List of NATO, U.S. Navy and UN ships currently in the Mediterranean…
WHAT IS GENOCIDE?
Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. These acts fall into five categories:…
DEFINITIONS: TYPES OF MASS ATROCITIES…
Genocide is defined as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group…
GENOCIDE TIMELINE…
This timeline notes the major conceptual and legal advances in the development of “genocide.” It does not attempt to detail all cases which might be considered as genocides. Rather, the timeline focuses on how the term has become a part of the political, legal, and ethical vocabulary of responding to widespread threats of violence against groups…
“The Settlers Can Do Whatever They Want With Us”…
An employee of the Palestinian Authority testifies to a brutal attack at the hands of Israeli settlers in the West Bank…
Israeli Hostage Negotiator on Freeing Captives & Building Lasting Peace (VIDEO & Transcript)…
According to the latest update from the Israeli military, Hamas is still holding at least 229 hostages captured during its October 7 incursion into southern Israel. The group has stated that they will not release all hostages until Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza. To discuss the release thus far of four hostages and prospects for future releases, we speak to Gershon Baskin, who helped negotiate a critical hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas in 2011. “I really think this is some kind of negotiating game and competition that exists featuring Qatar and Egypt,” says Baskin…
White House Introduces Task Force to Counter Genocide and Human Rights Atrocities…
The Trump administration established a task force on Sept. 12 to reaffirm its commitment in confronting ongoing mass atrocities in the United States and worldwide. The Atrocity Early Warning Task Force, a White House-led interagency structure, is the latest act of commitment from the administration to hold perpetrators of genocide and mass atrocities accountable, according […]
The World’s Hypocritical Silence as China Imprisons its Ethnic Muslims En Masse…
Imagine the reaction in the global Muslim community if a western nation imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Muslims solely for being Muslim and subjected them to torture, “re-education” that amounts to treating their religious faith as a pathological mental illness, forcefully separating parents and children, incarcerating the children in state-run orphanages, and on and on […]
The Biggest Technology Failures of 2018…
It was the year that technology—and the people who create it—seemingly could do no right, and did much that was wrong. As one of my sources put it in a tweet reacting to a dumb tech stunt, “2018 can’t end soon enough.” For the past few years MIT Technology Review has published a list of […]
Congress Moving to Cut U.S. Funding to U.N. in Wake of Anti-Settlement Vote in Israel…
Congress is already setting the stage to cut off U.S. funding to the United Nations in the wake of a contested vote last week in which the Obama administration permitted an anti-Israel resolution to win overwhelming approval, according to congressional leaders…