One reason why international sanctions on Israel are so few: Many countries are under threat of US corporate retaliation if they impose sanctions. Trade deals often grant foreign investors the right to sue govts whose decisions - they claim - "threaten profit." 100s of US etc. corporates have sued more than half of the world’s countries & claimed massive damages. They use "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS):

the Guardian

The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries | Claire Provost and Matt Kennard

The long read: Fifty years ago, an international legal system was created to protect the rights of foreign investors. Today, as companies win billi...

#ISDS #BDS #Israel #GazaGenocide #Sanctions ..

Analysis: Seven Days After Israeli Forces Kill American Ayşenur Eygi, "Biden & Harris Haven’t Spoken to Victim’s Family" "Since the shooting, Eygi’s family has made repeated appeals to the US government for an independent investigation, & for at least a simple phone call from US leaders." "It is frustrating to be American citizens… being shot at by weapons from our own country." ~ Vivi, volunteer with Faz3a

Seven Days After Israeli Forces Kill American, Biden and Harris Haven’t Spoken to Victim’s Family

And any Israeli “investigation” apparently hasn’t even reached out to other eyewitnesses.

#AyşenurEygi #USPol #IsraeliWarCrimes #USEnablement ..

Panel: The importance of UNRWA & why Israel wants to destroy it. A recent Israeli air strike on a school-polio-vax centre in Gaza killed six UNRWA staff. Attacking schools & places of shelter is a war crime. Israel repeatedly & deliberately attacks UNRWA bcz it is mandated to protect Palestinians driven out by Israel's ethnic cleansing & genocide over decades. Panel: Riham Jafari Chris Gunness & Tamara Alrifai, UNRWA

Al Jazeera

What is the purpose of Israel’s repeated attacks on UNRWA?

Six staff at UN agency for Palestinian refugees killed in an air strike on a school in Gaza.

#UNRWA #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide #BDS ..

She gave him enough rope Analysis: "How Harris Trapped Trump: She did exactly what Trump’s advisers feared: let him be himself" "With a near-perfect blend of sass and derision, she repeatedly baited Trump, and he almost always chomped at the chum."

How Harris Trapped Trump – Mother Jones

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Report: Australian antiwar protesters clashed with police outside an arms fair in Melbourne. Police used stun grenades & pepper spray & arrested 39 people. "We’re protesting to stand up for all those who have been killed by the type of weapons on display at the convention." ~Students for Palestine

Al Jazeera

Clashes as antiwar protesters target Australian arms fair

Police use stun grenades and pepper spray and arrest 39 people as officers pelted with rocks, manure and tomatoes.

#AusPol #GazaGenocide #ArmingIsrael ..

Report: "The family of Ezgi Eygi has denounced the Israeli military’s preliminary inquiry into the 26-year-old activist’s killing as wholly inadequate”. “We are deeply offended by the suggestion that her killing by a trained sniper was in any way unintentional. The disregard shown for human life in the inquiry is appalling." We demand that Biden, Harris, & Blinken order an independent investigation into the targeting of a US citizen.

Al Jazeera

Israel’s war on Gaza updates: 64 Palestinians killed in one day

Dozens of Palestinians killed, more than 100 wounded from the north to south as indiscriminate Israeli attacks continue.

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Interview: "Israel does not do investigations; they do cover-ups.” Calls by Ezgi Eygi’s family for an independent probe into her killing are echoed by the parents of Rachel Corrie, another American killed in the West Bank. "Corrie was just 23 years old when she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza in 2003 as she attempted to use her body to stop the destruction of Palestinian homes."

Democracy Now!

Rachel Corrie’s Parents Mourn Death of Ayşenur Eygi

As friends and family mourn the killing of Turkish American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, we speak with ...

#EzgiEygiKilling #USPol #IsraeliWarCrimes #WestBank ..

Poll: Harris endorsing an arms embargo on Israel would boost her support from 44% to 49%. "A majority of Democratic voters say the Gaza crisis is either very or somewhat important in determining how they vote in November". https://www.commondreams.org/news/harris-arms-embargo-israel #USElection #GazaGenocide #ArmsEmbargo #USPol ..

One reason there is so little sanctioning of Israel Many countries are under threat of US economic retaliation if they do. Treaties & trade deals often grant foreign investors the right to sue govts whose decisions threaten profit, eg, sanctions. 100s of foreign investors have sued more than half of the world’s countries, claiming damages for such government decisions. They use "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS)

the Guardian

The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries | Claire Provost and Matt Kennard

The long read: Fifty years ago, an international legal system was created to protect the rights of foreign investors. Today, as companies win billi...

#ISDS #BDS #Israel #GazaGenocide .

Interview: Richard Medhurst is the first journalist to be arrested under the UK terrorism act for “speech crimes”. He was released, but wasn't told which of his statements re Palestine were deemed "criminal." So now I don't know what I can & can't say under the act. They're making an example of me & "trying to see what they can get away with," said Medhurst. It's the new fascism, says lawyer Dima Khalidi.

Al Jazeera

Are restrictions on pro-Palestine speech ‘the new McCarthyism?’

Is there an attempt to chill debate on Palestine and Israel on both sides of the Atlantic?

#USPol #UKPol #Censorship #Fascism ..