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historyforfuture · 19 days

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No difference except , the zionists made it worse , they stripped them from their clothes

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vyorei · 6 months

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Thanks to Genocide Joe downplaying the numbers, Human Rights Watch had to vouch for the Ministry of Health regarding their death toll figures

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Genocide Joe #Joe Biden #Biden #USA #Human Rights Watch #Ministry of Health in Gaza #Omar Shakir

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sayruq · 1 month

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The Biden administration should follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam said today. The organizations on March 19, 2024 submitted a joint memorandum to the US government regarding Israel’s violations of international humanitarian law including with US weapons and the blocking of US-funded humanitarian assistance. “There are good reasons why US law prohibits arms support for governments that block life-saving aid or violate international law with US weapons,” said Sarah Yager, Washington director at Human Rights Watch. “Given ongoing hostilities in Gaza, the Israeli government’s assurances to the Biden administration that it is meeting US legal requirements are not credible.”

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #human rights watch #war crimes #genocide #gaza genocide #genocide joe #joe biden

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hero-israel · 6 months

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sorry if this is a dumb question and i understand if you don't want to answer but do you have links to posts explaining why israel isn't an apartheid state? i swear i read posts like that on your blog before but i don't know how to refind them

Israeli Arabs have legal equality with Jews. Same restaurants, same pools, same seats on the bus, same voting rights. I would favorably compare the treatment of Israeli Arabs with that of any minority group in any country on Earth.

The West Bank has a military occupation, with (pretty fast) checkpoints and no right to vote about the government running that military. Military occupations are bad and some of us have been against this particular one for decades. The anti-occupation movement hasn't gotten anywhere, they've just been stuck. Being stuck in a military occupation for X more years doesn't make it apartheid, just like being stuck in a bad marriage for X more years doesn't make you divorced. Meanwhile, the 2020 Abraham Accords showed that multiple Arab states were willing to accept this unchanging status quo and deal with Israel as it is. Those two factors - the stagnant, unchanging nature of the occupation, and the clear loss of interest in the Palestinian cause - combined to have the latest crop of awareness-raising college interns at some shifty NGOs try to force change by abracadabra'ing together a new concept of "apartheid" that exists solely for Israel. And it is working, just like "Christ-killer" and "stabbed Germany in the back" worked.

In 2010, Human Rights Watch published an extremely critical report on Israel's occupation of the West Bank. Dragged them up one wall and down the other. Yet there was no accusation of "apartheid" there. In the report, page 33, they cited a lawsuit by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel that had said it was apartheid for the West Bank military occupation authorities to ban Palestinians from driving on Highway 443 after repeated firebombings / shootings against Israelis. The Israeli High Court ruled that it was inappropriate to ban Palestinians from the road, and it re-established their equal driving access - they have had it ever since. The court also said that the accusation of apartheid behind that now-ended ban was dishonest, because the security concerns were not based on race; there were and are no "Jewish-only" roads anywhere, even when WB Palestinians were denied road access, Israeli Arabs could and did drive there. The HRW 2010 report included a long summary of that finding, without challenge. As bad as they saw Israel, they agreed it wasn't apartheid.

Then in 2020 came the Abraham Accords, so while nothing at all had changed in the administration of the West Bank, in 2021 HRW said it actually was apartheid. It really is that simple. The most famous legal convention banning apartheid specifies that it is race-based. HRW instead went with a different legal convention on apartheid, one that says it could be based on national origin if it involves discrimination among citizens of the same country.... and then they up and added their own twist to that, saying they will consider it apartheid if there is discrimination based on national origin AMONG PEOPLE WHO AREN'T CITIZENS OF THE SAME COUNTRY. In a very real sense, HRW declared Mexico is an apartheid state because Americans can't vote in its elections.

In 2022, Amnesty International followed with their own report, saying that not only was the military occupation now "apartheid," but that Israel itself had been an apartheid state ever since it was established in 1948. This moral perversion had the effect of saying Israel literally INVENTED apartheid since in May 1948 it didn't even exist in South Africa yet. It also said that Amnesty International - founded 1961 - had been looking at an apartheid the whole time but never recognized it. To make things even more dishonest, Amnesty said they "are not claiming Israeli conditions are analogous to South Africa," meaning anything that shows how Israel is different from South Africa doesn't count. They're using the South African word for the South African policy but it's actually not like South Africa at all so be quiet, neener neener no backsies.

I shouldn't have to take that seriously. Neither should anyone. Palestinians and their advocates should be ashamed to have to lean on such an obvious bad-faith lie.

Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013, never once accused Israel of apartheid, and instead repeatedly said he supported Zionism and a 2-state solution. Mandela's lawyer, still alive, says the accusation is a lie. Mansour Abbas, leader of the Arab Islamist party that joined Israel's governing coalition in 2021, says the accusation is a lie. And if people want to bandy around NGO business cards, here is the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2017:

“The Red Cross was very familiar with the regime that prevailed in South Africa during the apartheid period, and we are responding to all those who raise their claim of apartheid against Israel: No, there is no apartheid here, no regime of superiority of race, of denial of basic human rights to a group of people because of their alleged racial inferiority. There is a bloody national conflict, whose most prominent and tragic characteristic is its continuation over the years, decades-long, and there is a state of occupation. Not apartheid.”

There's a lot more you can see about the shifty terminology, unreliable sourcing, and longstanding culture of antisemitism and racism within Amnesty International. People who can cite chapter and verse of why the Salvation Army, Autism Speaks, Chik-Fil-A and Harry Potter are problematic should not be shocked.

#israel #palestine #amnesty international #apartheid #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #false accusations #european antisemitism #jumblr #human rights watch

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stroebe2 · 8 months

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Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023.

Saudi officials are killing hundreds of women and children out of view of the rest of the world while they spend billions on sports-washing to try to improve their image.

The 73-page report, “‘They Fired on Us Like Rain’: Saudi Arabian Mass Killings of Ethiopian Migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Border,” found that Saudi border guards have used explosive weapons to kill many migrants and shot other migrants at close range, including many women and children, in a widespread and systematic pattern of attacks. In some instances, Saudi border guards asked migrants what limb to shoot, and then shot them at close range. Saudi border guards also fired explosive weapons at migrants who were attempting to flee back to Yemen.

#every footballer going to saudi arabia to promote their shitty fucking league has blood on their hands #saudi arabia #yemen #ethiopia #human rights watch

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intersectionalpraxis · 2 months

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workersolidarity · 7 months

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 💥ISRAELI MILITARY REPEATEDLY USING WHITE PHOSPHORUS ON DENSELY POPULATED GAZA AND LEBANON

Israel's use of White Phosphorus in military operations in densely populated Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries according to a new Human Rights Watch report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

White Phosphorus is a munition that uses an allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus to create a smoke, illumination or incindiary effect. White Phosphorus burns upon contact with air and reaches temperatures of 800°C [1'472°F].

White Phosphorus can often cause severe burns and injuries which can than absorb the phosphorus, leading to organ failure.

White Phosphorus can be used for marking, signaling, obscuring, or as an incindiary weapon to set fires that burn incredibly hot, devouring soldiers, equipment, and civilians alike.

"Any time that white phosphorus is used in crowded civilian areas, it poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering,” said Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “White phosphorous is unlawfully indiscriminate when airburst in populated urban areas, where it can burn down houses and cause egregious harm to civilians.”

Human Rights Watch verified videos taken in Lebanon and Gaza on October 10 and 11, 2023, respectively, showing multiple airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural locations along the Israel-Lebanon border, and interviewed two people who described an attack in Gaza.

Human Rights Watch spoke to the people who were from the Al-Mina sector of Gaza City who described "observing strikes consistent with the use of white phosphorus."

Both witnesses, who were in the street and an office building at the time, described seeing air strikes with explosions in the sky, followed by white lines falling to the Earth. The attacks took place some time between 11:30pm and 1am local time.

Both witnesses told Human Rights Watch the smell was strong and stifling and led one of the witnesses to approach a nearby window and record the incident from his phone.

"Human Rights Watch reviewed the video and verified that it was taken in Gaza City’s port and identified that the munitions used in the strike were airburst 155mm white phosphorus artillery projectiles," says the Human Rights Watch report.

"The use of white phosphorus in densely populated areas of Gaza violates the requirement under international humanitarian law to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian injury and loss of life."

Israeli authorities refuse to confirm or deny the use of White Phosphorus despite the testimony of witnesses and video recordings.

Attacks using air-delivered incendiary weapons in civilian areas are prohibited under Protocol III of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). Though weaker restrictions exist for ground launched incindiary weapons.

Protocol III applies only to weapons that are “primarily designed” to set fires or cause burns, and thus some countries believe it excludes certain multipurpose munitions with incendiary effects, notably those containing white phosphorus.

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atticdemosdyke · 4 months

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I just found this brilliant article from hrw about the food crisis which is very much STILL HAPPENING in gaza, in case anyone forgot. Read it. Read others. Spread the word. We cannot stop talking about this.

