CAMERON SQUIRMS DURING ISRAEL GRILLING

Simple question: Is Israel’s destruction of Gaza in breach of international law? According to British Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, there’s no easy ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer.

Watch him wriggle as he’s grilled by politicians over Tel Aviv’s blockade and bombardment which has killed over 24,100 Palestinians in just three months.

The thing is, he’s found it easy to accuse other countries of breaking International law in the past, whether it’s Syria, or Libya. But for some reason, this time it’s different. Although what else would you expect, given he’s said allegations of genocide by Israel are ‘nonsense’ and South Africa’s case against Tel Aviv at the International Court of Justice is ‘wrong’.

As always, your comments please.

ISRAEL PREPARING TO REJECT ICJ RULING?

Looks like Israel won’t accept any gen*cide ruling by the UN’s top court. Ok, hardly a surprise, but you may as well hear why. Mark Regev, an Israeli diplomat and government advisor, says the UN has an institutional bias against Israel. That’s despite admitting Israel has the backing of the US, UK and EU - pretty powerful players within the organisation. During this interview on British radio, he also blamed the Gazan death toll (24,100 and counting) on H*m*s using human shields.

The International Court of Justice is considering South Africa’s case of gen*cide by Tel Aviv against Palestinians. A judgement could take months or years, but it seems Israel’s going to discredit the institution anyway, just in case. At least, that’s our take. What’s yours?

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SISTER EXPLAINS WHY SHE SUPPORTS PALESTINIANS

A lot of Africans - including some in the comments to our videos - are asking why they should expend energy on standing up for the Palestinian people. They argue that there are equally pressing moral emergencies closer to home - such as the war crimes being perpetrated in DRC and Sudan. Moreover, they claim that Arab communities haven’t got the best of track records when it comes to supporting Africans and fighting racist attitudes towards them - not to mention the long history of enslavement comparable to the European trade.

But this sister begs to differ. While fully aware of the arguments above, decolonisation activist Mariam ‘the Ugandan’ argues that the clue is in the word ‘genocide.’ It doesn’t matter who it’s committed against, it must be fought against - because that’s what it means to have a moral compass.

Have a watch and share you thoughts on Mariam’s position.

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ICJ SPAT UNEARTHS GERMAN GENOCIDE IN AFRICA

Namibia has taken aim at Germany for supporting Israel at the International Court of Justice. Tel Aviv faces accusation of genocide, but its claims of self defence are backed by Berlin which wants to make a submission to the ICJ. However, Namibia’s outraged President, Hage Geingob, insists Germany should back down, considering its own genocidal past in his country.

Berlin once ruled what is now present-day Namibia and killed 100,000 Herero and Nama people. The slaughter is widely regarded as the first genocide of the 20th century. Germany finally admitted the crime in 2021, in a bid to draw a line under its brutal past. However, this horrific chapter in history is being laid bare once again.

Listen to our sister @readingafricana run through Berlin’s shocking colonial trail on the African continent.

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Fresh from their trial at The Hague, where they accused Israel of genocidal intent, the South African legal delegation has announced that they are pursuing Washington and London next. Nearly 50 South African lawyers are gearing up to file a lawsuit against the United States and the United Kingdom, naming them “complicit” in Israeli war crimes in Palestine.

They cite the invasion of Iraq in 2003 as one of many examples of unchecked Western destruction that must not be allowed to happen again. In Iraq, approximately 200,000 civilians were indiscriminately killed. Between 2003 and 2004, 181,000 artillery shells containing depleted uranium were used throughout Iraq, which has led to physical birth defects in children to this day.

Continued….According to the Campaign Against Arms Trade, Israel uses F-35 jets to bomb Gaza. The aircraft is jointly produced by the UK, US and other partners.

South Africa will use this and other evidence when building its case.

Let us know in the comments what you think of South Africa’s current moral leadership on the global stage.

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CAIRO CHANTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA

Just another example of the worldwide support for South Africa taking Israel to the UN’s top court for genocide in Gaza. Protesters in Cairo chant the name of Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla, who hailed his country’s lawsuit at the ICJ. However, they also shout they’re in ‘fear ‘and ‘shame’, suggesting they feel their country should have taken a firmer stand.

Egypt is part the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which was one of the first blocs to publicly back Pretoria’s case. South Africa says over 50 countries have expressed support for its allegations against Tel Aviv. However, notably, not one is from the West.

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TIKTOK CREATOR PRETENDS TO BE ISRAEL 😂

African people worldwide always look for the most creative way to get the message out, and Mika, a US-based TikTok creator, is no different. Check out this brilliantly performed parody on how supporters of Israel react to the world raising questions about the 7 October escalation in the Palestine-Israel conflict. So far, about 24,000 Palestinians have been killed in more than 100 days in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Does Mika have a point? Let us know below.

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FINAL TOOTH IN THE COFFIN

One of our greatest heroes was assassinated 63 years ago today by Congolese men under the orders of Washington, Brussels and London.

