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Strange that the tick boxers (aka the Independent thinkers) who have so much to say for themselves about Ukraine, have stayed so quiet about the Gaza situation. The last post I could find from one of them was four months ago in which Trump was credited with the first ceasefire to Biden’s exclusion.
I think Netanyahu and his circle are impervious to outside criticism now. Along with the statement yesterday from Britain, France and Canada. There's also some pretty strong criticism from within Israel from the likes of olmert, barak and Yair Golan amongst others. Bibi has lost the plot and appears to be being led by the real scumbags on the extreme far right, he needs to go.
In other news, Looks like the Lebanese are trying to disarm the Palestinian terror groups in the camps in Beirut. Can't see that going well!
Starmer and Lammy sound genuinely angry at Israel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgnn6ed32eo
The question is - why has it taken so long? The atrocities have been going on for 18 months or more.
I've been wondering the same.Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ealth-minister
Twenty-nine children and elderly people have died from starvation in Gaza in the last two days, the Palestinian Authority health minister has said , as Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people since dawn amid a renewed military offensive across the territory.
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org...cles-for-you_1
We conclude that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including mass killing, arbitrary detention and torture, meets the legal threshold for the term
by Sandra L Babcock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro, The Guardian
We are university professors and human rights advocates who teach and write about Palestine and Israel. We have collectively taught thousands of classes on human rights law, international law and government repression. We have defended death row prisoners in Malawi, documented forced labor in Brazil, helped women seeking gender equality in Burma, chronicled the struggle of the Sahrawi people for self-determination in Western Sahara, and advocated on behalf of families of disappeared immigrants in the United States. As human rights defenders, our job is to expose government abuses of power where we find them. And that includes Israel.
It has never been easy for scholars in the United States to publicly criticize Israel. Now, anyone who does so risks professional suicide. The Trump administration deliberately conflates criticism of the government of Israel with antisemitism and has pressured universities to discipline students and fire faculty who express concern over the slaughter of Palestinians. This has chilled speech on our campuses and is a direct assault on academic freedom. It is also an attempt to stamp out all opposition to US foreign policy with respect to Israel.
Israel has now killed more than 52,000 Palestinians in its attack on Gaza, an estimated 15,000 of whom are children. In 2024, we co-authored a report concluding that Israel’s actions met the international definition of genocide. On Thursday, we issued a second report finding that Israel has also engaged in acts of apartheid against the Palestinian population.
While most people associate apartheid with South Africa, the definition of apartheid – considered a crime against humanity – encompasses inhuman acts of racial subjugation and systematic oppression anywhere in the world. We concluded that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, which includes mass killing, arbitrary detention, torture, and the imposition of a legal regime that provides far less due process than that provided to Israelis living in the same territory, meets the legal threshold of apartheid as defined by the 1973 United Nations International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.
We are not the first to reach this conclusion. Last year, the international court of justice determined that Israel is violating the international prohibition on racial segregation and apartheid, while Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Israel’s leading human rights organization, B’Tselem, have each independently found Israel’s laws and policies meet the legal definition of apartheid. Our report details the findings of these groups as well as the dozens of others that indicate there is global consensus that Israel is responsible for this crime against humanity. Additionally, we highlight the obligations of the international community, the Trump administration, and universities, including the ones where we are based, not to bolster Israel’s illegal actions.
A particularly offensive comment from Netanyahu towards European leaders following the shooting of two young Jewish Americans in Washington
Has he no shame at all ?
The next day he will be bombing the crap out of Gaza !
What an asshole
15000 kids killed in Gaza
A Lone, deranged assassin kills two Jewish Americans in Washington and Netanyahu is all over it like a rash
Terrible incident but is he really the leader of Israel ?
He's insane
The media coverage of the deaths, mutilations, tortures and abuses, tells the story…..
The agony and death of a Palestinian is worth a fraction of that of a Jewish Israeli.
Both deserve the attention and grief, but only one gets it.
http://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org....TFhIixmYWxzZV0
'Israel’s Revenge Against Palestinian Prisoners'
Thousands have been left with injuries including broken bones and 68 have died since October 7th 2023, the majority almost certainly from the beatings, withdrawal of medical treatment, atrocious conditions and starvation as well as other forms of torture that have been deployed.
