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The pogrom is the point by Orly Noy

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The effectiveness of policies of elimination requires two conditions: mass killings and varying degrees of violence on the one hand, and a supportive or complicit public on the other. Israel has both.

The phenomenon known as “settler violence” is a daily and endless sequence of assaults, of which only the tip of the iceberg ever reaches the Israeli media. Under the banner of a “war on terror,” soldiers can commit intolerable crimes, many of which, too, are rarely reported. The mass of the crimes, their frequency, their pervasiveness, and the explicit endorsement of them by Israel’s leadership and public opinion, are all designed to produce a reality in which the law of elimination becomes a law of nature.

Continue reading at https://www.972mag.com/huwara-pogrom-settlers-elimination/

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Mothers March on the Israeli Consulate by Phil Pasquini

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Promising to return once a month, the group “Mothers on the March,” who have actively engaged for the past decade through weekly vigils in protesting police killings and brutality of Black and Brown people by police, held their first demonstration February 24 outside of the Israeli Consulate, calling attention to the injustice for killings of Palestinians in Israel and the illegally occupied territories along with freeing Gaza from its ongoing confinement… The small group marched and chanted while holding signs with messages demanding justice for Palestine and calling for an end to the ongoing “genocide” of the Palestinian people and the Israeli plan to expand settlements in the occupied territories.

Continue reading at https://countercurrents.org/2023/02/mothers-march-on-the-israeli-consulate/

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Letter to HRC members on atrocity prevention priorities at the Council’s 52nd session from Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

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The HRC plays an essential role in the prevention of mass atrocity crimes by responding to situations where populations are at risk of, or are experiencing, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity or ethnic cleansing. During its 44th session in July 2020 the HRC adopted Resolution 44/14 on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), recognizing the important contribution of the UN human rights system in addressing situations where there is a risk of atrocity crimes being committed. This is in line with the Council’s prevention mandate, enshrined in General Assembly Resolution 60/251, which stipulates that it shall “contribute, through dialogue and cooperation, towards the prevention of human rights violations and respond promptly to human rights emergencies.”

As a current member of the HRC we strongly urge you to uphold this shared commitment to prevent atrocity crimes. The Global Centre respectfully encourages you to consider the following recommendations as you engage in the 52nd regular session:

… During its 52nd session, the HRC will have an opportunity to discuss numerous other atrocity situations. We respectfully urge your delegation to actively participate in the interactive dialogues with the High Commissioner and the Designated Expert on Sudan, the Special Rapporteurs on Afghanistan and Iran and with the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, the Fact-Finding Missions on Venezuela and Libya, and on the High Commissioner’s report on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. We also urge you to participate in the Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on human rights in Eritrea and on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the High-level dialogue on the Central African Republic. During the General Debate under Item 4, we respectfully urge your delegation to note that possible atrocity crimes are also currently being committed in Cameroon, the Central Sahel, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Mozambique, and Nigeria, and that the international community must do more to uphold its collective responsibility to protect.

Continue reading at https://www.globalr2p.org/publications/letter-to-hrc-members-on-atrocity-prevention-priorities-at-the-councils-52nd-session/

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Information Session on the Ongoing Palestinian Genocide and Fundraising by Think for Actions

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Information Session on the Ongoing Palestinian Genocide and Fundraising
Speakers: Imam Abdulrahman Khatab, Imam Fayaz Tilly, Shahzad Rahmat

ByThink for Actions

Date and time
Sat, February 18, 2023, 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM MST

Location
5615 14 Avenue Southwest Calgary, AB T3H 2E8 Canada

About this event
2 hours 30 minutes

Outcomes From the Fundraising

• Book: Palestine, Lost in a two state Solution by Colonial Practice of Forced Displacement, Genocide, Apartheid, Torture, Occupation, Physical and Sexual Abuse of Palestinian children.

• Creation of mini-Videos (1-3 min for social media) of the 22 book chapters

• 30-minute digital exhibition by picture / Videos from the information provided by the book.

• Conference after publishing the book

• Apply to Calgary Board of Education to include this book in the curriculum for high school

• Possibly a Board game on Apartheid and Genocide on Palestine, possibly

Continue reading at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/information-session-on-the-ongoing-palestinian-genocide-and-fundraising-tickets-501101597367

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UN experts say Israel should be held accountable for acts of ‘domicide’ by United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner

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The international community must take action to stop systematic and deliberate housing demolition and sealing, arbitrary displacement and forced evictions of Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank, UN experts* said today.

