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  • Joe Biden Is an Accomplice to the Slaughter of Thousands of Palestinian Children

    Joe Biden should be tried and convicted of illegally providing American bombs and planes for genocide, but not before being forced to watch videos of some of the thousands of Palestinian kids murdered or maimed by Biden’s bombs and warplanes. Let Biden see the blank look of horror of a temporarily surviving Palestinian child alongside the bloodied dead body of its mother, father, brother, sister, playmate, auntie, uncle, grandad, grandma, or as often enough all of them killed by the same blockbuster bomb.

    Let the condemnable President of the United States of American brutality be seen on the cover of Time magazine as ‘Man of the Year.’ Let Americans become aware of the reality of their government’s horrific crime against humanity. Though there is currently an international arrest warrant for Biden’s partner in the crime of genocide, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the International Criminal Court lets Biden off the hook.                    

    Also let the rest of the world know the truth that the TV entertainment/news conglomerates under U.S.-CIA control, by their world wide audience via satellites, make every effort to obscure the mass murderous nature of the U.S. government.

    Currently criminal Western media keeps focusing their tele-broadcasting time on the hostages held by Palestinian freedom fighters for a second exchange for some more of Israel’s thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons.                    

    While the world watched and students protested as Israel committed genocide with American bombs turning the cities of Gaza into rubble, the Biden presidency vetoed ceasefires in Gaza commanded by the United Nations Security Council last year on October 18, October 25, November 8, November 20, and November 28.

    On November 22 of this year, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of crimes that include “starvation as a method of warfare,” Just two days later the Biden administration again vetoed the latest UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza that even France and Britain voted in favour of.

    China’s senior envoy, Fu Cong, asked: “Do Palestinian lives mean nothing?”

    For Biden and his cohorts, the Israeli users of the lethal American weapons provided, Palestinian lives must mean less than nothing. Some Israeli soldiers’ social media have shown soldiers laughing like hyenas in videos of themselves cheering the genocidal destruction on. More than 50 thousand Palestinians under illegal militarily occupation, mostly women and children have already been put to death, while another 11 thousand or more lie buried beneath the ruins of their homes, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza suffer the life endangering pangs of hunger that bring disease, dysentery, and fatal results of starvation and malnutrition.

    The Face of Good ol’ Joe Biden

    What does this caricature of a human being see when it looks in a mirror? This monster of pitiless death and destruction sees not the creature thrown up from Hell that seeks to help Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu annihilate all Palestinian life in Gaza and the West Bank, but rather the jovial face of a human being deceptively presenting himself as a likeable father figure.

    Don’t be fooled! Joe Biden is a serial destroyer of human life on Earth, and Biden didn’t start in October of last year.

    Previously Joe Biden as Senator Made War on Iraq Possible

    We knew Joe Biden as a super ‘yes man’ of the war and weapons investors complex deep state already when as Senator and Chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden vociferously called for the invasion of Iraq, even though it would be a war of the opposing party Republican President George Bush Junior. Senator Biden embraced an ultrahawkish position on Iraq, already in March 2000, Joe Biden said at a Senate hearing that if Iraq refused weapons inspections, he “would introduce a resolution calling for the use of force by the United States of America, if we have to do it alone, to go after Saddam Hussein.” (Congressional Quarterly,March 2000)

    In October 2002, he voted in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, approving the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

    In September 2004, then-United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan stated, “I have indicated that it is not in accordance with the UN charter. From our point of view and the UN Charter point of view, it [the war] was illegal.”

    Fast forward

    “Iraq conflict has killed a million”, says survey

    By Reuters, January 30, 2008 (Updated 17 years ago)

    LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – More than one million Iraqis died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain’s leading polling groups, (The survey was conducted by Opinion Research Business ORB), but Biden’s Gaza genocide, so widely and graphically tele-broadcasted all around the world makes him someone to be remembered for representing the intensive cruelty of the American government and the deadly indifference of the American public.

