Never Again Genocide
Updated 2024-07-26
2024-04-08 ‘Self-Defense’ Is No Justification for Genocide in Gaza The Palestinian people—not just Hamas—have been Israel’s intended targets all along.
As the world learned of the Khartoum government’s unfolding genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, Jewish organizations around the globe raised their voices in protest. Led by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and American Jewish World Service (AJWS), dozens of religious groups and human rights activists formed an alliance called the Save Darfur Coalition.
Throughout their years-long attempt to compel the international community to take substantive action, Jewish leaders routinely and eloquently described their motivation. Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the opening speaker at a 2006 rally for Darfur, in Washington, D.C, told the crowd, “As a Jew, I’m here because when we
Today, the USHMM, AJWS, and nearly every other high-profile Jewish organization refuse to call what Israel is doing in Gaza by its rightful name. Their stance will be recorded as one of history’s most damning examples of both hypocrisy and whitewashing.
With the release of an advance copy of her March 25 2024 report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese confirmed what any clear-eyed person has known for months. Israel is committing genocide in Palestine.needed people to help us, nobody came. Therefore, we’re here.” https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/self-defense-genocide-gaza
2024-03-08 With Genocide in Gaza, the Word ‘Never’ Has Been Stripped From ‘Never Again’ The richest, most powerful countries in the Western world, those who believe themselves to be the keepers of the flame of the modern world’s commitment to democracy and human rights, are openly financing and applauding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Gaza strip has been turned into a concentration camp. Those who have not already been killed are being starved to death. Almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced. Their homes, hospitals, universities, museums, and infrastructure of every kind has been reduced to rubble. Their children have been murdered. Their past has been vaporized. Their future is hard to see.
Even though the highest court in the world believes that almost every indicator seems to meet the legal definition of genocide, IDF soldiers continue to put out their mocking “victory videos” celebrating what almost looks like fiendish rituals. They believe that there is no power in the world that will hold them to account. But they are wrong. They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them. And hopefully one day everybody – on all sides of this conflict – who has committed war crimes will be tried and punished for them, keeping in mind that there is no equivalence between crimes committed while resisting Apartheid and Occupation, and crimes committed while enforcing them. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/genocide-gaza-never-again
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