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Thu, 2024-04-18 07:50

josh

Members of a United Nations commission said on Tuesday that Israel was obstructing their efforts to investigate possible human rights violations on Oct. 7 and in the ensuing war between Israel and Hamas. But they said the commission had still shared large amounts of evidence with the International Criminal Court.

“We have faced not merely a lack of cooperation but active obstruction of our efforts to receive evidence from Israeli witnesses and victims” related to the Oct. 7 attack, Chris Sidoti, one of three members of the commission, told a briefing for diplomats in Geneva. The commission was formed in 2021 to investigate human rights violations in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Israel has accused the commission of bias, and has said it would not cooperate with what it described as “an anti-Israeli, antisemitic body.”

It has not allowed the commission to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories, and in January it instructed Israeli medical personnel who treated released hostages and victims of the Oct. 7 attack not to cooperate with the panel, which is led by Navi Pillay, the former United Nations human rights chief.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/world/middleeast/israel-un-oct-7-atta...

What Israel can't control it demonizes.

Thu, 2024-04-18 08:57

#1153

Paladin1

Is the UN running a commission on the warcrimes Hamas commit as well?

Thu, 2024-04-18 09:00

#1154

josh

If you bothered to read the article, you'd know that it was investigating their actions as well.

Thu, 2024-04-18 17:07

#1155

Paladin1

I don't have an account.

Mon, 2024-04-22 12:22

#1156

josh

Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency Unrwa are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/israel-unrwa-staff-terrori...

Tue, 2024-04-23 18:37

#1157

JKR

Columbia University extends remote learning amid Gaza war protests

BBC

23 April 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68883271.amp

Columbia University has extended remote classes at its main New York City campus for the rest of term amid tense Gaza war protests that have spread to US colleges nationwide.

The hybrid learning comes as some students have reported antisemitic harassment around Columbia's campus.

Some 133 were arrested on Monday in protests at New York University.

Dozens of arrests were also made in rallies at Yale, while Harvard has restricted access to the campus.

At Columbia, officials said on Tuesday that an ongoing protest encampment on university grounds - also in Manhattan - is in violation of the rules.

"Columbia students have the right to protest but they are not allowed to disrupt campus life or harass and intimidate fellow students and members of our community," university spokesman Ben Chang told reporters, but did not give any specifics on disciplinary measures.

On Monday night, Columbia provost Angela Olinto announced students would have the option of attending classes remotely at the Ivy League institution's main Morningside Campus until the last day of classes on 29 April.

"Safety is our highest priority," she said in an email.

Jewish students have expressed concern about antisemitism on and around Columbia's campus.

On Monday, President Joe Biden said he condemned both "the antisemitic protests" as well as "those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians.”

One student filed an NYPD hate crime report on Monday saying that he had been hit in the head with a rock while carrying an Israeli flag, the New York Post reported.

Columbia University President Nemat Shafik said tensions on campus had been "exploited and amplified by individuals who are not affiliated with Columbia who have come to campus to pursue their own agendas".

Dr Shafik last week defended her efforts to tackle antisemitism on campus as she testified to a US congressional committee.

Also last week, New York City police arrested more than 100 people amid Gaza war demonstrations on Columbia's campus, including the daughter of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

The campus unrest has caused a dilemma for higher education officials as they try to balance free speech rights with the need to maintain a safe and inclusive space for learning.

Tue, 2024-04-23 18:44

#1158

josh

As a New York Jew I do suddenly feel unsafe, and it is ENTIRELY BECAUSE insane pro-Israel zealots have lied about activists and conflated their actions with white nationalist groyper agitators WHO DO WANT TO HARM JEWS *just* to stifle free speech from college kids.

https://x.com/EcoSexuality/status/1782591351369986158

Tue, 2024-04-23 18:45

#1159

josh

Thousands of US Jews with
@jvplive @ifnotnoworg and @jfrejnyc
are holding an emergency Passover seder, shutting down the streets of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s home to demand he stop sending weapons to the Israeli government

https://x.com/jvpliveNY/status/1782898179429597441

Tue, 2024-04-23 18:48

#1160

josh

It’s antisemitic for mainstream media to pretend that pro-Palestine protests don’t include Jewish people. It’s antisemitic to present Jewish people as a monolith supporting a genocidal settler colonial state. It’s antisemitic to disregard anti-zionist Jewish perspectives.

https://x.com/Jairo_I_Funez/status/1782604794420494434

Tue, 2024-04-23 18:50

#1161

josh

As Israel becomes more extreme, in Gaza, the West Bank and beyond, deepening its repression of Palestinians, the country’s most rabid supporters in the West will also become more extreme, defending and supporting the indefensible.

https://x.com/antloewenstein/status/1782555028852707453

Tue, 2024-04-23 20:17

(Reply to #1161) #1162

JKR

josh wrote:
As a New York Jew I do suddenly feel unsafe, and it is ENTIRELY BECAUSE insane pro-Israel zealots have lied about activists and conflated their actions with white nationalist groyper agitators WHO DO WANT TO HARM JEWS *just* to stifle free speech from college kids.

https://x.com/EcoSexuality/status/1782591351369986158

Columbia University isn’t run by “insane pro-Israel zealots”. Columbia University is understandably trying to provide a safe space for their students and faculty.

Tue, 2024-04-23 20:20

(Reply to #1162) #1163

JKR

josh wrote:
As Israel becomes more extreme, in Gaza, the West Bank and beyond, deepening its repression of Palestinians, the country’s most rabid supporters in the West will also become more extreme, defending and supporting the indefensible.

https://x.com/antloewenstein/status/1782555028852707453

Asking that Jewish students and faculty have a safe environment is the opposite of “rabid”. Columbia University going to “hybrid classes” should not be happening.

Tue, 2024-04-23 20:23

(Reply to #1163) #1164

JKR

josh wrote:
It’s antisemitic for mainstream media to pretend that pro-Palestine protests don’t include Jewish people. It’s antisemitic to present Jewish people as a monolith supporting a genocidal settler colonial state. It’s antisemitic to disregard anti-zionist Jewish perspectives.

https://x.com/Jairo_I_Funez/status/1782604794420494434

Columbia University’s actions are understandable and not antisemitic.

Tue, 2024-04-23 21:20

#1165

josh

Columbia Professor Marianne Hirsch says the efforts against anti-Gaza-war campus protests are “the weaponization of antisemitism” for political ends.

https://x.com/ShibleyTelhami/status/1782937065933439076

Tue, 2024-04-23 21:37

#1166

JKR

Obviously Columbia University takes a very different perspective. Columbia University obviously doesn’t want to have to go to distance learning to protect their students and staff.

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