This Tuesday, a group of EU countries could finally recognize Palestine. But we don’t know which and exactly how many. Let’s seize this momentum to ensure our governments know that voters want peace, a voice and a future for Palestinians!
It’s hard not to feel despair when we watch the ongoing suffering in Gaza on our screens. But despair is turning into action. Across Europe, student protests have ignited powerful movements demanding an end to violence against Palestinians. [1]
Pressure from the streets is inspiring action in the corridors of power. This Tuesday marks a crucial turning point. Spain and Ireland have announced they will start the procedure to recognise Palestine, and other EU countries will likely join. [2]
But, we don’t know which other countries will take part. With eight EU countries already on board, the addition of just four more could tip the balance in favour of the EU as a whole recognising Palestine.
The Belgian, Norwegian and Danish governments have been rumoured to be among the countries which will support recognising Palestine. [3] You, Alessio, can help make this a reality.
For months, hundreds of thousands of desperate Gazans have fled to Rafah to seek safety. With Israeli forces now poised to attack the refugee camp, it feels like it’s now or never for drastic action for peace. [4]
Last week, governments took a step forward by giving Palestine additional rights within UN decision-making. [5] But this is not enough.
To end the horrors in Gaza, the Westbank, and Israel,everyone needs a place to belong and an equal voice. But Palestinians are not recognised as a people. And so they are denied a voice in conversations about how to end the violence today or rebuild their homes tomorrow. [6]
At moments like this, rising up together can change the tide of history. We can amplify the voices on the streets by making sure our messages flood our leader’s digital devices too. Together, let’s push the final dominos over in Europe to be a force for peace.
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PER LA PALESTINA: MANDA UNA MAIL AI TUOI LEADER EUROPEI
Questo martedì un gruppo di paesi dell’UE potrebbe finalmente riconoscere la Palestina. Ma non sappiamo quali e quanti esattamente. Cogliamo questo slancio per garantire che i nostri governi sappiano che gli elettori vogliono la pace, una voce e un futuro per i palestinesi!
È difficile non provare disperazione quando guardiamo sui nostri schermi la sofferenza in corso a Gaza. Ma la disperazione si sta trasformando in azione. In tutta Europa, le proteste studentesche hanno innescato potenti movimenti che chiedono la fine della violenza contro i palestinesi. [1]
La pressione delle strade sta stimolando l’azione nei corridoi del potere. Questo martedì segna una svolta decisiva. Spagna e Irlanda hanno annunciato che avvieranno la procedura per riconoscere la Palestina, e probabilmente altri paesi dell’UE aderiranno. [2]
Ma non sappiamo quali altri paesi parteciperanno. Con otto paesi UE già a bordo, l’aggiunta di soli altri quattro potrebbe far pendere la bilancia a favore del riconoscimento della Palestina da parte dell’UE nel suo insieme.
Si dice che i governi belga, norvegese e danese siano tra i paesi che sosterranno il riconoscimento della Palestina. [3] Tu, Alessio, puoi contribuire a rendere questo una realtà.
Dite ai leader europei di riconoscere la Palestina questo martedì!
Per mesi, centinaia di migliaia di abitanti di Gaza disperati sono fuggiti a Rafah in cerca di sicurezza. Con le forze israeliane ora pronte ad attaccare il campo profughi, sembra che sia ora o mai più il momento di adottare un’azione drastica per la pace. [4]
La settimana scorsa, i governi hanno fatto un passo avanti concedendo alla Palestina ulteriori diritti all’interno del processo decisionale delle Nazioni Unite. [5] Ma questo non basta.
Per porre fine agli orrori a Gaza, in Cisgiordania e in Israele, tutti hanno bisogno di un luogo a cui appartenere e di una voce paritaria. Ma i palestinesi non sono riconosciuti come popolo. E così viene loro negata la possibilità di avere voce nelle conversazioni su come porre fine alla violenza oggi o ricostruire le loro case domani. [6]
In momenti come questo, sollevarsi insieme può cambiare il corso della storia. Possiamo amplificare le voci nelle strade assicurandoci che i nostri messaggi inondano anche i dispositivi digitali dei nostri leader. Insieme, sposteremo le ultime tessere del domino in Europa per essere una forza di pace.
Chiederò che Norvegia, Belgio e Danimarca diventino una forza positiva
Proprio come gli studenti hanno promosso progressi nell’azione per il clima con il movimento Fridays for Future, noi abbiamo il potere di promuovere il cambiamento per la pace. [7]
Sappiamo che la prossima settimana sarà storica per il ruolo dell’Europa nel favorire la pace. Chiediamo ai nostri governi in Europa di riconoscere il diritto dei palestinesi ad appartenere ad un proprio Stato!
Nella speranza,
Rachel (Amsterdam), Olga (Varsavia), Giulio (Roma) e l’intero team di WeMove Europe
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#GazaStrip, that it's going forward from seven months. Now it's a question of defending #Palestinian children and women lives, of freedom for an entire population, it's a question of humanity that you must be protected through the #InternationalHumanRightsPaper. I want to ask you
Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università degli Studi di L’Aquila, membro della Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo e membro del movimento ambientalista Ultima Generazione A22 Network per contrastare il Riscaldamento Globale indotto artificialmente dalla Geoingegneria Solare SRM
Dopo le gigantesche proteste studentesche in oltre trenta atenei statunitensi e la conseguente repressione delle autorità, la Sonoma State University (Ssu) in California, una scuola di arti liberali parte della California State University Network nonché il più grande sistema universitario pubblico degli Stati Uniti, rompe un tabù e si schiera con gli attivisti pro Palestina. Si tratta della prima istituzione accademica americana che ha annunciato il boicottaggio accademico di Israele, come parte di un accordo raggiunto con gli studenti per sgomberare la tendopoli di protesta filo-palestinese nel campus.