It was Congolese men from Katangan who shot and killed Lumumba; the Belgians disposed of his body by dismembering it by melting it in acid and in a disgusting twist, his teeth were taken as a ‘souvenir’ by a former Belgian police chief. A singular tooth is all that remains of Congolese independence legend Patrice Lumumba. This happened more than 60 years ago yet it was only in 2020, at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, that Belgium’s King Philippe apologised for atrocities committed in DRC and agreed to return Lumumba’s tooth.

It’s now been buried in DRC - over 60 years after colonialists assassinated him.

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EXCLUSIVE: PAIGC EXEC CTTE MEMBER ON REPRESSION OF PARTY

The PAIGC has long been respected and supported in Guinea-Bissau for being the party of the people, run by the people. After all, it was the PAIGC that won the country its independence after a brutal armed struggle against Portuguese colonialism led by Amílcar Cabral. For the first several years of Guinea-Bissau's existence as an independent state, the country's sovereignty and institutions were synonymous with the PAIGC party. However, a coup d'état in 1980 changed the relationship between the party and the state. After power was seized by a small minority, the country was forced to open itself up to multi-party democracy. Since that time, the PAIGC has won every single election it has competed in except for one in 1999.

Continued…. The current president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has been accused of coming to power via a soft coup supported by regional bloc ECOWAS against the PAIGC party. He is now also accused of working to repress the PAIGC, including in the aftermath of their victory in the June 2023 legislative elections. Embaló has vowed to remove, illegally, the prime minister that the PAIGC has put forward.

For more insight into the situation, African Stream spoke exclusively to Imani Na Umoja - a member of the PAIGC’s central committee.

Do you think President Embaló will end up getting his way?

‘BUTCHER BIDEN, IRELAND DISOWNS YOU’ - CLARE DALY

Clare Daly created a nickname for the US president, calling him ‘Butcher Biden’ for enabling Israel’s devastating attacks on Gaza that have killed more than 24,000 Palestinians since 7 October.

In a fiery speech on 16 January at the European Parliament, Daly also ordered Joe Biden to desist from invoking his Irish roots, reportedly on his mother’s side. In April 2023, Biden took a much-heralded tour of Ireland.

Ireland has suffered under British colonialism for about 800 years, with part of its island under British control to this day. That is why the Irish support Palestine in its struggle against Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies. No wonder Israel’s heritage minister, Amichai Eliyahu, told Palestinians to ‘go to Ireland or the desert.’

Continued….Israel has said its operations are only meant to root out H*m*s from Gaza. However, while Washington has come under pressure to use its power and influence to implement an immediate ceasefire, the Biden administration has stayed put in its support of Tel Aviv’s relentless attacks, which have been described as a genocide in the making by the South African legal team at the International Court of Justice.

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CIA AND LUMUMBA’S ASSASSINATION

The US-sponsored plot to kill Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the DRC and the country’s independence hero, took place 63 years ago today, on 17 January 1961. The gruesome murder was a culmination of multiple assassination plots by the American, British and Belgian governments, which used paid Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry out the hit. Declassified CIA documents revealed the American government’s desire to assassinate Lumumba even before the country’s independence, and the director of the CIA had called him “worse than Castro”.

The straight-talking pan-Africanist maintained that his interests were those of the Congolese people and described himself as a nationalist. He wanted full independence and full control over natural resources to better the lives of the Congolese people - and that irked imperialists.

Continued….While discussing the Congo crisis with Lord Home, Britain’s foreign secretary, US President Dwight Eisenhower said he wished “Lumumba would fall into a river full of crocodiles.”

After failed attempts to use a Georgian hitman and a poison expert to spike Lumumba’s toothpaste, the CIA pulled strings behind the scenes through the country’s political situation following independence to paint Lumumba as a “Commie”. During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, Congo was and still is geopolitically strategic. The Congo was another chess piece in the U.S. Cold War fight against Communism, and the CIA was determined to ensure Western loyalty even though, in terms of the Cold War, Lumumba was determined to stay neutral.

Lumumba and two of his associates were executed by firing squad. Their bodies were hacked to pieces and dissolved in sulphuric acid. Here’s a reminder of the chilling details surrounding the assassination, one of the most significant in the 20th century.

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MUHAMMAD ALI VS VIETNAM WAR

Muhammad Ali, who would have turned 82 today, is possibly the greatest boxer of all time. But he is known as the greatest not just for what he did inside the ring but also for what he did outside the ring. He was a passionate advocate for racial justice for Africans in America. He never shied away from standing up for what he believed in and courageously stood against the Vietnam War, famously refusing to join the U.S. Army's murderous campaign against the people of Vietnam, stating: "I will not go 10,000 miles from here to help murder and kill other poor people".

For his courageous stand he was sentenced to five years in prison which and stripped of his boxing license. The license was restored in 1970 and year later his conviction was overturned by the US Supreme court. Ali's spirited fight against being drafted to fight into a US imperialist war is widely hailed as his greatest fight and victory!

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