    America’s most famous critic, 96-year-old Noam Chomsky, has said repeatedly that all the U.S. presidents after Franklin Roosevelt would have been hanged if tried under the same laws the Nazis were tried under. With his Palestinian Gaza genocide Joe Biden seems to have outdone all of them in extreme mortal cruelty, except possibly Harry Truman, who had atomic bombs dropped on two cities. But Biden has the distinction of having been able to watch his provisioned genocidal  daily and nightly horror go on for 14 months.

    May Joe Biden Be Condemned To Watch Videos of the Thousands of Adorable Palestinian Children He Has Had Murdered.

    May Americans be made aware of the genocide of their president.

    May the Global South be empowered to stop it and learn from it.

    On January 20, another president might continue to provide for the inhuman mass butchery of women and children. Trump has warned of consequences if the hostages are not released, but tellingly made no mention of the more than 50 thousand dead Palestinians.

    Let’s hope and agitate for a termination of the Gaza genocide and the usurping of Palestinian land.

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  • Video of burning Halloween prop in China shared as ‘Hindu genocide’ in Bangladesh

    Trigger Warning: Disturbing Visuals

    A short video apparently showing a human body tied up and placed above a fire is being shared on X (formerly Twitter) as yet another incidence of violence against Hindus in Bangladesh.

    X user Mini Razdan (@mini_razdan10) posted the video on December 12, claiming it genocide was taking place in the neighbouring country. “Hindu Gen0cide in Bangladesh …. WAKE UP HINDUS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE,” the post, which was later deleted, said. However, by then, it had already been viewed over 6,000 times and shared widely.

    The video has also been shared with similar claims by users such as Dr JaiNath Singh (@DrJaiNathSingh3) and Sanjeev Singh (@Sanjeev26429531), among others.

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    Fact Check

    A reverse image search of some key frames from the video led us to an Instagram post by Galaxychimelong, uploaded on October 31, 2018. The location was specified in the post as Hengqin, Guangdong, China.

    The Instagram post contains a video in which a similar contraption — with sets of sticks tied up vertically at two ends and another stick connecting them horizontally with logs of wood placed underneath it — can be seen. The video also shows a man rotating a handle from one end and the human-like figure tied to the horizontal stick rotates with it.

    On investigating further, we found a YouTube video uploaded on October 27, 2018, by travel vlogger SviatMe. The video was titled “Halloween Party at Chimelong Ocean Park, Zhuhai, China” and we can see similar visuals as the viral post from the 5:26-minute mark in the video. 

    We are not embedding the video here in view of its graphic nature. 

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    Based on this, it seems like the human-like figure is merely a prop used for Halloween celebrations.

    Taking cue from this, we ran another keyword search. This led us to a fact-check report by an Indonesia-based anti-hoax portal, posted on December 28, 2019. Turns out this isn’t first time the video has gone viral with a false claim. In 2019, the video was widely shared with rumours that it showed a restaurant in Nigeria serving human flesh. 

    The Indonesian outlet’s report debunking that claim also corroborates that the clip was actually from a Halloween party in October 2018 at China’s Chimelong Ocean Park.

    Thus, the video recently viral on X is neither from Bangladesh nor does it show brutality against the Hindu minorities there. The video is from a Halloween party in China in 2018, where a human-like figure was used as a  prop. 

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  • Chris Hedges Report: Enduring The Trauma Of Genocide

    While the trauma that Palestinians continue to face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self. Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point articulately on the latest episode of The Chris Hedges Report through attempting to make sense of the psychology, trauma and reason behind the actions of Palestinians, IDF soldiers, WWII survivors, Nazis and even himself.

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  • Indigenous Australian To Take Ex-Netanyahu Spokesperson To ICC

    The charge of “advocating genocide” against Australian Mark Regev, a former Israeli ambassador to Britain and spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will head to the International Criminal Court after Australia’s prosecution service dropped the case following a diplomatic note from Israel.

    The charge against Regev was brought initially in a private prosecution by Uncle Robbie Thorpe, an indigenous Krautungalung Elder and human rights advocate.

    Thorpe charged Regev with aligning himself as a government spokesman with statements made by Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, which the U.N. special rapporteur for the Palestinian occupied territories called genocidal.