PALESTINA, LA SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY IN CALIFORNIA SI SCHIERA CON GLI STUDENTI
A darne notizia è la radio locale Ksro, ripresa dal quotidiano israeliano Haaretz e da altri media. Stando a quanto raccontato da giornali e radio, il presidente della Sonoma State University, Mike Lee, ha accettato diverse richieste dei manifestanti pro-palestinesi. In particolare ha pubblicato una lettera in cui chiede un cessate il fuoco nella Striscia di Gaza, condannando tutti gli atti di genocidio e pulizia etnica, insieme al razzismo e all’antisemitismo.
Inoltre l’ateneo ha fatto sapere che riesaminerà tutti i suoi investimenti, assicurando che non parteciperà ad alcun programma di studio all’estero con Israele. Poi, al fine di sensibilizzare l’opinione pubblica, il presidente dell’ateneo ha annunciato anche che comincerà a insegnare “studi palestinesi” a partire dal prossimo autunno. L’università si è impegnata a creare una strategia di investimento che “includa alternative etiche” agli investimenti in Israele e creerà un Consiglio consultivo degli studenti per la giustizia in Palestina per sovrintendere a tutti gli accordi raggiunti.
Autore: Franco Pigna, La Notizia Giornale
English translate
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY IN CALIFORNIA BREAKS A TABOO AND SIDES WITH STUDENTS TO ASK NETANYAHU TO STOP THE WAR IN GAZA
Palestine, Sonoma State University in California sides with students to ask Netanyahu to stop the war in Gaza
After gigantic student protests in over thirty US universities and the subsequent repression by the authorities, Sonoma State University (SSU) in California, a liberal arts school part of the California State University Network and the largest public university system in the United States, breaks a taboo and sides with pro-Palestine activists. It is the first American academic institution to announce an academic boycott of Israel, as part of an agreement reached with students to evacuate the pro-Palestinian protest tent city on campus.
PALESTINE, SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY IN CALIFORNIA SIDES WITH THE STUDENTS
The news was reported by the local radio station Ksro, reported by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and other media. Sonoma State University President Mike Lee has agreed to several demands from pro-Palestinian protesters, according to newspaper and radio reports. In particular, he published a letter calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, condemning all acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing, along with racism and anti-Semitism.
Furthermore, the university has made it known that it will review all its investments, ensuring that it will not participate in any study abroad program with Israel. Then, in order to raise public awareness, the president of the university also announced that he will begin teaching “Palestinian studies” starting next autumn. The university has pledged to create an investment strategy that “includes ethical alternatives” to investing in Israel and will create a Student Advisory Council for Justice in Palestine to oversee any agreements reached.
Sonoma State University, a public school in northern California, has said that it will not enter partnerships with Israeli universities, heeding a call from pro-Palestine student groups pushing to boycott Israeli companies and institutions amid the war in Gaza.
The decision, announced on Tuesday, comes after a recent wave of campus protests spread across the United States, with encampments and demonstrations cropping up at schools like Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
As part of their demands, student activists aimed to sever school ties with academic bodies and companies perceived as complicit in Israel’s war and decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territory.
In an email to students on Tuesday, Sonoma State’s president, Mike Lee, said the school had reached an agreement with the protesters, who set up an on-campus encampment three weeks ago.
Sonoma State would do more to disclose its contracts and seek “divestment strategies”, Lee wrote. It would also not pursue partnerships that are “sponsored by, or represent, the Israeli state academic and research institutions”.
In exchange for the concessions, student activists agreed to dismantle the cluster of tents on campus by Wednesday evening.
Many universities have responded to the demands of antiwar activists with police crackdowns on encampments. But those efforts have done little to dim calls for divestment, and campus activists have likened their efforts to historic student protests against the Vietnam War and apartheid South Africa.
Several pro-Palestine university encampments have disbanded after negotiations over divestment demands with administrators.
In late April, for instance, protesters took down their tents at Brown University in Rhode Island, after the Ivy League school’s board of governors agreed to consider divestment in a vote this October.
However, calls for divestment can be controversial in the US, where Israel enjoys strong political backing.
Israel receives $3.8bn in military aid from the US every year, and US lawmakers have, with the encouragement of pro-Israel groups, moved to penalise and even criminalise calls to boycott Israel.
In Texas, for instance, Republican Governor Greg Abbott responded to students’ divestment demands directly, saying earlier this month, “This will NEVER happen.” Under his leadership, the state passed a law that prohibits government entities from contracting with firms that boycott Israel.
Backlash to Sonoma State decision
Jewish groups and a handful of state politicians have likewise condemned Sonoma State’s decision, saying that it represents an attack on Israel and the Jewish community.
Some tied the university’s decision to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), which seeks to pressure Israel into protecting Palestinian rights through nonviolent means. It also aims to draw attention to companies seen as complicit in rights abuses in the Palestinian territory.
BDS’s critics, however, consider the movement anti-Semitic for its targeting of Israeli companies and groups.
“Yesterday the President of Sonoma State University aligned the campus with BDS, a movement whose goal is the destruction of Israel, home to 7M Jews,” California state Senator Scott Wiener said in a social media post on Wednesday.
In another post, the Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area said the decision by Sonoma State was in “clear violation” of California’s 2016 anti-BDS law. It called on the chancellor of the California State University system — of which Sonoma State is a member — to “rectify” the situation.
