Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan KC, on the Situation in the State of Palestine: receipt of a referral from five States Parties | International Criminal Court

"On 17 November 2023, my Office received a referral of the Situation in the State of Palestine, from the following five States Parties: South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Comoros, and Djibouti.

In accordance with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, a State Party may refer to the Prosecutor a situation in which one or more crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court appear to have been committed requesting the Prosecutor to investigate the situation for the purpose of determining whether one or more specific persons should be charged with the commission of such crimes."

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-prosecutor-international-criminal-court-karim-aa-khan-kc-situation-state-palestine

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These countries are probably the best bet to invoke the Genocide Convention at the World Court (International Court of Justice, not the International Criminal Court). If you are able to lobby any of their diplomats please do.

South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Comoros, and Djibouti.

http://embassy-worldwide.com

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WATCH: State Dept claims they aren't pressuring Abbas/Palestine against invoking the Genocide Convention at the World Court to stop Israel's assault.

Sam Husseini put them on notice regarding their own complicity under the Convention.

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Great that Katie Halper asked UN whistleblower Craig Mokhiber about Sam Husseini raising Genocide Convention at State Dept.

He notes it's "not just to punish genocide, but it's also to PREVENT genocide. So you can't WAIT until AFTER." For the Convention, "it would have to be a country that invokes that."

Who will be that country?

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Joseph Arthur - Ceasefire Now

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Banksy - Children of Gaza

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa - Italy

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🇦🇲Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem

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Firefighters - Barcelona, Spain.

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Doctors Against Genocide - Washington DC

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Francesca Albanese - UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Territories of Palestine

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"We have just witnessed over the last few weeks the largest displacement of Palestinians since 1948.

It's an exodus under our watch, a river of people being forced to flee their home."

- UNRWA chief Lazzarini describes the scale of destruction and loss in #Gaza

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Eternal Fascism
On the collective unconscious

Nov 17, 2023

"Fascism is the organized violence of the hierarchical capitalist state in its pure form.

It’s the reproduction and cementing of the class structure, of nationalist and imperialist narratives of social cohesion and expansion, and of a way of life of extraction and accumulation.

It’s the co-mingling of magic and mythologized science, from which emerges racism as a ritual of purification, sacrifice and social control, and it’s the quintessential manifestation of the twin myths of progress and history and the associated Faustian projection of mankind’s will towards a utopia of our own making.

So, evidently, its roots are deep, and they penetrate most aspects of the modern worldview complex, but they’re not so old as to be perennial. They can be extracted and burned."

https://shadowrunners.substack.com/p/eternal-fascism

Eric Clapton - Voice of a Child

https://youtu.be/DCU_Eye7fto?si=zuAC-HSKhla3WVme

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If you are on X and can help, this is my last shot at this.

🇺🇳 WE NEED JUST ONE UN STATE TO ACTIVATE THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION TO SAVE THE CIVILIANS OF GAZA, PALESTINE.

"It just needs one state to invoke the Genocide Convention and change the narrative and the international dynamic. That will only happen through the power of the people in pressing the idea on their governments. This is where everybody can do a little something to add to the pressure. Please do what you can." Craig Murray

Activating the Genocide Convention
"UN whistleblower Craig Mokhiber also recently urged that the Genocide Convention be invoked at the World Court (ICJ), since the ICC will “continue to drag its feet” due to political pressure from the West."

#InvokeGenocideConvention

twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1725523568350331358

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Dutch Court Rules ‘From the River to the Sea’ Protected Speech and Not Antisemitic

Free Palestine ≠ destroy Israel.

"The Dutch court of appeal has given legal protection to the Palestinian liberation chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, on free speech grounds.

That court concluded that the pro-Palestinian slogans Hofland had used in his speech “are subject to various interpretations” and “relate to the state of Israel and possibly to people with Israeli citizenship, but do not relate to Jews because of their race or religion”.

Today, the phrase is often used to acknowledge the fact that nowhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean sea – not in Gaza, nor the West Bank, nor Israel proper – do Palestinians enjoy full and equal rights with Jewish Israelis."

https://novaramedia.com/2023/10/18/dutch-court-rules-from-the-river-to-the-sea-protected-speech-and-not-antisemitic/

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From The River To The Sea’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

"What Palestinians do want is equal rights. They want to be able work hard to achieve their dreams without being discriminated against. They want to be able to live where they choose without being told they can’t because of their ethnicity or religion. They want to be able to choose the leaders who control their lives.
In other words, they want freedom. And they want that freedom throughout their historic homeland, not just on the 22% that comprise the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Dismissing or ignoring what this phrase means to the Palestinians is yet another means by which to silence Palestinian perspectives. Citing only Hamas leaders’ use of the phrase, while disregarding the liberationist context in which other Palestinians understand it, shows a disturbing level of ignorance about Palestinians’ views at best, and a deliberate attempt to smear their legitimate aspirations at worst.

Most troubling for me, the belief that a “free Palestine” would necessarily lead to the mass annihilation of Jewish Israelis is rooted in deeply racist and Islamophobic assumptions about who the Palestinians are and what they want.

And notwithstanding the extreme rhetoric of some leaders on both sides, a recent joint poll shows that only a small minority of Palestinians see “expulsion” as a solution to the conflict – 15% — which is incidentally the same percentage of Israelis who view this as the only solution."

https://forward.com/opinion/415250/from-the-river-to-the-sea-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means/

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Israel admits burning hundreds of people on 7 October

"There were actually bodies that were so badly burnt we thought they were ours, in the end apparently they were Hamas terrorists.” - Israeli government spokesperson Mark Regev 

"Although it has offered no direct evidence, Israel has claimed that Hamas fighters burned Israeli civilians en masse, in atrocities not seen since the Holocaust.

Israel has also never explained how Palestinians fighters could have achieved this or caused the enormous damage to Israeli houses with only the light weapons they were generally seen carrying.

It simply makes no sense that 200 bodies burned beyond recognition that Israel thought were Israeli civilians could turn out to be Hamas fighters unless Israel killed people indiscriminately.

Obviously Hamas fighters did not set themselves on fire and burn themselves beyond recognition. And Israel must know the circumstances in which these people died."

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-admits-burning-hundreds-people-7-october

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