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I wrote this analysis for the @ArabCenter_en arguing that accountability for the #Beirut Port explosion "will be a harbinger of accountability measures against other crimes committed in #Lebanon since the end of the civil war in 1990."
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Today, @amnesty visited 2 mass graves on the outskirts of Damascus, where it seems the Assad government dumped the bodies of detainees from various detention facilities & prisons, incl Saydnaya. Those detainees had either been executed or died from torture/conditions of detention
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Amnesty International’s new landmark report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed – and still are committing - genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Full report, out now.
#EndGazaGenocide amn.st/6014Q6K9g
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An excerpt from my SOAS lecture: "We cannot allow, in a way that is akin to a Clockwork Orange, that the live-streamed genocide and its associated apathy desensitise us to the violence, normalise the oppression, dissociate us from its moral failure, or to legitimise the illegitimate. We cannot allow it to clockwork us into a conditioned acceptance of the unthinkable."
The SOAS Lecture by @FranceskAlbs is now available on Youtube:
Imperialism, Colonialism and Human Rights: The Litmus Test of Palestine
youtube.com/watch?v=v9_mzAzW…
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Personally I find this refreshing. Huckabee's words have been US policy for decades, and we might as well have clarity about where Washington actually stands. Let those who continue to insist the US piss process is "the only game in town" deal with the consequences.
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Two giants of our time and two formidable voices against Israeli genocide and western complicity, earlier today at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @LSHTM: @GhassanAbuSitt1 and @FranceskAlbs
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I don't know what's worse:
1. That she just realized schools are getting bombed.
2. That she blames Arab voters in Michigan.
3. That 15,000 people liked her post.
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Gone is a genocidal president too hypocritical to admit it. And in comes a genocidal president who wears it as a badge of honor.
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ELECTION ALERT: Still Too Early To Know Which Minority To Scapegoat
ONN political analyst Jason Copeland breaks down why it's still too early to say exactly which racial and ethnic minority groups will be to blame for each political party's shortcomings this election.
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There will be zero introspection. Liberal narcissism dictates that it must always be someone else's fault. They will scapegoat minorities who failed to fall in line, blame Russia, blame misogyny, blame "irrational" voters who choose candidates based on "emotion" – anything to avoid looking at their own record of failure. They are congenitally incapable of self-criticism.
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Was not expecting this from Mearshimer - not necessarily surprised but wasn’t expecting him to be so candid about it. He’s got more integrity and commitment to principle, against genocide, than so many even in my own community who are “struggling” with their vote.
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As a scholar of international law, I endorse @howserob assessment: Israel is “killing for the hell of it, slaughtering children for a lark [demonstrating] an extreme moral baseness not fully captured even by the legal language of genocide.”
While as a scholar of international law I have to conclude on the available evidence that Israel’s conduct in Gaza is, as a legal matter, genocide, as a matter of morality, the perverted gratuitous murder & destruction by the IDF, killing for the hell of it, slaughtering children for a lark, has an extreme moral baseness not fully captured even by the legal language of genocide.
