In his speech to the Knesset, Trump told Netanyahu: “We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel … [And] you used them well.” As Donald Trump congratulates Israel for its conduct of the genocide in Gaza, he should be charged with aiding… Read more »
Tag: Genocide Convention
The Effects of US-Israel Bond are ‘Etched Into the Mass Graves of Gaza,’ International Legal Complaint Says
As the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza exceeds 67,000 and famine has reached the “catastrophic” phase, thousands of taxpayers across the country have united with Palestinian-Americans to file an international legal complaint against the U.S. government for funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. An initial petition was filed in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights… Read more »
Ex-UN Special Rapporteur Says Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not US Sanctions
The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The day after Donald Trump welcomed indicted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States for the third time in less than six months, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied… Read more »
Palestinians Ask Federal Court to Rule Biden Is Complicit in Israeli Genocide
“Genocide can never be a legitimate foreign policy choice,” plaintiffs argue in case against Biden, Blinken and Austin. A lawsuit accusing U.S. President Joe Biden and some of his top officials of complicity in genocide had its latest hearing this week after being dismissed earlier in the year. On June 10, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court… Read more »
Nicaragua Takes Germany to the World Court for Facilitating Israel’s Genocide
Germany is second only to the US as the largest supplier of weapons to Israel. As Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza — which has killed more than 33,000 Gazans — enters its seventh month, Nicaragua sued Germany in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) for facilitating genocide. Nicaragua charged that, “Germany… Read more »
World Court Ordered Israel to Allow Aid Into Gaza But Failed to Order Ceasefire
Seven of the 16 judges thought the ICJ should order that Israel immediately suspend its military operations in Gaza. On March 25, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2728, which “demands” an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. That same day, Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, filed… Read more »
Israel Remains Intent on Genocide Despite World Court Orders
After the ICJ told Israel not to commit genocide, it killed, wounded and denied aid to tens of thousands of Gazans. Israel is continuing its genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza and hindering humanitarian relief efforts despite specific orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), or the World Court, to refrain from these very actions…. Read more »
US Judge Admits Horror of Gaza Genocide, But Will He Dismiss Case Against Biden?
The judge noted that the US government doesn’t dispute the uncontradicted evidence of a “genocide in progress.” Mere hours after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found a plausible case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a historic hearing took place in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California. Several Palestinians who are suing President Joe Biden,… Read more »
What Happens Now That the ICJ Has Ordered Israel Not to Engage in Genocide?
The ICJ ruling was a victory for Palestinians and for international law. Here are possible avenues for enforcement. What comes next, now that the International Court of Justice (ICJ), also known as the World Court, has handed down its near unanimous ruling that South Africa presented a “plausible” case that Israel was violating the Genocide Convention? The… Read more »
Israel Tells ICJ It Has the “Most Moral Army in the World” at Genocide Hearing
South Africa presented a powerful and compelling case that Israel is violating the Genocide Convention.