'B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI) have now formally accused their own regime of committing genocide in Gaza.'
KernowDamo: Benjamin Netanyahu and the rest of his rancid far right coalition should be finished by this report, because there's no coming back from it.
Right, so two of Israel’s most established and respected human rights organisations — B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI) — have just made history, having now crossed a line that decades of war, occupation, and international condemnation had never forced them to cross before.
In separate but mutually reinforcing reports, these organisations have now formally accused their own government of committing genocide in Gaza. Not war crimes. Not disproportionate force. Genocide. The word that carries the moral weight of the Holocaust itself with all the gravity for the self proclaimed Jewish state that that carries. The word that Israel was built to prevent — now turned inward on itself.
Right, so this is more than just a new phase in Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this is a major split in the global narrative that has shielded Israel from the full implications of its apartheid actions for over seven decades. When Israeli organisations, B’Tselem and the PHRI, with Hebrew-speaking staff and deep roots in Israeli society themselves, declare their own state guilty of the gravest crime in international law, all of Israel’s pathetic denials crumble.
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