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Today, @theCCR and co-counsel @CUNY_CLEAR filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order mandating Mahmoud Khalil's return to New York to proceed with his pending habeas case.
@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.
@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.”
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.”
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.
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 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.
By "frequently failing to meet basic journalistic standards while covering the ongoing massacre in Gaza," some in the global media "risk becoming accessories to genocide," the trade union of Palestinian journalists writes.
On the heels of President Biden's visit to Israel and as the death toll in Gaza passes 3,300, we released an emergency briefing of Israel's crime of genocide against the Palestinian people and U.S. complicity in this grave international law violation. READ ccrjustice.org/sites/default/…
On Aug 18, Israeli military forces raided the offices of 7 Palestinian organizations in the occupied West Bank, sealing the doors shut and seizing technology and confidential material
Even as the Trump administration has consistently demonstrated its racist antipathy to African and other Black migrants, in recent months we have witnessed a dramatic escalation of its anti-immigrant policies.