In April @HRW concluded that Israeli authorities are committing the crime of apartheid. Our report was covered by dozens of global media outlets. But in Australia, the publicly funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently tried to restrict its reporters’ use of the word.

Incredible footage of Int'l Criminal Court Prosecutor Bensouda’s visit to #Darfur Kalma IDP camp. Crowds chanting welcome ICC and demanding transfer of other suspects to the Court #Sudan

More than 50 former prime ministers, foreign ministers and senior officials call on European governments to shield the ICC from external pressures and threats — specifically in relation the court's ongoing #Palestine investigation. bit.ly/3i7H5CX

.Human Rights Watch urges all states at #HRC special session on #OPT & #Israel to support a standing #COI to advance accountability & address root causes: 'when it comes to ending the crimes of apartheid and persecution, there are no bystanders.' hrw.org/news/2021/05/2…

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With Israel’s latest round of bombing in the Gaza Strip over, the standard whitewashing is likely next:
Israel will probably soon announce it is looking into several “exceptional incidents” related to the bombings.

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Tomorrow, United Nations Human Rights Council members will vote on launching investigation into Israeli-Palestinian violence & abuses.

EU countries mostly failed to support such inquiries in the past👇

Time to apply same standards of int'l law & human rights to Israel/Palestine as elsewhere in the world.

The UK is opposed to the ICC's #Palestine investigation. The cycle of violence is the predictable result of past violations for which virtually no one responsible was held to account. States that don't address this impunity play a role in its consequences. bit.ly/3agPSOx

A must-read by UN expert Michael Lynk on Canada's incoherent, disingenuous, and harmful policy on Israel/Palestine. As he rightly notes, 'our government has found itself holding back the arc of justice.' thestar.com/opinion/contri… Omar Shakir Eric Goldstein Global Affairs Canada

No mention of the occupation. Of settlements. Of human rights abuses.

A tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid #Lebanon 's economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials.

The Biden administration should endorse the calls of 25 lawmakers to support an impartial UN-led investigation into the #BeirutBlast - a demand of many victims' families.

The domestic investigation has been marked by little more than obstruction & delay.
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Valentina Azarova was offered the job of director of the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto. Then a major donor to the law school expressed concerns about her work on the Israeli occupation, and her offer was rescinded. nyer.cm/cPom73E

We're holding a special session on “the grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem” on 27 May 2021 at 10:00 CET.

ℹ️ #SS30 INFO ow.ly/9o5i50ETzUl
📺 #SS30 WATCH webtv.un.org

Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot is asked whether #Palestine authorities will accept accountability for war crimes at the ICC at minute 1:30

“We want the full enforcement of international law & we will accept it upon ourselves before we accept it on others.”