However, free speech advocacy groups say that anti-BDS laws suppress criticism of Israel and conflate scrutiny over Israel’s alleged human rights abuses with anti-Semitism.
Protecting students and free speech
The campus protests like the one at Sonoma State have fuelled debate over the distinction between criticism of Israel and anti-Jewish hate.
It also has raised concerns about how to protect free speech rights on campus, while addressing the discomfort some students have expressed towards the protests.
Student protesters have sought to shine a light on the plight facing Palestinian civilians, particularly since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza on October 7.
More than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military offensive in the intervening months, with approximately 1.5 million people internally displaced.
The war has also pushed parts of the Palestinian territory into a state of “full-blown famine“. United Nations experts have warned of a “risk of genocide” in the enclave.
But even before the start of the current war, rights groups like Amnesty International have concluded that Israel’s actions in the occupied Palestinian territory constitute the crime of apartheid.
Still, while the vast majority of pro-Palestine campus protests have been peaceful, fears of anti-Semitism at universities have been running high.
Shortly after the war began in October, for instance, a report emerged that a 24-year-old Jewish student had been assaulted with a stick at the Columbia University campus in New York.
Columbia University’s president, Nemat Shafik, was called before a congressional committee last month to answer questions about the alleged instances of anti-Semitism on her campus, though several US representatives questioned the narrow focus of the hearing.
“Anti-Semitism is not the only form of hatred rising in our schools,” Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez, a Democrat, told the committee.
“Islamophobia and hate crimes against LGBTQ students have also recently spiked. They’ve led to deaths by suicide, harassment. But this committee has not held a single hearing on these issues.”
Indeed, advocates say pro-Palestine protesters have also been subject to a spike in harassment since the war began. At UCLA, for instance, counter-protesters attacked an antiwar encampment, and observers later reported that campus police waited to intervene.
The episode led critics to question which students were being protected — and why.
Source: Al Jazeera
Traduzione in italiano
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY IN CALIFORNIA BREAKS A TABOO AND SIDES WITH STUDENTS TO ASK NETANYAHU TO STOP THE WAR IN GAZA
Palestine, Sonoma State University in California sides with students to ask Netanyahu to stop the war in Gaza
Una donna dipinge su una barriera durante una protesta organizzata presso l’Università del Texas a Dallas il 1 maggio [LM Otero/AP Photo]
16 maggio 2024
La Sonoma State University, una scuola pubblica nel nord della California, ha affermato che non avvierà partnership con le università israeliane, rispondendo all’appello di gruppi studenteschi filo-palestinesi che spingono a boicottare le aziende e le istituzioni israeliane durante la guerra a Gaza.
La decisione, annunciata martedì, arriva dopo una recente ondata di proteste nei campus universitari diffusa in tutti gli Stati Uniti, con accampamenti e manifestazioni in scuole come la Columbia University e l’Università della California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Nell’ambito delle loro richieste, gli attivisti studenteschi miravano a recidere i legami tra la scuola e gli enti accademici e le aziende percepite come complici della guerra israeliana e dell’occupazione decennale del territorio palestinese.
Martedì, in una e-mail agli studenti, il presidente dello stato di Sonoma, Mike Lee, ha affermato che la scuola ha raggiunto un accordo con i manifestanti, che tre settimane fa hanno allestito un accampamento nel campus.
Lo Stato di Sonoma farebbe di più per rendere pubblici i suoi contratti e cercare “strategie di disinvestimento”, ha scritto Lee. Inoltre, non perseguirà partenariati che siano “sponsorizzati da, o rappresentino, le istituzioni accademiche e di ricerca statali israeliane”.
In cambio delle concessioni, gli attivisti studenteschi hanno accettato di smantellare il gruppo di tende del campus entro mercoledì sera.
Molte università hanno risposto alle richieste degli attivisti pacifisti con la repressione della polizia negli accampamenti. Ma questi sforzi hanno fatto ben poco per attenuare le richieste di disinvestimento, e gli attivisti dei campus universitari hanno paragonato i loro sforzi alle storiche proteste studentesche contro la guerra del Vietnam e l’apartheid in Sud Africa.
Diversi accampamenti universitari filo-palestinesi sono stati sciolti dopo i negoziati sulle richieste di disinvestimento con gli amministratori.
Alla fine di aprile, ad esempio, i manifestanti hanno smontato le tende alla Brown University nel Rhode Island, dopo che il consiglio di amministrazione della scuola della Ivy League ha deciso di prendere in considerazione il disinvestimento in una votazione di ottobre.
Tuttavia, le richieste di disinvestimento possono essere controverse negli Stati Uniti, dove Israele gode di un forte sostegno politico.
Ogni anno Israele riceve 3,8 miliardi di dollari in aiuti militari dagli Stati Uniti, e i legislatori statunitensi, con l’incoraggiamento dei gruppi filo-israeliani, si sono mossi per penalizzare e persino criminalizzare gli appelli a boicottare Israele.
In Texas, ad esempio, il governatore repubblicano Greg Abbott ha risposto direttamente alle richieste di disinvestimento degli studenti, affermando all’inizio di questo mese: “Questo non accadrà MAI”. Sotto la sua guida, lo Stato ha approvato una legge che vieta agli enti governativi di stipulare contratti con aziende che boicottano Israele.
Contraccolpo alla decisione dello Stato di Sonoma
Anche gruppi ebraici e una manciata di politici statali hanno condannato la decisione dello Stato di Sonoma, affermando che rappresenta un attacco a Israele e alla comunità ebraica.
