Starmer yesterday: “I’m well aware of the definition of genocide & that is why I’ve never described this… as genocide”
Today: “A report from a UN special committee investigating Israeli practices says the war on Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide” pic.twitter.com/E4tjDcjZCo
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) November 14, 2024
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The UN has pretty limited ability to really do anything but whine. Unless you’re African, then they can send their crappy military force after you.
But they do have one thing they could do that would not be totally meaningless: they can ban the Jews from the UN. They could also ban the United States for supporting the Jews.
But they won’t.
A UN special committee has said that Israeli policies and practices in Gaza are “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”.
The committee, set up in 1968 to monitor the Israeli occupation, also said in its annual report that there were serious concerns that Israel was “using starvation as a weapon of war” in the 13-month-old conflict, and was running an “apartheid system” in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
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The developments over the past year had led the committee to conclude that “the policies and practices of Israel during the reporting period are consistent with the characteristics of genocide”, the report said.
“Civilians have been indiscriminately and disproportionally killed en masse in Gaza,” the report added. It also referred to the “life-threatening conditions imposed on Palestinians in Gaza through warfare and restrictions on humanitarian aid – resulting in physical destruction, increased miscarriages and stillbirths”.
The committee further accused Israel of deliberately using “food as a weapon of warfare”.
The whining isn’t totally meaningless, to be fair. We now have a droning of antisemitism going on throughout Western culture, and this is a very powerful and very good thing.
Whining is never as good as action, but when it comes to the Jews, simply talking about them is a big deal. When the whole society is talking about them, it becomes acceptable to talk about them, and then you can start saying the real shit.
“You’re still a genocide denier.”
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, criticised British Foreign Secretary David Lammy for refusing to label the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide during his address in the UK Parliament last month. pic.twitter.com/JSpBxHJ0Vm
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) November 14, 2024