Subjects Archives: War

The ICJ’s authoritative ruling on the Israeli occupation makes clear that boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli occupation, colonization, and apartheid are not only a moral imperative but also a legal obligation.

In this week in 2019, India enforced a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir. A new writing project chronicles the crackdown which followed and how its techniques of oppression were borrowed from Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

There’s a video of him screaming, screaming the way any of us would scream. The screams of a man who suddenly lost everything a man could possibly lose. Screaming Gaza’s screams.

“All state platforms have been attacked in multiple ways,” said Minister Jiménez when presenting the report. She highlighted that among the affected systems, the National Placement System (SNI) received four million attacks per hour. The SNI is the placement platform for new students in Venezuelan universities.

Earlier reports said the U.S. was going to sanction the unit, Netzah Yehuda, but Israeli officials lobbied against the plan.

The last few days have seen the U.S. ramping up its war on domestic political dissent in multiple ways, with U.S. lawmakers petitioning the Biden administration to crack down on anti-genocide protesters it suspects of foreign influence, and a journalist critical of U.S. foreign policy coming under the crosshairs of Washington’s increasingly weaponized Foreign Agents…

Through X and SpaceX (particularly Starlink,) Elon Musk is an important figure in understanding digital/settler-colonialism.

Israel killed at least 100 Palestinians at a school being used as a shelter for displaced people in central Gaza City on Saturday, according to Gaza officials.

The U.S. and UK ambassadors to Japan will not attend the Nagasaki atomic bomb victim memorial on August 9 due to the Nagasaki administration’s decision not to invite the Israeli envoy.

While Ava Moayeri and her team argue that the conviction represents a violation of free speech, the judge claims it challenged “Israel’s” right to exist.

On August 4, the Israeli army bombed a group of tents inside the compound of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, killing three people. The bombing caused a number of tents to catch on fire, resulting in the injury of dozens of displaced civilians.

CounterSpin interview with Keith McHenry on criminalizing homelessness.

What democracy would accept a member of parliament agreeing that it was permissible and acceptable for its soldiers to sexually abuse political prisoners?

Attacks on the Venezuelan electoral system have reached the terrain of cyberwarfare, according to the complaints made by President Nicolás Maduro, the authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE), and the Attorney General’s Office (MP).

An interesting new article in the prominent American journal, “Foreign Affairs”, by three academics from Georgetown University, argues that “Washington should place less emphasis on slowing down China and more on improving its own innovative prowess.”

CJPME urges Canada to continue to investigate and punish all connections between Canadian charities and illegal Israeli activity.

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UK Plans to Build New Missiles to Target Russia Linked to Pentagon’s Mad Conventional Strike Scheme.

As the situation in Gaza worsens, Netanyahu was applauded for demanding more arms in Congress. In contrast, Beijing hosted Palestinian factions, pushing for unity and peace.

I am writing on behalf of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) to request that the Canadian government immediately take steps to align its policy with the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), titled the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.