international law

Israel’s Pager Bombs Have No Place in a Just War

The exploding pagers and walkie-talkies targeting members of Hezbollah in Lebanon were certainly an espionage and technological coup.

Few people on the spot or reading about them from far away could fail to be amazed.

But the explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday were also very likely war crimes — terrorist attacks by a state that has consistently condemned terrorist attacks on its own citizens.

Are restrictions on pro-Palestine speech ‘the new McCarthyism?’

From The Bottom Line – 8 Sep 2024 | Updated a day ago

Is there an attempt to chill debate on Palestine and Israel on both sides of the Atlantic?

The United States, and the West in general, are in a “dire period” of repression of speech on Palestinian freedom or criticism of Israel, argues Dima Khalidi, founder of Palestine Legal.

Khalidi tells host Steve Clemons that despite strong constitutional protections for free expression, “there seems to be this exception when it comes to Palestine”, as witnessed by the wave of censorship, intimidation, firings and restrictions on activism in the wake of Israel’s war on Gaza.

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At what point are we permitted to…?

Five questions, and a sixth

JONATHAN COOK – SEP 9

  1. At what point does it become irresponsible not to compare Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people with the genocide westerners know best: the Nazi Holocaust?
  2. At what point does shielding Israel from the revulsion its actions naturally inspire not turn into complicity?
  3. At what point should western publics be offered proper historical context to make sense of Israel’s genocide: one that lets them understand how the Zionist movement was [ideologically shaped] by its exposure to ugly, century-old European ethnic nationalisms that culminated in Nazism, and how the Zionists chose to those supremacist ideologies rather than reject them?

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