We must never forget that several thousands have been incarcerated under “administrative detention” which means there have been no charges and no due process. These are hostages too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eq9lq7xr1o
An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children, the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says.
Nasser hospital said one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar's children and her husband were injured, but survived. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital, said he had operated on her surviving 11-year-old boy.
A video shared by the director of the Hamas-run health ministry and verified by the BBC showed small burned bodies being lifted from the rubble of a strike in Khan Younis on Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-pa...26ffada159701c
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The only times the Palestinian man wasn’t bound or blindfolded, he said, was when he was used by Israeli soldiers as their human shield.
Dressed in army fatigues with a camera fixed to his forehead, Ayman Abu Hamadan was forced into houses in the Gaza Strip to make sure they were clear of bombs and gunmen, he said. When one unit finished with him, he was passed to the next.
“They beat me and told me: ‘You have no other option; do this or we’ll kill you,’” the 36-year-old told The Associated Press, describing the 2 1/2 weeks he was held last summer by the Israeli military in northern Gaza.
Orders often came from the top, and at times nearly every platoon used a Palestinian to clear locations, said an Israeli officer, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
Several Palestinians and soldiers told the AP that Israeli troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for explosives or militants. The dangerous practice has become ubiquitous during 19 months of war, they said.
The AP spoke with seven Palestinians who described being used as shields in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and with two members of Israel’s military who said they engaged in the practice, which is prohibited by international law. Rights groups are ringing the alarm, saying it’s become standard procedure increasingly used in the war.
“These are not isolated accounts; they point to a systemic failure and a horrifying moral collapse,” said Nadav Weiman, executive director of Breaking the Silence — a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers that has collected testimonies about the practice from within the military. “Israel rightly condemns Hamas for using civilians as human shields, but our own soldiers describe doing the very same.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eq9lq7xr1o
It's genocide.
Simple as.
Anyone defending these cuunts needs to have a word with themselves.
I hope Netanyahu when dies in pain.
He's moderate compared to some of his party ��
https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?e...&id=52a653bb38
Capt. Ron Feiner (res.) started his 20-day prison sentence after refusing to serve in the IDF's offensive in Gaza. Feiner, 26, an infantry platoon commander who has completed 270 days of reserve duty since October 7, 2023, said that he is "appalled by the unending war in Gaza, the abandonment of the hostages and the non-stop death of innocents. I cannot ethically continue to serve unless there is a change. Prison will not silence nor deter me or my brothers-in-arms."
From the Jewish Voice for Labour:
Dehumanisation and the morality of starving children to death.
While increasing numbers of Israelis are beginning to protest against the slaughter in Gaza, they remain nevertheless a minority. The large majority continue either to turn their eyes away from the images of horror that are so distressing the rest of the world, or applaud them in an utterly unashamed abdication of any remnants of their own humanity.
Here are two recent articles from Ha’aretz, published in the past three weeks. The stories recounted illustrate in a particularly stark, indeed shocking, way the abyss of inhumanity and also self-delusion into which Israel is sinking ever more deeply, and they reveal clearly what we are really confronting, or abetting – for those of us (our Government for a start) who continue so egregiously to abet.
We owe it to those already murdered, and to the hundreds of thousands today facing the annihilation so blatantly promised them, to be fully aware of the lethal narrative of their dehumanisation as exemplified so chillingly in these two reports.
(The second piece follows the first)
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org...cles-for-you_1
Israel’s Knesset held a first-of-its-kind discussion on the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. During a meeting last Thursday (May 8th Ed), Dr. Sharon Shaul from NATAN, an Israeli-based organization that provides humanitarian aid around the world, made a seemingly trivial remark: “I think that even everyone sitting around this table doesn’t want a suffering child to be unable to receive painkillers or minimal medical treatment.”
Israeli lawmaker Amit Halevi (Likud) angrily interrupted her: “I’m not sure you’re speaking for us when you say we want to treat every child and every woman. I hope you don’t stand behind that statement either. When fighting a group like this, the distinctions that exist in a normal world don’t exist.”