Alcuni hanno collegato la decisione dell’università al Movimento per il boicottaggio, il disinvestimento e le sanzioni (BDS), che cerca di fare pressione su Israele affinché protegga i diritti dei palestinesi con mezzi non violenti. Mira inoltre ad attirare l’attenzione sulle aziende considerate complici delle violazioni dei diritti nel territorio palestinese.
I critici del BDS, tuttavia, considerano il movimento antisemita per aver preso di mira aziende e gruppi israeliani.
“Ieri il presidente della Sonoma State University ha allineato il campus con il BDS, un movimento il cui obiettivo è la distruzione di Israele, dove vivono 7 milioni di ebrei”, ha detto mercoledì il senatore dello stato della California Scott Wiener in un post sui social media.
In un altro post, il Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area ha affermato che la decisione dello Stato di Sonoma era in “chiara violazione” della legge anti-BDS della California del 2016. Ha invitato il rettore del sistema della California State University – di cui Sonoma State è membro – a “rettificare” la situazione.
Tuttavia, i gruppi a difesa della libertà di parola affermano che le leggi anti-BDS sopprimono le critiche rivolte a Israele e confondono il controllo sulle presunte violazioni dei diritti umani da parte di Israele con l’antisemitismo.
Tutela degli studenti e libertà di parola
Le proteste nei campus universitari, come quella nello stato di Sonoma, hanno alimentato il dibattito sulla distinzione tra critica a Israele e odio antiebraico.
Ha anche sollevato preoccupazioni su come proteggere i diritti di libertà di parola nel campus, affrontando al contempo il disagio che alcuni studenti hanno espresso nei confronti delle proteste.
I manifestanti studenteschi hanno cercato di far luce sulla difficile situazione dei civili palestinesi, in particolare dall’inizio della guerra israeliana a Gaza il 7 ottobre.
Più di 35.000 palestinesi sono stati uccisi nell’offensiva militare israeliana nei mesi successivi, con circa 1,5 milioni di sfollati interni.
La guerra ha anche spinto parti del territorio palestinese in uno stato di “carestia in piena regola”. Gli esperti delle Nazioni Unite hanno avvertito del “rischio di genocidio” nell’enclave.
Ma anche prima dell’inizio dell’attuale guerra, gruppi per i diritti umani come Amnesty International erano giunti alla conclusione che le azioni di Israele nei territori palestinesi occupati costituiscono il crimine di apartheid.
Tuttavia, anche se la stragrande maggioranza delle proteste filo-palestinesi nei campus universitari sono state pacifiche, i timori di antisemitismo nelle università sono sempre più forti.
Ad esempio, poco dopo l’inizio della guerra, in ottobre, è emersa una notizia secondo cui uno studente ebreo di 24 anni era stato aggredito con un bastone nel campus della Columbia University a New York.
Il presidente della Columbia University, Nemat Shafik, è stato convocato davanti a una commissione del Congresso il mese scorso per rispondere a domande sui presunti casi di antisemitismo nel suo campus, anche se diversi rappresentanti statunitensi hanno messo in dubbio il focus ristretto dell’udienza.
“L’antisemitismo non è l’unica forma di odio che cresce nelle nostre scuole”, ha detto al comitato la deputata Teresa Leger Fernandez, una democratica.
“Anche l’islamofobia e i crimini d’odio contro gli studenti LGBTQ sono recentemente aumentati. Hanno portato alla morte per suicidio e molestie. Ma questa commissione non ha tenuto una sola udienza su questi temi”.
In effetti, i sostenitori affermano che anche i manifestanti filo-palestinesi sono stati oggetto di un picco di molestie dall’inizio della guerra. All’UCLA, ad esempio, i contro-manifestanti hanno attaccato un accampamento pacifista e gli osservatori hanno successivamente riferito che la polizia del campus aspettava per intervenire.
L’episodio ha portato i critici a chiedersi quali studenti fossero protetti e perché.
Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università degli Studi di L’Aquila, membro della Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo e membro del movimento ambientalista Ultima Generazione A22 Network per contrastare il Riscaldamento Globale indotto artificialmente dalla Geoingegneria Solare SRM
I doppi standard morali del mondo occidentale di Gaza accecano così tanto che perfino le prove scientifiche pubblicate su riviste prestigiose come Lancet, giustamente usate per contrastare le asserzioni dei negazionismi Covid durante la pandemia, ora vengono messe in dubbio o ignorate? I dati che anche le Nazioni Unite e epidemiologi di istituzioni accreditate a livello mondiale ritengono approssimativamente validi, per i negazionismi del genocidio non sono affidabili se si tratta di Gaza? O sono le critiche sui dati di mortalità a rivelare l’inaffidabilità delle opinioni dei negazionismi del genocidio? Pur di negare l’evidenza di un crimine del quale siamo tutti complici la nostra mente prova di tutto?
In questa ricerca apparsa su Lancet che ha analizzato i dati di mortalità del ministro della Sanità a Gaza, tre ricercatori della John Hopkins School of Public Health chiariscono in modo empirico che i dati di mortalità a Gaza non sono gonfiati e non hanno grandi margini di errore. I morti accertati, infatti, come accaduto durante la pandemia, sono molto probabilmentesottostimati. Perché? Per una ragione molto semplice: con il 70% delle case distrutte, quasi tutti gli ospedali, scuole, panetterie distrutte, senza acqua potabile, riscaldamento, scarso accesso a cibo e medicinali, cosa ci si aspettate succeda? Che la mortalità diminuisca? E cosa ne dite “dell’effetto statistico” (concedetemi il tragico sarcasmo) di centinaia se non migliaia di corpi sotto le macerie?
