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Israeli Lawmakers Vote To Ban UN Agency For Palestinian Refugees

October 29, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The Israeli Knesset on 28 October passed two laws banning the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) from operating inside Israel, Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and occupied East Jerusalem. In a 92-10 vote, the Knesset approved the first law, which says that the UN agency cannot “operate any institution, provide any service, or conduct any activity, whether directly or indirectly.” Moments later, lawmakers voted 87-9 for the second law, which states that no Israeli government official or agency may contact UNRWA, effectively prohibiting Israeli officials from providing services or dealing with UN employees.

South Africa Submits Evidence Of Israel Genocide To ICJ

October 29, 2024 Scheer Post. , , , ,
South Africa has filed its Memorial to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) today, 28 October 2024, in its case on the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel). In accordance with the Rules of Court, the Memorial may not be made public. The filing of this memorial takes place at a time when Israel is intensifying the killing of civilians in Gaza and now seems intent to follow a similar path of destruction in Lebanon.

What Is Going On At The International Criminal Court?

October 29, 2024 Mohammad Jamel, Middle East Monitor. , , , , ,
The International Criminal Court has never faced such scandalous pressure since its establishment. Even when an arrest warrant was issued against Russian President Vladimir Putin, the head of a nuclear state, we did not see major threats being made against the ICC and its staff as we are seeing now. The court has been rightfully criticised for its procrastination and slowness over issues linked to Palestine. Since the referral of numerous crimes to the ICC in June this year, the Office of the Chief Prosecutor has not acted at the same level that it has done in other situations, especially in cases related to African countries and Ukraine.

Public Employees Pass Strong Resolution To Divest From Apartheid Israel

October 29, 2024 Drake Myers, Fight Back News!. , , , , , , ,
St. Paul, MN – MAPE, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, is an independent union representing approximately 15,000 employees of the State of Minnesota. At their October 26 delegate assembly, MAPE approved a resolution titled “Supporting a Ceasefire and Divestment in Israel-Palestine.” It included strong steps towards divesting both MAPE and Minnesota’s State Board of Investments (SBI) from apartheid Israel. The MAPE Ceasefire Caucus organizing team had conversations with nearly every delegate over the last six weeks in preparation for the vote, which ended up with 82 for, 49 against, with 17 abstaining.

Israel And Its Neighborhood, An Interview With Ambassador Chas Freeman

October 28, 2024 Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. , , , , , , , ,
A German newspaper recently published an interview with the Egyptian foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, who expressed his profound frustration with the Americans as Israel continues its assault in Gaza—and now the West Bank and Lebanon. You can’t work with the Americans, he complained in so many words. They say one thing, they rarely mean it, and typically do something else altogether. It prompts my first question in the context of the enlarging crisis in West Asia, please comment on the diplomatic positions of America’s allies in the region. What, generally, is going through their minds? Why haven’t they reacted more vigorously to the Israeli assault? Are they simply “bought,” in one or another way? Or is there more to it?

LA Times Presidential Endorsement Decision: Owner’s Daughter Weighs In

October 28, 2024 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter. , , , ,
The daughter of Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong is weighing in on the controversy that has erupted around the paper’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate in 2024, saying that “for me, genocide is a line in the sand.” In a thread of social media posts on Thursday, Nika Soon-Shiong attributed the decision to an opposition to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’ position on the war on Gaza. She wrote that her father, a South African transplant surgeon, had worked as an emergency surgeon at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto during apartheid. “For my family, Apartheid is not a vague concept.”

Groups Tell Biden To Urge Israel To Allow Media Access To Gaza

October 28, 2024 Sue Udry, Defending Rights and Dissent. , , , , , , , ,
Defending Rights & Dissent and 18 other press freedom and human rights organizations endorsed a call from 64 members of Congress asking the Biden Administration to urge Israel to allow independent access to Gaza for U.S. and international journalists, in the interest of transparency, accountability, and press freedom. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) led the congressional effort. Read our letter to President Biden and Sec. of State Blinken here and below. International media and press freedom groups have called on Israel to allow media into Gaza, but, as a press release from McGoverns office notes: … foreign media remains largely prohibited from entering the region, except for a few controlled trips arranged by the Israeli military. This effective ban on foreign reporting has placed an overwhelming burden on local journalists who are documenting the war they are living through.

