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On March 22nd, this journalist detailed the findings of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” That investigation focused primarily on the hideous, industrial scale rape and sexual abuse of male and female Palestinian detainees in Zionist Occupation Force prisons, a phenomenon so pervasive it can only be dedicated, determined policy, signed off upon and directed by the highest levels of the Israeli government.

Reinforcing that horrifying conclusion, buried within the Commission’s report are bombshell passages unequivocally charging the Zionist entity with deliberately committing “genocidal acts” in Gaza, consciously and intentionally “calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians as a group.” The details provided are irresistibly persuasive, and point to Israel being in flagrant breach of both the Rome Statute, and Genocide Convention. In a truly just world, the mainstream media’s mass omertà on this landmark ruling would in itself be a criminal act.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

More like UNrelevant.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta get this news from some random blog because imperial news won't talk about it.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 hours ago

Yup, and this isn’t the exception to the rule. It’s the rule, as I try to explain: https://lemmy.ml/comment/12094932

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 23 points 12 hours ago
[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 105 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Remember, kids: Don't do genocide, or else after only two years of murdering people wholesale the UN might say something about it and let you keep murdering.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Remember, kids: Don't do genocide, or else after only ~~two~~ 77 years of murdering people wholesale the UN might say something about it and let you keep murdering.

Fixed it for you.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 11 points 11 hours ago

~~murdering~~ terrorism ftfy

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 31 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

But if you try to liberate half of your country from illegally established military occupation and dictatorship they will immediately send 2 million soldiers against you, kill 20% of your population and bomb you till there is nothing more to bomb, then make you the most sanctioned country in history for 70 years and counting.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 45 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

so it took that long for it to even be acknowledged

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

lets how long it takes for countries to stop selling Israel the weapons used in the said genocide

[–] hexthismess@hexbear.net 41 points 18 hours ago

In history books, the editorial remarks will say that it took Global Powers 77 years to acknowledge a genocide. 108 years if you start counting from 1917.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 16 points 17 hours ago

So glad the second league of nations exists; maybe the third one will take less than two years to say something (not do; let's not get too overly ambitious here) about an actual, livestreamed genocide, complete with actual video evidence of SV and people protesting in favor of the SVers and turning them into folk heroes. The guy was literally evidence that 'never meet your heroes' isn't a hard and fast rule; the more of a war criminal scum he was, the more it elevated him in the eyes of his fellow citizens.

The people literally presenting video evidence of their genocide are being told by the prior genocide nation it's not really a genocide and that actually everything in all that footage is actually okay. One wonders how the prior genocide nation more than just showing its face in public is actually vocally defending the latest genocide. If Naziland has any thoughts on the matter, better to keep them to itself than revive the public opinion that Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin.

[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Hard to feel bad for the genocided when they become the genociders! Free Palestine!

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

It's anti-semitic to conflate judaism with zionism.

Jews were genocided by nazis, while zionists collaborated with nazis.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Israelis claim victimhood for their own deeds. Nothing changed the past 80 years.