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4 weeks ago | 
znetwork.org | Abubaker Abed |Amy Goodman |Justice Palestine
We go to Gaza for a report on the brutal conditions of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians from Abubaker Abed, a 22-year-old journalist who has recently been diagnosed with malnutrition as a result of Israel’s total siege of the Gaza Strip. “It’s unending misery,” says Abed. “We’re here stranded.
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1 month ago | 
znetwork.org | Juan Cole |Justice Palestine
The civil society human rights NGO DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now) has submitted a detailed filing to the International Criminal Court in the Hague urging that Joe Biden, Tony Blinken and Lloyd Austin be indicted for war crimes for their deep involvement in prosecuting the genocide in Gaza.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | Katy Fox-Hodess |Rafeef Ziadah |Justice Palestine
In a resounding display of international solidarity, members of the Swedish Dockworkers Union (SDU) voted by 68 percent in December to block the handling of military shipments to and from Israel. The Swedish government continues to trade arms with Israel.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | Stan Cox |Justice Palestine
In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its allies in Congress may or may not pursue. No one can predict with certainty which of those measures they will inflict on us and which they’ll forget about. But we can make one prediction with utter confidence.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | Ramzy Baroud |Featured Law |Justice Palestine
A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil. Vagdani was accused by a Palestinian advocacy legal group, the Hind Rajab Foundation, of carrying out well-documented crimes in Gaza. He is not the only Israeli soldier being pursued for similar crimes.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Marjorie Cohn |Justice Palestine
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) stunning issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity is a major game changer. After years of impunity, the chickens unleashed by Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza have finally come home to roost. These charges against Netanyahu and Gallant are momentous.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Catherine Gegout |Europe Poland’s Law |Justice Palestine
The EU has stood in solidarity with Israel since the start of the war with Hamas, and has been consistent in saying the country has the right to defend itself. But the EU has always said that this has to be done in line with international law, which Israel has been accused of breaching. In July 2024 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) advised that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories was unlawful.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Binoy Kampmark |Justice Palestine
The timing, as with so much in the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was most appropriate. The Israeli Knesset had signalled its intent on crippling and banishing the sole agency of humanitarian worth for Palestinian welfare by passing laws criminalising its operations by 92 to 10 on October 28. The attack on UNRWA also came with a contemporaneous legal effort, this time from South Africa.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Arturo Desimone |Justice Palestine
Defenders of Palestinian rights need to demand more serious diplomacy, especially from the Global South, in a world of European and Middle Eastern docility and Latin American bravado without content.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Igor Böhm |Justice Palestine
“When a state carries out aggression, its propaganda system has the responsibility to justify the act and suppress the reasons for it in favour of acceptable pretexts.” — Noam Chomsky 1One essential talent, in the aftermath of Hamas’ October 7th, 2023 armed operation against Israel, is an exceptional tolerance for contradiction.