Hundreds Of Authors Pledge To Boycott Israeli Cultural Institutions

October 28, 2024 Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub. , , , , , ,
Hundreds of prominent authors have signed an open letter pledging not to work with “Israeli cultural institutions that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians.” The letter represents perhaps the most forceful statement of condemnation—and largest commitment to cultural boycott—ever made by the American literary community with regard to the Israeli cultural sector: This is a genocide, as leading expert scholars and institutions have been saying for months. Israeli officials speak plainly of their motivations to eliminate the population of Gaza, to make Palestinian statehood impossible, and to seize Palestinian land. This follows 75 years of displacement, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

Iraq Submits Protest Letter At UN Over Israel’S Use Of Airspace To Attack Iran

October 28, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
Baghdad announced on 28 October that a protest letter has been lodged with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemning Israel’s “flagrant violation” of Iraq’s airspace to launch airstrikes in neighboring Iran. The office of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani directed the foreign ministry to issue the letter and to communicate with Washington regarding this violation under the terms of the nations’ bilateral strategic framework agreement. Officials who spoke with Shafaq News Agency said Baghdad “will not allow the use of Iraqi airspace or lands to attack other countries, especially neighboring countries that have relations of respect and common interests with Iraq.”

Chris Hedges: Israel’s War On Journalism

October 27, 2024 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , , , ,
There are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog and pony shows orchestrated by the Israeli military. They can, on rare occasions, be escorted by Israeli soldiers on lightning visits to Gaza, where they are shown alleged weapons caches or tunnels the military says are used by Hamas. They dutifully attend daily press conferences. They are given off-the-record briefings by senior Israeli officials who feed them information that often turns out to be untrue. They are Israel’s unwitting and sometimes witting propagandists, stenographers for the architects of apartheid and genocide, hotel room warriors.

An International Civil Society Movement For Palestine Is Needed

October 27, 2024 Kathy Bergen, Don Betz, Larry Ekin and Rev. Dr. Don Wagner, Mondoweiss. , , , , ,
Let us be clear. Gaza was a crime, even before Israel’s current genocidal war. One of the world’s most densely populated spaces served for years as what was essentially the world’s largest open air prison. If not a crime, it was certainly a violation of international law and an affront to human dignity and decency. However, the recent horrifying events perpetrated there seem to have awakened the world’s conscience. Tragically, despite widespread international demonstrations and condemnation no ceasefire has been achieved and Gaza’s humanitarian crisis continues. Those who are not killed by Israel’s relentless bombing will suffer from continued displacement, or, even worse, die from starvation and disease.

Microsoft Fires Employees Over Gaza Vigil; Tech Giants Face Scrutiny

October 27, 2024 Palestine Chronicle. , , , , , , ,
Microsoft recently fired two employees who organized a vigil at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to remember Palestinians killed amid Israel’s ongoing genocide on Gaza, the Associated Press reported. According to the employees, they were dismissed over the phone late on Thursday, following a lunchtime gathering they had planned on the company campus. AP reported that “both workers were members of a coalition of employees called ‘No Azure for Apartheid’ that has opposed Microsoft’s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government.” Tuesday’s event, however, was reportedly similar to other charitable campaigns organized within the company to aid communities in crisis.

Iran Calls For Urgent UNSC Meeting Following Israeli Attack

October 27, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called on the UN on 27 October to convene an urgent Security Council meeting in response to Israel's recent missile and drone attack on the Islamic Republic while affirming Iran's right to retaliate. Araghchi issued a letter to the UN Secretary-General stating that the "Islamic Republic of Iran calls on the President of the Security Council to convene an urgent meeting to address these serious violations and illegal actions, ensuring that this regime is held accountable for its actions." "While Iran's air defense system intercepted most of the missiles, four Iranian army officers bravely sacrificed their lives to protect the national security of their country and were martyred," Araghchi's letter stated.

University Of Minnesota SDS Statement Of Halimy Hall Occupation

October 27, 2024 Fight Back! News. , , , , , , , , , ,
Shortly after President Cunningham started working at our university, she and the Board of Regents held an emergency meeting, a week before students returned to campus, where they passed a policy of neutrality for the UMN endowment. Regent Jamie Meyron introduced the institutional neutrality policy declaring the University’s endowment funds “politically neutral”, effectively making it impossible for students to campaign for the University to divest from certain companies. In this same meeting, they resurrected restrictive protest policies, including banning unpermitted protests of more than 100 people and the use of more than one sound amplification device, and put size limits on signs and banners.

‘We’re Witnessing This Global Tidal Wave Of Repression’

October 27, 2024 Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , , ,
As media critics, we look to Palestinians to represent Palestinian views, but it’s crucial that we not see the present moment as something happening to other people somewhere else. The repression of simple anti-genocide calls, the censorship, the firings, the disinformation, the malforming of concepts like antisemitism—these are problems for all of us, about all of us, that will influence all of us forever. Defending Rights & Dissent, online at RightsAndDissent.org, have started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert, which is going to come out every other Wednesday. Chip Gibbons is policy director at Defending Rights & Dissent. He’s a journalist, researcher and a longtime activist.
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