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Showing posts with label genocide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genocide. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Benjamin Netanyahu Plays the Victim in Vomit-inducing Fox News Segment
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Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Benjamin Netanyahu Is a War Criminal
July 22, 2026 | The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for a reason. He should be arrested and stand trial.
My administration examined every legal avenue available to determine whether New York City could execute that warrant. The law is clear: we do not have that authority. The federal government does. So we are calling on the United States to uphold international law, cooperate with the ICC, apprehend Benjamin Netanyahu and transfer him to The Hague to face justice.
We cannot end this genocide on our own. But we can use every tool available to defend humanity and uphold justice. That is the responsibility of this city. And it is my commitment as mayor.
Related article here.
My administration examined every legal avenue available to determine whether New York City could execute that warrant. The law is clear: we do not have that authority. The federal government does. So we are calling on the United States to uphold international law, cooperate with the ICC, apprehend Benjamin Netanyahu and transfer him to The Hague to face justice.
We cannot end this genocide on our own. But we can use every tool available to defend humanity and uphold justice. That is the responsibility of this city. And it is my commitment as mayor.
Related article here.
Mamdani Calls Netanyahu a ‘War Criminal’ and Calls on U.S. to Arrest Him
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Mayor Zohran Mamdani challenged the United States to execute an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, which New York itself cannot do.
This screenshot is from this NYT article. | Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that New York cannot arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, but the United States should. Credit: Dave Sanders for The New York Times
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday night challenged the federal government to execute an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, calling him a “war criminal” and “the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people” in a striking video statement.
The mayor said the city Law Department explored whether the New York Police Department could arrest the Israeli prime minister during his expected visit to the city in September but that the city did not have “independent legal authority” to do so.
The mayor’s announcement came days after he told Lulu Garcia-Navarro last week on “The Interview,” a New York Times show, that he had been in “active conversation” with the city’s lawyers about executing a warrant issued for Mr. Netanyahu in 2024 by the International Criminal Court.
On Tuesday, Mr. Mamdani said in the video that those conversations had led his administration to determine that it did “not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant.”
Seated between the flags of the United States and New York City, Mr. Mamdani looked directly into the camera and solemnly told New Yorkers that Israel’s prime minister had no place visiting New York.
“Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large,” Mr. Mamdani said. “While we cannot end the genocide on our own, we can decide whether our silence will become another weapon, and we can examine every tool we have to defend the humanity and dignity of all people.” » | Liam Stack | Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Zohran Mamdani is a hero. A man of principle. It is refreshing to hear a politician speak with such clarity and moral authority. New Yorkers are indeed blessed to have a mayor like Zohran. — © Mark Alexander
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday night challenged the federal government to execute an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, calling him a “war criminal” and “the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people” in a striking video statement.
The mayor said the city Law Department explored whether the New York Police Department could arrest the Israeli prime minister during his expected visit to the city in September but that the city did not have “independent legal authority” to do so.
The mayor’s announcement came days after he told Lulu Garcia-Navarro last week on “The Interview,” a New York Times show, that he had been in “active conversation” with the city’s lawyers about executing a warrant issued for Mr. Netanyahu in 2024 by the International Criminal Court.
On Tuesday, Mr. Mamdani said in the video that those conversations had led his administration to determine that it did “not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant.”
Seated between the flags of the United States and New York City, Mr. Mamdani looked directly into the camera and solemnly told New Yorkers that Israel’s prime minister had no place visiting New York.
“Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large,” Mr. Mamdani said. “While we cannot end the genocide on our own, we can decide whether our silence will become another weapon, and we can examine every tool we have to defend the humanity and dignity of all people.” » | Liam Stack | Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Zohran Mamdani is a hero. A man of principle. It is refreshing to hear a politician speak with such clarity and moral authority. New Yorkers are indeed blessed to have a mayor like Zohran. — © Mark Alexander
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Israel's Dream of Ruling the Region Is Over, Its Decline Has Begun | Mustafa Barghouti | UNAPOLOGETIC
Jun 27, 2026 | "Now Netanyahu has failed. Iran was not broken. Arab countries now realise that relying on Israel is a death sentence."