Shaul didn’t back down: “I hope that you too don’t want a 4-year-old whose arm has been amputated to go without painkillers. I hope you have that empathy too.” Lawmaker Limor Son Har-Melech (Religious Zionism) couldn’t hold back: “The only treatment needed here is for you,” she said, pointing at Shaul. Another participant remarked: “You are the sickest doctor I’ve ever seen.”
It begs the question why so many IDF soldiers are happy to continue doing what they’re being asked to.
One of the best commentators in the UK print media, in my opinion. Gets it right again on western politicians and Gaza:
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-uk-eu-changed
The marked change in tone this past week from leaders in the UK and EU is a clear break from the pabulum of “concerns” and reiterations of Israel’s right to defend itself. Now the rhetoric is that Israel’s actions are “morally unjustifiable” and “wholly disproportionate”, and the threats of its leaders “abhorrent”. Some of this is future-proofing. The war has amounted to genocide and ethnic cleansing in ways that are increasingly undeniable, indefensible and unspinnable. Some had a good go at it for a year and a half, but now cannot stand at a lectern or sit at a dinner table and argue that, yes, actually, there is an argument for killing 100 people a day, as was the case last week. Or that Israel has any plan other than what its leaders have consistently declared to be one of displacement and settlement. Long gone is the argument that this is simply about wiping out Hamas. Israel, as one British media ally lamented, has hung its friends out to dry.
But there is a disconnect between condemnation and outrage, and what happens on the ground. When it comes to Israel, the levers of international censure are broken. Throughout the war, international organisations, humanitarian missions and courts of justice have been rendered powerless by their inability to translate their findings into action. Words alone mean nothing. They simply bounce off Israel’s iron dome of impunity. Every day, the world wakes up and is confronted with an Israeli leadership that violates every law of morality and logic. Victims are aggressors, humanitarians are biased, an army that kills unarmed medics is the most moral army in the world. Up is down.
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If this new attitude taken by western leaders is designed to fend off a reckoning, then it’s too little, too late: the record has already been taken....
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And even then, all this would only be a start, and a colossally, tragically late one at that. One can break down why none of these things have yet happened: the hopes that keeping Israel on side preserves some modicum of leverage; concerns that strong measures will embolden Iran; loyalty to the notion of historic debt; fears of the uncertain world that a break with Israel would usher in. But that world is already here, and cowardice has only accelerated its arrival, rather than prevented its emergence.
Palestinians, from Gaza to the West Bank, are paying the highest price for inaction, but an acute wound has been inflicted on the rest of the world. If nothing happens, its moral and political morbidity will encompass all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...3e4_story.html
JERUSALEM — Chanting “Death to Arabs” and singing “May your village burn,” groups of young Israeli Jews made their way through Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday ahead of an annual march marking Israel’s conquest of the eastern part of the city.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...sraeli-strikes
Eleven-year-old Yaqeen Hammad, Gaza’s youngest influencer, is among the dozens of children killed by Israel in recent strikes, as its forces intensify their military offensive across the Palestinian territory.
Known for her bright smile and volunteering efforts, Yaqeen was killed on Friday night after Israeli forces shelled the al-Baraka area of Deir al-Balah in northern Gaza, amid intense fighting in the region.
Yaqeen and her older brother, Mohamed Hammad, delivered food, toys and clothing to displaced families, Al Jazeera has reported.
She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas.
In one social media post, Yaqeen wrote: “I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war.”
She played an active role in the Ouena collective, a Gaza-based non-profit organisation dedicated to humanitarian relief.
She often accompanied her older brother, Mohamed, a humanitarian worker, and together they distributed aid – food, toys and clothing. They often visited camps and makeshift shelters for displaced families. In each place they went, she tried to spread cheer and comfort to the children.
https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/157796
LONDON, May 27, 2025 (WAFA) – The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said.
In a letter to the prime minister, they welcomed Keir Starmer’s joint statement last week with the leaders of France and Canada warning that they were prepared to take “concrete actions” against Israel. But they urged him to act without delay as “urgent and decisive action is required to avert the destruction of the Palestinian people of Gaza”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...an-800-lawyers
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