- john bart gerald(For greater detail see https://votepalestine.ca/platform). Over 300 candidates have endorsed the demands. For Canadians wishing to vote for a supporting candidate in their electoral district: https://votepalestine.ca/candidates.atelier genocide warnings suppressed news archives political prisoner updates * * *
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by john bart gerald
graphics by julie maas
2025
April 27, 2025
Canada: tomorrow is election day. The campaign has focused on challenges by U.S. President Trump to Canada's sovereignty and application of tariffs as an economic weapon. Calm and level-headed Liberal candidate Mark Carney is likely to win. Remarkably, against the North American norm a Canadian campaign has found a way to apply the Convention on Genocide, to the ballot. Canada is bound by the Convention to prevent genocide. Though heavily suppressed as a news issue resistance to the ongoing and impending genocide against Gaza has found expression in voting choices, beyond minimal mention of the issue in public debate. A "Vote Palestine" non-partisan movement offers for endorsement a five point program which both supports international law and resists genocide:
1.Two-way arms embargo on Israel;
2. Ending Canadian support for settlements;
3. Combat anti-Palestinian racism and protect pro-Palestine speech;
4. Recognizing the state of Palestine;
5. Funding Gaza relief efforts, including UNRWA.
April 19, 2025
Yemen: Houthi rebels of Yemen are presenting armed resistance to Israel's genocide of Gaza. The U.S. President has threatened to annhilate the Houthi rebels if they continue. U.S. planes are under orders to bomb at will and daily bombings on Yemen's civilian infrastructure are reported. Since the Convention on Genocide requires resistance to genocide U.S. policy makers and personnel involved in the mission are placed at eventual risk. Partial sources: "Yemen is acting responsibly to stop genocide and the U.S. is bombing them for it," Craig Mokhiber, April 1 2025, Mondoweiss; "Trump threatens Houthi rebels that they'll be 'completely annihilated' as airstrikes pound Yemen," Jon Gambrell, March 20, 2025, AP; "Heavy US Airstrikes Hit Yemen's Capital, at Least One Civilian Killed," April 16, 2025, Antiwar.com; "US bombing of Yemen compounding dire humanitarian situation - rights groups," Oliver Holmes, April 2, 2025, The Guardian.
Ottawa: on April 13th, Psalm Sunday, thirty thousand people gathered in front of Parliament to protest Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Jerusalem: Israel marked Psalm Sunday by bombing the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital. Located in Gaza City the hospital run by the Episcopal diocese of Jerusalem was put entirely out of commission with strikes on the emergency department, pharmacy and genetics lab. Partial sources: "Israel's attack on al-Alhi Hospital in Gaza City draws global condemnation, "April 13, 2025, Al Jazeera; "Israeli strike leaves Gaza City's last fully functioning hospital out of service as offensive escalates," Abeer Salman, Dana Karni, Ibrahim Dahman & Tim Lister, April 13, 2025, CNN.
April 2, 2025
Gaza: there's increasing evidence of intentional killing and execution of medical personnel, UN workers, and of the intention of genocide through the destruction of health care facilities and areas of refuge in Gaza. These war crimes appear normal amid other war crimes: the mass killing of women and children, the elderly and disabled, the civilian population. The Palestine Chronicle reports that 1402 medical personnel have been killed at work, 34 hospitals destroyed, and 240 other medical facilities incapacitated. 8 Red Crescent medics were recently found in a mass grave, many with their hands tied and bullet wounds to their heads among the bodies of 15 humanitarian workers in a medevac operation that responded to a distress request in the Rafah Governorate (the Israeli government has acknowledged the attack on ambulances). 280 UNWRA staff have been killed since the genocide began. On April 2nd the Israeli military bombed the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Jabalia camp clinic, with nine children among the dead. This account from a Canadian doctor currently at work gives some sense of what it's like to try to save children: "'Unforgivable': Diary of Gaza doctor dealing with mass child casualties after ceasefire," ITV News [access:< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfA-o64Ty84 >]. Nightslantern removed a previous account by a doctor requiring anonymity due to fear of retribution. Israel's targeting of medical personnel suggests the doctors who speak out are in danger and require full protection by the Canadian government, by the UN to uphold international law, and when evidence of war crimes is provided, by the international courts of justice. Partial sources: (increasingly journalists' names are being left out of their news stories due to the Israeli killing of journalists); "Over 1,500 Humanitarian Workers Killed in Gaza since October 2023," April 1, 2025, The Palestine Chronicle; "Over 1,500 humanitarian workers killed since start of Israel's war on Gaza: Media Office," Jomaa Younis and Rania Abu Shamala, April 1, 2025, Anadolu Agency; "Israeli army killed over 1,400 medical staff in Gaza since start of genocide: Officials," March 31, 2025, The Cradle.co; "US Blames Hamas for Israeli Execution of Palestinian Medics," Dave Decamp, March 31, 2025, antiwar.com; "Marked for Assassination - Gaza Journalists on Israeli Hit List Refuse to Stop Reporting," Sharif Abdel Kouddous, March 31, 2025, Drop Site; "Israel Bombs UN Clinic, Killing 22, Days After Gaza Medics Found in Mass Grave," Sharo Zhang, April 2, 2025, truthout; "Israel executes unarmed Red Crescent paramedics with the west's blessing," Ahmed Moor, April 2, 2025, The Guardian; "Evidence of 'execution-style' killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says," Malak A. Tamtesh, Lorenzo Tondo, Julian Borger, April 2, 2025, The Guardian; "Torture of Medical Workers in Israel - A Call for Urgent Action," Physicians for Human Rights - Israel, Feb. 26, 2025, Physicians for Human Rights.
