#the us is complicit in genocide

[news4dzhozhar]

#gaza under genocide #the us is complicit in genocide #israel is committing genocide #icj #international court of justice #south africa #israel is an apartheid state #apartheid #collective punishment #ethnic cleansing #illegal settlements #illegal occupation #save palestine #free palestine 🇵🇸 #israeli war crimes #gaza under siege #gaza under attack #stolen future #stolen culture #stolen lives #stolen land #stand up for humanity #stand with palestine #stop the killing #ceasefire #this was never about hamas #seek the truth

[unethicalexperiments]

By Mick Krever, CNN

Updated 3:27 PM EST, Fri February 2, 2024

In a statement obtained by CNN, the officials say there is a “plausible risk that our governments’ policies are contributing to grave violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes and even ethnic cleansing or genocide.”

They accuse their governments of failing to hold Israel to the same standards they apply to other countries and weakening their own “moral standing” in the world.

Among them are around 80 United States officials and diplomats, a source told CNN.

In an unprecedented display of coordinated dissent since Israel’s war against Hamas began nearly four months ago, the signatories call on their governments to “use all leverage” to secure a ceasefire and to stop saying that there is a “a strategic and defensible rationale behind the Israeli operation.”

The public letter, released Friday, comes a week after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found South Africa’s claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza to be “plausible,” and ordered Israel to “take all measures” to limit the death and destruction caused by its military campaign, prevent and punish incitement to genocide, and ensure access to humanitarian aid.

The statement “shows the depths of concerns and outrage and just horror that all of us are witnessing,” a US official with more than 25 years’ experience, who signed the letter, told CNN on Friday.

“The talking points that keep being delivered day after day are not cutting it.”

The US official told CNN that the signatories were motivated by their shared experience of having their concerns be ignored by their governments and by “the appropriateness” of public dissent by civil servants when ignored internally.

The official added that the ICJ’s decision to hear a genocide case lodged against Israel was validation for the authors’ concerns. Israel has strenuously denied accusations of genocide in Gaza.

“What was really important for those of us on the US side was to link arms with the people in Europe who believe their governments are following the US lead, and feel constrained by that,” the official said. “So we thought it was important that US officials continue to make clear their concerns with government policy on this.”

The statement, which does not list its signatories, says that it was “coordinated” by civil servants in European Union institutions, The Netherlands, and the United States, and endorsed by civil servants in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Despite the letter not listing its authors, the US official told CNN many colleagues feared losing their jobs, and that the lower number of US signatories reflected stronger protections for official dissents in Europe.

CNN has asked the U.S. State Department, the European Union, and the Dutch Foreign Ministry for a response to the statement. CNN has also reached out to the Israeli government for a response.

A senior British civil servant told CNN of the letter: “We feel that politicians have responded to the evolving situation, evinced by the Foreign Secretary’s words this week.”

The Dutch Foreign Ministry, in a statement to CNN, said that while civil servants are entitled to freedom of expression, they are subject to some limitations under Dutch law.

“It is only natural that the debate in society about the conflict between Israel and Hamas also exists within our ministry. We feel that there should be scope for this debate and we encourage staff to enter into dialogues internally. And these dialogues are taking place.”

‘We are obliged to do everything in our power’

In the letter, the officials say that they raised concerns internally within their governments and institutions, but their professional concerns have often been overruled “by political and ideological considerations.”

“We are obliged to do everything in our power on behalf of our countries and ourselves to not be complicit in one of the worst human catastrophes of this century,” they write.

Israel’s policies, they argue, are counterproductive to its own national security goals.

“Israel’s military operations have disregarded all important counterterrorism expertise gained since 9/11; and that the operation has not contributed to Israel’s goal of defeating Hamas and instead has strengthened the appeal of Hamas, Hezbollah and other negative actors.”

They say that Western support for Israel has come “without real conditions or accountability.”

“Our governments’ current policies weaken their moral standing and undermine their ability to stand up for freedom, justice, and human rights globally and weaken our efforts to rally international support for Ukraine and to counter malign actions by Russia, China and Iran,” they say.