Sciolti i dubbi sui dati di mortalità, i negazionisti del genocidio argomentano che la definizione di genocidio stabilisce sia necessario accertarne l’intenzionalità. Un documento redatto da Law for Palestine ha raccolto 500 incitamenti al genocidio e altrettanti link che ne corroborano la veridicità. Una buona parte sono di top figure politiche del governo e dell’esercito israeliano. Altri provengono da giornalisti e opinionisti israeliani.
Il doppio standard morale creato dal pregiudizio di conferma occidentale è così accecante che perfino l’International Court of Justice, citata e ammirata per il mandato di cattura a Putin, ora viene attaccata e minacciata (es. una dozzina di senatori repubblicani in Usa che scrivono all’ICJ “vi abbiamo avvertito”) per il mandato di cattura a Netanyahu. Ah, dimenticavo, la stessa Corte ha stabilito che la denuncia del Sud Africa a Israele per “atti di genocidio” è plausibile e ha infatti intimato un cessate il fuoco immediato, puntualmente ignorato da Israele, con pacche sulle spalle dei leader occidentali.
Sciolti i dubbi sui dati di mortalità, i negazionisti del genocidio argomentano che la definizione di genocidio stabilisce sia necessario accertarne l’intenzionalità. Un documento redatto da Law for Palestine ha raccolto 500 incitamenti al genocidio e altrettanti link che ne corroborano la veridicità. Una buona parte sono di top figure politiche del governo e dell’esercito israeliano. Altri provengono da giornalisti e opinionisti israeliani.
In sette mesi di assalto a Gaza, Israele ha ucciso oltre 14000 bambini; l’invasione della Russia in Ucraina in oltre 2 anni di bombardamenti poco più di 500 (ovviamente anche questi dati sono sottostimati e ogni vita di un bambino ucciso in guerra è una tragedia indicibile beh oltre i freddi numeri). I freddi numeri tuttavia dicono che il genocidio di Israele a Gaza, aiutato e sostenuto moralmente e militarmente dal mondo occidentale, è un atto di ferocia (e psicopatia internazionale) senza precedenti storici recenti.
Di fronte a questi fatti e questi dati, arrampicarsi sugli specchi adducendo sofismi di vario tipo al fine di negarne la devastante, tragica importanza, è sintomo di un pregiudizio culturale che assegna valore alla vita umana a targhe alterne. È la prova che mass media, istituzioni educative e socializzazione hanno spinto il nostro immaginario collettivo a suddividere le persone uccise in guerra in “vittime di serie A” e “vittime di serie B”. Quelle di “serie A”, opera dei nostri nemici, meritano le nostre lacrime e la nostra compassione. “Quelle di serie B”, causate dai nostri governi e loro alleati, la nostra indifferenza?
Are the Western world’s moral double standards in Gaza so blinding that even scientific evidence published in prestigious journals such as the Lancet, rightly used to counter the claims of Covid deniers during the pandemic, is now being doubted or ignored? The data that even the United Nations and epidemiologists of accredited institutions worldwide consider to be approximately valid, for genocide deniers, are not reliable when it comes to Gaza? Or is it the criticism of mortality data that reveals the unreliability of the opinions of genocide deniers? In order to deny the evidence of a crime in which we are all accomplices, does our mind try anything?
In this research which appeared in the Lancet which analyzed the mortality data of the Minister of Health in Gaza, three researchers from the John Hopkins School of Public Health clarify empirically that the mortality data in Gaza are not inflated and do not have large margins of error . The confirmed deaths, in fact, as happened during the pandemic, are most likely underestimated. Why? For a very simple reason: with 70% of homes destroyed, almost all hospitals, schools, bakeries destroyed, without drinking water, heating, little access to food and medicine, what do you expect to happen? May mortality decrease? And what do you say about the “statistical effect” (please indulge me in tragic sarcasm) of hundreds if not thousands of bodies under the rubble?
Having resolved the doubts about the mortality data, genocide deniers argue that the definition of genocide establishes that it is necessary to ascertain its intentionality. A document drawn up by Law for Palestine has collected 500 incitements to genocide and as many links that corroborate their veracity. A good portion are top political figures in the Israeli government and army. Others come from Israeli journalists and commentators.
The moral double standard created by Western confirmation bias is so blinding that even the International Court of Justice, cited and admired for the arrest warrant for Putin, is now being attacked and threatened (e.g. a dozen Republican senators in the US writing to the ICJ “we warned you”) for the arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Ah, I forgot, the same Court has established that South Africa’s complaint to Israel for “acts of genocide” is plausible and has in fact called for an immediate ceasefire, promptly ignored by Israel, with pats on the back from Western leaders.
Having resolved the doubts about the mortality data, genocide deniers argue that the definition of genocide establishes that it is necessary to ascertain its intentionality. A document drawn up by Law for Palestine has collected 500 incitements to genocide and as many links that corroborate their veracity. A good portion are top political figures in the Israeli government and army. Others come from Israeli journalists and commentators.
In seven months of assault on Gaza, Israel killed over 14,000 children; the invasion of Russia in Ukraine in over 2 years of bombings just over 500 (obviously even these data are underestimated and every life of a child killed in war is an unspeakable tragedy well beyond the cold numbers). The cold numbers, however, say that Israel’s genocide in Gaza, aided and supported morally and militarily by the Western world, is an act of ferocity (and international psychopathy) without recent historical precedent.
