Breaking: Brown University reaches a deal with encampers. The encampers have agreed to clear encampment by 5p. In exchange the Brown Corp Board will vote on a divestment measure in October, among other concessions. Details TK

Columbia students singing a song evoking MLK's Poor People's Campaign — at the same hall students took in 1968 in protest of the Vietnam War & in 1985 calling to divest from apartheid South Africa — all while naming the hall after a 6-year-old girl killed in today's US-backed war

They always have some reason to thwart accountability for their friends, never seeing it as critical to peace and stability unless it's for their enemies. Sigh.

#ICC urged by G7 states to delay possible war crimes charges against Israel and Hamas: theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/2…

.António Guterres says it is imperative that 'independent international investigators, with forensic expertise, are allowed immediate access to the sites' of mass graves in #Gaza 'to establish the precise circumstances under which hundreds of Palestinians lost their lives and

Why is Netanyahu's coalition insistent on assaulting Rafah? Finance Minister Smotrich explains: “We must destroy Rafah….wipe out the memory of Amalek! …There's no half measure. absolute destruction!”

Israeli scholar of the Holocaust Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב argues that accusations of antisemitism levied at campus protests against Israel's occupation of Palestine are disingenuous.

“There’s nothing threatening about opposing occupation or oppression.'

Netanyahu vowed to invade Rafah “with or without” a temporary ceasefire deal, where over 1.5 million Palestinians are displaced.

The Biden admin called this deal “extraordinarily generous.”

A 40 day ceasefire is just a pause in this genocide. We need a permanent ceasefire now.

A military assault on Rafah would be an unbearable escalation, killing thousands more civilians & forcing hundreds of thousands to flee.
 
It would have a devastating impact on Palestinians in Gaza, with serious repercussions on the occupied West Bank & across the wider region.

Notable—unlike other schools, Wesleyan Uni says it will not clear an encampment so long as it remains non-violent:
'This morning you can find pro-Palestinian protestors camped out…as long as we all reject violence, we have opportunities to listen and to learn from one another.'

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The International Criminal Court is being warned by members of Congress in both parties that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with U.S. retaliation.

Legislation to that effect is already in the works.

Andrew Solender scoops

No words.

Bassem Tamimi, father of Ahed Tamimi, is still in Israeli prison after serving 6 months under administrative detention.

He was supposed to be released yesterday, but an Israeli military court extended his detention another 6 months. He hasn't been charged with anything.

Jewish Columbia professor: “I don't think that people think that Israel is a unique example of evil in the world….[but] it couldn’t do what it’s doing without the support of the United States. So students in the U.S. think: ‘We have a responsibility.’”

Protesting war is not anti-semitism, it’s a display of our free speech rights.

Student protests at UW–Madison are reminiscent of the anti-war protests of the 60s that helped end the Vietnam War.

We must protect all students from anti-semitism & Islamophobia. Always.

I'm calling on the Irish government to back the Freedom Flotilla trying to get essential food and supplies to Gaza. They urgently need a flag to fly under. Can you sign? my.uplift.ie/petitions/allo… via Uplift

Netanyahu vows Israeli Rafah invasion 'with or without' hostage deal haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Incredibly disturbing report.

Netanyahu and the IDF are walking lock-step with the events of the Bosnian Genocide, Srebrenica.

Women, children and elderly forcibly displaced outside of the enclave.

Military-aged men made to remain as targets.

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Clarification: The #ICC can exercise jurisdiction over *citizens* of non-state parties if they perpetrate crimes on the territory of state parties.

So, the ICC has jurisdiction over Russian perpetrators in Ukraine and it has jurisdiction over Israeli atrocities in Palestine.

McGill “will only negotiate on us leaving”, not 'in any negotiation abt our actual demands. Our fundamental demand is total divestment from all companies supporting or complicit in the current genocide & occupation of Palestine” - #McGill protest organizer theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

US position remains that the #ICC should not investigate or prosecute Hamas leaders or Israeli officials, bc the Court doesn't 'have jurisdiction'👇

Remember tho: the 🇺🇸 supports ICC investigations into Russian and Burmese perpetrators; neither 🇷🇺or 🇲🇲have signed up to the ICC.