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exador23, 27 days ago to random

#Genocide in #Gaza: Analysis of International Law and its Application to Israel’s Military Actions since October 7, 2023

The University Network for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School have conducted a thorough legal analysis of Israel’s acts since October 7 - and concludes Israel is in clear violation of the Genocide Convention

Press Release/Summary: https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/genocide-in-gaza

Full Report pdf: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b3538249d5abb21360e858f/t/6644b96c59a09c12e6939533/1715779949018/Genocide+in+Gaza+-+Final+version+051524+Clean.pdf

exador23, 1 month ago to random

UN Special Rapporteur nails the situation in Gaza. It's ethnic cleansing, genocide, domicide, and a "a very grave war crime under international law, particularly given Israel’s status as an occupying power."

He likens it to a 'turkey shoot':

"They are just doing target practice on the people of Gaza"

exador23, 30 days ago to random

When you're talking to your mom and have to cut it short because a tornado siren is going off at her location.

exador23, 1 month ago to random

White sage in bloom. Seems a little early.

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exador23, 1 month ago to random

Reuters: Dozens of students walked out of Duke University’s commencement ceremony as some chanted “free Palestine” to protest against the guest speaker, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, for supporting Israel throughout its war on Gaza

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He doesn't just support Israel in the genocide. His wife FUNDED the astroturf pro-genocide protestors who violently attacked the UCLA encampment. should not be allowed anywhere near a campus and students.

exador23, 1 month ago to random

hmm. I'm seeing whitish gray smoke over near the ball fields in Debs Park.

concerning, but I can't see flames directly, and I don't know if there are BBQ pits over there, so don't want to call the fire department unnecessarily.

exador23, 1 month ago to random

Times are tough. squatting inside a grocery store sign. lol.

https://www.ourmidland.com/news/police_and_courts/article/woman-makes-grocery-store-sign-home-trespassed-19446632.php

The woman, whom police nicknamed the "Rooftop Ninja," lived inside the store sign for about a year, Warren said. Inside her dwelling, she had a mini desk, flooring, a pantry of food and even a houseplant.

exador23, 1 month ago to random

Space Weather Watch: An EXTREME (G5, Kp=9) geomagnetic storm is currently in progress.

This is the strongest solar storm to impact Earth since October 2003.

If the storm holds at this strength, aurora may be seen as far south as southern Texas, Florida, and Mexico this evening.

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Holy cow. might we actually see it in #SoCal?

exador23, 1 month ago to random

DemocracyNow: Two accidents on Boeing 737 passenger jets took place Thursday. In Senegal, a 737-300 caught fire & skidded off the runway as it was preparing to take off, injuring at least 10 people. In Turkey, a tire on a Boeing 737-800 aircraft burst upon landing. The 190 people on board were safely evacuated. Just 1 day earlier, a Boeing 767 FedEx plane landed at Istanbul airport without its front landing gear deployed, its nose hitting the runway.

The trio of accidents come as another whistleblower formerly employed by Boeing’s largest supplier, came forward. Santiago Paredes told reporters he used to regularly find up to 200 defects on fuselages that were being delivered to Boeing.

exador23, 1 month ago to random

Noga Tarnopolsky reports a large fire in Northern Israel after a barrage of Hezbollah rockets from Lebanon.

exador23, 1 month ago to random

Aid truck drivers stuck on the Egyptian side of #Rafah crossing are worried that the food they're carrying is going to spoil a few miles away from starving people.

Seige warfare and forced starvation is a #WarCrime.

exador23, 1 month ago to Israel

#Israel outlawed #AlJazeera before invading #Rafah for a reason. It's the only source of trusted journalism left.

Things getting really bad there right now. I suggest their live blog to bear witness to the #Genocide. It's being called #NightOfFire

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/10/israels-war-on-gaza-live-aid-operation-completely-crippled-amid-attacks

IDF are conducting operations in several areas of Rafah city, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, while reports are emerging of heavy clashes between Palestinian armed groups and Israel’s military in the east of the city.

Video showed a Palestinian family cowering in a residence as the sounds of heavy machine-gun fire & explosions could be heard nearby in what is being described as a “night of fire”

exador23, 1 month ago to random

AlJazeera: Patients and staff are being forced out of hospitals across #Rafah as Israel’s attacks on the city intensify, leaving many sick and wounded Palestinians with no way to be treated.

“We have no beds, no hospitals to refer [people to], especially for critical patients,” Palestinian doctor Mohammed Zaqout said.

“Al-Najjar Hospital is out of service. And the Kuwaiti Hospital [in Rafah] is just for trauma and emergency,” he added.

exador23, 1 month ago to Belgium

Reports that a #Belgium TV channel interrupted #Eurovision with a message about Israel’s genocide and repression of the free press.

“This is a union action. We condemn the human rights violations committed by Israel. Additionally, Israel is destroying press freedom. That is why we are pausing the broadcast for a moment. #CeaseFireNow #StopGenocide"

#Union action

exador23, 1 month ago to random

Conditions in #Rafah continue to deteriorate in what UNRWA describes as a scorched earth medieval siege.

AlJazeera:

exador23, 1 month ago to Canada

BC Wildfire Service: Under current & forecasted conditions, fire activity is expected to increase across northeast BC. A dry cold front is expected to cross the Fort Nelson zone mid-afternoon Friday. Wind gusts may exceed 70kph & shift direction rapidly.

