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Jul 19 • 10 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
🚨Before @netanyahu lands in DC, we demand @TheJusticeDept investigate him for genocide, war crimes & torture in Gaza. Nearly 40k killed, including more than 14k children, 90k injured, 2 million displaced, & an entire population subject to starvation. This cannot go unanswered. Image
@netanyahu @TheJusticeDept In advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington next week, we urge the Department of Justice to open a federal criminal investigation into him for his responsibility for genocide, war crimes, and torture.
@netanyahu @TheJusticeDept In a 23-page letter to the DOJ’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section, we detail “overwhelming evidence” that, under Netanyahu, Israeli forces have committed these crimes against Palestinians during the nearly 10-month assault on Gaza.
@netanyahu @TheJusticeDept These are the most serious human rights violations in the U.S. criminal code, and the DOJ’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section is statutorily mandated—and urgently needed—to investigate them to protect Palestinians from ongoing crimes and break the cycle of impunity.
@netanyahu @TheJusticeDept We call for the establishment of a War Crimes Accountability Team – Gaza, similar to the one constituted to investigate and support accountability efforts for violations in Ukraine.
@netanyahu @TheJusticeDept We also urge the convening of an inter-agency effort to identify the number of U.S. citizens that have actively served in the Israeli armed forces since Oct 7 (including active-duty U.S. citizens) and the impact of torture, war crimes, and other atrocities in Gaza since Oct 7.
@netanyahu @TheJusticeDept The Israeli military has targeted and destroyed apartment buildings, hospitals, houses of worship, ambulance convoys, schools, shelters, and refugee camps, and forcibly displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, which is 90 percent of the total population.
@netanyahu @TheJusticeDept There is also ample evidence that Israel has used starvation as a weapon, plunging Gaza into a famine that has killed many children and will likely result in thousands more dead.
@netanyahu @TheJusticeDept Netanyahu’s visit comes in the wake of one of the deadliest weeks for Palestinians in Gaza in recent months and amid widespread calls by grassroots groups to arrest him during his upcoming visit rather than give him a platform.
@netanyahu @TheJusticeDept More on our website: ccrjustice.org/home/press-cen…

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Jun 10
⚖️ Today before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Palestinians argued that the courts have a constitutional obligation to hear their claims that @POTUS admin failed their legal duty to prevent — and are complicit in — Israel’s genocide in Gaza. @DCIPalestine @alhaq_org Image
@POTUS @DCIPalestine @alhaq_org In January, a lower court found a plausible case of genocide and urged the Biden administration to reexamine its “unflagging support” for Israel’s siege of Gaza, but dismissed the lawsuit, finding it was not the court’s place to rule on a “political question.”
@POTUS @DCIPalestine @alhaq_org Government lawyers for President Biden and Secretaries Blinken and Austin invoked the “political question” doctrine, arguing that “foreign policy” decisions are not subject to judicial review, meaning they can aid and abet a genocide with impunity.
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Feb 1
In the historic lawsuit brought by Palestinians against Biden, a U.S. federal court finds that Israel’s assault & siege on Gaza plausibly constitutes genocide and “implores” Biden admin to examine its unwavering support of Israel, determining it lacks power to resolve the case. Image
The decision reads: “[As] the ICJ has found, it is plausible that Israel’s conduct amounts to genocide. This Court implores Defendants to examine the results of their unflagging support of the military siege against the Palestinians in Gaza.”
The court found “the uncontroverted testimony” of plaintiffs, expert opinion of genocide & Holocaust scholars, & statements by Israeli officials “indicate that the ongoing military siege in Gaza is intended to eradicate a whole people” & plausibly constitutes genocide.
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Dec 10, 2023
UPDATE: The U.S. gov’t responded late yesterday in the genocide case brought by Palestinian organizations and individual, with @POTUS, @SecBlinken, and @SecDef attempting to evade legal responsibility for their failure to prevent—and complicity in—the genocide in Gaza. Image
Their lawyers focus on jurisdictional issues rather than the substance of the lawsuit, which was brought by Palestinian human rights groups, Palestinians who live in Gaza, and Palestinians in the U.S. with family members who live in Gaza.
The government’s response is all the more notable because of its timing. Today is the 75th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention, the world’s first human rights treaty, which the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted in 1948 in response to the horror of the Holocaust.
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Nov 17, 2023
🚨NEW FILING 🚨

Late yesterday, Palestinians filed an urgent motion asking a federal court to immediately stop @POTUS , Blinken, and Austin from providing further arms, money, military support, and diplomatic support to Israel.

ccrjustice.org/stop-the-genoc…
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This filing is on grounds that they have a legal duty to prevent, and not further, an unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Leading genocide and Holocaust experts backed the request for preliminary injunction to prevent “irreparable harm” to plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs are seeking a preliminary injunction that would halt U.S. support for Israel as it carries out its assault and siege on Gaza while the broader case is being decided. It is needed, they say, to protect them from “irreparable harm.”
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Nov 13, 2023
BREAKING: Palestinians are suing @POTUS, @SecBlinken, & @SecDef to stop U.S. support for Israel’s unfolding genocide, asking a U.S. Court to enforce the most basic & important legal—and moral—obligation in the world – preventing genocide.

Read more: ccrjustice.org/stop-the-genoc…
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The historic lawsuit seeks to enforce int'l law as codified in the Genocide Convention and federal law that imposes on @POTUS, @SecBlinken, & @SecDef a duty to prevent an unfolding genocide. Not only has the U.S. failed to prevent, but has actively advanced the gravest of crimes.
Genocide legal expert, Prof. William Schabas agrees that the U.S. has breached its duty to use its influence on Israel to prevent a genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
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Nov 3, 2023
BREAKING: Today, the UN Human Rights Committee issued its conclusions and recommendations based on a review of  U.S. compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). 🧵

READ: ccrjustice.org/home/press-cen…
This was its first review in nine years, and, for the first time ever, the committee recommended that the United States “establish a moratorium on the imposition of sentences to life imprisonment without parole,” often referred to as death by incarceration by advocates.
On October 17 and 18, in Geneva, we joined a coalition of groups from around the country fighting death by incarceration & more than 140 representatives of civil society organizations and directly impacted people in petitioning the U.N. to hold the U.S. government accountable.
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