March 27, 2025
Serbia: over 4000 individuals have launched a class action lawsuit against NATO for the effects of depleted uranium in the weapons used against Yugoslavia's civilian areas. Serbia has the second highest cancer rate in the world. After the NATO bombings in 2000 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia took NATO to court in Belgrade for bombings but the court decision was revoked. In 2001 Serbian lawyer Srdjan Aleksic took this issue again to court. The legal process is long and drawn out. While medical and genetic effects of D.U. are dismissed by NATO sources its dangers have been exposed and verified in suppressed news sources (Ie. re. Afghanistan: 1 2). U.S. weapons are known to employ depleted uranium. Reports of birth defects in Fallujah (Iraq) hospitals since the U.S. invasion are tragic. There are over four times as many cancer deaths in Yugoslavia since the U.S. bombing campaigns of civilian areas and facilities. In 2015 the European Union found an abnormal level of radioactivity in the Gazan soil. Reliable reporting on this issue is consistently denied the public. The U.S.-to- Israel supplied GBU guidance systems for 2000, 1000, and 250 lb bombs do not identify their 'payloads" which can include depleted uranium, The bombs are described in the Western press by the name of their guidance systems which disguises their payloads which contain either D.U. or tungsten. In 2023 Moscow based "Dances with Bears" (John Helmer) reports radioactive particles in the prevailing winds from Gaza indicating use of D.U.. The absolute suppression of news concerning radioactive levels is a strong indication of danger to the population. Genocide warning. . As in response to the current Israeli bombings of Lebanon news of current radioactive levels is not available. However in the new billion dollar U.S. arms supply for the Ukraine, the artillery shells for the M1 Abrams tanks supplied are specifically noted as carrying depleted uranium. RT reported the UK and U.S. supply of D.U. weaponry to the Ukraine as early as September 2023. The genocide warning continues for the Ukraine in a war where the fault rests either with the Russians who have countered a CIA / neo-Nazi takeover of ethnically Russian regions in the Ukraine, or with those trying to purchase the Ukraine's future. Partial sources: "UN report: Israeli use of heavy bombs in Gaza raises serious concerns under the laws of war," Press release, June 19, 2024, OHCHR; "VP/HR -- Gaza Strip and bombs with depleted uranium, " Miguel Viegas (GUE/NGL), March 3, 2015, European Parliament; "Is Israel using depleted uranium to bomb Lebanon?" Anis Germani, Sept. 4, 2024, Mondoweiss; "Crimes Against Humanity: Serbia's Lawsuit Against NATO. More Than 15 Tons of Uranium Bombs Dropped on Yugoslavia in 1999," Natali Milenkovic, March 24, 2025, Global Research; "Arduous legal battle against NATO for use of depleted uranium ammunition," Global Times, June 27, 2024, Global Times; "The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War," Laura Gottesdiener, Nov. 9, 2020, The Nation.