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we sat down in studio with Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian physician, leader of the Palestinian National Initiative and co-founder of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. Barghouti argues that Israel's two strategic goals, imperial domination of the Middle East and normalisation with Arab states, have both collapsed, and that this marks the beginning of its decline.
Across the conversation he sets out the scale of the atrocity in Gaza, the slow strangulation of life in the West Bank, and the transformation of Israeli society towards what he describes as fascism. He explains why the regional war with Iran ended in strategic failure for Netanyahu, why Oslo and the 2005 Gaza disengagement were traps rather than concessions, and why he refuses to accept any framing that places oppressor and oppressed on equal footing.
Barghouti also turns to the question of survival and resistance, from the 90 midwives employed in the first weeks of the war to the clinics rebuilt multiple times under bombardment and makes the case that Palestine has become the global measure of commitment to justice. Despite everything, he ends on a note of defiance and hope.
UNAPOLOGETIC is hosted by Ashfaaq Carim.
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we sat down in studio with Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian physician, leader of the Palestinian National Initiative and co-founder of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. Barghouti argues that Israel's two strategic goals, imperial domination of the Middle East and normalisation with Arab states, have both collapsed, and that this marks the beginning of its decline.
Across the conversation he sets out the scale of the atrocity in Gaza, the slow strangulation of life in the West Bank, and the transformation of Israeli society towards what he describes as fascism. He explains why the regional war with Iran ended in strategic failure for Netanyahu, why Oslo and the 2005 Gaza disengagement were traps rather than concessions, and why he refuses to accept any framing that places oppressor and oppressed on equal footing.
Barghouti also turns to the question of survival and resistance, from the 90 midwives employed in the first weeks of the war to the clinics rebuilt multiple times under bombardment and makes the case that Palestine has become the global measure of commitment to justice. Despite everything, he ends on a note of defiance and hope.
UNAPOLOGETIC is hosted by Ashfaaq Carim.
Friday, June 26, 2026
Michael Lambert: Israel's Hangman Pin Badge | Why UK Politicians Say Nothing
June 26, 2026 | A UN report published this week has accused Israel of deliberately targeting and killing Palestinian children. A separate UN report in October 2025 went further — accusing Israel of genocide. And yet, politicians in the UK — many of them members of Labour Friends of Israel — say nothing.
Meanwhile, Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has celebrated with cakes the re-introduction of hanging for Palestinians. He and his colleagues now wear gold "hangman's noose" lapel pin badges.
Killing and maiming children can never be justified, The silence of UK politicians is deafening, and why the hangman's noose has become a symbol of something truly dark.
Thank you, Mr Lambert, for having the courage to speak out on these issues. I absolutely and totally agree with your analysis of the atrocities being carried out by Israelis against the poor Palestinians. What is being perpetrated is nothing less than a genocide. And we Westerners are supposed to remain silent!
Like many others, I have always been pro-Israel because of how Jews were made to suffer in Nazi Germany and, of course, because of the Holocaust. But because of that suffering, Jews really ought to be more compassionate, merciful, and understanding. That Jews in Israel are bereft of mercy is truly an enigma to me.
I concur with your analysis absolutely. Again, thank you for your courage. — © Mark Alexander
Meanwhile, Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has celebrated with cakes the re-introduction of hanging for Palestinians. He and his colleagues now wear gold "hangman's noose" lapel pin badges.
Killing and maiming children can never be justified, The silence of UK politicians is deafening, and why the hangman's noose has become a symbol of something truly dark.
Thank you, Mr Lambert, for having the courage to speak out on these issues. I absolutely and totally agree with your analysis of the atrocities being carried out by Israelis against the poor Palestinians. What is being perpetrated is nothing less than a genocide. And we Westerners are supposed to remain silent!
