“UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally”

It’s even worse for the most marginalised and discriminated against people when the UK ‘opposition’ is so compliant.
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The only way for states to keep on defending Israeli apartheid and its settler-colonial project is to become increasingly authoritarian at home.

Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office

These are crimes from the darkest periods of human history
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The UN Human Rights Chief says a series of Israeli strikes on Rafah in the past few days 'killed mostly children and women'

Israel has so far killed 14,685 Palestinian children and 9,670 women in Gaza since October. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

'By supplying fuel to the Israeli military while ­Israeli forces commit war crimes & possible genocide in Gaza, Delek is complicit in those acts, as well as Israel's ongoing system of apartheid against the Palestinians'

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Stop the Planes. amnesty.org.uk/press-releases…

The rate of Israel’s attacks on healthcare in Gaza is higher than in any other recent conflict globally - averaging 73 attacks a month.   

“This number exceeds the number of attacks per month in all other war-torn countries since 2018, including Ukraine”. savethechildren.net/news/gaza-rate…

The spike in state-backed settler violence in the West Bank shows - once again - the need to dismantle Israel's #apartheid system

'Violence is integral to the establishment & expansion of these settlements and to sustaining apartheid' - Heba Morayef

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Israel has yet to provide evidence of UNRWA staff ‘terrorist links’, Colonna report says.

This was always a reckless distraction & disinformation tactic from Israel- timed with the ICJ genocide ruling.
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Sanctions on violent settlers fails to address the root causes of the violence against Palestinians - including Israel’s occupation, its racist system of apartheid, and complicity in these crimes by the likes of the UK & US. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Notable - but let’s not pretend the IOF has a few bad apples. Anything defending the system of apartheid is rotten to the core.

Appalling to see Columbia University university bringing in NYPD NEWS to crack down on peaceful protestors, leading to mass arrests, including arrests of legal observers! Peaceful protest is a human right and an invaluable tool to speak truth to power.

Like so many others, Amnesty International’s fieldworker in Gaza has spent several months displaced from his home in the southernmost governorate of Rafah, where more than a million people have sought safety from Israel’s relentless bombardment.

Amnesty's Dr Matt Mahmoudi @[email protected] discusses Israel's use of facial recognition systems and the expansion of their use in #Gaza

'Semi-autonomous weapons systems end up dehumanising people and leading to deaths that are later on described as 'regrettable''

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Solidarity with all workers reportedly fired by Google for opposing Project #Nimbus - a major cloud & AI contract between Google (& Amazon) and the Israeli government -- providing tech which is likely being relied upon by Israel amid its ongoing atrocities in Gaza. 1/2

i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, in my 3 years at Barnard College i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings

i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.

The Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute stands with students exercising their fundamental human rights and calls on Columbia University to protect rights to expression and assembly: hri.law.columbia.edu/hri-statement

'What will it take for Palestine to become a full UN Member State?' - UN explainer news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

Syria is not safe for returns, and if deported, he would be at risk of serious human rights violations. Call on Ministry of Interior وزارة الداخلية الاردنية to halt the deportation order and to release him now: amn.st/6010bRLRi

⚠️On 9 Apr 2024, Jordanian security forces arrested Syrian refugee, Atiya Mohammad Abu Salem, while he was on his way to film pro-Gaza protests in Amman. His lawyer was told that the authorities issued a deportation order for him to Syria.