#ICC Prosecutor Urges Swift Ruling on Warrants for #Israeli, #Hamas Leaders
from #CommonDreams
by #JessicaCorbett
Aug 23, 2024

"Any unjustified delay in these proceedings detrimentally affects the rights of victims," the chief prosecutor wrote.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/icc-arrest-warrant-israel

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[News] AOC and Entire Squad Protest DNC Rejection of Palestinian Speaker
from #TNR #TheNewRepublic

The Democratic National Convention is refusing to allow a Palestinian speaker—and the Squad is uniting in a show of force to protest.

https://newrepublic.com/post/185181/aoc-squad-reaction-dnc-palestinian-speaker-uncommitted

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Democrats united behind Kamala Harris, but tension over Gaza simmered throughout the DNC.

Akela Lacy, Ali Gharib August 23 2024, 6:00 p.m.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5466487

Excerpt from the article:

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CHICAGO—On the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 22, a handful of delegates to the Democratic National Convention launched a sit-in just steps away from the entrance to the United Center, where Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to give her acceptance speech Thursday evening.

The sit-in was sparked by the DNC’s refusal to include a Palestinian speaker on the stage line-up at any point during the four-day meeting. The Uncommitted Movement released a statement that read, in part:

“Uncommitted delegates urge the Democratic Party to reject a hierarchy of human values by ensuring Palestinian voices are heard on the main stage. We are learning that Israeli hostages’ families will be speaking from the main stage. We strongly support that decision and also strongly hope that we will also be hearing from Palestinians.”

The United Auto Workers (UAW) released a statement Thursday morning strongly backing the delegates were are sitting in and supporting their demand.

“If we want peace, if we want real democracy, and if we want to win this election, the Democratic Party must allow a Palestinian-American speaker to be heard from the DNC stage tonight,” the UAW said.

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Here's hoping for the best, but I don't expect much from the DNC here...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18827226

The record shows that during his career as a member of the House of Representatives between 2007 and 2018, Walz consistently voted in favor of pro-Israeli positions. In these years he supported every Israeli war on Gaza, rejected the international consensus on the illegality of settlements in the West Bank, and opposed any unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, preferring instead to pay lip service to a “negotiated peace” while Israel continued colonizing the West Bank unimpeded.

On January 9, 2009, Walz voted Yea on blatantly biased H. Res. 34, which essentially endorsed the pro-Israeli position on “Operation Cast Lead”

In June 2009, Walz visited Israel and the occupied West Bank on a Middle East tour, where he met with Benjamin Netanyahu (among other heads of state), and “told the Israelis he believes the growing number of Jewish settlements in the West Bank were hampering the prospects for peace”.

However, in March 2010, when tension between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government was bubbling to the surface over the construction of settlements in East Jerusalem, Walz chose to attend and speak at the annual AIPAC conference, where he stated that “Israel is our truest and closest ally in the region, with a commitment to values of personal freedoms and liberties, surrounded by a pretty tough neighborhood.”

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12475922

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18719806

The musicians of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra have sensationally passed a vote of no confidence in their senior management, after an acclaimed pianist was removed from a performance because he spoke in support of journalists who died in Gaza.

“We believe it is the duty of senior management to lead and manage in accordance with the MSO’s Values and Behaviours, however it has become apparent that these values no longer appear to be aligned with those of the Orchestra and staff,” the letter read.

At a concert on Sunday, Jayson Gillham dedicated a solo to journalists in Gaza — then had his following concert on Thursday cancelled.

Link to original fully paywalled article

The Times reporting consistently condemns war crimes committed by Russia while in Gaza, it either obfuscates their nature or legitimizes Israel’s excuses for committing them. In Gaza the accusation that resistance fighters operate amongst civilians grants carte blanche for Israeli war crimes; in Ukraine the tactic is framed as that of a wily and brave resistance struggling against a military with vastly superior firepower. Ukraine’s “outgunned” army always needs more weapons, while the notion of The Times suggesting so for Hamas is absurd. And while the paper has provided in-depth coverage of the art and culture that is at risk of being lost in Ukraine, it has categorically ignored Israel’s violent campaign to erase Palestinian cultural production.

Conclusion:

The United States has a clear interest in painting Russia—one of its main geopolitical rivals—as the thuggish aggressor in Ukraine that commits war crimes for sport and presents an existential challenge to Western civilization. And it legitimizes its military aid and diplomatic support by portraying Ukrainians as the scrappy underdogs that resist in whatever way necessary (with Western weapons) to protect their homeland.

In Gaza, the United States has an interest in presenting Israel, its bedrock ally in the Middle East, as a nation defending itself from existential threats that is forced to make hard choices between destroying bloodthirsty terrorists and killing civilians en masse. Palestinian resistance has to be completely decontextualized, its motivations and history erased. It is necessarily presented as a cruel, ISIS-like beast which is driven by a single-minded desire to slaughter Jewish people.