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  • Why is Israel bombing Syria? – ‘because it can get away with it’, says Bishara

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    Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, has condemned Israel’s extensive airstrikes on Syrian installations — reportedly 500 times in 72 hours, comparing them to historic Israeli actions justified as “security measures”.

    He criticised the hypocrisy of Israel’s security pretext endorsed by Western powers.

    Asked why Israel was bombing Syria and encroaching on its territory just days after the ousting of the Bashar al-Assad regime after 54 years in power, he told Al Jazeera: “Because it can get away with it.”

    Al Jazeera analyst Marwan Bishara
    Al Jazeera analyst Marwan Bishara . . . Israel aims to destabilise and weaken neighbouring countries for its own security. Image: AJ screenshot APR

    Bishara explained that Israel aimed to destabilise and weaken neighbouring countries for its own security.

    He noted that the new Syrian administration was overwhelmed and unable to respond effectively.

    Bishara highlighted that regional powers like Egypt and Saudi Arabia had condemned Israel’s actions, even though Western countries had been largely silent.

    He said Israel was “taking advantage” of the chaos to “settle scores”.

    “One can go back 75 years, 80 years, and look at Israel since its inception,” he said.

    “What has it been? In a state of war. Continuous, consistent state of war, bombing countries, destabilising countries, carrying out genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.

    “All of it for the same reason — presumably it’s security.

    A "Palestine will be free" placard at today's Auckland solidarity rally for Palestine
    A “Palestine will be free” placard at today’s Auckland solidarity rally for Palestine. Image: David Robie/APR

    “Under the pretext of security, Israel would carry [out] the worst kind of violations of international law, the worst kind of ethnic cleansing, worst kind of genocide.

    “And that’s what we have seen it do.

    “Now, certainly in this very particular instance it’s taking advantage of the fact that there is a bit of chaos, if you will, slash change, dramatic change in Syria after 50 years of more of the same in order to settle scores with a country that it has always deemed to be a dangerous enemy, and that is Syria.

    “So I think the idea of decapitating, destabilising, undercutting, undermining Syria and Syria’s national security, will always be a main goal for Israel.”

    "They tried to erase Palestine from the world. So the whole world became Palestine."
    “They tried to erase Palestine from the world. So the whole world became Palestine.” . . . a t-shirt at today’s Auckland solidarity rally for Palestine. Image: David Robie/APR

    In an Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau solidarity rally today, protesters condemned Israel’s bombing of Syria and also called on New Zealand’s Christopher Luxon-led coalition government to take a stronger stance against Israel and to pressure major countries to impose UN sanctions against Tel Aviv.

    A prominent lawyer, Labour Party activist and law school senior academic at Auckland University of Technology, Dr Myra Williamson, spoke about the breakthrough in international law last month with the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants being issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.


    Lawyer and law school academic Dr Myra Williamson speaking at the Auckland rally today.  Video: Asia Pacific Report

    “What you have to be aware of is that the ICC is being threatened — the individuals are being threatened and the court itself is being threatened, mainly by the United States,” she told the solidarity crowd in Te Komititanga Square.

    “Personal threats to the judges, to the prosecutor Karim Khan.

    “So you need to be vocal and you need to talk to people over the summer about how important that work is. Just to get the warrants issued was a major achievement and the next thing is to get them on trial in The Hague.”


    ICC Annual Meeting — court under threat.      Video: Al Jazeera

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  • Israel’s Genocide Day 433: US National Security Advisor Attends Ceasefire Talks

    Israeli forces continued their offensive inside Syria, which began following the collapse of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime last Sunday. Israeli troops breached the demilitarized buffer zone established in 1974 between Syrian-held and Israeli-occupied Syrian territory in the Golan, and occupied new positions in the Golan heights and on Mount Al-Sheikh.

    Israel’s new advances according to reports included the occupation of nine Syrian towns in the Golan, where Israeli forces forced inhabitants to leave their homes and move deeper into Syria. Israeli tanks continued to advance, reaching up to 18 kilometers inside Syria, approaching the Damascus-Beirut international highway, at no more than 23 kilometers from the Syrian capital.

