If – like me – you suspect you won't get around to reading the actual book ‘Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom’ by Maya Wind anytime soon, here is an interview with her on the topic.
intervenants :
Michael Lynk, Marc Lassouaou,
Amb Hala Abou Hassira, Shuruq Asad, Pascal André, Rima Hassan, Ghassan Abu Sittah, Nada Awad, Razan Zuayter, Jean-Claude Samouiller, Johann Soufi, Mounir Satouri, Ramy Shaath, Omar Barghouti, Kaoutar Harchi, Elias Sanbar, Sylvain Cypel
#Palestine / Israeli soldiers burst into bakery in Deir Abu Mash’al and assault workers, beating two severely
[...] On Saturday, 18 May 2024, around 8:50 P.M., three or four military jeeps drove into the center of Deir Abu Mash’al, a village northwest of Ramallah, and young men threw stones at them. The soldiers suspected that one of the young men ran into a nearby bakery, and two officers and about six soldiers entered it. Some of the soldiers went in the back way and immediately started assaulting workers there, who fled to the adjoining shop. The soldiers chased them and beat everyone they caught in the shop. The other soldiers went into the shop through the main door and attacked whoever they came across, too, hitting them with their hands and rifle barrels. The soldiers detained two of the young men, they cruelly beat and led them to a military jeep. The young men were held in the jeep for about fifteen minutes, during which time, according to their report, the beating continued. After the bakery owner showed the officer footage of the assault from his security cameras, the young men were let go with no further action, bruised in the head and back.
Biden seems determined to lose this election. Maybe some of you should express your anger at him for doing so. Why is he trying so hard to get Trump elected? Doesn’t he understand how terrible things will be under Trump? That democracy itself is at stake? Is helping Israel commit genocide so important to him that he’ll sacrifice US democracy for it?
"His applications wholly ignore, any and all, issues unconnected with the current situation in the Gaza Strip. Nothing about the crime against humanity that is #apartheid, nothing about the war crime of illegal settlement, nothing about #Israel’s previous onslaughts against the #Gaza Strip, or its systematic sniper attacks against demonstrators during the 2018 #GreatMarchOfReturn." - #MouinRabbani
Hostages of Israeli revenge in the Gaza Strip: Testimonies of 100 released Palestinian detainees reveal crimes of torture, cruel treatment
Palestinian Territory - In a new report released Tuesday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documents the testimonies of about 100 released Palestinian detainees. These testimonies confirm that the Israeli authorities and army committed horrific crimes of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, and inhuman and cruel treatment against thousands of Palestinian civilians who were arrested as part of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023.
"We are seeing... important processes that are leading to the collapse of the #Zionist project," said #IlanPappé, following his interrogation in the #USA.
#Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Espen Barth Eide, stated that Norway is now obligated to arrest #Netanyahu if he visits the country after the International Criminal Court issues a decision for his arrest for war crimes in Gaza.
This marks the first country to announce its intention to arrest Netanyahu amid global reluctance following #US threats.
In the most heroic act of self defense, Israeli military destroyed the flower roundabout in Nablus in occupied West Bank.
The criminal actions of IDF in occupied west bank is not receiving much publicity, but they are attacking every town in under Palestinian control under the cover of fighting "Terrorists" but in reality, they are destroying roads, infrastructure, bakeries, schools, electric poles, cellphone base station and hospitals and medical centers.
These actions can not in any way counted as self-defense or justified in a fight against Hamas or even the PA, these actions are to make lives of Palestinian unbearable and to punish them in the most barbaric ways.
And again, the so called civilized world is standing by silent and in compliance fully behind these atrocities while punishing and muzzling those who raise their voices against these crimes.
Dr. Osayd Jabarin, a senior surgeon at the #Jenin Governmental Hospital, was just shot dead in cold blood this morning by Israeli army snipers while in the way to his work, according to witnesses.
"For #KarimKhan history begins on October 7, even though his investigation has, by his own account, been ongoing for a number of years and is supposed to take into account all crimes committed since 2014. He has yet to address any crimes between 2014 and 2023, notably the crime of #apartheid, the crime of #IllegalSettlements in #OccupiedTerritories..." - #MouinRabbani
#ICC / Prosecutor asks for arrest warrants for three leading Hamas leaders, as well ass Netanyahu and Galant
[...] The office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday said it was seeking arrest warrants against three leading Hamas militants for their alleged roles in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Watch: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan explains the charges against top Hamas and Israeli leadership in detail in this excerpt from his interview with @amanpour this morning at The Hague
Mentioned by name in the #ICJ ruling, seen here autographing a bomb that was dropped on Gaza, killing an unknown number of children, women an men, Israel's shameless weasel #Herzog said proudly (I'm sure):
[The Hague Prosecutor] "Encourages Terrorists, We Won't Forget Who Raped, Slaughtered, Burned and Abducted Civilians. [...] This is a decision that goes beyond outrageous. The one-sided decision, which will strengthen terrorists around the world, violates all the basic laws of the court."
The decision, of course, was "two-sided"...
[...] Hamas leaders are dictators guilty of numerous cases of murder, rape and abduction of men, women and children. Any attempt to draw a parallel between these monstrous terrorists and elected officials in a democratic state is outrageous. We will not forget who started this war, who raped, slaughtered, burned, tortured and abducted innocent civilians and families."
"The War" of course stated in 1948, followed by illegal occupation, depopulation, a brutal regime, campaign of dehumanization of an indigenous people to whitewash those crimes, and an #apartheid...
#Palestine / Bedouin Shepherds Face Harassment and Violence from Israeli Settlers in West Bank
455 Palestinians have been killed and almost 8,000 arrested in the West Bank since October 7th on this 'third front' of Israel - alongside #Gaza and #Lebanon. The repression against Israeli activists has also intensified, following a hearing at the Knesset on March 12th, focusing on criminalizing 'anarchist' Israelis: several activists that Reporterre met with have been arrested and even banned from entering the West Bank by authorities since then.
Awdeh Hathaleen:
"We were chased off our lands in Arad (now in Israel) in 1948 and then from the hilltop in 1982; our entire village has been razed several times - but we've always come back, [...] This is apartheid: the settlers have water, electricity, security, and all the rights, and just a few meters further on, we're totally excluded, [...] It's essential to understand that settlers are just the tip of the iceberg of a colonial and genocidal system, [...] They're not only protected by the army and police, but also financed and armed by the government."
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