Thursday, November 14, 2024

Noura Erakat and Francesca Albanese On "America and the War on Palestine" and How the War in Gaza represents the brutal breakdown and corruption of the rule of international law and the global system that undergirds it in the West in general, and the United States and Israel in particular

AMERICA IS A FASCIST STATE

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. 
 
Opposed to anarchism, democracy, pluralism, egalitarianism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism, fascism is at the far right wing of the traditional left–right spectrum.


AMERICA IS A ROGUE STATE


A nation or state regarded as breaking international law and posing a threat to the security of other nations.
 
 
 
"A Campaign of Genocide": Noura Erakat Speaks to Ta-Nehisi Coates About Israel's War on Gaza

November 11, 2024
Democracy Now!


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Thousands attended a Palestine Festival of Literature event about "America and the War on Palestine" at the historic Riverside Church in New York Sunday, featuring conversations about U.S. complicity in Israeli human rights abuses. The literary festival, known as PalFest, aims to raise awareness of the Palestinian struggle through arts and letters. The acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates moderated the conversations, including one featuring the Palestinian human rights attorney and scholar Noura Erakat. "This is about all of us," says Erakat. "The fact that Palestinian children have been evaporated, beheaded, killed in NICU, their NICU system, rotted in NICU beds, right? And their parents have had to collect their flesh to weigh it in rice bags in order to bury them, right? At this point, there should have been mercy.”

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Israel, Gaza and the fight for justice | Now You Know



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November 11, 2024

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Francesca Albanese is the first woman to serve as the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. Since her appointment in 2022, and especially following the events of October 7, 2023, she has witnessed some of the worst aspects of humanity. She has also faced slander and threats for her commitment to holding those in power accountable. In this episode of Now You Know, Francesca Albanese discusses how the war in Gaza symbolises the breakdown of the international system and emphasises that her fight for justice will continue. In this episode:

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Episode credits: This episode was produced by Fahrinisa Campana, Ruby Zaman, Zaina Badr, and our Host, Samantha Johnson. Our sound designer is Joe Plourde. Our video editor is Catherine Hallinan. Jo de Frias is Now You Know’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.