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Israel escalating the demolition of Palestine by Lisa Gleeson

Please TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW and send your letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.

When it comes to the infrastructure of genocide, you could illustrate it using almost any photo of a school, house, shop or village in the West Bank. You could bookmark a Google maps page of a particular West Bank town — then look again in three or six months time and note the destruction wrought.

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Palestinians resist Israel’s ‘slow genocide’ by Huwaida Arraf, Jiselle Hanna, Lourdes Garcia-Larque

Please TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW and send your letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.

There is a systematic effort to make people’s lives unliveable. It’s not too much to say that this is a slow genocide.

Continue reading at https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/palestinians-resist-israel-slow-genocide

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Photos: Thousands protest “twin brothers in genocide” Turnbull and Netanyahu in Sydney on Green Left Weekly

Please TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW and send your letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.

About 2000 people rallied in Sydney on February 23 to protest the federal government hosting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and its support for Israel’s latest land grabs.

Uncle Ken Canning said: “The same murderous colonial mentality that is killing Palestinians landed here in 1788 and decimated us to 2.7% of the population. It is little wonder that [Prime Minister Malcolm] Turnbull welcomes Netanyahu, they are twin brothers in genocide.”

Continue reading at https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/photos-thousands-protest-twin-brothers-genocide-turnbull-and-netanyahu-sydney

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Australia’s Green Left Weekly: “Bob Carr has publicly declared his opposition to Israeli policies of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.”

And is not just high-profile former politicans like Carr who are discovering the truth about Israeli apartheid and history of ethnic cleansing. Many Israelis are not taught the history of genocide and dispossession through which the Israeli state was created. Like many people who grow up in colonial-settler societies ― such as Australia ― learning the truth can be a shock.

Continue reading at https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57875

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