… “The systematic demolition of Palestinian homes, erection of illegal Israeli settlements and systematic denial of building permits for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amounts to “domicide”.

… “Direct attacks on the Palestinian people’s homes, schools, livelihoods and water sources are nothing but Israel’s attempts to curtail the Palestinians’ right to self-determination and to threaten their very existence,” the experts said.

… The experts have repeatedly raised concerns with the Government of Israel on these issues. No response has been received to date.

Continue reading at https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/02/un-experts-say-israel-should-be-held-accountable-acts-domicide

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Rising Palestinian casualties as Israel escalates the war by Amira Howeidy

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By officially embracing policies that virtually translate into the genocide and mass expulsion of Palestinians, the Israeli government is declaring war on the Palestinians, warned Israeli columnist Amira Hass in the left-leaning Ha’aretz newspaper on Monday.

“During a war, it will be easier to reprise the Nakba [expulsion] of 1948,” Hass said.

Continue reading at https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/50/487737/AlAhram-Weekly/Rising-Palestinian-casualties-as-Israel-escalates-.aspx

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An experience to remember by Sadia Arman 

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DHAKA was fortunate to have been the site once again for the screening of the International Film Festival, screened at the premises of the National Museum. A total of two hundred and fifty-two films were scheduled for screening from 14–22 January 2023 from seventy-one countries from all over the world

…‘Continuous Coverage,’ a 90 minute documentary by Palestinian director Emtyaz Al-Maghrabi, depicts the human rights situation in Palestine. The film reconstructs the deliberate shooting in cold blood of Shireen-al-Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist on May 11, 2022 by members of the Israeli Defences Forces while providing news coverage…‘Continuous Coverage’ is not only a film on genocide and shameless acceptance of it by the world powers; it is a part and continuation of the valiant resistance of the Palestinian people. It is a commemoration by one woman film-maker of the valiant fight put up by another woman hero for the cause of her people and her homeland.. 

Continue reading at https://thenewsguru.com/columnist/recreating-the-holocaust-in-their-own-image-by-owei-lakemfa/

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CODEPINK Disrupts Yael Golan’s propaganda-filled presentation by Code Pink

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WASHINGTON — On Saturday, CODEPINK organizer Olivia DiNucci and a Palestinian-American activist disrupted Yael Golan, Consul, Director, South Region USA, Israel Ministry of Tourism at the Travel and Adventure Show in the Washington DC Walter Reed Convention Center. The disruption occurred when Golan delivered her speech titled, Israel: Where History Meets the Future. The purpose of the disruption was to bring attention to the grotesque retelling of Israel’s false history and promoting a promising future that is built off the genocide of Palestinians to drive up tourism. 

Continue reading at https://www.codepink.org/codepink_disrupts_yael_golan_s_propaganda_filled_presentation

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Conference: International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine by MEMO

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A conference was held in London yesterday, hosted by MEMO entitled “International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine” and included a diverse group of academics and writers discussing three broad themes: apartheid, genocide and decolonisation.

Continue reading at https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230205-international-perspectives-on-apartheid-and-decolonization-in-palestine/

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Recreating the Holocaust in their own image by Owei Lakemfa

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However, that a people were victims of genocide does not mean they would condemn the next genocide or even not perpetuate their own. This is the case of the genocide being carried out against the Palestinians by the Israeli state. This has gone on for decades, yet the ‘international community’ is not only silent, but states like  the United States of America, USA has never hidden its full support for the Israeli  establishment which is perpetrating these crimes against humanity.

Israel has in the last few years become even more emboldened to perpetrate its genocide against the Palestinians following the accession of President Joe Biden to power in the USA. In a speech in July, 2022, Biden said: “seeing Israel thrive, seeing the wildest dreams of Israel’s founding fathers and mothers grow into a reality that Israel’s children enjoy today, to me is close to miraculous…A nation that has forged peace before and can do it again…And a nation that will never dwell alone, because as long as there’s the United States you will never be alone.”

Continue reading at https://thenewsguru.com/columnist/recreating-the-holocaust-in-their-own-image-by-owei-lakemfa/