Like many others, I have always been pro-Israel because of how Jews were made to suffer in Nazi Germany and, of course, because of the Holocaust. But because of that suffering, Jews really ought to be more compassionate, merciful, and understanding. That Jews in Israel are bereft of mercy is truly an enigma to me.
I concur with your analysis absolutely. Again, thank you for your courage. — © Mark Alexander
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The Path to Nazi Genocide | 2025 | Holocaust Education
Oct 20, 2025 | This 38-minute film introduces the history of the Holocaust. It begins by looking back at the major changes from 1918 to 1933 that created the political climate for the birth and rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. It explores the basis for the party’s support among ordinary Germans and the military, government, and business establishment before and after Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933.
After 1933, Nazi leaders used violence and intimidation, propaganda, laws and decrees, and parliamentary maneuvers to quickly destroy the remains of democratic rule. Having established a dictatorship, leaders began pursuing ideological goals. These included the purification and strengthening of the “superior” German “race” and the return of Germany to great power status through economic revival and the build-up of the military.
Jews, who were viewed in Nazi ideology as a separate and dangerous “race,” went from being German citizens with full equal rights to outcasts. They were pressured to immigrate and excluded from the racially based “people’s community” that gave many Germans, especially youth, a sense of belonging. Other excluded groups included Roma, persons with disabilities, gay men, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and political opponents.
During World War II, which began in 1939, German military conquests and alliances endangered Jews living in countries across German-dominated Europe. The German invasion of the Soviet Union in summer 1941, envisioned by Nazi leaders and the German military as a “war of annihilation,” was a key turning point on the path to the genocide of Europe’s Jews. The murder of 6 million Jewish men, women, and children required the active participation or acquiescence of countless Germans and Europeans from all walks of life.
After 1933, Nazi leaders used violence and intimidation, propaganda, laws and decrees, and parliamentary maneuvers to quickly destroy the remains of democratic rule. Having established a dictatorship, leaders began pursuing ideological goals. These included the purification and strengthening of the “superior” German “race” and the return of Germany to great power status through economic revival and the build-up of the military.
Jews, who were viewed in Nazi ideology as a separate and dangerous “race,” went from being German citizens with full equal rights to outcasts. They were pressured to immigrate and excluded from the racially based “people’s community” that gave many Germans, especially youth, a sense of belonging. Other excluded groups included Roma, persons with disabilities, gay men, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and political opponents.
During World War II, which began in 1939, German military conquests and alliances endangered Jews living in countries across German-dominated Europe. The German invasion of the Soviet Union in summer 1941, envisioned by Nazi leaders and the German military as a “war of annihilation,” was a key turning point on the path to the genocide of Europe’s Jews. The murder of 6 million Jewish men, women, and children required the active participation or acquiescence of countless Germans and Europeans from all walks of life.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Monday, September 29, 2025
Thousands Call to Arrest Netanyahu, March at U.N. against Gaza Genocide
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Israel Has Committed Genocide in Gaza, Says UN Commission of Inquiry | BBC News
Sep 16, 2025 | A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.
Israel's foreign ministry said it categorically rejected the report, denouncing it as "distorted and false".
An Israeli spokesperson accused the three experts on the UN commission of serving as "Hamas proxies" and relying "entirely on Hamas falsehoods, laundered and repeated by others" that had "already been thoroughly debunked".
A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.
Israel's foreign ministry said it categorically rejected the report, denouncing it as "distorted and false".
An Israeli spokesperson accused the three experts on the UN commission of serving as "Hamas proxies" and relying "entirely on Hamas falsehoods, laundered and repeated by others" that had "already been thoroughly debunked".