These conditions are likely to contribute to continued new growth on holdover fires from the 2023 season, resulting in visible smoke from Fort Nelson and along the Alaska Hwy and Hwy77 corridors. https://blog.gov.bc.ca/bcwildfire/fire-activity-expected-to-increase-in-northeastern-bc/

#Canada #Wildfire #BritishColumbia #FireWx #ClimateCrisis

exador23, 1 month ago to random

Recap of the day's events in #Gaza from AlJazeera.

It's pretty clear that the invasion of #Rafah has begun. Biden's "red line" was scribed with invisible ink.

exador23, 1 month ago to random

The savagery and violence of some Israeli citizens needs to be reigned in. Maybe if their police forces weren't busy assaulting families of the hostages protesting for a ceasefire to bring their relatives home, they could bring some rule of law to their citizenry.

Without strong action by the Israeli government, we should consider them a failed pariah state, not 'the only democracy in the mideast'

Philippe Lazzarini is the Commissioner-General of
#UNRWA

Over the past months, UN staff have regularly been subjected to harassment and intimidation. Our compound has been seriously vandalized and damaged. On several occasions, Israeli extremists threatened our staff with guns. It is the responsibility of the State of Israel as an occupying power to ensure that United Nations personnel and facilities are protected at all times. UN staff, premises and operations should be protected at all times in line with international law. I call on all those who have influence to put an end to these attacks and hold all those responsible accountable. The perpetrators of these attacks must be investigated and those responsible must be held accountable. Anything less will set a new dangerous standard. Photo from video of a building encased in smoke and showing the grass burnt around the perimeter.

exador23, 1 month ago to random

Important read. It definitely feels like this is more than an small operation. This is a rare report on the current conditions in #Rafah from an American former career military man now the deputy director of UNRWA...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/israel-rafah-scott-anderson-unrwa-00156924

What we’re seeing today is an increase in the amount of people that are displacing from Rafah, not just the areas that were given evacuation orders but across Rafah itself. Roads are quite clogged. UNRWA had seven shelters inside the evacuation zone, all emptied. Each one had 5,000-7,000 people. We’ve seen a larger presence from the IDF on the ground. There were strikes today further West into Rafah town proper, well outside of the evacuation zone.

exador23, 1 month ago to Israel

Another victory for the student protestors. Trinity College in #Dublin has announced they will divest from #Israel.

https://trinitynews.ie/2024/05/breaking-trinity-to-work-towards-total-divestment-from-israel-in-unprecedented-win-for-bds/

Trinity has agreed to work towards total divestment from Israeli institutions in an unprecedented victory for Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (#BDS).

Trinity encampment protestors, who have camped in Fellows’ Square for five nights, have unanimously agreed to accept College’s terms on cutting ties.

They have confirmed they will not officially leave the encampment at Fellows’ Square until College issues their own statement.

This statement is expected to be forthcoming this afternoon, meaning the encampment will end this evening.

exador23, 1 month ago to Columbia

Freelance Journalist (and labor activist) Talia Jane:

This morning, students at #Columbia University picketed outside the homes of three trustees.

At two of the three locations, random harassers suckerpunched student picketers. At one, a car drove into a student. NYPD arrested the victim.

The attacker is Reuven Kahane, a cousin of Meir Kahane, the late fascist founder of the JDL and the murderous #Kahanist movement in occupied Palestine

Student picketer who was struck by Kahane this morning was detained and is in the hospital, handcuffed to a bed, awaiting x-rays. Early reports of a wrist injury.

but wait... it gets worse...

exador23, 1 month ago to hiking

High Country News has a nice piece up today about #Hiking Trail #etiquette

When is it appropriate to call out bad trail etiquette? https://www.hcn.org/articles/when-is-it-appropriate-to-call-out-bad-trail-etiquette/

“Is this something that just bothers me specifically, or is this something that is a safety concern?”

If it’s something that endangers other people or the environment — throwing rocks off a cliff onto a trail below or building a campfire during a fire ban — Matias suggests reaching out to park officials. But if you’re in a wilderness setting, Mapp suggests acting with empathy & respect, rather than accusation. Start, for example, by learning where the other person is coming from and why they may be acting in a certain way.

exador23, 1 month ago to HipHop

Mackelmore just released a dope song called "Hind's Hall." #HipHop back to its resistance roots. proceeds to streaming go to UNRWA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJjWMq5JSs&rco=1

exador23, 1 month ago to random

Frustrated with DuckDuckGo. I need solid news searches.

When I read about something newsworthy, I like to read several articles on it. i.e. Saudi Arabia is arresting people for anti-Israel social media posts.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=saudi+arabia+crackdown+anti-israeli

Plenty of articles, except every single one of them when read references a Bloomberg report. But that report isn't in the search results, and of the derivative articles I've read, none of them link back to the source.

exador23, 1 month ago to random

Biden's comments today were the nail in the coffin on his re-election bid.

Students say Biden risks ‘losing entire generation of voters’ over his Gaza policy & condemnation of college protests. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/2/no-surprise-us-students-slam-bidens-comments-on-gaza-encampments

Biden did not comment on university policies or use of force by police. Nor did he remark on reports that pro-Israel demonstrators attacked demonstrators at the UCLA encampment this week. Instead, he said there is no place on college campuses for “anti-Semitism or threats of violence against Jewish students”

“For Biden to demonise us in this way is honestly incredibly disappointing. It paints a target on the backs of Arab, Muslim, Palestinian, anti-Zionist youth.”