Faced with these facts and data, climbing on straws by citing sophisms of various types in order to deny their devastating, tragic importance, is a symptom of a cultural prejudice that assigns value to human life on alternate plates. It is proof that mass media, educational institutions and socialization have pushed our collective imagination to divide people killed in war into “series A victims” and “series B victims”. Those of “series A”, the work of our enemies, deserve our tears and our compassion. “The second-class ones”, caused by our governments and their allies, our indifference?
Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister and Arafat OLP Al-Fatah Leader of Palestine Freedomshake their hands in front of Democratic US President Bill Clinton in Camp David, September 13th 1993Shimon Peres Israeli President and Yasser Arafat OLP President of Palestine with the word “Peace” Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister in 1993and Leader of the Zionist Party Likud
Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università degli Studi di L’Aquila, membro della Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo e membro del movimento ambientalista Ultima Generazione A22 Network per contrastare il Riscaldamento Globale indotto artificialmente dalla Geoingegneria Solare SRM
A terrifying psychological state that a girl with a small heart goes through She cannot bear the frightening scenes that happen to her, her sobs were like breaths inhaling the smell of blood around her and she doesn't know what all this means. pic.twitter.com/yUjSV2o99Y
Journalist Hazem Suleiman interviews young Merna by the shore. Merna, displaced from Gaza's Al-Tuffah district, longs to return home, dreaming of peace and the end of war. She aspires to sing, gain fame like celebrities, and travel, expressing her special fondness for Egypt. pic.twitter.com/gZSQ1Xtbd6
Horrific scenes are coming out from the Shefa hospital following the withdrawal of occupation forces .. dozens of bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces are in the yards and vicinity of the hospital. pic.twitter.com/VQqZlu1n6I
Terrifying moments… ‘they used the most horrific methods of killing on us’ a horrific testimony from one of the patients detained at Al-Shifa Medical Complex. pic.twitter.com/PiI1UHlC8J
A woman recounts, in the aftermath of a 15-day besiegement in Al Shifa, the unspeakable horrors she witnessed. Tanks indiscriminately ran over bodies on the roads. The terrain was transformed into a muddy nightmare, making every step a struggle, especially for a little girl who pic.twitter.com/V9BIpOvfRt
The rubble of the residential buildings which were blown up by the occupation forces in the vicinity of Shefa hospital in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/F7RBljD47e
would get stuck, yet they were forbidden from assisting her. Most importantly, she speaks of the occupation fabricating scenes. The dead were taken from their apartments bound, blindfolded, and buried, all of which unfolded before her eyes.
During a siege that lasted 2 weeks on Al Shifa Medical Complex, and with no one else to turn to, the displaced people and the medical staff took to writing on the walls, leaving behind mere traces of what they experienced. pic.twitter.com/DbDWMZMyf7
Amani Khaled, from the city of Rafah, speaks about the tragic conditions in which she and her displaced family are living in a tent in the cemetery. She says that her children are forced to watch the bodies and body parts that come to be buried in the cemetery. pic.twitter.com/yObXMAmaCA
Abdalrahman syam a 14 year old child who can’t have a final diagnosis of what kind of spinal injury he has because there are no CT scans in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/EZZXGgcewg
Four martyrs were evacuated following an Israeli bombardment that targeted a delegation for world central kitchen on Al Rasheed street. pic.twitter.com/R0tcOdS0vm
The passports of members of world central kitchen who were killed after the bombing of their vehicle by an Israeli air strike in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza. pic.twitter.com/vswsQfJaKw
The vehicle of world central kitchen which was bombed by the occupation forces in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza. 7 members were killed in the attack. pic.twitter.com/rmYKIMS75R
A girl calls for her father to rescue her after being trapped under the rubble of her home that was bombed by Israeli warplanes in Rafah. Unfortunately, the father was killed along with the girl. pic.twitter.com/B1tpGMuiEL
Actionists are through the roof of Teledyne's weapons factory in Shipley, Bradford! This factory manufactures parts for the missiles and fighter jets which are bombing Gaza and used to commit genocide. pic.twitter.com/rxf3P5gqgv
It's up to ordinary people to take matters into their own hands now and shut the war criminals down. Join the locals supporting on the ground at Teledyne, Shipley, BD17 7SW
Dr. Amira Al-Safadi explains what patients and the medical staff were subjected to after the occupation stormed Al-Shifa hospital. What she describes is a labeling system of death, branded for holocaust. pic.twitter.com/iGgGE05Qxb
A man in Deir Al Balah provides a testimony regarding the targeting of multiple World Central Kitchen jeeps by the occupation forces, which contrasts the claim that it was an 'unintentional' airstrike. He recounts trying to extinguish the fire that had started in an empty jeep pic.twitter.com/YeehcF5F74
after it was bombarded, further supporting the evidence of multiple wckitchen targets. This incident, he says, signifies a deliberate pattern where anyone providing relief to Gaza is at risk of bombardment.
“A handsome boy with beautiful hair and wears stylish clothes”
The father of the martyr child Nidal Mohammad Barakat bids farewell to his son, who was killed by an Israeli shelling on Rafah. pic.twitter.com/RVYcirV4Lr
Salim Abu Musallam was martyred twice, once on Dec. 31, 2023, and once when his mother dug through the soil of "al-Shifa Hospital" searching for his body, only to find her son as he was: still bleeding, his beard grown long, the wound in her heart still bleeding, pic.twitter.com/bfYrxGKE2c
and her patience enduring. The Occupation desecrated dozens of martyrs' graves who were buried in the courtyard of al- Shifa Hospital, leaving their families with the pain of searching for them and their remains.
