Rafah Holocaust by Jordanian artist Hani Alqam


It is not ‘ethnic cleansing’, it is genocide

Over the past eight months, like many people around the world, I have been starting my day by checking the news from Gaza and the rest of Palestine. I rely on the reports from people on the ground in Gaza, mostly on social media, to get reliable information about what is happening.

At the same time, I follow the mainstream media, leaders, representatives of big international organisations and scholars to get different perspectives. Unfortunately, too often, I hear them using the term “ethnic cleansing” when referring to the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinians. Each time I hear this phrase, it reminds me of the war I survived in the 1990s in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here

Rudderless, incompetent and complicit

Little illustrates Washington’s diplomacy on Israel’s genocide in Gaza better than the temporary pier the US military constructed at great cost to bring aid to the territory’s 2.3 million people suffering an engineered famine that is nearing catastrophic levels. Announced in early March – and always a ludicrous idea when the US could have simply insisted that Israel keep land crossings open, saving the $320 million construction cost – the pier finally became operational on 17 May.

For its first five days, no aid that arrived there was distributed. Then high waves washed away some of the vessels meant to deliver aid, causing further disruption. Finally, the pier itself broke apart on 28 May, just 11 days after it was deemed operational. The entire structure will now be removed and taken to Ashdod port for repairs. Costly and incompetently executed, the pier was a direct result of a pronounced unwillingness in Washington to directly confront Israel over its gross restrictions on aid into Gaza. Here

To Continue the Gaza genocide, Israel and the US must destroy the laws of war

The world's two highest courts have made an implacable enemy of Israel in trying to uphold international law and end Israeli atrocities in Gaza.

Separate announcements last week by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) should have forced Israel on to the back foot in Gaza.

A panel of judges at the ICJ – sometimes known as the World Court – demanded last Friday that Israel immediately stop its current offensive on Rafah, in southern Gaza. 

Instead, Israel responded by intensifying its atrocities.

On Sunday, it bombed a supposedly "safe zone" crowded with refugee families forced to flee from the rest of Gaza, which has been devastated by Israel’s rampage for the last eight months.

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More Resources

“This Is a Crime”: Ken Roth on Israel’s Secret War Targeting the ICC to Derail War Crimes Charges Here

Israel says war on Gaza likely to last another seven months Here

REVERBERATIONS OF OCTOBER 7 Mobilization Against Genocide Undeterred by Peak Anti-Palestinian Repression by Palestine Legal Here

Netanyahu’s response to the ICC invokes another genocidal biblical reference Here

US State Department official resigns, says US report on Gaza inaccurate Here

Rights groups demand Biden halt Israel arms transfers after ICJ ruling Here

Why Are Progressive Legislators Opposing New York’s First Anti-Settlement Bill? Here

The Message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians Here

Rights groups file complaint against Booking.com for listing Israeli settlements Here

The Complicity of Israeli Academia Here

US lawmakers threatened ICC with 'The Hague Invasion Act', but what is it? Here

Can Palestinians imagine a future with Israelis after this war? Here

'Israel goes after UNRWA in al-Quds, orders it to vacate headquarters Here

Media Resources

Fire breaks out at Ramallah market amid Israeli raids

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Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe on Interrogation at U.S. Airport and "the Collapse of the Zionist Project" Here

Liturgical Resources

When discussing the war in Gaza, we must ask the question about genocide Here

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