2 h. ago Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon

The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in GazaMore than nine months after Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports that concluded Israel was committing genocide – and more than a month since key Israeli human rights groups asserted the same – the American political establishment remains in rigid denial while horrors continue nonstop in Gaza. Virtually all Republicans and most Democrats in Congress still support massive US arms shipments to Israel, so they certainly can’t admit that the weaponry is making genocide possible.Central to rationales for arming Israel is the claim that it is the nation of “the Jewish people”.Norman Solomon is the director of RootsAction and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His latest book is War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Gaza genocide report sparks horror warning with 'no end in sight to Israel's violence'

A UN commission of inquiry has found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza against Palestinians, but an expert has issued a bleak warning in response to the devastating findings

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4 h. ago Taoiseach calls for more international pressure on Israel after genocide report

Independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council said Israeli was committing genocide in Gaza.

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4 h. ago Case for Israeli sanctions ‘unanswerable’ after UN report, says Swinney

A three-person group commissioned by the UN concluded Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.

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5 h. ago A UN inquiry says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Is the world even listening?

As a UN body concludes - for the first time - that genocide is taking place in Gaza, doctors in the enclave are sending desperate messages describing amputations without anaesthetic. But is the world listening, asks chief international correspondent Bel Trew

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10 h. ago Israel IS committing genocide against Palestinians, says UN inquiry as IDF bombards Gaza City

The report said there is clear evidence of genocidal intent against Palestinians in the words and actions of Israel’s leaders

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11 h. ago Four atrocities in horror UN report 'confirms Israel committing genocide' in Gaza

A United Nations commission of inquiry has revealed Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza defined under international law

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11 h. ago Human rights experts join rising chorus that accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza

A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

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3 d. ago Zohran Mamdani says as mayor he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he traveled to New York

Mayoral candidate said he’d try to honor ICC warrant for Israeli prime minister’s arrest over war crimesIf he wins his fall election, Zohran Mamdani would order New York’s police department to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu in the event that the Israeli prime minister ever traveled there, the city’s leading mayoral candidate said in a recent interview.Mamdani – the Democratic nominee in the 4 November election – alleged to the New York Times on Thursday that Netanyahu was a war criminal who was committing genocide with Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, according to a report published by the outlet on Friday. He said he would honor an international criminal court (ICC) arrest warrant issued in November 2024 for Netanyahu’s arrest over alleged Gaza war crimes by having the Israeli leader taken into custody at the airport if he ever steps foot in New York and Mamdani is the mayor. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Keir Starmer faces Labour backlash as Government decides Israel has NOT committed genocide in Gaza

The Government said it had not concluded Israel is acting with the 'intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group'.

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7 d. ago Herzog to head to UK, as London says it doesn’t think Israel committing genocide in Gaza

Herzog to head to UK, as London says it doesn’t think Israel committing genocide in Gaza  The Times of Israel

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7 d. ago Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, British Government says

The UK government does not believe Israel's actions in the Gaza strip is a genocide, a letter from the Foreign Office has said.

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2 w. ago Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime.Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in article II of the United Nations convention for the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Leading genocide scholars organization says Israeli action in Gaza is genocide

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide says that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

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2 w. ago Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say

A resolution has been passed stating that the criteria has been met to establish that the country is committing genocide in Gaza, the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars said.

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3 w. ago Paul Weller sues accountant firm for 'discriminating against him' after it stopped working with him 'for saying Israel is committing genocide in Gaza'

Paul Weller, 67, filed the discrimination suit against Harris and Trotter after the business cut ties with him after 30 years in March, according to a pre-action letter.

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4 w. ago ‘I will not enlist in an army committing genocide’: Meet the Israeli teens refusing Netanyahu’s war on Gaza

The Israeli military is facing a refusal crisis from youth burning draft papers to reservists refusing to turn up for duty, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew

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