West Virginia: The Convention on Genocide notes vulnerable groups as defined by religion, race, ethnicity and nationality. Mexico understands the Convention to include political groups. I think humanity understands the Convention to include the mass killing of all vulnerable groups. The poor as a group are not specifically covered by U.S. interpretation of the Genocide Convention. Nor are the aged. Nor children. Amid the U.S. President's threats of closing Social Security which Americans are required to pay into through their entire working lives, are cuts made to programs and administration with closed offices and new regulations so people must visit an office or proceed online, options not availble to large portions of rural poor, particularly the elderly relying on telephone calls to the SS or support programs (now cut) for the aged. The attacks on Social Security are not just the beginning of a U.S. effort to wipe out its poor. A U.S. attempt to assure early death to its poor is endemic. As of 2024, 771,480 were at some point officially homeless during the previous year (USAfacts). In 2023 the statistics for medically uninsured was 26 million. The principally affected group is American Blacks. Genocide warning for the poor. Partial sources: "New Social Security requirements pose barriers to rural communities without internet, transportation," Leah Willingham, March 22, 2025, AP; "Elon Musk's DOGE Cuts Are Crashing Social Security," Hafiz Rashid, March 25, 2025, The New Republic.
March 18, 2025
Ottawa: the Kebaowek Nation has won a second court case (see previous) against the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), in an attempt to protect the environment from the effects of a nuclear waste mound/surface burial site at Chalk River, within a kilometre of the Ottawa River. Many believe it threatens the lives and futures of people, wolves, bear dens and all wildlife affected by the Ottawa river environment. The legal actions would not have been necessary if the government had received the First Nation's approval. On March 14th in Federal court Justice Russel Zinn found the facility's proposed site specifically endangers two species of bats and the Blanding's turtle without considering reasonable alternatives (which violates 73(3)(a) the Species at Risk Act). So the project is stopped by the decision but with enough legal ambivalence to suggest more court cases and costs to the Kebaowek community. The decision is under-reported. Partial sources: "Another win for Algonquin community in fight against nuclear waste dump," CBC March 17, 2025, Yahoo News; "First Nation wins second court challenge to Chalk River nuclear waste site over threats to bats and turtles," Marie Woolf, March 14, 2025, Globe & Mail; "Court upholds two legal challenges to the Chalk River Radioactive Megadump," Gordon Edwards, March 14, 2025, nuclear news.
March 14, 2025
Geneva: N.B. "'More than a human can bear': Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023," Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, March 13, 2025, A/HRC/58/CRP.6 Human Rights Council - OHCHR [access:< https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session58/a-hrc-58-crp-6.pdf >]. Genocide confirmation. This report provides definitive evidence of the Israeli government's attempt to destroy the Palestinian people. It finds evidence of disproportionate targeting of women and girls, the attempt to destroy reproduction, physical and sexual violence against Palestinians of both sexes. The attack on Palestinian reproductive health and rights extends to the IDF destruction of 4000 embryos at the Al Basma centre, December 2023. The Government of Israel has 'categorically' rejected the allegations. Other sources: "UN Investigation Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza Through Targeted Destruction of Health Facilities," March 13, 2025, teleSUR; "Rights probe alleges sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli forces used as 'method of war'," March 13, 2025, UN News.
Geneva: the Turkish outlet Anadolu Agency is one of the few reliable sources aware of international laws which Canada is bound to / subject to, while the U.S. in some instances is not. Relying here on Anadolu Agency's "Israel carrying out 'fastest starvation campaign in Gaza in modern history': UN envoy" (Beyza Binnur Donmez, March 13, 2025), on March 12th Michael Fakhri, the UN's special rapporteur on the right to food, told a press briefing that Israel was effecting the ''fastest starvation campaign in Gaza in modern history." The UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, stated "the genocide will continue because there are no ways to remedy the destruction," even if the violence stops. The UN special rapporteur on protection of human rights, Ben Saul, stated Trump's relocation plan for Gaza would shatter the basic rules of the UN and international order. He further condemned Israel's "continuing illegal military provocation in the wider region." The UN special rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers, Meg Satterthwaite, noted that the U.S. sanctions against the ICC are an offence against the administration of justice, violating Article 70 of the Rome Statute.
Canada: in another indication of attacks on free speech (see previous), citing complaints by Zionists against his journalism advocacy and pro bono legal defence of Palestinians Dimitri Lascaris has withdrawn his affiliation with a Toronto law firm to spare the firm equally unfounded attacks. Lascaris is one of the leading voices in Canada, able to protest Israel's genocide in Gaza (see previous). His message is made available on his "Right2Resist" network and is posted from Greece. It ends with condemnation of Canada's senior legal establishment for not countering the Israeli government's genocide. He finds shameful the increasing legal difficulties for those attempting to protest the genocide in Gaza. "Zionism, Slander and the Dark Art of Reputational Destruction," Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris, March 12, 2025, YouTube [access:< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyU4dXHRyNw >].
