Joe Ballesteros

Decades of injustice will finally face scrutiny. ICJ hearings on Israel's illegal occupation starts on Monday. 52 countries & 3 int'l organizations will participate in the oral proceedings, more than in any other case in ICJ's history since 1946. hrw.org/news/2024/02/1…

🚨The route and accessible route for the March for Palestine on Saturday 17 February have been confirmed 🇵🇸 The march will assemble at Marble Arch, (Speakers' Corner) at 12 noon and marching to the Israeli Embassy. The accessible route can be found here: shorturl.at/begyB

Even Margret Thatcher put a decade long embargo on sending arms to Israel. Somebody who is currently braiding the devils hair.

BREAKING: Israel's "denying me entry" is not news: Israel has denied entry to ALL Special Rapporteurs/oPt since 2008! This must not become a distraction from Israel's atrocities in Gaza, which are taking a new level of horror with the bombing of people in 'safe areas' in #Rafah.

Unsophisticated Muslims v sophisticated Jews. The bigotry is off the charts @GuidoFawkes. Wonder where he puts blacks in his barometer of sophistication?

.@andrewfeinstein – an anti-zionist Jewish former ANC MP under Nelson Mandela is, just on those terms, the perfect candidate to challenge the disingenuous Keir Starmer. But more than that, he's a brilliant speaker with moral courage. middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-and…

Few people can explain the situation in #Gaza with the sober clarity of @YousefHammash - who, like other Gazans, is living through hell

We got hold of Israel’s dossier against UNRWA - why did the donors including the UK withdraw funding on such flimsy unproven allegations before an investigation? channel4.com/news/israels-e…

The Israeli Haaretz newspaper interviews the army's 'ethics' chief, Asa Kasher, of Tel Aviv university, about two major incidents on October 7: 1. An Israeli commander ordered a tank to fire into a home in Kibbutz Be'eri knowing that there were 14 Israeli civilians inside, incinerating them. 2. Israeli helicopters fired missiles at dozens of cars with Israeli hostages inside, killing the inhabitants, again often by incinerating them. In both cases, the official Israeli narrative is that Hamas was responsible for these 'barbaric' acts, supposedly justifying the genocide Israel is carrying out – 'in response' – against the civilian Palestinian population of Gaza. Haaretz and Kasher ascribe these 'friendly fire' incidents to Israel's classified 'Hannibal directive', which requires soldiers to stop Israelis being taken hostage at all costs. Kasher thinks – probably wrongly – that the directive was misunderstood and misapplied by commanders on the day. Urging an immediate investigation, Kasher says of the first incident: "How is it possible that a high ranking army official would give a command that so immediately and definitely endangers the life of so many civilians? It's just horrifying." And he says of the second incident: "This sounds totally unacceptable from every aspect. Against orders. Against procedure. Against values. Against ethics. And possibly against the law." Efforts to re-examine the Israeli government's October 7 narrative are all over the *Israeli* media. Many of the families of the Israelis killed on October 7 are demanding an investigation. So how is it possible that the BBC and the rest of the western media keep revisiting the horrors of October 7 but *never* to raise these issues , even though they have been so prominent in the Israeli public space for many weeks? The only possible answer is that western media outlets are *consciously* censoring this story because it directly conflicts with the West's ideological and strategic agenda. It raises disturbing questions about western complicity in genocide. Once again, the establishment media's unwillingness to report the real story starkly gives the lie to their claim to be 'free and fearless'. In truth, they are there to uphold a narrative of western moral and civilisational superiority. They are there to justify the West's wars – and the war industry and resource-grab portfolios that our economies, and the media corporations themselves, are so heavily invested in. The Haaretz story can be read here: archive.ph/Mn6MD My own discussion of Israel's killing of its own citizens can be read here: middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel…

LIVE: Watch ICJ hearings in South Africa's genocide case against Israel ... youtube.com/live/g2vQ7suQW… via @YouTube

Idiot BBC reporter asks #Yemen official why they support #Palestine because its far away from Yemen. Response "Do Biden and Netanyahu live in the same apartment "? 😅 #GazaGenocide

🇵🇸 Palestinian woman shot in Gaza whilst holding the hand of her child, who is waving a white flag. This is just diabolical.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 I genuinely don't believe there's a more evil country than Israel. Israel has just killed the eldest son of journalist, Wael Dahdouh. Israel has now killed: - 2 of his sons - His wife - His Daughter - His grandson May God ease his pain and punish those responsible.

Mutilation of dead bodies is prohibited under international law, but what does it matter. Israel gleefully shares evidence of war crimes for the world to see. Only difference between this and the atrocities committed by ISIS/Assad's forces is that Israel is cheered by the West.

The shame of Western journalists who couldn't even spare a passing sentence about the biggest massacre of their colleagues in modern times should haunt them for the rest of their lives.

ISRAELI ACTIONS IMPLEMENTED IN BATH UK

If this were happening in an Arab or Muslim country, the corporate mainstream media would commission endless think pieces about a culture that thinks ethnic cleansing is hilarious

There are two striking features about Israel's massacre of Gaza: - Rarely has a state so openly, unapologetically and repeatedly boasted of its war crimes - Rarely has the Western media so shamelessly underreported such grave war crimes committed by a state

A reminder that Channel 13 journalist Zvi Yehezkeli admitted Israel purposefully murdered the family of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh: “Generally we know the target. For example today there was a target: the family of an Al Jazeera reporter..”

.@mashagessen (to the extreme dismay of the German hosts at @BoellStiftung's event) "The biggest difference between #Gaza and the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe is that Gazans ... are still alive and the world still has an opportunity to do something about it."