Finally, they call on their governments to “develop a strategy for lasting peace that includes a secure Palestinian state and guarantees for Israel’s security, so that an attack like 7 October and an offensive on Gaza never happen again.”

CNN’s Luke McGee contributed reporting.

#talking to myself #the us is complicit in genocide

[xtruss]

Folks! Kick Genocidal Joe Biden, “The War Criminal, Demented and Complicit in Genocide in Gaza,” Out of Oval Office in 2024!

During U.S. primary elections this year, hundreds of thousands of voters have chosen "uncommitted" rather than endorse President Biden, who they say is complicit in genocide. Primary elections are used to determine the Democrat and Republican candidates for U.S. national elections. The grassroots movement began just a month before primary elections in Michigan - home to one of the largest Arab American populations - and quickly spread to other states.

#War Criminal & Genocidal Joe Biden #Uncommitted Criminal Biden #Gaza #Forever Palestine 🇵🇸 #Genocide in Gaza #US 🇺🇸 Complicit #US Primary Elections #Democ(Rats) | Rupubli(Cunts) #US Voters #Al-Jazeera English | TRT World 🌎

[jasontoddsthickthigh]

#free palestine #palestine #gaza strip #gaza #israel #free gaza #genocide #gaza genocide #justice for palestinians #ethnic cleansing #The US is complicit in the Gaza genecide #fuck the occupation #fuck the iof

[rivertalesien]

After ordering Palestinians to Rafah (for "safety"), Israel used the Super Bowl as cover to bomb them there.

They aired an ad, too.

(Al Jazeera live updates)

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#israel #genocide #super bowl #free palestine #evil #what else can you call this? #and no one can stop it #except us #but that means not watching the super bowl #and actually getting in the way of business as usual #otherwise we're all just complicit #yeah that's a guilt trip #hang it in your closet

[serpuntine]

#free palestine #from the river to the sea #from the river to the sea Palestine will be free #Al adissa #free gaza #israel is a terrorist state #US is complicit #usa is complicit #usa is committing genocide #eyes on rafah #eyes on palestine #eyes on gaza #current events #end the war on Palestine #palestine #gaza #israel

[puppyeared]

i have to say its a strange experience taking classes on branding and marketing while being vehemently anticapitalist and scorning the economic system

#i shit you not ill be in class and theyre talking abt how to make brands memorable and use words to describe their tone and feel #and at the same time i see starbucks endorsing genocide and greedflation and AI techbros scheming us into extinction #its extremely fucking dystopian. and its even worse when u have teachers telling u to use chatGPT and midjourney for #placeholder text and images. like damn. this is really the industry im going into huh #i feel complicit doing this because i want to pursue graphic design but its chilling to see ppl get really worked up abt branding #do u not feel used?? doesnt it feel like youre giving a faceless entity a mask to gloss over the ugly parts?? cuz i do #i get excited at the design and UX aspect of things like how people think and how design and user interfaces are planned around how #we think and act. but when the endgoal becomes marketing or doing it for companies it just feels like a waste #like i think this is what bill watterson meant when he didnt want calvin and hobbes to be commercialized #i dont want to do anything else unless it comes to that like i change my career path somewhere down the line. but fuck dude #im just gonna keep using unsplash and lorem ipsum as much as i can because i sure as hell dont wanna add to the problem if i cant solve it #yapping #vent

[hostilecityshowdown]

A Tweet and reply posted by Adeel Alam (also known as WWE's Mustafa Ali) to Twitter on November ninth, 2023, reading: "I’m being advised not speak about Palestine as it will hurt future financial opportunities & that I have a family to feed. As a father, how can I do that knowing there are fathers right now digging their dead children out from rubble? I chose people over profit. #CeasefireForGaza"

and: "My sincere hope is that we all see that innocent lives are being destroyed. Hate will continue and will be passed down. The call for peace has to be louder than the violence."