March 6, 2025
Montreal: To the benefit of public health, the environment and aesthetics, the Federal Government will be putting 70 million dollars into Montreal for the planting of trees on the Island. The planting of about half a million trees should be completed by 2030. The Canadian Minister of the Environment is Steven Guilbeault who announced a recent agreement with Quebec to plant 102 millions trees throughout the Province. In the U.S. its President's recent budget cuts have cancelled a 75 million dollar grant from the Forest Service to the Arbor Day Foundation to plant trees. Much of the funding was destined for poor urban areas stripped of their trees by the effects of climate change. Partial sources: "Ottawa investing $70 million to plant trees in Montreal region," Michelle Lalonde, March 5, 2025, The Montreal Gazette / Postmedia; "Forest Service Rescinds Tree Planting Grants," Diana Ionescu, March 5, 2025, Planetizen.
Jerusalem: (previous) the Armenian community in Jerusalem since the 4th Century, is currently under severe attack by the City of Jerusalem which is imposing tax debts based on the Church property, claimed to date back to the 1980's. In response to a Municipality foreclosure order the Patriarchs and Heads of Local Churches of Jerusalem are standing in solidarity with the Armenian Patriarchate. According to the Armenian Patriarchate in East Jerusalem the government of Israel intends to confiscate its properties and auction these to pay the supposed taxes. In 2018 a similar mechanism was applied to other Christian churches but the false tax charges were withdrawn due to world pressure. The Patriarchate warns that by breaking ancient "Status Quo" agreements that govern taxes this impoundment of church lands could mark the beginning of extinguishing Christianity in the city. As an act of protest Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, and Roman Catholic Church leaders have closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Genocide warning for Armenian and Christian groups. Partial sources: Jerusalem's Armenian community faces serious challenges," March 4, 2025,Panarmenian.Net; "Armenian Patriarchate Warns of Israeli Threat to Seize Properties in East Jerusalem," Feb. 20, 2025, The Palestine Chronicle; "Israel Seizes & Auction Armenian Church Land In Jerusalem," News Desk, March 4, 2025, Observer Diplomat; "Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre Church Closed In Tax Protest," RFE/RL, Feb. 26, 2025, Radio Free Europe.
March 2, 2025
out on the highway looking for the exitsthis concern with truth
relies on magic to escape
the sluices of what we're supposed to see
thoughts like cattle to the slaughterhouse
fish to the weirs
passing through death
from one use to another
the magic is to step aside from our own mortality
to find meaning that gives life
that magic is conception
while what we call "truth" that only leads to death
is un-liberated thought
mind-trapped awareness
for a life as victim
victims are we all then?
each of us trapped by our supposition of mortality
real when we accept it or it is accepted for us
it seems true that eventually
each of us is beaten out of my-your-our
refusal to cease and pass
then to join those we loved
flat on a stone slab
hidden by newspapers and a coffin
urns empty to the winds
passed beyond our alive reach
but if we deny their departure
bring them into our own lives
as spirits continuing
there is less draw to join them over
there in a flash of sunlight is
"we can turn off here"
on this highway from cradle to grave
looking for the exits
March 1, 2025
Northeast Congo: Close to Uganda 70 protestant Christians were placed in the local church and had their heads cut off. Christian sources tend to attribute the act to hatred by Uganda backed Islamist militia, the ADF, which has not claimed responsibility. Others familiar with militia tactics in the region point out that the various militias use civilian villagers for their needs, transport, cooking, and if they are not strong enough to work and travel they're of no military use and dispatched. Which may explain the presence of children among the victims. The majority religion of the DRC is Christian. The murder of civilians benefits those who take over the mineral resources rather than religious power groups. See "Congo: do we trace genocide to human hatred or corporate profit?". Ongoing Genocide warning.
