A Palestinian Bedouin school boy walks in the village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank on September 16, 2018. (Photo: Wisam Hashlamoun/APA Images)
I first met Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, the Israeli peace and anti-apartheid activist, on a sunny spring Sunday in Jerusalem almost exactly seventeen years ago, in 2004. It was at the end of the second Intifada, and a few of us clambered into a van so that she and a colleague could give us a tour of what it was like to be a Palestinian living in the Occupied Territories. It was revelatory. We’ve remained friends ever since
Angela’s the director of Jahalin Solidarity, a non-profit dedicated to ending the forcible displacement of Palestinians and defending their rights, including self-determination and an end to the Israeli occupation of their land.
by Erin McCarley / May 26th, 2021
On this one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, I’m thinking about settler colonial nations who routinely spend great amounts of capital to militarily and politically repress indigenous and popular uprisings led by the most historically oppressed peoples of the world.
The United States and Israel two settler-colonial nation states whose drive to exterminate and replace indigenous peoples with settler colonists has led to unending repression and brutality for decades (in the case of Israel) and centuries (in the case of the United States). These two inherently genocidal projects also happen to be financially, materially, logistically and geopolitically intertwined. They depend on each other.
UN rights council adopts resolution to probe human rights violations by Israel
Palestinian representative at UN in Geneva welcomes resolution
2021-05-27 22:23:51
GENEVA
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday adopted a resolution that includes the urgent establishment of an international independent investigation commission to probe Israel s human rights violations.
The special session of the council, which was called to discuss the serious human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, ended with the adoption of the resolution put forward by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) coordinator, Pakistan, and the Palestinian state.
The council decides to urgently establish an ongoing independent, international commission of inquiry, to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council, to investigate in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel,” said the resolution.
UN body orders probe of systematic abuses in Israel, Palestinian areas The resolution, which passed with 24 of the council s 47 members in favour, will spur an unprecedented level of scrutiny on abuses and their root causes in the decades-long Middle East conflict. A Palestinian bakery worker holds bags of bread past the ruins of a building destroyed during the recent Israeli bombings, in Gaza City on 27 May 2021. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP
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GENEVA - The UN Human Rights Council decided Thursday to create an open-ended international investigation into violations surrounding the latest Gaza violence, and into systematic abuses in the Palestinian territories and inside Israel.