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Consider donating to the #HindRajabFoundation, a registered non-profit under Belgian law, to support their offensive legal action against perpetrators, accomplices and inciters of war crimes and crimes against humanity in #Palestine:

»The Hind Rajab Foundation is devoted to breaking the cycle of Israeli impunity and honoring the memory of Hind Rajab and all those who have perished in the #Gaza genocide. We are driven by a profound commitment to #justice, seeking to hold #perpetrators accountable and ensuring that the stories of the victims are never lost to history. Through our efforts, we aim to build a world where such tragedies are not only remembered but prevented, fostering a future rooted in accountability, dignity, and justice for all.«

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To learn more about 5yo #HindRajab, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_

THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATIONTHE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATIONThe Hind Rajab Foundation is devoted to breaking the cycle of Israeli impunity and honoring the memory of Hind Rajab and all those who have perished in the Gaza genocide. We are driven by a profound commitment to justice, seeking to hold perpetrators

2024 feels like dejavu to many folks who remember the 60s/70s #AntiWar #protests in USA that was a part of the international citizens' #GlobalResistance movements.

Opposition to the #VietnamWar was not limited to the United States. Throughout the world, people demonstrated their #resistance to the war, and in some cases offered their #solidarity with the #Vietnamese.

Pictured:

1. Demonstrators against the Vietnam War display banners in a #Paris street, 1967.
AFP/AFP/Getty Images.

2. Musicians Cornelis Vreeswijk, Fred Åkerström, and Gösta Cervin participate in an anti-Vietnam war march in #Stockholm, #Sweden, 1965.
Wikimedia Commons.

3. Demonstrators in #Havana, #Cuba, May 1971.
Keystone-FranceGamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

4. In #China, demonstrators call for the United States to stay out of Vietnam, 1965.
Wikimedia Commons.

This carefully researched article by James A. Lucas documents the more than 20 million lives lost resulting from US led wars, military coups and intelligence ops carried out in the wake of WWII, in what is euphemistically called the “post-war era” (1945- ).

The extensive loss of life in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and Libya is not included in this study.

Continuous US led warfare (1945- ): there was no “post-war era“. And now, a World War III scenario is contemplated by US-NATO.

archive.is/v4GXk

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"In the 2nd half of the 20th century, there was a short time when Western governments and cultures pretended they were against genocide: one in particular, the Holocaust. But before that, they had been for it."

Thank you for the link @RFancio
I even understand that prof. Julia Steinberger asks us to consider perpetrators as normal.
It reminds me of "the banality of evil" from Hannah #Arendt:

Adolf Eichmann ‘never realised what he was doing’ due to an ‘inability… to think from the standpoint of somebody else’. (From her 1963 book.)

Arendt found Eichmann an ordinary, rather bland, bureaucrat, who in her words, was ‘neither perverted nor sadistic’, but ‘terrifyingly normal’.

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It’s not just legal constraints that affect the number and speed of prosecutions,
there are other technical hurdles that the taskforce has to negotiate.
#Identifying #perpetrators who disguise themselves by using foreign internet service providers or burner phones can be a challenge,
and subpoenas seeking the information from companies such as Facebook and Twitter or Verizon and AT&T usually take six to eight weeks.

Against such impediments, the taskforce is hoping to build up resilience against the anti-democratic onslaught by improving communications between the central justice department and the FBI’s 56 field offices and 94 US attorney’s offices around the country.
Each FBI office has an election crime coordinator, working in tandem with the taskforce’s election community liaison officer.
The network has been used to share information about how to deal with growing problems such as swatting – hoax calls to 911 reporting crimes or fires at public officials’ homes.
Lists are being compiled of potential swatting targets in sensitive areas like Maricopa county so that officers are aware that the emergency calls may be false as soon as they come in.

Norden of the Brennan Center said that as the election year hots up, relationships between beleaguered local election workers and the powerful federal hub will become ever more important.
“The taskforce’s presence lets election officials know the federal government has their backs. That’s essential, because a lot of them, particularly in the immediate aftermath, felt kind of abandoned.”

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m

The Guardian · US election workers face thousands of threats – so why so few prosecutions?By Ed Pilkington

**New Book Release Day!**

What’s it like to #interview, research, and write about #perpetrators of genocide and mass #violence? And how do perpetrator researchers process the difficult #emotions involved?
Drawing on our years of research on perpetrators and #extremists, my just released Stanford University Press book, co-authored with #TonyRobben, takes up these fraught issues. bit.ly/3x6WbyK

Please take a look: tinyurl.com/4zrvdxve / 20% off with the code (ROBBENHINTON20)