Palestine

By world-outlook.com on October 19, 2024

[part 1 of an interview originally published in Jacobin, along with an introduction, additional links, photos, and endnotes]

Oxfam condemns killing of water engineers in Gaza
(2024-10-19)

https://www.oxfam.org/node/24899
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“Oxfam condemns in the strongest terms the killing in Gaza today of four water engineers and workers from the Khuzaa municipality who were working with our strategic partner the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU).

“The four men were killed on their way to conduct repairs to water infrastructure in Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis. Despite prior coordination with Israeli authorities their clearly-marked vehicle was bombed...”

“Attacks on civilian infrastructure and those who maintain it are clear violations of international humanitarian law. Those responsible must be held to account. Such attacks are part of the crime of using starvation as a weapon of war.

“Oxfam demands an independent investigation into this and other attacks on essential workers…”

How many more violations should we need? #StopGenocide

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#WarCrime

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi. October 18, 20245:49 PM EDT

Anti-Zionist views are 'worthy of respect', UK judge says
(Middle East Eye, 2024-10-15)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/anti-zionist-views-worthy-respect-uk-judge-finds
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“An employment tribunal in the UK has concluded that holding the belief that Israel's actions against Palestinians amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are ‘worthy of respect in a democratic society’.

“In February, a UK judge ruled in a landmark decision that David Miller, a professor of political sociology, who was fired from the University of Bristol in 2021 for anti-Zionist views, was unfairly dismissed and subjected to discrimination.

“This week, the tribunal published its 120-page judgement* which sets out why Miller's views were protected under anti-discrimination laws. “

*) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6707c243366f494ab2e7b67d/Miller-judgment-1400780.2022-JDT...pdf

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Opinion | Yahya Sinwar’s Death Can End This War
(New York Times, 2024-10-17)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/opinion/yahya-sinwar-dead-hamas-gaza.html
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“The death of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who was believed to be the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, provides a new opening for the United States to meaningfully push for a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza and for the de-escalation of violence across the Middle East.” 🤦

I wouldn’t care about this article if its author were no “Matthew Duss”, who “was a foreign policy adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders.”

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#USPol #BernieSanders

Dr Feroze Sidhwa, the author of the recent New York Times guest essay chronicling what 65 doctors, nurses and paramedics witnessed while working on the frontlines of Israel's war on Gaza, was a volunteer with one of the medical groups now banned by Israel from entering Gaza.

Sidhwa was a volunteer with the Palestinian American Medical Association (Pama), according to a Facebook post by the organisation in September. Pama said Sidhwa had volunteered at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza.

Pama confirmed to The Washington Post on Friday that it was one of the organisations Israel has banned from entering Gaza. The medical organisation had worked in Gaza for years before the current war.

【Livestream】 Rally for a just peace in Palestine and Israel

Time: Friday 18. 10. 5-7pm (CEST)
Place: In front of the main train station, Washingtonplatz, #Berlin 10557

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZXPbyW21ZJc?si=GtjC1zIWcu4Tkavm
or
https://gerechter-frieden.org/live-stream/

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https://gerechter-frieden.org/info/
“A kind request: In order to express our independence, we kindly ask you to leave party and national flags at home. We are aware that Palestinian national symbols and flags are constantly being stigmatized in #Germany. We comdemn the blanket criminalization of such flags and symbols. That’s why we express our wish as a kind request and not as a ban. We stand up for the right of all people and groups to express their identity – whether religious, ethnic or political. But at this rally we want to place the focus on the universality of the human rights of all those affected by the war and the violence.”

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A Curricular Clash at MIT: How a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rattled a department.
(The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2024-10-15)

https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-curricular-clash-at-mit
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Beyond paywall but yet suggestive.

“… Michel DeGraff submitted a request to teach a course about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“In the 10 months since then, the professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been locked in a near-constant feud with his department head and colleagues...”

“DeGraff’s colleagues argue that the course — which would analyze the language used in conversations surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — doesn’t align with the department’s curriculum and that DeGraff lacks the necessary expertise to teach it. DeGraff believes the rejection is actually rooted in his pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus and social media…”

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“Join us November 16th at the German embassy in Dublin!”

from X post (sorry) of Jews for Palestine Ireland
https://x.com/JewishPeace/status/1846607619345264684

“We’re teaming up with Irish Bloc Berlin to protest the German repression of Palestinian voices in the midst of their unwavering support for the ongoing genocide.”

#GermanComplicityInGenocide #StopGenocide #IrishBlocBerlin
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October 16, 2024

October 16, 2024

Israeli Court Orders Government to Explain System for Medical Evacuations From Gaza: Three Israeli human rights groups filed a petition after the closure of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, slowing the evacuation of patients.
(New York Times, 2024-10-15)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/15/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-medical-evacuations.html?ogrp=dpl&unlocked_article_code=1.Sk4.ru4q.CcQypXTKb5m3&smid=url-share
**Gift Link**
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“The order stems from a petition filed by three Israeli human rights groups in early June, following the closure of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt after the Israeli military began assaulting the area in May.”

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October 15, 2024

Israeli NGOs warn international community it will be complicit if Israel forcibly transfers the population of Northern Gaza
(B’Tselem, 2024-10-14)

http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20241014_international_community_will_be_complicit_if_Israel_forcibly_transfers_the_population_of_northern_gaza
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B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

#Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement https://gisha.org/en/about-gisha/

Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights https://www.yesh-din.org/en/

Physicians for Human Rights Israel https://www.phr.org.il/en/about/
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h/t https://berlin.social/@oliverknabe/113307647816278617

cf. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241015-world-will-be-complicit-in-israels-crimes-if-they-dont-stop-them-israeli-rights-groups-warn/
et al.

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Thousands of Cubans, led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel and other leaders of the communist-run island, marched in Havana on Monday to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Open Letter to the Historische Museum Frankfurt – Lasst Daniel wieder arbeiten!

https://lasstdanielarbeiten.wordpress.com/open-letter/
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To sign and support ➡️
https://lasstdanielarbeiten.wordpress.com/unterzeichnen/

signed, as of 15.10.24, by 1250 individuals and 41 organisations.

“Daniel Shuminov was suspended from his duties as a guide and audience coordinator at the Historical Museum of Frankfurt without explanation due to his role as a spokesperson for the Palestine Camp “Hind’s Garden” at Goethe University Frankfurt. The protest camp “Hind’s Garden,” which took place from May 20 to May 26, 2024, was organized in response to the ongoing escalation in the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands of people have been killed or wounded. The camp highlighted the deliberate destruction of all educational institutions in Gaza and the systematic oppression of the Palestinian population—a space for discourse that educational institutions in #Frankfurt had not adequately allowed…”

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#Germany #OpenLetter #StopGenocide

[important article - has information on far-right Zionist thugs in Canada and US]

Yoav Litvin is an Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, a writer and photographer.

14 Oct 2024

Moira Donegan
Mon 14 Oct 2024 06.07 EDT

Stephen Starr in Hamtramck, Michigan
Mon 14 Oct 2024 11.00 EDT

By JULIA FRANKEL
Updated 6:38 AM EDT, October 14, 2024

[unbelievable - of course Biden and Harris will go along with no complaint]