Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January17, 2023 South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel proves that this very serious word should be used more often instead of being treated as a rarity. The U.S. and the nations of the west have committed countless genocides and their actions must be labeled as such. On January 11, 2024, the[…]
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From Israel Palestine News, January 16, 2023 Videos of South Africa’s presentations before the International Court of Justice. A powerful, well researched presentation, well worth your attention. The presentations at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on behalf of South Africa on Jan, 10, 2024 documenting Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. The bio of each speaker can be[…]
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from the International Action Center, January 11, 2024 The International Action Center condemns the U.S. and British imperialist governments for their unjustifiable attacks on Yemen Jan. 11. This latest aggression is a direct expansion of the genocidal war they have been collaborating with in Gaza. It coincides with the charges of that genocide against Israel in the International Court of[…]
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by Vijay Prashad, published on People’s Dispatch, January 13, 2024 Hundreds of millions of people across the world have been deeply moved by the atrocity of the Israeli war on Palestine. Millions have attended marches and protests, many of them participating in such demonstrations for the first time in their lives. Social media, in almost all the world’s languages, is[…]
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by Mark Vandepitte, published on Workers World, January 11, 2023 The genocide the Israeli army is perpetrating today in Gaza is not a slip-up but the logical offshoot of an imperialist and colonial project established at the end of the 19th century: Zionism. To properly understand what is happening today, it is necessary to understand the origins and stakes of[…]
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by Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, January 5, 2023 Book Review: “The Hundred Years War on Palestine,” A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance 1917-1921 by Rashid Khalidi, Picador 2020 “There were no such thing as Palestinians…they did not exist. ” Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, 1969. I was raised in a working-class Jewish home in South Florida[…]
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by Marjorie Cohn, published on Truthout.org, January 6, 2023 For nearly three months, Israel has enjoyed virtual impunity for its atrocious crimes against the Palestinian people. That changed on December 29 when South Africa, a state party to the Genocide Convention, filed an 84-page application in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) alleging that Israel is committing[…]
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by Paul Larudee, published on Dissident Voice, January 7, 2024 If the International Court of Justice rules that Israel has committed, and is committing, genocide, will it save Gaza? On January 11-12 the ICJ (AKA the World Court) will hear the petition brought to it by South Africa. Specialists in International law Francis Boyle and (independently) Daniel Machover firmly believe[…]
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by Melissa Garriga, January 8, 2023 Peace activists across the country have embarked on a campaign to mobilize global support for South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The campaign, spearheaded by CODEPINK, World Beyond War, and RootsAction, aims to rally nations to submit a “Declaration of Intervention” supporting South Africa’s case at[…]
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by Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman, published on Electronic Intifada, December 19, 2023 It was 6:00 am on 15 December, when my mother woke me to take our turn in the line at a nearby bakery, 15 minutes away on foot. There are two lines, one for women and one for men. My mother was number 29, I number 30. We had[…]
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