Jonathan Cook
"The Red Cross say it'll be a "massive challenge" to find the graves of the last Israeli captives under mountains of rubble from Israel's levelling of Gaza.
Having created a near-impossible task for Hamas, Israel's using it to justify keeping up its genocidal starvation campaign"
"Israel's levelling of Gaza City in the days before the ceasefire has doubtless made it far harder for Hamas to locate dead Israeli captives under the rubble.
Which gives Israel the pretext to continue starving Gaza – collective punishment that Israel has utterly normalised."
In interviews and a comment article over the weekend, the UK education secretary Bridget Phillipson made clear she plans to exploit the pause in the Gaza genocide to snuff out criticism of Israel’s criminal actions – and, of course, her own government’s collusion in that criminality.
Naturally, the British establishment media have been keen to amplify her message that there will be painful consequences both for individuals who continue protesting against Israeli atrocities and for institutions, such as universities, that mistakenly assume they have a duty to uphold centuries-old freedoms by tolerating such protests.
These protests, let us remember, are fully in line with a ruling last year from the International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court, which declared:
a) Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian territory and enforcing a system of apartheid rule over the Palestinian populations there – and has been doing so for decades.
b) Western governments are obligated to do what they can to bring that illegal occupation and Israel’s apartheid system to an end as quickly as possible.
Instead, those same governments are violating the ruling, and international law, both by continuing to support Israel’s criminality and by preventing their own citizens from putting pressure on them to end their support.
The government of Keir Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, has even categorised protest against genocide as “support for terrorism”. For the first time in British history, a direct-action group, Palestine Action, has been banned..." READ MORE https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1977756356833665084