Chhattisgarh, India: local Christian congregations are under direct attack by political directive of representatives of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party. Christianity tends to be gentler with the "untouchables", and lower caste members of the social fabric and so by nature presents some resistance to the the BJP's campaign of Hindu national supremacy. The current point of Hindu anger is accusations of Christians eating beef. Nightlantern has carried a genocide warning for Christians, Dalits, the poor, covered by the government's war on Maoists and Naxalites in the region since 2009. An ongoing Genocide warning. Partial sources: "Hindus Urged to Rape, Kill Christians on March 1 in Chhattisgarh," International Christian Concern, Feb. 26, 2025, Persecution.org; "Transnational Funding in Hindu Supremacist Movements: Role of Corporates in Illicit Political finance," The Polis Project, Aug. 15, 2024, The Polis Project; "Christians attacked by baton-wielding mob just hours after 70 beheaded in Congo," Jack Walters, Feb. 24, 2025, GBNews.
February 24, 2025
United Kingdom: for diverse complex and political reasons the BBC has withdrawn from showing this excellent but heart-breaking documentary on what it is like for the children of Gaza particularly. It is also about what happens to the medical personnel who have given over their sensibilities to caring for their people amid a slaughter. You only have to watch the film to understand the real reason for the attempted censorship. "This World. S22E03. Gaza. How To Survive A Warzone," Hoyo Films Ltd, Feb 17, 2025, BBC 2 Documentary, Series "This World".
Montreal: According to his facebook page, Yves Engler was released from jail today, without restrictions on his ability to publicly discuss the case which the judge protected from the Crown's attempt to silence. Previous.
February 23, 2025
Montreal: the arrest of the journalist Yves Engler (see previous) raises the issue of whether Montreal's police are being politicized, placed in jeopardy and badly used. From a perspective of international law and its necessary application under Canadian law I post with her permission a letter of Feb. 21rst by Gail Davidson, founder of Canada's Lawyer Rights Watch, who has sent this to Montreal's Mayor and Chief of Police: "Attention: Mayor of Montreal. Varlérie Plante and Police Chief Fady Dagher, Re: Yves Engler - Unlawful arrest and illegitimate charge." Incarcerated February 20 Yves Engler is spending the weekend in jail with a court appointment Monday morning February 24th. According to his father's posting on "X" prosecutors refused to release him unless he not speak about the case. Note: Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada "Freedom from Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Liberty" [access:< https://www.lrwc.org/the-right-to-freedom-a-guidebook/ >].
February 21, 2025
Ottawa: The Kebaowek First Nation of Québec has asked Federal Court to review the decision by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Tribunal which allows Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to build a Near Surface Disposal Facility at Chalk River. The Commission did not honour the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which requires consultation and accommodation with the First Nations. The Commission had decided it didn't have the authority to consult and accommodate so it didn't. On February 19th, 2025, Justice Julie Blackhawk found the Commission in error and in order to comply with UNDRIP granted a portion of the request for review which requires the Commission to fulfil its duty of consultation and accommodation. This is a significant victory for First Nations throughout Canada and through them provides some protection for all Canadians against resource stripping and despoiling the land mass and environment. The Kebaowek First Nation case was supported by the Parti Québécois, Québec solidaire in Québec, and the Green Party. Québec seems able to mount some reasonable defence against excesses and misjudgements of the nuclear industry, while Ontario is embracing aggressive attempts at its expansion. Background: previous previous previous. Partial sources: "Federal Court Recognizes Kebaowek First Nation's Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent on Chalk River Nuclear Waste Project," Kebaowek First Nation, Feb.20, 2025, email; "Nuclear commission ordered to resume consultations with Kebaowek First Nation over waste dump," APTN, Feb. 19, 2025, aptnnewss; "Kebaowek First Nation and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories," The Honourable Madam Justice Blackhawk, Feb. 19, 2025, Federal Court.
Montreal: warning. In a grave attack on Canadian freedom of expression Yves Engler, the intelligent, accurate and fearless Canadian journalist was ordered to report for detention by police February 20th. Suggested: "Yves Engler Arrested for Criticizing Israel - Speaks to Media Before Detention", Alex Tyrrell, Feb. 20, 2025, YouTube.
February 4, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo: "Congo: do we trace genocide to human hatred or corporate profit?"
February 2, 2025
Belize on January 30, 2025, formally filed a declaration of intervention with an application to intervene at the International Court of Justice in the case of South Africa v. Israel. The government of this small Central American country asserts its intention that "Israel is held accountable for its violations of the Genocide Convention; its interest in ensuring that the authors of genocide do not enjoy impunity; and its interest in the prevention, suppression and punishment of genocide.” The filing follows those of Cuba, Ireland, Nicaragua, Columbia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, Spain, Turkey, Chile, the Maldives, Bolivia. As prevously noted South Africa first filed its case December 29, 2023, substantially verified and affirmed in its Memorial of October 28, 2024..