#[ colour commentary ] #palestine #adeel alam #wwe #this is so fucking sinister. he also moved accounts recently/changed his url and i assume it is related to how outspoken he is regarding #the genocide of palestinians. there is no shame in using your platform to advocate for people being slaughtered. #there is only shame in complicit silence.

[astraystayyh]

it's been nearly three months since we went through an earthquake and each night when i go to bed i still feel the bed shaking underneath and i have to stand up and stare at my lamp to see if im just imagining things. i didn't even realize that the earthquake, which lasted for a mere minute, affected me this much until this started happening. so i can't even imagine the psychological repercussions that people in Palestine now face

to wake up to the sound of bombs everyday, to know that nowhere is safe, that there is nowhere to hide, to go to sleep not knowing if you'll still be alive tmrw, to write your name on your arm so that ppl would be able to identify you. all of this will leave such horrible horrible mental scars on all Palestinians i can't imagine the fear and the dread and the anxiety they must feel rn. my heart breaks for all of them it's horrible all of this is

#seeing how israel went back directly to murdering children #is just so #i lack the words to describe this entire ordeal #there is this dehumanization of palestinians and images of genocide that are shared everyday #almost as if people are getting used to it #to a mother apologizing to her 9 year old son because he was gone too soon #to a mother crying and reassuring her dead daughter that she would've made her a birthday party #no one should be getting used to these images #to this oppression to this brutalization to this genocide to this ethnic cleansing #please don't stop speaking up please please please #public pressure is what made israel sign a 4 day “truce” #we should turn it into a permanent ceasefire please don't become silent #silence is being complicit

[blinkpen]

grumbles

what if portfolio day but its as slick and professional looking an image every given non-coward artist can muster of a character they made or have worked on saying "ceasefire now" or "they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor" and clogging the tag to total uselessness with it

#limited edition ambiguously sarcastic vent posts i know i'd get eviscerated for posting on twitter itself lmao #'this would keep me from getting hired' only by people who want you to be quiet and remain complicit about genocide #almost like any industry that puts you in that position should be burned to the ground or something #they're already trying to replace us more and more with fucking AI they don't have to pay or get backtalk from #megacorps have no loyalty to you why do you burn your morals to ashes to remain loyal to them #(-as i gently cup your face with my reassuring and also jewish hands- it is not antisemitic to say war crimes. are war crimes.) #(human lives will always be more important than arbitrary fucking lines in the dirt of this earth on which we were all meant to walk freely

[bijoumikhawal]

a lot of the talk about Bushnell is reminding me of my "the "mentally ill" have their right to violence revoked" thing again

like. When you're deemed mentally ill, suddenly you must stress how you are more likely to be a victim of violence than a perpetrator to be deemed as human. Because any violence you commit, as a crazy person, is bad. It cannot carry rationale, because you are crazy. If I, as an autistic person, hit someone who was hurting me and got in legal trouble, I can be referred to as just "crazy" instead of as a victim responding to an aggressor. It's an underdiscussed area of dehumanization.

And that's before we talk about intersectionality, and before we talk about how this factors into the idea of ODD, and the "violent" responses patients have to doctors (including those who simply aren't white, and those forced on meds that hurt them, and those resisting sexual assault, and-).

But this is not just interpersonally political, it is political at scale. Black men were targeted by schizophrenia diagnoses during the Civil Rights era (and this is also around when schizophrenia became a "scary" illness). The crazy cannot have valid political criticisms, as a movement (remember that being "crazy" is a vector of oppression abd marginalization) or as individuals in other movements.

Ive seen both the sentiment of "oh Aaron is gonna be slandered as crazy" and exactly what the sentiment warns of- "we can't valorize suicide from the mentally ill". And the first isn't wrong, because society at large does view the "crazy" as lacking political agency, but it's lacking.