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  • Israel Destroyed North Gaza Hospital’s Water Tanks With Remote-Controlled Robots

    Northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital underwent its worst night yet of Israeli attacks on Friday, the facility’s director has said, with Israeli forces destroying most of the hospital’s remaining water tanks and creating “catastrophic” conditions for the facility. In a statement on Friday, Hussam Abu Safiya, the hospital’s director, said that Israeli forces had detonated remote-controlled…

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  • [Francesca Albanese] Anatomy of a Genocide: Gaza

    Francesca Albanese of the UN says, “Gaza is now a wasteland of rubble, garbage and human remains.” And it may be worse than that. In the litany of crimes genocide is the most heinous. Omer Bartov, Brown University genocide scholar and former Israeli military officer in November 2023, a month after the October 7 attack on Israel said, “There is no proof that genocide is taking place in Gaza.” By May 2024 he said, “I no longer believe that. It was no longer possible to deny that Israel was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions.” He said Israel in Gaza was acting as the Genocide Convention puts it “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part inflicting conditions of life meant to bring about the group’s destruction.” Recorded at Georgetown University.


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  • US Votes Against UN Resolution Calling for Gaza Ceasefire and Hostage Release

    On Wednesday, the U.S. was one of just a handful of countries to vote against a resolution in the UN General Assembly this week calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, despite the Biden administration’s supposed renewed efforts to obtain a ceasefire before Donald Trump is in office. The resolution, which also called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages…

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  • UN Officer: Israel Bombs Are “Evaporating” Palestinians’ Bodies in Gaza

    Israel is dropping bombs on Gaza with such destructive power that the strikes are disintegrating Palestinians’ bodies, a UN officer has reported as Israeli forces are killing dozens each day with relentless bombardments in the region. UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) communications officer Louise Wateridge told BBC that doctors at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza have…

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  • UN: It Would Take 7 Years to Evacuate Dying Gaza Children at Current Rate

    Though there are thousands of children in Gaza currently in need of urgent medical care outside of the strip, Israel’s brutal blockade means that it would take over seven years to complete these evacuations at the current rate, the UN has reported. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) wrote on Wednesday that there are “thousands of families” being deprived of health…

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  • White House Welcomes Gallant Despite ICC Warrant for Crimes Against Humanity

    Wanted alleged war criminal Yoav Gallant, the former defense minister for Israel, has reportedly visited the White House for a meeting with a key Biden official — just weeks after the International Criminal Court (ICC) put out a warrant for his arrest over crimes against humanity. Gallant posted on social media that he met with President Joe Biden’s Middle East envoy, Brett McGurk…

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  • Doctors in Gaza Say They Have No Doubt Israel Is Targeting Them

    Medical workers in Gaza’s remaining hospitals and field clinics are pleading with the international community for desperately needed assistance and an arms embargo against the Israeli occupation, as they continue to work under indescribable conditions — including being deliberately targeted by Israel’s occupying forces. In a conference call with reporters on Monday…

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  • Israel Kills at Least 25 in Same Family in North Gaza Massacre

    Israeli forces have reportedly killed dozens of members of the same family in a strike in northern Gaza, as the last main hospital in the region is rapidly being destroyed by Israeli strikes and raids. Gaza medics have said that at least 25 people were killed by an Israeli attack on a multi-story building in Beit Hanoun, with dozens of others injured in the strike. According to Euro-Med Human…

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  • Uyghurs renew demands for justice on Genocide Recognition Day

    Three years ago, an independent tribunal in London determined that China had committed crimes amounting to genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its far-western Xinjiang region.

    Though the tribunal’s Dec. 9, 2021, ruling was non-binding, it served as a clarion call to hold the Chinese government accountable for rights violations in Xinjiang, which Beijing has repeatedly denied.

    Since then, global recognition of the Uyghurs’ suffering has grown, though little progress has been made in actually bringing China to justice.

    “Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day is a reminder of what is at stake — Uyghurs continue to face cultural erasure,” Omer Kanat, executive director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, or UHRP, said in a statement. “Words of recognition must be backed by concrete, enforceable policies to end complicity in these atrocities.”

    The Chinese government’s repression includes mass arbitrary detentions, forced labor, family separations, religious persecution and the erasure of Uyghur identity and culture, the group said.

