77 Groups Worldwide Back Genocide Lawsuit Against Biden in U.S. Court
77 Groups Worldwide Back Genocide Lawsuit Against Biden in U.S. Court
The Biden administration is due in federal court later this month, while Israel faces charges of genocide at The Hague this week.
In late December, 77 groups — representing tens of thousands of lawyers, civil society leaders, and activists from six continents — filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit that Palestinian human rights organizations, residents of Gaza, and U.S. citizens with family members impacted by Israel’s ongoing assault brought against the Biden administration.
According to Law for Palestine, a human rights and legal advocacy organization, there have been at least 500 instances of Israeli lawmakers, officials, and officers inciting genocide.
Sourani said that the statements by Israeli officials, along with the actual blockade, the indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian buildings, the basic lack of safe space, and the mass displacement of millions of Palestinians makes it clear: “All of this is tantamount to genocide.”
The plaintiffs responded to the administration’s motion to dismiss on December 22, arguing that there is precedent for U.S. courts to adjudicate questions surrounding genocide and that their legal challenge is about more than the actions of a foreign state. Rather, the plaintiffs argued, their injuries are “fairly traceable” to the actions of the U.S. government. “The suggestion that the U.S. does not or cannot influence Israel borders on the absurd, not least because the Israeli government acknowledges its actions could not happen without U.S. license and support, and Defendants have boasted about their coordination with and influence over Israel,” the plaintiffs wrote.
Conservatives should really be running with this. It's such an easy win for them. They get a genocide to satisfy their bloodlust AND they get to blame it on their enemy.
They could use it for their impeachment attempt and they could even demand he be arrested and tried in the Hague. Thankfully, conservatives are stupid as fuck and can't see the easy points.
They’re too busy thinking that surely THIS slaughter jump starts the second coming.
I bet Mike Johnson just pounds his shit raw over it. Wonder if he shares that with his son as well?
Yup, the religious right only supports Isreal because they seriously believe once all jews are in Israel and they rebuild a temple, all jews and none believers will die in a holy fire. While the "real" Christians will float off to heaven. I wish I was joking but it's the truth. These are the people in control of 50% of our government.
Besides, they’d be going much harder than Biden is. They agree with supporting Israel, and if Trump gets back in office and this thing is still ongoing, I wouldn’t be surprised if he tried to send troops over to help Israel.
I mean Israel named a settlement after trump lol.
They can't discuss non-white genocide without getting a boner and tweaking their nipples
They’re probably worried about the legal precedent of a sitting president actually getting in trouble for genocide, since they’re planning one next year and all.
Lol as if regressives give a shit about precedent
This would make sense if they didn't also want to bomb civilians in the Middle East
Conservatives should really be running with this.
They've spent the last 23 years running on the "Arabs are scary and we need to kill them" platform. Why would they support a measure that's anti-genocide?
They could use it for their impeachment attempt
If they're going to run bullshit impeachment efforts that die in the Senate, why waste effort and pick a fight with AIPAC when they can just hold up a picture of Hunter Biden's dick pick and call any Democrat who votes against impeachment a pedophile?
But what will the GOP say when they want to commit genocide to US citizens...
You can't try a POTUS in the Hague. Well, not without a very serious fight.
They want the bloodlust in their lives though.
Why "thankfully"? Fuck Biden.
Fuck Biden, I do hope he drops out and we can get a better candidate in the primary (if we even have one). But when it comes to the presidential vote, and the only choices are Biden and Trump, I'll have no choice but to vote for Biden. Because Trump is no longer even hiding his fascism, he's riding on it now
Because the conservative party is filled with Neanderthals
That the one single man - Joe Biden - who by changing his own actions could almost certainly guarantee that Trump was kept out, refuses to stop materially supporting Genocide and instead he and those of his tribe demand that millions of Americans (most of whom voted for him and who he is supposed to represent) ignore their Principles and vote for him again, says it all.
Joe Biden's actions are neither compatible with the stated goal of keeping Trump out nor are they compatible with being an elected representative of the will of the voters.
It's not only Trump who is against Democracy, it's just that Biden and his minions use different, less in-your-face methods to disenfranchise the power of the vote.
Makes sense.
Lie.
Israel aim to take down Hamas, not intentional destruction of Palestinians.
If Israel were to aim for a genocide, you'd see hundreds of thousands deaths and anti-Palestinian racist protests.
Well it’s been a little over 3 months and we have at a minimum 23k deaths and 60k casualties of Palestinians.
Not to mention Israeli officials literally calling for genocide in Israeli press by saying all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza.
Maybe take off your blinders and reassess. It’s clearly genocide.
If you look at Israel as a colonial project of the USA then everything makes a lot more sense.
It is a settler colonist project, but it was first sponsored by Britain and Western Europe. The US didn't come into play until later.
