A ground-breaking study by a coalition of prestigious academic institutions has concluded that Israel's actions in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, constitute genocide against the Palestinian people. The study, conducted...
conducted by the University Network for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School
So yeah, big names there. I'm not hopeful about it changing Biden's mind, though.
Hasn't changed US foreign policy for decades, so yeah probably not. From arming to giving Israel protection in the UN, the US is all in on Palestinian genocide. The US does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC because the court could be used for "political reasons". This goes back to the creation of the ICC, which the Clinton admin helped to form but then vote against. Israel, Russia, Israel, China, Libya, and Qatar are the only countries who do not recognize the jurisdiction of the court. There is a through line on why they don't: it is because of what they have already done and continue to do that would levy charges at the court. In fact the US has the American Service Members Protection Act to make cooperation with the court next to impossible.
TL:DR; the US has been complicit in Palestinian genocide since Eisenhower.
Yeah, like being affiliated to universities is some kind of stamp of trustworthiness at this point... After the pro-Hamas protests that took place in said universities, and the persecution of Jewish students who were basically blocked from attending school.
You seem to be an Israel-supporter that is okay with the genocide.
Wanting to stop the genocide and want Israel to stop killing innocent civilians (men, women and children) is not supporting Hamas in anyway.
It is however, standing for human rights. Rights to live, rights to have a normal human condition (a home, a land, a place to be, having education and everything that’s available for humanity).
If you really want to go that way;
Israel became an actual state in 1948 by displacing 750 000 Palestinian people and murdering many (men, women and children). Laying sieges, bombarding villages and population centers, setting fires to homes, properties and goods. Planting mines among the rubble to prevent any of the expelled people from returning (source: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by ilan Pappé).
Hamas did not exist until 1987, they became an actual group only in 1987 because of all the horrifying things Israel had done from 1948 up until 1987. Which is approximately 40 years after what Israel had done to the Palestinian people.
So the only one to blame for Hamas existing is Israel themselves.
EDIT: Checking upon your comment history, yeah. You’re definitely a Israel-supporter and probably a Zionist. I recommend anyone to check his comment history.
University Network for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School
Crazy. I never expected to see big Ivy League school names there but here we are. Even the most status quo and US aligned universities are now calling it a genocide.
To be fair there's a pretty big difference between the professors and the administration. The university boards haven't changed their position because wealthy alumni threatened to stop giving money. (This is also what got the president of Harvard fired.)
Professors have been out there with the students the entire time.
To the "no shit" and "this is obvious" people, agreed. However, "this is obvious, just look" is nowhere near as good an argument as one with actual data. Especially when looked at in the future with a historical lens.
The "study" appears to be a paper from a student group at a liberal arts university in Wesleyan, Connecticut.
While I'm sure Wesleyan University is a fine school, calling it a "coalition of prestigious academic institutions" is a bit of a stretch.
So... uni students upset over things they saw on TikTok put 105 pages of whatever crap they could dreg up from the internet into a PDF and post it onto their squarespace page. "Middle East Monitor" links to the "study" says it's from a "coalition of prestigious academic institutions". And then a link to this "news" site gets posted to Lemmy.
The study, conducted by the University Network for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School, presents a thorough legal analysis of Israel’s conduct in the context of the Genocide Convention of 1948.
I think you read the wrong article or hasbara answer
They don't mention their associations with these other universities on their squarespace page. But there's some coalition that the "University Network for Human Rights" is a part of, so maybe these other groups are a part of that?