    A guard stands in a watchtower at Kashgar Prison in Kashgar, a city in northwestern China's Xinjiang, Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, May 3, 2021.
    A guard stands in a watchtower at Kashgar Prison in Kashgar, a city in northwestern China’s Xinjiang, Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, May 3, 2021.

    It urged governments to enforce import bans on goods produced with Uyghur forced labor, tighten sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses and take steps to end the genocide. It also appealed to companies to end business relationships with entities linked to forced labor.

    ‘Silence is complicit’

    In Geneva, Switzerland, members of the World Uyghur Congress, or WUC, rallied in front of U.N. headquarters on Monday, demanding that the body hold China accountable, while calling on Beijing to stop the atrocities.

    WUC’s Youth Committee called for action on Dec. 9 to remind the international community to break its silence and take action now against the Uyghur genocide, saying that “silence is complicit” in a social media campaign.

    In January 2021, the U.S. government declared that the abuses in Xinjiang amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity — but many governments have not, although more than 10 Western parliaments have done so.

    “The duty of governments such as the United Kingdom government to decide whether genocide has happened has been avoided by the British government and by many other governments for a range of dishonest reasons,” Geoffrey Nice, prominent U.K. attorney and chair of the Uyghur Tribunal, told Radio Free Asia.

    “Therefore, they have not reacted to the genocide by accepting that it happened and doing something, and that’s a major shortcoming,” he said.

    Genocide Convention

    Monday also marked the 76th anniversary of the adoption of the U.N. Genocide Convention, and the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.

    Uyghur Muslims pray at a mosque in Aksu, a city in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Aug. 3, 2012.
    Uyghur Muslims pray at a mosque in Aksu, a city in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Aug. 3, 2012.

    China has ratified the U.N. Genocide Convention, so that it is legally bound by the document’s provisions, though there have been concerns about the country’s compliance with the convention, especially regarding the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

    “Today is a stark reminder of the ongoing human rights abuses endured by the Uyghur people and our failed promises under the Genocide Convention,” Rushan Abbas, executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, said in a statement.

    “The independent tribunal confirmed the CCP’s genocide and underscored the urgency to act,” she said, referring to the Chinese Communist Party. “Such determination and awareness require actions to drive meaningful change. Failing to do so undermines the Convention and our commitment to ‘Never Again.’”

    “The international community must move beyond rhetoric and take concrete steps to end China’s ongoing Uyghur genocide,” Abbas said.

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    UN Human Rights Council

    This fall, Michèle Taylor, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council, presented a joint statement calling on China to work with the Office of the High Commissioner to implement the recommendations from a 2022 report documenting serious human rights concerns in Xinjiang. The report concluded that Beijing’s actions “may amount to crimes against humanity.”

    “Two years on, the PRC still refuses to acknowledge the findings of the report and continues to deny the truth about China, and the United States has not forgotten,” Taylor said, referring to the People’s Republic of China. “We will not forget the desperate human rights situation faced by Uyghur Muslims.”

    Taylor made the comments during a Monday screening in Geneva of the documentary “In Search of My Sister” about Abbas’s quest to free her sister, a medical doctor serving a 20-year jail sentence in Xinjiang likely in retaliation for Abbas’s advocacy with her rights group.

    “We have many tools at our disposal on the Human Rights Council, and it is imperative that we call out injustice wherever it may be,” Taylor said. “No country is above scrutiny.”

    Additional reporting by Jilil Kashgary. Edited by Malcolm Foster.


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  • West Papuan leader praises People’s Tribunal ruling as proof of ‘need for freedom’

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    A leader of a major West Papuan political movement has praised the recent judgment of the Permanent People’s Tribunal on the Melanesian region colonised by Indonesia for the past 63 years.

    “Indonesia knows they have lost the political, legal, and moral argument over West Papua,” said United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) interim president Benny Wenda.

    “Their only remaining tactics are brutality and secrecy — brutality to crush our struggle and secrecy to hide it from the world.”

    Saying he welcomed the release of the judgment of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) on West Papua, he added: “Our independence is not only urgent for West Papua, but for the entirety of Planet Earth.”