A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe has a huge amount of info on Palestine and the Zionists movement all the way from the 1920s to the present day if you want to learn more. I'm still trying to get thru it all
Can Democrat voters get some pressure going to replace Biden with someone who isn't a genocidal Zionazi? If you really want to vote Democrat instead of third party at least make it clear that they have to replace Genocide Joe.
There are some strong primary contenders but the DNC is corrupt as shit and refuses to hold a primary election. They’re even going so far as to call the state DNC offices and request that primaries be canceled or candidates removed from the primary ballots. There’s a lawsuit in SC over this and an emergency hearing is taking place on it today as a matter of fact.
All this from those who claim “democracy is at risk” in ‘24 elections.
Personally, I think both parties are far too corrupted by bribe money, and we should just back a new 3rd party. It’s hard to organize that when all of corporate media seeks to snuff you out though.
The unfortunate reality is that any Biden replacement would be doomed to lose to Trump. The degree to which many Americans don't pay attention to politics is shocking, and because of that they're more likely to vote for a candidate based on simple things like name recognition rather than actual policy
Lol notice how the adminisitration made a motion to dismiss. Imagine if you could do whatever you wanted and when they sent the papers for your court date you could just dismiss them with the wave of a hand. Our government could slaughter us in the streets and their isnt shit we could ever do about it legally or with physical resistance. Land of the free and all that
Life sure is scary when you don't understand things
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Love how lemmy, has mini summary, followed by mid summary and then long summary in same post. Structure of posts need changing IMHO.
Did someone hack your account 2 hrs ago? You've been posting the same thing under many articles. Is the title what you call a "mini summary" in this case? Or are you including the TLDR bot's comments?
No. But thx. Was just tired of this in efficient format. You see it all the time.
This bot is spamming across threads.
Not a bot, you bot
We get it you don't like summaries.
I like a summary, just don't need it more than once.
I only know how it looks on the Boost app. I like to add a few paragraphs from the post into the description
Man you can't win as president sometimes. He doesn't sell weapons to Saudis for houthi shit but sells to a country defending itself and he's getting accused of genocide. Absolutely bonkers world we live in
"Defending itself" is a very generous description of what Israel is doing.
A 12-year-old girl has died in an apparent strike at a Gaza hospital weeks after she said in an interview that she only wanted "the war to end."
A tank shell struck a children's ward at the Nasser Hospital Complex in Khan Younis on Sunday night, killing Dounia, a 12-year-old who had lost her leg in an airstrike that killed her mother, father, brother and sister.
Dounia recently told Defense for Children International she hoped someone would take her abroad so she could receive a prosthetic leg.
Dounia said in the organization's video that she wanted to be a doctor when she grew up so she could treat other children such as herself.
"I only want one thing: for the war to end," she said.
Dounia's interview was filmed between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, during the recent temporary cease-fire amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Many people have sought shelter at the Nasser Hospital Complex, and there are now fears the facility may be subject to more attacks. The Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said the targeting of the complex could bring down the health system in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The IDF has said it is only targeting Hamas and other militants in Gaza and alleges that Hamas deliberately shelters behind civilians, which the group denies.
Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization have said hospitals in central and southern Gaza are at a "breaking point" and struggling to care for the influx of patients. Nasser Hospital, where many patients with trauma and burn injuries go, is facing a never-ending flow of patients and is "now at breaking point," Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said earlier this month.
For your convenience:
https://imeu.org/article/plan-dalet
https://forward.com/news/470923/israel-land-conquest-1967-occupation-six-day-war-plans/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law#Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_prisoners_in_Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Gaza_border_protests
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full
https://www.btselem.org/apartheid
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/israel-palestine-one-state-solution
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/01/examining-myths-israel/
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/28/israel-palestine-history-peace
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/16/why-israel-allies-explainer
When the Nazis in Occupied France went to a village and killed 10 random people for each German killed by the Resistance Française it was called reprisals.
That 10-to-1 ratio is already the ratio of Palestinian children killed my the Israeli military to Israelis killed by Hamas. (it's already over 20-to-1 for all Palestenians killed)
Not even the Nazis would kill children as reprisal.
This is way beyond the level of "defense" and even beyond the level of "reprisal" that the actual Nazis practiced.
It says a lot when a country has exceed the bloody Nazis when it comes to killing civilians in the very ghetto that country created for a different etnic group whilst claiming (just like the Nazis did) that it's "just defense".
"defending itself"
Right. Keep telling yourself that. When someone punches you in the nose, you don't get to kill him, his family, his friends, and everyone who ever encountered him or knows of his existence and claim you're just defending yourself.
Purposeful targeting of civilians, mass murderer and rape of civilians, years of constant undirected rockets, suicide bombers and child suicide bombers after withdrawing entirely from gaza, equals a punch in the nose?
Tankie.