Tag: genocide

End the Palestine Occupation!

by justpeace87

END APARTHEID AND OCCUPATIONS!

Statement of the Just Peace Committee, February 2025

Just Peace Committee (JPC) joins the millions of good-hearted people who’ve been protesting the genocide and occupation of Palestine by the Israeli state, supplied and supported by the US and other states including Turkey and Jordan. Support for genocide is reprehensible. We welcome the ceasefire in the Palestinian territories started on January 19, a tremendous achievement. We are relieved that many Palestinian prisoners and resistance captives are being safely returned home from Gaza.

JPC recognizes the legal right to resist genocide and occupation. Resistance is not terrorism. We call for an immediate end to apartheid and occupation. We want justice for Palestinians and against Israel and all those complicit.

Hands off Palestinian territories!             Hands off Lebanon!                       Hands off Syria!

The US is operating a command post in Jerusalem to direct its puppets, the Palestinian Authority. The PA is hostile to the Palestinian resistance forces in the West Bank. Canada has been directly participating in this nefarious activity with Operation Proteus. Canada and US Out! The West Bank settlements are illegal and must be emptied, with Israeli residents leaving immediately.

The US has military bases throughout West Asia and Canada several military operations. We say: Canada, out of West Asia! Canada, out of NATO! Shut down the foreign bases!

The JPC further calls for an end to Israeli, Turkish and US expansionism and occupations in West Asia and all the support and assistance from neighbours. It condemns Israel’s armed incursions into Lebanon and occupation of part of Syria. We support resistance to the foreign aggressors and occupiers in Syria. The US, Israel and NATO allies are overseeing the total destruction of Palestinian territories and Syria as they have done in Iraq and Libya. We oppose the regime change programs of the US, all of NATO and its many partners, who engage in demolition and chaos creation in order to quell independent governments and independence movements.

JPC strongly opposes the criminalization of protesters and journalists who speak out against genocide and occupation, and support resistance to genocide and occupation.

While many businesses are boycotting and divesting from Israel, many companies are profiting from war, occupation and genocide. No to war profiteering and a war economy!

Build the Opposition to Occupation and Genocide!

A peace process for West Asia cannot be led by the USA which is a belligerent in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its bombing of Lebanon and Yemen and its overthrow of the government of Syria. All parties to and their terms of ceasefires must be respected. All parties must work to make a just, comprehensive and lasting peace settlement based on numerous UN resolutions on the conflict and international law. The process must be guided first by the wishes of the Palestinian people and presided over and ratified by the UN as an international authority.

The international movement to defend and assist Palestinians and all victims of occupation, apartheid and genocide and inform the public of the truth must carry on and grow. We must together work to stop militarization and the war industry. This is a long-term struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism. It is necessary to achieve just and lasting peace.

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Uphold ICJ on Israel’s Genocide

by justpeace87 
Enforce the ICJ Ruling Against Israel’s Genocide, Hold the U.S. Accountable and Complicit

ILPS Statement (31 January 2024)

Together with the Palestine people, the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) welcomes the January 26 interim ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the emergency measures on its genocide case against Israel over its war in the Gaza Strip.  South Africa brought the case to the ICJ last December 2023 under
the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

While the ruling fell short of calling for an immediate ceasefire, it ordered six provisional measures including for Israel to refrain from acts under the Genocide Convention, prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to genocide, and take immediate and effective measures to ensure the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza. The Court also ordered Israel to preserve evidence
of genocide and to submit a report to the Court, within one month, of all measures taken in line with its order.

Israel called the decision a "disgrace" and insists on continuing its war escalated from decades of occupation, apartheid, persecution and mass slaughter of Palestinians. The United States, who has been supporting Israel economically, politically, diplomatically and militarily, providing at least $3.8bn in military aid to Israel annually, washed its hands off the charges of genocide and dismissed
it as "unfounded".

In reality, the US is complicit in Israel's genocide. It has used its veto power several times in the UN Security Council to oppose a ceasefire and uses its influence on countries in the General Assembly to refrain from calling the mass atrocities of Israel as "genocide". The US used its agencies, the White House, State Department, Defense Department, National Security Agency, and mass media to spread
lies and cover up Israel's crimes like the bombing of hospitals. It is a crime of complicity in the genocide.

More than 26,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israel’s obliteration of Gaza with some 10,000 believed to be still missing under the rubble. At least 1.8 million Palestinians have been displaced and are deprived of access to adequate food, water, shelter, sanitation, and medical assistance. The population of
Gaza is starving. More than 300 have been killed and mass arrests of thousands continue in the West Bank and persecution continues in East Jerusalem, all occupied by Israel.

The ICJ ruling is a legal victory stemming from the millions of protesters throughout the world. The UN Security Council has failed. The UN General Assembly has failed.  Our only hope is on the militant social movements in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Pressure must be made to bear on the 153 governments who ratified the Genocide Convention to fulfill their obligations and enforce the ICJ ruling.  We must press our own governments to call for a ceasefire and thoroughly end Israel's Zionist occupation, stop the arms sales and military deals with Israel, and cut off all economic and diplomatic ties with the genocidal regime.  The boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel must be expanded and other social movements informed,
organized and mobilized to support Palestine.

As we demand our own governments to cease their support for the Israeli genocide, we must continue to support the just armed Palestinian resistance which is necessary to defend their land, people and self-determination from the Zionist occupation. Without armed resistance accompanied by peoples global support, the liberation of
Palestine will not be possible.  Armed struggle is legal in international law in resisting occupation.

The voice of the Palestinian resistance and fight for liberation against the US-Israel war is heard now more than ever before. We express our solidarity with them as we intensify our own struggles against imperialism and local reaction.

The ICJ ruling is one victory.  Let us build on this and gain more meaningful victories ahead until Palestine is truly free, from the river to the sea. ###

Len Cooper
ILPS Chairperson