    After testimonies from West Papuans on the ground and from legal and academic experts, the tribunal found Indonesia guilty on all four counts:

    • Taking by various means the ancestral land of the Indigenous Papuan people against their will, employing racial discrimination which leads to the loss of culture, traditions and Indigenous knowledge, erases their history and subsumes them into the Indonesian national narrative;
    • Violent repression, including unlawful detention, extra-judicial killing, and population displacement in West Papua as a means of furthering industrial development;
    • Organised environmental degradation, including the destruction of eco-systems, contamination of land, the poisoning of rivers and their tributaries and of providing the permits, concessions and legal structure of non-compliance for national and foreign companies to invest in West Papua in a way that encourages environmental degradation; and
    • colluding with national and foreign companies to cause environmental degradation, population displacement and sustain violent repression in West Papua.

    “This judgment is a total vindication of everything the West Papuan liberation movement has been saying for decades. We are not safe with Indonesia,” said Wenda.

    “If we continue to be denied our right to self-determination, everything that makes West Papua unique will disappear.”

    Guilty of ‘ecocide’
    The PPT had found the Indonesian state guilty of ecocide, of “rapidly destroying our forest” and “poisoning our rivers” through mines, plantations, and huge agribusiness food estates.

    “But not only this: the judges also linked Indonesia’s ecocidal destruction to the systematic destruction of West Papua as a people,” said Wenda.

    “As they put it: ‘ecological degradation can’t be disaggregated from state and corporate projects which are tending toward the obliteration of a people, or what was called by more than one witness a ‘slow genocide’.”

    The PPT adds to the large body of evidence
    The PPT adds to the large body of evidence, including independent studies from Yale University and Sydney University, arguing that West Papuans are the victims of a genocide. Image: PPT screenshot APR

    The PPT found in West Papua everything that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights would also find — ecocide, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass displacement, said Wenda.

    “That is why Indonesia continues to deny the UN access to West Papua, despite more than 110 countries demanding their visit.”

    Wenda said thde ULMWP considered this judgment a “significant step forward in our quest for liberation”.

    ‘Nothing left to save’
    “The case for self-determination presented by the PPT is comprehensive and undeniable. We already know that our people want freedom — the West Papuan People’s Petition for self-determination was signed by 1.8 million Papuans, more than 70 percent of our population.

    “Now the PPT has shown how urgently we need it.,” Wenda said

    “Our independence is not only urgent for West Papua, but for the entirety of Planet Earth.

    Because Papuans are the stewards of the third largest rainforest in the world, the Indonesian occupation is one of the most severe threats to a habitable global climate.

    “If Indonesia continues to destroy our forest at its current rate, there will soon be nothing left to save.”

    Judges of the Permanent People's Tribunal deliberate over the West Papuan issue
    Judges of the Permanent People’s Tribunal deliberate over the West Papuan issue. Image: ULMWP

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  • Gaza Humanitarian Aid Operation “Nearing Collapse,” UN Warns

    UN groups have warned that food security is “collapsing” across famine-stricken Gaza, with the entire humanitarian aid operation at the brink due to Israel’s severe aid blockade and Israeli-protected gang looting preventing what little aid that enters from reaching starving Palestinians. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has reported that Palestinians are “in a…

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  • Amnesty report: Israel’s war on Gaza is a genocide


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  • UN Palestine Expert: Israel Should Be Removed From UN Over UNRWA Attacks

    The UN’s top independent expert on Palestinian human rights has repeated a call for Israel to be removed from its membership in the United Nations, citing its “relentless attacks” against the institution’s top aid group for Palestinian refugees. On Thursday, UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese said on social media that Israel should be unseated…

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  • Israel Brutally Raids North Gaza Hospital, Evacuating All Patients and Staff

    Israeli forces have carried out another brutal raid of one of the only partially functioning hospitals left in north Gaza, forcing out all patients and staff in the besieged facility and killing at least four staff in an attack on Friday. Israeli forces encircled the hospital early Friday morning while carrying out horrific attacks near the hospital, witnesses said. Ahead of the raid…