Bushnell had been trying very hard to get out of his military contract without being imprisoned at best, while witnessing genocide and knowing he was complicit. He may not have had clinical depression normally, but that would inspire a mental rational response of situational depression (and yes, mental health issues can be a rational response to horrible circumstances). Further, I know of instances of self immolation that WERE done by people who did have long standing mental health issues and were done to protest the treatment they'd experienced that caused them and that resulted from their existence. Mental illness and divergence from the norm is more complicated than just "these people are incapable of rationality, they are incapable of political thought, and they are incapable of agency".

#cipher talk #Aaron Bushnell #Ask to tag #Self immolation #Suicide tw #I'm thinking about how like. Chloe Sagal did what she did to protest how she was treated as a mentally ill trans woman and highlighted #Her mental illness and struggle with homelessness primarily. And it WAS a political protest #The only really. Sensible thing I've seen on this about how it was a suicide was 1) someone pointing out some people may relapse in #Response to this WITHOUT delegitimizing his actions and sharing helpline sources #And 2) another person pointing out it'd be absurd to accuse hunger strikers of promoting eating disorders #Like. You know what I think soldiers who are complicit in genocide probably DO develop mental health problems #And I see the idea that they do used in some pretty batshit ways recently! #But so- so fucking what #Resistance fighters and genocide victims have mental health issues too #Why is it for soldiers ignored or used to dehumanize victims until of the soldiers turns is gun away from them? #What's next am I gonna watch people delegitimize the actions of Palestinian resistance and the Bielskis and fucking #Unistʼotʼen as the actions of people who 'just have mental health issues' and therefore can't be political? #We also have the similar protests of Black people (two in the last 6 months) being swept aside

[news4dzhozhar]

They REALLY need to come up with a new card to play. You can't accuse the majority of the planet of being Hamas and/or antisemites because you are FINALLY being expected to be held accountable. Laws and rules applying to your GOVERNMENT have nothing to do with your religion. It is YOU that continue to conflate the 2 because it's the only (tired) "defense" you can come up with. Ridiculous!

#no accountability #accountability isnt anti semitism #israel isnt above the law #grow up #fuck around and find out #israel is committing genocide #genocide #the US is complicit in genocide #israel is an apartheid state #apartheid #ethnic cleansing #collective punishment #illegal occupation #stand with palestine #stand up for humanity #international humanitarian law #international court of justice #icj #israeli war crimes #save palestine #free palestine 🇵🇸 #the world is watching #stolen futures #stolen culture #stolen lives #stolen land #stolen history #settler colonialism #netanyahu is a war criminal #the entire Israeli government are genocidal sociopaths

[qvincvnx]

takes the word zionist and puts it on the high shelf

#eli gold voice. stop tweeting. #when i see it being used it is being used to mean everything from 'us jew' to 'israeli' to 'actively complicit in genocide' and that is not #helpful or productive. and frankly it has become a word that means nothing. which means it's great at dogwhistling.

[the-bitch-in-the-tower]

Billionaires discuss $50 million anti-Hamas media blitz | Semafor

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #gaza strip #israel #palestinian genocide #ethnic cleansing #us politics #the media is complicit #media corruption #tax the rich

[winterf4iryy]

#genuinely genuinely so dystopian #i cant even comprehend how this isn’t what people are talking about 24/7 #the way people can go about their lives as normal #i feel like im going insane #not to mention people literally CHOOSING to be silent and not reshare stuff and just turn away from this #or worse say they’re uneducated and they don’t want to pick a side #like oh im sorry #get educated then? #also i didn’t know you had to have a pHD to know that a genocide is horrific and should never happen. #i thought we learned that in history class? #shame on all of you who aren’t using their platform right now #fuck you actually #wonder how you’ll tell people in the future that you were complicit in genocide and stood by #watching while it happened #free palestine 🇵🇸

[queenpinkireellylikethisname]

According to Al Jazeera's correspondent in Rafah, an investigation led by Gaza's civil defense teams revealed that at least 20 bodies found in mass graves near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis were buried alive.

Source: Quds News Network. As of 25th April 2024.

#khan younis #Khan Younis hospital #Palestine #Gaza #Israel is committing genocide #israel is an apartheid state #free palestine #Israel #US is complicit in genocide #USA #US