This was an absolutely stellar event with ⁦Jessica Whyte⁩ asking the best questions - give it a listen events.unsw.edu.au/article/samuel…

Australia (with US etc.) “unequivocally condemns” Iran’s attack, which “could have caused significant damage and loss of life” but can’t muster the same unequivocal condemnation for Israel’s killing of more than 33,000 people in Gaza.

And now think of the 25,000 tons of explosives (equivalent to two nuclear bombs) used against buildings largely identified as targets by Artificial Intelligence, the unguided munitions (“dumb bombs”) and 2000-pound “bunker buster” bombs launched on densely populated areas and…

I highly recommend this essay by Jessica Whyte on the starvation of #Gaza published by Journal of Genocide Research in its Forum on Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

This!🔥

Jessica Whyte hits the 🎯 of this six months of debate on Journal of Genocide Research:

pursuing & operationalizing the destruction of entire human groups + portraying it as a legitimate 'incidental' outcome of military necessities...

Is indeed a form of genocidal intent! 1/

I wrote about how Israel mobilises a highly permissive interpretation of the international humanitarian law prohibition of starving civilians to portray its starvation campaign as a ‘tragic humanitarian crisis’’ and give legal cover to its genocide tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Destroying the health & education sectors, & weaponising starvation, means that Israel has destroyed the three pillars of social reproduction in Gaza.

Subsistence, health, and education is how social groups maintain continuity and reproduce over time.

#Genocide_in_Gaza

WATCH | Video is now available on our website of last week's event featuring UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Professor Michael Fakhri, in conversation with Institute Associate Noam Peleg about the food crisis in Gaza. Catch up here: bit.ly/UNSpecialRappo…

‘activists’

Effects of The Israeli Assault on The Education Sector in #Gaza Strip

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“Israel persists in its crime of starving the Strip’s civilian population despite all of these legally binding international resolutions and the obligations placed upon it.” Euromed monitor. euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6267

I was going to my 3rd shelter in central Gaza when I learned displaced people were trying to return to Gaza City. I joined them, only to be forcibly expelled again. We were met with Israeli artillery & naval shelling. I headed back to my new shelter, dozens were killed & injured

Isr. investigation into killing of World Kitchen aid workers was led by CEO of Rafael Advanced Defense “which sells nearly half of its arms to Israeli clients, [&] makes the ‘Spike missiles’ which are reported to have been used to kill the aid workers.” telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

📢Please join us for a virtual discussion with international legal scholars on how race and its relationship with international law has come up in three ongoing proceedings before the International Court of Justice.

Mon 15 April, 10pm GMT
Details 👇🏾

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Even the dead are not safe…

🔥🤔📣🚨APLS will be back end november 2024, this time in nipaluna/hobart on 'Legal entanglements between state and capital in a warming world'. Abstracts due 1 july. plz share very widely, comrades of all kinds very welcome: forms.gle/9Nbn9LzveFL8fe…

“Australia's Defence department has refused to publicly release a copy of the deal struck with Israel on defence industry cooperation because it 'could harm Australia's international standing and reputation'. Inspires such confidence. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

This Brookings Gaza compilation is a dispatch from a fantasy land where an innocent US is 'mired in an inflamed region', the 'international community' must 'mount a unified effort to constrain Houthi behavior' & the “two-state solution has enjoyed a rebirth of hope and energy'.

Join us for this important webinar with ⁦Michael Fakhri⁩, The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food in conversation wifh ⁦Noam Peleg⁩ on Israel starvation of Gaza, 10 April, 1-2pm AEST. ⁦⁦UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute⁩ events.humanitix.com/un-special-rap…

Dr Abdel-Fattah is one of many pro-Palestinian voices being targeted in this moment, and we should all be concerned about the consequences for free expression