John Kirby, the White House National Security Communications Advisor, denies that Israel’s murder of 7 World Central Kitchen aid workers was deliberate and says that the State Department has not found a SINGLE instance of Israel violating international humanitarian law. pic.twitter.com/dAoifmkIWF
This baby who is no more than 3 months of age, arrived at the European Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip with serious injuries. A large number of his family members were killed by an Israeli bombardment, including his mother. pic.twitter.com/XaeEW4nU5P
The Israeli military killed seven aid workers, including three Brits, using an Elbit Hermes 450 drone.
As Elbit say, the most important part of the drone is the engine — which was designed and made by UAV Engines, the factory we’re currently blockading.#ShutElbitDownpic.twitter.com/OhQcwLCU3v
After enduring 20 years of detention since the age of 15 by the occupation forces, Nassir Al-Awertani has been reunited with his mother Ikhlas in Nablus. Released in late March 2024, Nassir, now 35, had been in continuous detention since his arrest in 2004. pic.twitter.com/vDEPqijr5P
The Palestinian journalist Mohammed Qraqe'a whose mother was killed by the Israeli occupation forces whist attacking the Shefa hospital in Gaza. Mohammed found his mother following the withdrawal of occupation forces after two weeks of attacking the hospital. pic.twitter.com/V2WosPygZW
His family faced persecution, with his mother, Ikhlas Abu Al-Sa'oud, also arrested in the same year and spending 13 months in prison. Nassir was kept in Ktzi'ot prison in the Negev desert during his 20-year sentence.
The daily life of Palestinians at the Israeli military checkpoints in the occupied West Bank. An Israeli soldier abuses, humiliates and aggressively body searches a Palestinian youth after stopping a taxi in Jericho.
In this room, dozens of patients and injured Palestinians were held by the occupation forces at the Shefa hospital for two weeks without food or any kind of medical treatment. pic.twitter.com/V6mnei8Cs5
Actionists remain locked on to blockade Israel's weapons trade until the last moment! Five actionists put their bodies in the way of UAV Engines, a drone engine factory owned by Israel's largest weapons firm. pic.twitter.com/AdPIqILc6U
“My mother was killed in the Shefa hospital, my father is blind, my brother was injured and my sister remains alive with us” .. a child from the north of Gaza.
Their products power drone strikes across Palestine, and we won't give up until they're shut down for good — just like their sister factory in Tamworth!
Omar Al Hosari is a young boy suffering from severe burns and the aftermath of a tragic incident that left 7 floors collapsing on him. Omar, who lost his family in a massacre committed by the occupation near the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, has only his father left. pic.twitter.com/Bfwb9wM5JB
His daily ordeal includes excruciating pain during dressing changes without anesthesia, describing it as torture akin to being trapped under rubble or in a suffocating tunnel or coffin. He is currently staying at Kamal Adwan hospital in the North of Gaza.
That butcher #BejaminNetanyahu and his #Zionists, if I had the chance to question them before an #InternationalCourtofJustice, my first question to him should be: "Can you explain to me what this child has done to you to reduce him to this state?" then I'll show him these photos.
The Palestinian youth Asad Qaniri, who was killed by the occupation forces during a gunfire exchange in Ya’bad town, southwest Jenin. pic.twitter.com/XiuJGo9sIG
Human rights organizations staged a demonstration in Al Khalil city, commemorating Palestinian Child's Day. Among the attendees were several school children, showing solidarity with Palestinian youth, particularly those in Gaza enduring the direct impact of Israeli aggression. pic.twitter.com/0AW5miCPPo
He lost his leg because of the aid, and now he is risking his other leg to provide a living for his family. This is the situation we have reached. pic.twitter.com/HxglcBc5YJ
Scenes published by Al Jazeera from northern Gaza, showing occupation soldiers deliberately killing a Palestinian civilian while trying to get humanitarian aid. The youth man was left bleeding to death. pic.twitter.com/p6IzjUc1Bd
Israeli soldiers hold a barbecue party on the Gaza beach, meters away from Palestinians they killed and starved. At the end of the video, an insult is directed at US President Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/FjHH1a7zvf
The Israeli occupation forces restrict the entry of worshippers to the occupied city of Jerusalem to perform Friday prayer at Al Aqsa mosque. pic.twitter.com/PktAcSIBsS
The Israeli occupation forces detain a number of Palestinian youth and assault worshippers while they were leaving Al Aqsa mosque. pic.twitter.com/5nl2jSnF6Z
“People reached a point where they were asking should we drink our urine?” . In this exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera, a Palestinian patient shares harrowing accounts after enduring nearly two weeks of Israeli siege on al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/HcL9iptG78
Israeli soldiers assaulted Palestinian worshippers as they gathered near Al Aqsa Mosque to perform the last Friday prayer of Ramadan on April 5. pic.twitter.com/m5bEM59nxH
Israeli authorities have restricted Palestinians in the occupied West Bank from entering the Al Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers since the beginning of the Muslim holy month of fasting.
Three actionists occupied and dismantled Solvay in Wrexham, a chemical supplier for Israel's military drone fleet. Now, they'll fight to prove Solvay is guilty, they are not!
Mobilise throughout the 2 week trial from 9.30AM on Monday 15th April at Caernarfon Crown Court, LL55… pic.twitter.com/W06mIptecg
Omar Al Hosari, a child that is the sole survivor of an attack that decimated his family, shares his reflection on the world's indifference to their plight. Lying in his hospital bed with burns and dressing covering his body, pic.twitter.com/blKex9HxK2
Omar questions what the "free people of the world" will have to say for themselves before God. He describes feeling dehumanized, likened to "statues" ignored and subjected to torture without any intervention.
