November, 2023

• 20 November

  STUDENT PROTESTS FOR GAZA TARGETED BY PRO-ISRAEL GROUPS FOR ALLEGED CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

  

  Amid an upswell of student support for Palestinians, Israel advocacy groups are weaponizing civil rights law to quell dissent. Schuyler Mitchell, Prem Thakker November 16 2023, 5:29 p.m. IN FRONT OF Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library, seven infant-sized bundles of white cloth rested on the steps, splattered with red paint. Behind the swaddles, plywood boards read “10,600 lives slaughtered,” “4,412 children,” and …

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• 20 November

  To Save Gaza, Invoke the Genocide Convention by SAM HUSSEINI

  

  The ICC is a “puppet institution”. What’s needed is a country to invoke the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice. Here’s how, with argument, phone numbers, addresses and emails. Some of the greatest successes in recent human history have combined protest movements with strong diplomatic moves. In February 1998, the Clinton administration seemed poised to inflict a massive …

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• 20 November

  Arundhati Roy calls the siege of Gaza “a crime against humanity.”

  

  In a video address to the Munich Literature Festival yesterday, the human rights activist and Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy made a powerful speech in solidarity with the Gazan people, and with the millions around the world marching for a ceasefire. Roy—who could not attend the Munich Literature Festival in person because she is currently facing trumped-up …

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• 19 November

  Israel-Palestine war: This is not about Hamas. It’s a 75-year colonial war

  

  The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is inseparable from the racialised structures of Zionism, which receives unbridled support from Europe and the US   Smoke rises as a result of Israeli occupation army bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip on 15 November, 2023 AFP) On 30 October, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) addressed Israel’s wholesale onslaught against Palestinians in the wake …

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• 19 November

  In supporting Israel’s genocide, Germany has learnt nothing from history

  

  It is becoming increasingly clear that as the German government targets migrants and cracks down on pro-Palestine protests, some lives are more valuable than others   German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is pictured at a commemoration ceremony for the 85th anniversary of the November pogrom at the Beth Zion synagogue in Berlin on 9 November 2023 (AFP) Earlier this month, amid …

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• 19 November

  Forever war? Israel risks a long, bloody insurgency in Gaza

  

  Relatives of a victim, died in the Israeli airstrikes, carry a body from the morgue of Nasser Hospital for the funeral ceremony as the Israeli army attacks continue in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 14, 2023 [Mustafa Hassona – Anadolu Agency] by Reuters  Reuters Israel risks facing a long and bloody insurgency if it defeats Hamas and occupies Gaza without a …

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• 18 November

  Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people

  

  GENEVA (16 November 2023) – Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of increasing genocidal incitement, overt intent to “destroy the Palestinian people under occupation”, loud calls for a ‘second Nakba’ in Gaza and the rest of …

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