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January 24, 2025
January 20, 2025
U.S.: This is Martin Luther King Jr. day in the U.S.. A tension remains between official "respect" for Dr. King, his words, his wisdom, his intentions, and the hard evidence that he was put to death by Government assassination, as exposed by the King Family attorney, Dr. William Francis Pepper. On one hand in 2015, 8000 Selma to Montgomery marchers from 1965 were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal - one of the two highest U.S. civilian awards, as the "Foot Soldiers" of the people's right to vote. In our family there were three who were there in 1965, Elmer Maas, my wife's uncle [ed. note: Elmer who went south with another group is better known as one of the founders of the Plowshares Movement with the Berrigan brothers - they would hammer in protest on nuclear warheads; a bit in awe of him I didn't presume to include him when I previously mentioned this in 2017], Michael Shields her first husband, and me. I was a Movement march marshal - with orange armbands we 'marshals' were buffers between our fellow marchers and the countryside, and on entering Montgomery a body shield for Dr. King. Then five of us whites heading home were falsely arrested, death-threatened, jailed, which began a pattern of harassments for years, false arrests, beatings, etc..
January 14, 2025
Cuba: on January 10th Cuba formally filed a declaration of intervention with the International Court of Justice in the case of South Africa v. Israel. Affirming its particpation in the Convention on Genocide the Cuban filing takes pains to explain at length Cuba's interpretation of the Convention. The filing currently is available only in French at the ICJ website: Déclaration d'Intervention de la République de Cuba à la Cour Internationale de Justice (Afrique du Sud c. Israël) 8 janvier 2025. Cuba's declaration follows Ireland's last week, which followed declarations of or requests for intervention in the case by Nicaragua, Columbia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, Spain, Turkey, Chile, the Maldives, Bolivia (Previous). Belgium and Egypt have declared an intention to join South Africa's case.
January 9, 2025
Ireland: Ireland has officially filed a declaration of intervention in South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, joining Nicaragua, Columbia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, Spain, Türkiye, Chile, the Maldives, Bolivia. (See previous ). South Africa first filed its case December 29, 2023, substantially verified and affirmed in its Memorial of October 28, 2024.. Remarkably Ireland's declaration loosens the criteria for proving "intention," which the U.S. has insisted on since signing of the Convention in 1948. "Ireland formally joins ICJ genocide case against Israel," Jan 7, 2025, The Cradle; "Ireland joins genocide case against Israel at International Court of Justice," Max Saltman, Jan. 7, 2025, CNN; "Declaration of intervention of Ireland," Doc. #192-20250106-INT-01-00-EN, Jan. 6, 2025, International Court of Justice.
Montreal: "An Absence of Humanity in Gaza." Some attempts in Canada and the U.S. to stop the genocide by legal means.
New York City: The New York Times has rejected advertising paid for by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) calling for an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza. AFSC is currently providing humanitarian aid to Gaza. See AFSC's Gaza Emergency Relief. AFSC was able to present a consistent antiwar resistance throughout the U.S. war on Vietnam. Partial sources: "New York Times rejects Quaker ad for calling Israel's actions 'genocide'," Layne Mullett, Jan. 8, 2025, AFSC; "'Outrageous': NYT Rejects Paid Ad From Quakers That Calls Israeli Attack on Gaza 'Genocide'," Eloise Goldmith, Jan, 8, 2025, Common Dreams.
A branch that comes from violence will not take root;
for a blighted root is on sheer rock, like reeds by the
banks of a river, which are dried up before any grass; but
kindness, like eternity, will never be cut off, and faithfulness
will be established forever - from Ben Sira
(Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, Abegg et al)
at first posting in 2002 this bulletin board was for emergency protests, attempts to counter
genocide, anti-war information, which were suppressed in the media; my interest remains in
how a society is moved into what have become genocidal wars, and how people are able to
resist... it becomes a kind of history in motion and a way to counter enforced forgetfulness,
the lies that say these things never happened, or that there is nothing wrong with the murders
of hundreds of thousands of innocents in other countries, or the continuing move toward
eradication of the poor by death, in north america; this account is against forgetfulness. - jbg 2008
by john bart gerald
graphics by julie maas
guest contributions as noted
April 27, 2025