countries without membership), & a preference for using diplomacy to solve conflict”. #spéirghorm #Neutrality #Peace #IrishPol
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Exactly. The huge canyon between international legal theory and the might is right world.
Start where you are Use what you have Do what you can. #USOpen
The clearest case of genocide to come to the Court. Prof. William Schabas, on the US, Germany, Canada, and others: “To the extent that they are providing material assistance of a significant nature, they can be held responsible as accomplices to genocide.” www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...
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Pro-Israel, no matter what: Germany. Austria. Hungary. Czechia. Italy. Latvia. And perhaps others.
#OtD 1 Sep 1939 the first fighting of WWII in Europe took place. 56 post office workers in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) took up arms to repel the Nazi takeover. After 15 hours, the surviving workers surrendered. They were tried as bandits and executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8158...
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Renowned Irish actor Liam Cunningham said on Sunday, Aug. 31, that as an Irishman, he sees similarities in the suffering of Palestinians, which is shorter in duration than Ireland's under British occupation, but the current killing is far more efficient.
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WOW! Prof. W. Schabas, a leading authority on genocide whose family survived the Holocaust, believes the case against Israel is “arguably the strongest case of genocide ever brought before the Court" and that the US & Germany risk legal liability. www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...
Not many more sources of such verdicts left: we await the word of the ICJ.
They didn't even ask Ireland 😅
Not reading the room! "Soft power alone is not enough in a world where hard power too often prevails." Wants more EU defence spending. EU hasn't sent a dinghy to help Gaza during a genocide on their watch, yet arming the perpetrator. Civilians in 50 unarmed boats try to bring aid again. Shameful!
As Naoise Dolan says: “Israel’s Western collaborators prioritise their own short-term comfort above others’ lives — some mindlessly, some gleefully, some through copious mental gymnastics. Regardless of the internal process, the outcome is identical: Palestinians continue to be bombed and starved.
Naoise Dolan: “Israel’s Western collaborators prioritise their own short-term comfort above others’ lives — some mindlessly, some gleefully, some through copious mental gymnastics. Regardless of the internal process, the outcome is identical: Palestinians continue to be bombed and starved.”
This happened, quite clearly, because of the concerted action of a huge range of people from all over the country. But it was Gary Gannon who took the risk of challenging the Central Bank's assertions that they had no legal basis not to approve these bonds. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
The International Association of Genocide Scholars: Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948); https://is.gd/GvQ7JJ 1/4
Firefighters from Tallaght attended this car fire in #Ballyfermot on Monday morning. The bright white flash is the reaction of water and molten metal alloy containing magnesium.
Germany sends a strongly worded message.
That demands great courage and deserves to be saluted.
First letter, G genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
❗️🇫🇮Finland wants to have a million reservists: age limit to be raised to 65 The Finnish government has submitted a bill to parliament aimed at significantly increasing the military reserve.
I am genuinely curious as to what defenses pro Israel people have left, in particular pro Israel "liberals"
The Hamptons! You have to see this.
Irish state authorities last month assisted three FedEx flights through Irish territory as they illegally carried F-35 combat jet parts to the Israel Defense Forces. State air navigation service AirNav Ireland helped the three flights omn their journeys. www.ontheditch.com/three-illega...
#BREAKING: The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association says Israel has met the legal criteria for the crime during its ongoing onslaught in Gaza. The president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars said on Monday that her organisation had passed a resolution that Israel had
And they are ejected!?
The days Jews of the diaspora stayed silent is OVER “In the name of my ancestors, who were murdered by the Nazis, I demand an end to the genocide in Gaza. I’m disgusted by to have this war criminal from the IDF here in our community” Watch this amazing activist 👇
The International Association of Genocide Scholars has made a decision according to which Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal criteria for genocide. 86% of the body voted for it
Link to statement genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
Link genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
West Cork Walk4Gaza final report and latest news gofund.me/446d0877
"The Israeli army killed a pregnant woman and her unborn baby in Gaza The attack targeting a Palestinian home near the Al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City also killed a child and injured several others"(Via Anadolu Agency) #Gaza #Genocide
Indeed, so they say. So what harm in more of them?
Mandatory Corkman portrait.
Listen to Sh’s story from Gaza, told through Amal: Children in Gaza, like 17-year-old Sh, have not been able to return to school. This year nearly 660,000 students will once again miss the start of the school year, their classrooms turned into rubble and daily struggles to survive. (1/2)
Are these pro-genocide decisions taken to protect and promote corporations’ interests rather than the wishes and interests of a State’s citizens? That is increasingly how it looks.
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian farmland in Wadi Sa’ir, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
Another stone on the cairn.
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Not renewing. Israel takes its bonds to Luxembourg. A win.
And knowing what they say will be reported with a straight face, because “balance”.
Statement in full genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
Twice. Ok three times.
Oh, I stepped in to a different thread, apologies. If I had to try to make a connection, I would say John Lennon would have been vocally unhappy about this. His LP Some Time in New York City comes to mind for some reason.
Why are States that claim to abhor genocide still trading with and supporting Israel?
In case this has not reached you yet genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
Yes, it is genocide - World’s leading body of genocide scholars, the Intl Assn of Genocide Scholars. The IAGS has previously recognised genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Armenia, and Myanmar. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
You’ve met my nose!
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Why is Ireland - or any other State - still trading with a State committing genocide?
The IAGS has previously recognised genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Armenia, and Myanmar.
The IAGS has previously recognised genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Armenia, and Myanmar.
The IAGS has previously recognised genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Armenia, and Myanmar. #speirgorm
The IAGS has previously recognised genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Armenia, and Myanmar.
IAGS has previously recognised genocides in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Armenia, and Myanmar.
Link genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
Full statement here genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...