93 Nations Back ICC as Israel Faces Charges for War Crimes in Gaza ( www.commondreams.org )

cupcakezealot , 7 days ago

remember that it was almost two years from when milosevic was indicted to when he was arrested. it takes time to build a case and bring people in.

Viking_Hippie , 7 days ago

So damn relieved to see my country on the list of signatories to this letter in spite of our piece of shit foreign minister (and former prime minister who had more or less quit politics only to change his mind and start yet another useless neoliberal party because he couldn't live without the free first class flights) insisting on not recognizing Palestine even as the rest of Scandinavia does!

nogooduser , 7 days ago

I’m so surprised to see my country on there. The UK has had problems with anti semitism in politics and they seem scared to say anything bad about Israel.

crapwittyname , 7 days ago

The UK continues to have problems with all kinds of racism in politics. Nigel Farage is the leader of the second most popular party FFS. Anti semitism was sensationalised because it helped the right wing to highlight it. It, and the rest of the racism is still there, bubbling away.
Still. Nice to see this.

Aceticon , 6 days ago

Having lived in the UK and having been a victim of racism myself for being from continental Europe and having heard the stories of friends and acquaintances who were much more victimized by racism in Britain than I ever was due to the color of their skin or coming from a Muslim country, I always found it hilarious when both the rightwing and liberal Press kept harping on an on about Britain not being racist.

Anti-semitism was next to nothing in Britain compared to what people of color, Muslims and at some point even Poles suffered even in the more open minded cities such as London.

The obcession with anti-semitism was all about politics (as I pointed above, such accusations were so twisted and abused when trying to bring a Leftie, Corby, down as head of the Labour party that at one point policians, the rightwing Press and the liberal Press were implying that a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was an anti-semite to taint Corby by association) and not at all about fairness of treatment or reducing the victimization of people because of their ethnicity.

crapwittyname , 5 days ago

The weaponisation of racism in British politics this century is one of the most cold blooded, cynical processes I have ever witnessed. I try really hard to have faith in my fellow man. Then this happens, and the trans panic. They use vulnerable minorities as political footballs, all whilst pretending to be protecting them. Fuck those moral vacuums.

cupcakezealot , 7 days ago

then you have the (probable) future prime minister being like "what war crimes"

Aceticon , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

The entire strategy in the UK to take down Corbyn, involving the entirety of the Press including the supposedly "left" liberal press, the whole Tory party and all Labour party politicians from the New Labour faction was false accusations of anti-semitism supported amongst others by Israeli-backed "Jewish" organisations.

The whole thing was so ridiculous that the Labour Party under Corby was accused of being anti-semitic whilst having fewer anti-semites than the general population and Corby himself was accused of being anti-semitic because in a conference he sat on a panel where another person - a Jewish Holocaust Survivor compared the actions of Israel with those of the Nazis which the anti-Corbyn propagandists deemed anti-semitism (in other words, to deem Corbyn anti-semite by association they claimed a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was an anti-semite).

So I'm massivelly surprised that after both the New Labour and the Tories got massive help from Israeli-associated "Jewish" organisations and some very wealthy Jews (who like other such very wealthy people are very much to the Right, hence when they come from the Jewish ethnicity they're often Zionists), they would align with International Justice and against Israel and its Zionist governments.