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  • Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with Full U.S. Support


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  • Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with Full U.S. Support

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    Amnesty International has released a landmark report that concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, making it the first major human rights group to do so. The nearly 300-page report examines the first nine months of the Israeli war on Gaza and finds that Israel’s actions have caused death, injury and mental harm on a vast scale, as well as conditions intended to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza. Both Israel and the United States have rejected Amnesty’s conclusion. Amnesty researcher Budour Hassan, who covers Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, dismisses the criticism and says, if anything, Amnesty’s intervention took too long because of how carefully the group gathered and verified its information. “We tried to be absolutely true to the definition of 'genocide' under the Genocide Convention,” says Hassan, who urges U.S. officials in particular to do more to stop the bloodshed. “If there is any country that has the capacity, the power and the tools to stop this genocide, it’s the United States. Not only has the United States failed to do so, it has consistently awarded Israel. It has consistently continued to flout the United States’ own laws in order to continue giving Israel the weapons — the very same weapons that are used by Israel to commit the genocide in Gaza.”


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  • Tlaib: Congress “Can No Longer Deny” Israeli Genocide After Amnesty Report

    Advocates for Palestinian rights have reignited their calls for the U.S. to stop sending arms to Israel following a landmark Amnesty International investigation concluding that Israel is committing genocide, as many Palestinians and experts have been saying for months. “My colleagues can no longer deny that this is genocide,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan). “We must follow our own U.S.

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  • Israel Once Again Bombs Gaza “Humanitarian Zone,” Killing at Least 23

    The Israeli military bombed the supposed “humanitarian safe zone” in southern Gaza on Wednesday, killing dozens in the blast and subsequent huge blaze. The strike on al-Mawasi killed at least 23 Palestinians, including at least four children and a pregnant woman. Israel targeted a densely populated tent camp housing forcibly displaced people, and the fire that broke out as a result of the…

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  • Amnesty International Concludes That Israel Is Committing Genocide In Gaza


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  • Amnesty International Concludes That Israel Is Committing Genocide In Gaza


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  • Amnesty International Concludes That Israel Is Committing Genocide In Gaza


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  • Nelson City Council joins NZ local bodies voting to sanction Israel

    Asia Pacific Report

    New Zealand’s Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has congratulated the Nelson City Council on its vote today to boycott companies which trade with illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories.

    The city council (pop. 58,000) — New Zealand’s 15th-largest city — became the latest local body to change its procurement policy to exclude companies identified by the UN Human Rights Council as being complicit in the building and maintenance of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.

    “Nelson City Council is taking action while our national government is looking the other way”, PSNA chair John Minto said in a statement.

    “It is [Prime Minister] Christopher Luxon who should be ending all New Zealand dealings with companies involved in the illegal Israeli settlements.

    “Instead, our government is cowardly complicit with Israeli war crimes.”

    It is a war crime to move citizens onto land illegally occupied as Israel is doing.

    Nelson City Council joins Environment Canterbury and the Christchurch City Council — New Zealand’s second largest city — which both adopted this policy earlier this year.  Other local bodies are believed to be following.

    “We also congratulate local Palestine solidarity activists in Nelson who have organised and battled so well for this historic win today. They are the heroes behind this decision,”minto said.

    Minto said following the move by Nelson city representatives, “we are renewing our call for the government to act”.

    He again called for the government to:

    • Ban all imports from the illegal Israeli settlements;
    • Direct the Superfund, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and Kiwisaver providers to end their investments in all Israeli companies and other companies supporting the illegal Israeli settlements; and
    • Direct New Zealand government agencies to end procurement of goods or services from all Israeli companies and other companies supporting the illegal Israeli settlements.


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  • Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis


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  • Former Israeli Defense Minister Recognizes Ethnic Cleansing Is Underway in Gaza

    Joining a growing chorus of liberal-leaning Israelis, a former Israeli defense minister has accused the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of war crimes and carrying out ethnic cleansing in besieged northern Gaza as Israeli forces block humanitarian aid and dig in for a long-term occupation. Moshe Ya’alon, a member of Israel’s center right Telem party who served for three decades…

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