Tuesday, September 09, 2025
Historian Avi Shlaim on Israel’s Long War on Palestine | The InnerView
Sep 8, 2025 | Avi Shlaim tells Imran Garda that Zionism has transformed into a relentless killing machine. He describes the violence Israel has unleashed in Gaza as unlimited, unrestrained, and indiscriminate.
How did things come to this? Shlaim, an Iraqi-born British-Israeli historian and Oxford professor, dives deep into this question in his latest book, Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine. He argues that Israel’s policy toward Palestinians has gone beyond land grabs and forced displacement, calling it outright genocide.
In this episode of The InnerView, Shlaim reflects on the moment that compelled him to write the book. He also discusses why he believes the two-state solution is no longer possible, and how he thinks people will remember the ongoing conflict a century from now.
How did things come to this? Shlaim, an Iraqi-born British-Israeli historian and Oxford professor, dives deep into this question in his latest book, Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine. He argues that Israel’s policy toward Palestinians has gone beyond land grabs and forced displacement, calling it outright genocide.
In this episode of The InnerView, Shlaim reflects on the moment that compelled him to write the book. He also discusses why he believes the two-state solution is no longer possible, and how he thinks people will remember the ongoing conflict a century from now.
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Al Green Charges Trump and Netanyahu with Genocide in Gaza
Jul 22, 2025 | During a speech on the House floor on Monday, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) accused President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with genocide in Gaza.
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Saturday, November 11, 2023
Outrage Grows after ‘Chilling Call for Genocide’ by Florida Republican
THE GUARDIAN: Calls to censure Michelle Salzman, who said, ‘All of them’ when Democrat asked: ‘How many [dead Palestinians] will be enough?’
Michelle Salzman, a Florida state representative, in Tallahassee last year. Photograph: Phelan M Ebenhack/AP
Outrage continues to grow over a public comment made by a Florida state Republican lawmaker calling for all Palestinians to die.
The remarks came during a debate in the state legislature about calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s invasion of Gaza, which has so far killed more than 10,000 Palestinians, many of whom are children. The assault came after Hamas fighters attacked Israel from Gaza, killing at least 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostage.
In the speech in support of the ceasefire resolution, the Democratic Florida state representative Angie Nixon said: “We are at 10,000 dead Palestinians. How many will be enough?”
“All of them,” Michelle Salzman called in reply. » | Erum Salam | Friday, November 10, 2023
Outrage continues to grow over a public comment made by a Florida state Republican lawmaker calling for all Palestinians to die.
The remarks came during a debate in the state legislature about calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s invasion of Gaza, which has so far killed more than 10,000 Palestinians, many of whom are children. The assault came after Hamas fighters attacked Israel from Gaza, killing at least 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostage.
In the speech in support of the ceasefire resolution, the Democratic Florida state representative Angie Nixon said: “We are at 10,000 dead Palestinians. How many will be enough?”
“All of them,” Michelle Salzman called in reply. » | Erum Salam | Friday, November 10, 2023
Friday, April 08, 2022
Fears Genocidal Language in Russian Media May Prompt More War Crimes
THE GUARDIAN: State news agency publishes article decrying ‘Ukrainianism’ as an ‘artificial anti-Russian construct with no civilisational substance’
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan claimed on TV that Ukrainian people ‘have turned out to be engulfed in the madness of nazism’. Photograph: Dmitry Feoktistov/Tass
Two days after Russia began its war in Ukraine, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency accidentally published an article celebrating the country’s lightning-quick victory over Kyiv, crowing that the “period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end”.
After a bloody month of war, after the discovery of evidence of war crimes in cities like Bucha and Borodyanka, the language in that same publication has grown even more extreme, containing calls for societal purges and “re-education” that western officials said could provoke further abuses on the ground.
