Ben-Gavir's police force is trying to intimidate, humiliate, and silence a leading Palestinian intellectual.
What will his thugs question Nadera about (what do you mean by "necropolitical capitalism"? "abolitionism and settler colonialism"? "unchilding"? "security theology"?)
It is rich for a police force, led by someone who was literally convicted with supporting of terrorism and incitement for racism, to accuse an Palestinian academic, who opposes genocide, with incitement to violence.
That "bastion of rights" Israel's Supreme Court recently approved Ben Gavir's appointment stating that it was not beyond the zone of reasonableness. timesofisrael.com/high-court-rej…
Make no mistake, the Hebrew University's senior officials are responsible for this arrest. They incited the mob against their own employee, twice, since October, briefly suspending her form work, because of her anti-war speech and because of their fanatical support for genocide.
Prof. Nadera is also an activist who cared deeply about the residents of East Jerusalem, where she lived and witnessed the daily horrors of subjecting an entire population to humiliation, violence, and unfreedom.
A good way to show solidarity with Prof. Nadera is to read and share her academic work. Here are a few recommendations:
1. Even before the genocide in Gaza, Prof. Nadera exposed the shameful silence of feminist social work on Palestine.
2. On the carceral state, abolitionism, and the logic of elimination in settler colonial contexts
3. "Understanding the dimensions of Israeli colonial occupation in East Jerusalem requires an inquiry into everyday modes of oppression, along with consideration of larger themes of historical domination and structural control in Palestine/Israel."
4. "the interlocking oppressions that characterize the Israeli occupation—as those of other colonial systems—are mostly overlooked, with little attention being devoted in mainstream literature to the intersections of race, class, gender, & sexuality within the colonial project."
5. Palestinian fatherhood as a "declonolnial practice", challenging "the necro-penological weaponization" of dead childern's body and "transmutation of grief"
6. "Drawing from everyday aspects of Palestinian victimization, survival, life and death, and moving between the local and the global, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian introduces and defines her notion of 'Israeli security theology' and the politics of fear within Palestine/Israel."
7. "unchilding works to enable a complex machinery of violence against Palestinian children: imprisonment, injuries, loss, trauma, and militarized political occupation"
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1. This is the UN expert on torture. Dr Alice commented on the terror attack in Moscow, sent a letter to the Chinese government regarding the trial of one individual, writes on refugees.
But 7 months later is yet to issue a detailed statement on Israel's detention practices.
2. Notice the language Hamas committed "mass atrocities". Israel killed 30 times more than Hamas, arrested many more than Hamas, displaced 1.7 million, starved 2.3 million for 6 months --> only "extraordinary intensity"
Much ado about nothing? A thread on the ICJ president comments:
The amount of sophistry in defending Israel's crimes is just astounding.
But it's also a lesson in how the technical can obscure rather illuminate reality:
let us start with the basics: it is called the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide."
The word prevention here is key.
What needs to be prevented? Here is art. III
These crimes, that need to be prevented & punished, are manifested in acts & crimes that are listed in art. II of the Convention. Committing these acts to commit "genocide" or to "conspire to commit genocide" or to "attempt to commit genocide" are violations of the Convention.
Is it true that, as Gantz asserts, Israel has an independent judicial system that can "evaluate" any misconduct?
Here is what a recent UN Commission Inquiry concluded in 2019 regarding the killing of protesters, including children, medics, and journalists in Gaza 2018: 1/6
The Commission showed that Israeli army soldiers killed and maimed thousands of protesters who did not pose any serious threat to the soldiers. 2/6
Israeli soldiers, snipers intentionally killed 35 children during the demonstrations in 2018, the Commission concluded. It reached the same conclusion regarding killing of medical staff and journalists. 3/6
Unlike Nicaragua, which intervened under Art 62 ICJ Statute (which requires the intervening state to show 'legal interest' in the case), Colombia is intervening under Art 63 as a party to the convention, declaring its views regarding the interpretation of the convention.
Colombia says that it is intervening to make sure that that "Palestinians enjoy their right to exist as a people" and ensure "the urgent and fullest possible protection for Palestinians in Gaza"
"army commanders.. cast doubt on the claim that all of these were terrorists... the definition of terrorist is open to a wide range of interpretation... Palestinians who never held a gun in their lives were elevated to the rank of "terrorist" posthumously, at least by the IDF."
"In practice, a terrorist is anyone the IDF has killed in the areas in which its forces operate," says a reserve officer who has served in Gaza."