
Omar Shakir
@omarsshakir
Israel and Palestine Director, Human Rights Watch (@hrw). Formerly @theccr & @slshumanrights.
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Repeating platitudes about the peace process/solutions at today's UN conference wont suffice to meet states' Genocide Convention duties—they should commit to sanctions, arms embargoes & suspension of preferential trade deals w Israel to stop its extermination of Palestinians Human Rights Watch


.B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم & Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) have joined Palestinian & intl orgs calling Israel’s actions in Gaza what they are: Genocide. Crucially, B’Tselem highlights how decades of settler-colonial apartheid laid the groundwork for the #GazaGenocide through systematic violence against Palestinians


Update: a source tells me Ursula von der Leyen is tabling the motion to partially suspend Israel’s access to Horizon. So it will likely be adopted by the Commission. Tomorrow the members states will decide whether to support the proposal.



NEW from Senator Angus King: “I cannot defend the indefensible…I am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government and will advocate—and vote—for an end to any United States support whatsoever until there is a demonstrable change in the direction of Israeli policy”




Amid growing consensus that #Israel is committing #genocide, almost 2 years on, the EU is “proposing a partial suspension of 🇮🇱’s participation into a research programme” Read that again. This is appalling, embarrassing, and wholly inadequate, Ursula von der Leyen #SuspendTheDeal