“Ukrainianism is an artificial anti-Russian construct that has no civilisational substance of its own, a subordinate element of an extraneous and alien civilisation,” wrote a RIA Novosti columnist earlier this week. The “re-education” of Ukraine could take a generation, he wrote, adding that “besides the highest ranks, a significant number of common people are also guilty of being passive Nazis and Nazi accomplices”. » | Andrew Roth, Moscow correspondent | Thursday, April 7, 2022
Russia-Ukraine war latest news.
And GOP / Trump propaganda from across the Pond: The G.O.P.’s ‘Putin Wing’ »
Video: Authoritarianism, Putin & the GOP Are a Threat »
Two days after Russia began its war in Ukraine, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency accidentally published an article celebrating the country’s lightning-quick victory over Kyiv, crowing that the “period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end”.
After a bloody month of war, after the discovery of evidence of war crimes in cities like Bucha and Borodyanka, the language in that same publication has grown even more extreme, containing calls for societal purges and “re-education” that western officials said could provoke further abuses on the ground.
“Ukrainianism is an artificial anti-Russian construct that has no civilisational substance of its own, a subordinate element of an extraneous and alien civilisation,” wrote a RIA Novosti columnist earlier this week. The “re-education” of Ukraine could take a generation, he wrote, adding that “besides the highest ranks, a significant number of common people are also guilty of being passive Nazis and Nazi accomplices”. » | Andrew Roth, Moscow correspondent | Thursday, April 7, 2022
Russia-Ukraine war latest news.
And GOP / Trump propaganda from across the Pond: The G.O.P.’s ‘Putin Wing’ »
Video: Authoritarianism, Putin & the GOP Are a Threat »
Wednesday, April 06, 2022
Ukraine: Bucha Atrocities Draw International Condemnation | DW News
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
US Criticizes Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for Lack of Religious Freedom
The annual report says almost 80 percent of the world's population continues to live under threats limiting freedom to worship.
The countries criticised include US allies Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Al Jazeera's Mohammad Vall reports.
Friday, January 27, 2017
Holocaust Documentary - History & Story of Holocaust Survivors
Friday, April 24, 2015
'Armenian Genocide': Why Obama Won't Say the Words
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: WASHINGTON — As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama promised to be the first American president to refer to the Turkish mass killing of Armenians that began in 1915 as “genocide.”
But on this anniversary, the 100th, President Obama has once again avoided the word. In a statement released Thursday night, he referred to it only as “the first mass atrocity of the 20th century."
“Beginning in 1915, the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire were deported, massacred, and marched to their deaths,” Obama said. “Their culture and heritage in their ancient homeland were erased. Amid horrific violence that saw suffering on all sides, one and a half million Armenians perished.”
The reason for Obama’s reticence: Turkey, and its role as a key ally in NATO and in the conflicts of the Middle East. Armenia, a nation of 3 million people in the Caucasus, pales in geostrategic importance. (+ video) » | Linda Feldmann, Staff writer | Friday, April 24, 2015
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Germany defies Turkey, calls Armenian massacre 'genocide' (+video): Germany abruptly shifted its policy Monday from a steadfast refusal to use the term "genocide" to describe the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces 100 years ago. » | Erik Kirschbaum, Reuters | Monday, April 20, 2015
The Guardian View on Turkey and the Armenians: History Matters
It is a hard thing to admit that the state to which you belong was founded on a crime and that the history taught in your schools is full of lies. Yet there is no redemption without repentance and, on the centenary of the beginning of the genocidal campaign against the Armenians, it is sad to record that Turkey has still not faced the facts about what happened in 1915. The answer is quite simple in outline, if complex in its dreadful detail. The Armenians, who had lived in Anatolia since long before Turks arrived from central Asia, were killed, deported, or forcibly converted to Islam. Estimates suggest that at least 600,000 perished, while hundreds of thousands were expelled from or fled the Turkish lands, never to return. » | Editorial | Thursday, April 23, 2015
Monday, January 27, 2014
Forgive or Forget: Survivors of Genocide in the Holocaust, Rwanda and Cambodia Describe Their Experiences
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