🇵🇸 Gaza, from catastrophe to genocide: MEMO in Conversation with Professor Penny Green

Israel has entered its annihilation phase in Gaza and transitioning from slow-motion to high speed genocide of the Palestinian population in the besieged enclave, argues law Professor Penny Green. Tel Aviv's destruction of historic Palestine and the Palestinian people has been state policy since 1948 and the siege on Gaza was part of this long term strategy. The latest war might be about to change that. MEMO speaks to Professor Green who explains what factors demonstrate an active genocide, why Gaza has reached this catastrophic stage and how civil society can respond. She addresses head-on the accusations that the use of the term genocide is exaggerating the situation.

Green was one of over 50 leading scholars in #criminology and state violence who signed a hard-hitting condemnation of Israel.

#Palestine #WarCrimes #Genocide #InternationadLaw #ICC #UN #Apartheid #OPT #Gaza
22/11/2023

🇵🇸 Report : Interrogations, Arrests, and Indictments of Palestinian Citizens of Israel since 7 October - Adalah –

Since 7 October 2023, Palestinian citizens of Israel have faced political persecution and a severe crackdown on their freedom of expression and assembly. The repression of speech is the result of widespread and coordinated efforts between government offices, Israeli institutions, and far-right groups, all targeting Palestinian citizens and those who dare to express dissent against the military’s retaliatory attacks on Gaza.

Adalah's legal team cooperates with the High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and its Emergency Committee, as well as with lawyers, popular committees and partner NGOs in many towns and villages to monitor and document rights violations and to represent Palestinian citizens of Israel facing these criminal charges.

 #Palestine #OPT #Oppression #Repression #Apartheid #Judiciary #Adalah

🇵🇸 Interrogations, Arrests, and Indictments of Palestinian Citizens of Israel since 7 October - Adalah –

Since 7 October 2023, Palestinian citizens of Israel have faced political persecution and a severe crackdown on their freedom of expression and assembly. The repression of speech is the result of widespread and coordinated efforts between government offices, Israeli institutions, and far-right groups, all targeting Palestinian citizens and those who dare to express dissent against the military’s retaliatory attacks on Gaza.

Adalah's legal team cooperates with the High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and its Emergency Committee, as well as with lawyers, popular committees and partner NGOs in many towns and villages to monitor and document rights violations and to represent Palestinian citizens of Israel facing these criminal charges.

https://www.adalah.org/uploads/uploads/Criminal_Proceedings_Report_Eng_Nov_13.pdf

#Palestine #Apartheid
#Adalah #Report #Repression #Detention #OPT #Judiciary
November 2023

Inside Israel's mass imprisonment of Palestinians – The New Arab

The situation of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons is very dangerous nowadays. This is the worst time prisoners have seen since Israel occupied the Palestinian territories in 1967,” Muhammad Abdul Samad, a spokesperson of the Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs, told The New Arab, highlighting how the war on Gaza has dramatically impacted the lives of Palestinian detainees.

"One million Palestinians have passed through Israeli prisons since the occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip in 1967

There's hardly a Palestinian house without a family member in jail or a former prisoner. It affects every Palestinian"

#Palestine #Prison #Detention #Prisoners #HR #Torture #Judiciary #Apartheid
29/11/2023

🇵🇸 Why does Israel keep the bodies of Palestinians?

Dozens of Palestinian bodies have been confiscated by Israel in the occupied West Bank, since the war began on October 7.

Human rights organisations fear that many more are being taken away from Gaza and they may not be returned like several others whose remains have not been returned for years by Israeli authorities.

Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel Hamid reports from Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #Burial #Bodies #Apartheid
18/12/2023

🇵🇸 Urinating on Prisoners: Why Humiliation is Functional in Israel’s War on Palestinians | Mint Press

Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians.

Much of that humiliation targeted women, in particular, knowing how the dishonor of Palestinian females represents, according to Arab culture, a sense of dishonor to the whole community.

This strategy remains in use to this day.When scores of Palestinian women were released following prisoner exchanges between the Palestinian Resistance and Israel, starting on November 24, there was very little room to hide the facts.

Unlike the 75-year-ago Palestinian community, this current generation no longer internalizes Israel’s intentional humiliation of women and men alike, as if an act of collective dishonor.

#Palestine #Prisoners #Apartheid #Detention #Humiliation #HR #OPT #Gaza #WestBank #IOF #WarCrimes
21/12/2023

"South Africa opened its case at the World Court today referring to a 75 year continuum of ongoing Nakba, colonization, forced dispossession, denial of self-determination & right to return, #apartheid, human rights violations & #genocide."
https://twitter.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1745453150809780499

"Acts: Annihilation of thousands of civilians, extermination of whole families, harm to millions, kidnapping, humiliating, disappearing civilians, displacement, destroyed homes, hospitals, schools, starvation, denial of medical care, food, water, reproductive violence."

"Intent: systematic purge & collective punishment, statements by President, Prime Minister, Ministers, Knesset, Mil. command, dehumanize, said no civilians/innocents, promised hell, to cut food, water, fuel, annihilate all, conduct Nakba, destroy “Amalek”, soldiers genocide chants."

How Israel indoctrinates its people w/Miko Peled | The Chris Hedges Report - Real News Network

To understand the genocidal campaign unfolding before our eyes, we must examine the roots of Israeli society. Israel is a settler colonial state whose existence depends on the elimination of Palestinians. Accordingly, Israel is a deeply militarized society whose citizens are raised in an environment of historical revisionism and indoctrination that whitewashes Israel's crimes while cultivating a deep-seated racism against Palestinians. Miko Peled, former IOF Special Forces and author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a frank conversation on the distortions of history and reality at the foundations of Israeli identity.

#Israel #Palestine #Apartheid #Zionism #Endoctrination #Propaganda #Settler #Colonisation #Dispossession #Hasbara #Occupation #History #MikoPeled
12/01/2023