#if i see one more ‘this is just so sad i cant even think about it’#i’ll explode #its supposed to be sad to think about #they sre committing war crimes left and right #people are starving to death #losing their entire families #like #GET PISSED #stand with gaza #free palestine #war on gaza #food crisis #human rights watch #war #news #politics #human rights #boost

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eretzyisrael · 4 months

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#gaza #hamas #aid to gaza #cogat #human rights watch #hrw #starvation

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harleyeve · 5 months

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Human Rights Watch published satellite imagery of bulldozed farmland in Northern Gaza currently being occupied by IOF.

Purposefully exacerbating food shortages for citizens in Gaza.

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#free palestine #human rights watch #HRW #gaza #free gaza #gaza genocide #news on gaza #no alt text

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violottie · 1 month

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🇵🇸 IMPORTANT: SIGN THE LETTER HERE

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"Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the international community to impose sanctions on Israel for its failure to comply with the International Court of Justice's order to take provisional measures in Gaza to prevent genocide of the Palestinian people." from Call 2 Action Now, 18/Mar/2024:

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In a statement on X, the organization stated that countries should impose targeted sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel to comply with the relevant order issued by the International Court of Justice in January.

HRW pointed out that Tel Aviv has not complied with the court's orders and has failed to deliver aid and basic services to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The link to the letter, European Union Sanctions, is above. Read the letter and at the end of the letter, sign it! Please note: do not add your employer's name as this cannot be removed later.

The final step after you signed and sent the letter, you will receive a link in your email (make sure to check spam and junk) click this link to verify your signature.👍

If you do not complete the final step then the signature is invalid.

We want 10,000 signatures, so make sure to share the link as far wide as possible.

#human rights #human rights watch #icj #international court of justice #palestine #sanction israel #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah #important

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historyforfuture · 3 months

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Even the injured children whose families

Have been martyred do not find a place to rest or have medical treatment . israeli killer forces bomb any where any times . No life is valued . No laws are followed , no rules is respected .

They only follow their blood thirst .

Who will be courage enough to force the killers to stop slaughtering the innocents .

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fiapple · 5 months

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#keep eyes on sudan #sudan #articles #human rights watch #human rights abuses

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girlactionfigure · 5 months

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The organization Human Rights Watch states that the explosion in the hospital in Gaza on October 17 was caused by a Palestinian rocket

It seems like months have passed, but ten days after the start of the war, the explosion at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City was a significant event that brought millions of people to the streets in protests against Israel.

That evening, I wrote in real time about the Palestinian attempts to inflate the number of dead and shared videos proving that the explosion at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza was caused by a Palestinian rocket.

Yesterday, more than a month later, Human Rights Watch, one of the most important human rights organizations in the world, published a report on the incident in which it stated:

1. The damage and fragments are typical of rockets used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

2. The death tolls presented by the Palestinians are exaggerated.

3. The Palestinians lied and omitted evidence (the remains of the rocket), claiming that all the remains melted "like salt in water".

#Israel #October 7 #Al Ali Hospital #Gaza #Human Rights Watch #Hamas #Islamic Jihad #Palestinians

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hero-israel · 4 months

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Hey man. Sorry about this, but I am arguing with one of my friends about Israel. I know you had some good posts on the arguments about the sterilization of the Beta Israel and the Nakba, but I'm struggling to find them. (I am looking for other sources, but your stuff was striking the first time I read it.) Do you know what you tagged those with? Alternatively, what sources do you recommend? Thank you!

Here are some posts I'm rather proud of, and hope you will find helpful. Tags are below.

There were no sterilizations.

What caused the Nakba?

Why the abandonment of the Jews made Zionism necessary.

There was no "peaceful coexistence before 1948".

Ottoman Muslim settler-colonialism in 1800s Palestine.

"Israeli apartheid" is a bad-faith lie.

"Palestine is a climate / environment issue" is an even bigger lie.

Was Nazism wrong, or just wrong when white people did it?

Killing Jews is not - and can never be - "liberation"

How often did the media lie about conditions in Gaza?

BDS is the abstinence-only sex education of the Left

Palestine is the Confederate Lost Cause of the Left

#beta israel #ethiopian jews #depo-provera #gaza #apartheid #zionism #arab antisemitism #muslim antisemitism #amnesty international #human rights watch #united nations #european antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #jumblr #israeli wildlife #wildlife of israel

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notafragileegg · 16 days

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GERMANY RECOGNIZES NON-BINARY GENDER IDENTITIES AND YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR GENDER FASTER NOW!

I am actually so fucking happy for my German siblings!

This is fucking huge for the entirety of Europe!

(Screenshot summary from: https://www.equaldex.com/timeline)

#trans rights #transgender #lgbtq #lgbtq community #lgbtq positivity #lgbtq rights #nonbinary #nonbinary pride #nonbinary rights #trans news #trans #lgbt pride #lgbtqia #queer #queer community #lgbt news #human rights watch

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