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1. Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:33:00 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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   The BDS Movement is suggesting there has been a significant divestment in Israeli tech companies. Today, they shared this specific news story of Samsung leaving Tel Aviv: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/by1p82me0

   Although the companies don't leave political statements, the indication seems to be that they're unhappy with something...

   Meanwhile, in a a shocking lack of political leadership, Western countries keep buying weapons from Elbit etc.

   https://bdsmovement.net/US-Tech-Companies-Begin-to-Shut-Down-Israel-Operations

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:33:11 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     United Nations Security Council passes resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire.

     The US abstained but didn't veto it. The other 14 countries voted in favor.

     Will be interesting to see what has been changed in the text since the first Security Council resolution for a ceasefire was rejected on October 16th.

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:33:21 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     »Today We Remake the Jewish Labor Bund: (...) We seek to re-establish the Bund today for the same reasons and with the same guiding principle: doikayt, and the same rejection of ethnonationalism in favor of working toward a fairer world on a local level.«

     https://www.derbund.org/

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:33:32 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     Final words of Aaron Bushnell:

     > "I am an active duty member, of the United States Airforce. And I will no longer be complicit to genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at their hands of their colonizers—it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal"

     Noting also that he worked as a DevOps Engineer.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_of_Aaron_Bushnell

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:33:42 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately: UN experts

     »Any transfer of weapons or ammunition to Israel that would be used in Gaza is likely to violate international humanitarian law and must cease immediately
     (...)
     States must accordingly refrain from transferring any weapon or ammunition – or parts for them – if it is expected, given the facts or past patterns of behaviour, that they would be used to violate international law.«

     https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/arms-exports-israel-must-stop-immediately-un-experts

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:33:52 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     Letters from Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Phillippe Lazzarini: https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/letter-commissioner-general-president-general-assembly

     The world must refuse Israel's attacks on the UNWRA and expose Israel's hateful and vile strategy.

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:34:02 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     The latest episode of The Stream is very very powerful. »Made in Israel, tested in Palestine. The war on Gaza seems to be a testing ground for Israel’s new weaponry, with devastating effect.«

     This is the dystopia that the Western military industry is building:

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:34:14 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

     »I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation«

     https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-16/rafah-gaza-hospitals-surgery-israel-bombing-ground-offensive-children

     Snipers shooting children, another awful atrocity of the Israeli regime. So are photos and videos of Israeli soldiers celebrating humiliation of their enemies and demolition of homes.

     Israel's genocide and war crimes are carried out in an arrogant way. They mock the UN General Secretary and the ICJ because at the end of the day, US and its allies stay silent.