Omar calls for a stand against the siege and bombardment that continue to afflict his people, but shares his pride of their resilience, resolute, and heroism.
Aboud shares his inspiring perspective from the North. Gazans are resilient and strong despite the cruel conditions imposed upon them by the occupation and their accomplices. He draws a contrast between typical achievements people often boast about, like material possessions, pic.twitter.com/VD3xACERL1
and what Gazans consider their significant accomplishment: surviving the war for 175 days. For them, enduring such a prolonged period under siege is not just a story of survival but a badge of honor that shows their unyielding spirit.
The massacre committed by the occupation forces after bombing the home of the Shtaiwi family in Gaza. All the written names were killed with some of them still under the rubble. pic.twitter.com/DuNOSNl1qa
Umm Ahmed Abu Daqga, 70 years old, speaks about the tragic conditions of displacement after the Israeli occupation bombed her house. pic.twitter.com/y0PJLokhwE
“There is no Eid and there is no joy.” Even Eid, with its great joy, cannot erase the pain they have engraved in the hearts of our children. pic.twitter.com/UFe5suBQGe
Nader Ahmed is a displaced resident from the Al-Saftawi area in Gaza City. Nader has taken on the responsibility of raising two girls, Nadine and Buthayna, abandoned by their mother, as he claims, due to their disabilities. For four years, he has cared for them, pic.twitter.com/69N0y50520
fulfilling both roles of mother and father while managing his own car repair shop. Due to both girls needing diapers and other necessities that are not avaliable during the war, they are both suffering immensely.
After 38 years in Israeli occupation prisons, Palestinian prisoner Waleed Abu Daqqa has died due to years of medical neglect while in Israeli jails.
Dagga was scheduled to be released in February last year after completing his jail term, but Israeli authorities extended his pic.twitter.com/bYvNM01EUg
sentence for two more years, forbidding him from seeing his only daughter, Milad, whom he and his wife conceived after managing to smuggle his sperm out of prison. He was denied proper treatment for his rare cancer condition, which Israeli occupation authorities neglected.
The Israeli occupation forces released Dr Haytham after 50 days of detention following the raiding of Naser hospital in Khan Younis city. pic.twitter.com/rqpDPsZMyJ
Palestinians bid farewell to their relatives whose bodies were found following the withdrawal of the occupation forces from Khan Younis. pic.twitter.com/8JUJxDi1k6
“Where are the Arabs and Muslims who left us alone in Gaza, we lost everything” … a Palestinian reacts over losing his home in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/z8Xtu5H9V4
Asem Alnajar the child with TGA and VSD needs urgent surgery, he can’t leave the hospital now, he needs to be oxygenated all the time. pic.twitter.com/Kq66ETFIXM
Israeli occupation authorities attack and dismantle the mourning tent for the Palestinian prisoner Waleed Abu Daqqa in Baqa al-Gharbiyye. pic.twitter.com/wh0gs0KL56
In Gaza, Eid arrives without any signs of joy. Holiday rituals that once adorned Gaza's holidays have all but vanished, replaced by memories that Gazans recall with sadness. pic.twitter.com/wDXjicrZQV
During Ramadan, Mohamed Shahin takes to the streets of north Gaza, conducting a contest to spread joy among the residents. He encounters an elderly lady, weary yet spirited. As part of the contest, she completes a Quranic verse about patience, earning a prize. pic.twitter.com/KPgfce0kp8
Mira Hasan Abo Khader, a young girl in Gaza shares her perspective on Eid during war. For Mira, the war has stripped away the essence of the holiday; there’s no celebration in the shadow of loss and death. She reflects on the envy and pain of children without parents, pic.twitter.com/l9QJOCiA6v
comparing their lives to those more fortunate. Mira’s own father is currently a detainee, snatched away on Salah Al-Din street by the occupation. Her memories of Eids past, filled with clothes, toys, and her father’s love, contrast sharply with her current reality.
In a turn of events, she reveals she's the mother of three martyrs, and that she is a model for true patience. Despite her losses and the destruction of her homes in the last war, her faith remains unshaken.
She shares the breadth of her family's suffering, from displacement to dealing with lack of resources, all while carrying the heavy title of a mother of martyrs.
“I wish to travel abroad for treatment” .. Palestinian children suffer serious burns from Israeli artillery shelling in the north of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/0jIGOqPdvl
The Palestinian journalist walaa jamea’ went to visit the graves of her brothers but she found that the occupation forces razed the cemetery in Khan Younis. pic.twitter.com/vImHFbbpzo
In the West Bank, a mother's pain is palpable as she speaks of Eid without her son, Wael Al-Jaghoub, who has been imprisoned by the occupation for the past 23 years. pic.twitter.com/gYyBhX1OzQ
This question was asked by one of the children after he bought clothes and toys for Eid, which will be different this year after more than half a year of killing and destruction. pic.twitter.com/GzJXCySH5T
Fadel is a young boy in North Gaza, burdened with the task of salvaging what remains from his cousin's bombarded house. Fadel, spent his last day of Ramadan retrieving items from beneath the rubble to use for his own family. pic.twitter.com/63x4f5tQ50
Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università degli Studi di L’Aquila, membro della Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo e membro del movimento ambientalista Ultima Generazione A22 Network per contrastare il Riscaldamento Globale indotto artificialmente dalla Geoingegneria Solare SRM americana
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