@drjackbrown.bsky.social:
Only a criminal imposes sanctions on a criminal court.
@theguardian.com:
US imposes sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC), hours after former judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social:
On the day Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize, the US response comes in the form of new sanctions just unveiled by
petty coward Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the International Criminal Court. “We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources & crippling its ability to operate.”
“In the absence of an armed conflict … the term for premeditated killing is generally murder.”
@buzzbox525.bsky.social:
Wonder how the #BloodyOrangeKing will try to bully this one away from her?
Because you know he will do it.
@gcm5.bsky.social:
Congratulations to someone who represents the values of the Nobel Peace Prize and won’t give her medal to a tyrant.
@davemc5192.bsky.social:
& Reuters reports that the US has imposed sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), cutting off its access to banking, insurance, software and other services, (incl’ personal sanctions on Judges)
Companies that provide these services will face US Administration penalties
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay in Johannesburg in 2023.Wikus De Wet / AFP via GettyShare
By Alexander Smith, Oct 9, 2026, NBC News
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the South African legal pioneer Navanethem “Navi” Pillayfor defending international law and institutions in a world in which increasingly “might overtakes right.”
Pillay, 85, has a decadeslong career that spans defending Nelson Mandela and standing up against the racist apartheid regime in South Africa, to leading a United Nations commission that concluded Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
“Navi Pillay is one of the great defenders of international legal principles in our time,” said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Using the award to make a wider point about geopolitics, Frydnes contrasted Pillay’s work with the wider international “shift towards power politics,” in which “international law is under tremendous pressure, and its institutions are under attack.”
Her “distinguished career reminds us of the need to support, fortify and expand the global rule of law,” he said. “Navi Pillay’s commitment to justice and human dignity is a source of hope and inspiration to all who seek to bring about a more peaceful world.”
Pillay learned of her prize at the Nuremberg Forum, an international law gathering in Germany. She told an applauding crowd, “If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump,” prompting laughter.
That was a reference to President Donald Trump’s long-standing ambitions to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and the offer by last year’s winner, Maria Corina Machado, to share it with him as she sought support for her efforts in Venezuela.Imagine pressuring someone to get their peace prize and then steal that country’s oil. Last year’s prize was a fucking cruel dud, and the Nobel fuckers know it.
“Everybody asks me: ‘When are you going to stop? When are you going to stop?’” Pillay said, adding that despite turning 85 last month, she had no intention of doing so.
“The last thing I did was the report on Gaza, namely what’s happening there is genocide,” she said to cheers.
“One of the main reactions to that report was paying tribute to me for my courage,” she added. “But why would you need courage to speak the truth? You interpret the law and you look at all the facts.”
Having just been told the news, she added jokingly, “Being a lawyer and a judge, I still want to verify this information.”
Among her many positions, Pillay has been a judge on the International Criminal Court
Agnès Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International, was in Germany and among the first people to congratulate Pillay.
“This could not be a better choice at a time of attacks against international justice,” Callamard told NBC News. “She is a former ICC judge at a time when the U.S. administration is seeking to destroy the ICC,” and she led the U.N. commission “which found that Israel committed the crime of genocide at a time when many states are trying to defend and protect Israel’s actions.”
Pillay was not among those speculated to be front-runners, who included Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of anti-Kremlin figure Alexei Navalny, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate, and Mykola Kuleba, who founded an organization to rescue Ukrainian children abducted and forcibly taken to Russia.
The Norwegian Nobel Institute said it had has registered a total of 287 candidates for this year’s peace prize, with politicians, international judges and professors among those who can put names forward. The committee that decides the winner is composed of five members appointed by the Norwegian Parliament.
The leaders of Israel, Pakistan and Cambodia all said they nominated Trump for the prize, though he said this week he didn’t think he would win.
“I don’t know what their decision is going to be,” Trump said in the Oval Office Wednesday. “They have a reputation for maybe not giving it to people like me.”
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@afcats.com Sep 16, 2025:
What needs to be added is that Americaand fucking criminal Carney’s and Harper’s Canada knowingly paid for the genocide. Russia, America and Israel are war criminals.
Guest Essay My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide By Navi Pillay, Sept. 16, 2025, NYT
Ms. Pillay is the chair of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.
In 1995 President Nelson Mandela of South Africa asked me to serve as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The judicial panel over which I presided convicted three Rwandans of genocide. So I understand the word “genocide,” and it is not one I use lightly. It is the deliberate attempt to destroy, in whole or in part, a people. It represents the most serious violation of our shared humanity and the gravest breach of international law.
Today the United Nations commission that I lead is publishing its legal analysis of Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip. Our conclusion is stark: Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. This finding is based on investigations and extensive evidence into the period between Oct. 7, 2023, when the war began, and July 31, 2025. It has been corroborated by multiple sources and assessed through the rigorous legal framework of the U.N. Genocide Convention of 1948, to which Israel is a party.
My organization, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, was established by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council in 2021. It is overseen by appointed experts who are supported by staff from the U.N. secretariat. The Commission reports its findings to the Human Rights Council and General Assembly.
The scale of destruction is devastating. More than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 18,000 children and nearly 10,000 women, according to Gazan health officials. Estimated life expectancy in Gaza has collapsed from 75 years to just over 40 in a single year, one of the steepest declines recorded. Hospitals, schools, churches, mosques and entire neighborhoods have been destroyed. Our analysis found that starvation has been used as a weapon of war and that the medical system has been deliberately destroyed. Maternal health care has been severely undermined. Children have been starved, shot and buried under rubble. According to UNICEF, one child has died every hour in Gaza. These are not the accidents of war. They are acts calculated to bring about the destruction of a people.
Establishing genocide requires not only the act but also the intent. Here, too, the evidence is clear. Senior Israeli leaders, including the president, the prime minister and the former defense minister, have dehumanized Palestinians. Yoav Gallant, the defense minister at the time of the Oct. 7 attacks, said, “We are fighting human animals,” while President Isaac Herzog proclaimed that the entire Palestinian nation was responsible. Their words have been matched by deeds: indiscriminate bombardment making Gaza uninhabitable, the blocking of humanitarian aid, sexual and gender-based violence and a siege we concluded was designed to starve the population to death. Together these constitute a pattern that demonstrates genocidal intent.
The commission also found that Palestinians have been killed while seeking food at distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the Israel and U.S.-backed entity that largely replaced the existing aid network. Hundreds, including children, have been shot while trying to access aid.
Some argue that the term “genocide” is too grave to apply while Israel’s war continues. But the law is explicit: The obligation to prevent genocide arises the moment a serious risk is evident. That threshold was crossed long ago in this war. In January 2024 the International Court of Justice put all states on notice that there was a serious risk that genocide was being committed in Gaza. Since then, the evidence has only deepened, and the killing has multiplied.
What does this mean for the international community? It means its obligations are not optional. Every state has an obligation to prevent genocide wherever it occurs. That obligation requires action: halting the transfer of weapons and military support used in genocidal acts, ensuring unimpeded humanitarian assistance, stopping the mass displacement and destruction, and using all available diplomatic and legal means to stop the killing. To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity.
I do not write these words as an adversary of Israel. I recognize the suffering of Israelis who lost loved ones in the horrific Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, which killed some 1,200 people, and the pain of the families of the roughly 50 hostages who remain in captivity, including about 20 still believed to be alive. Our commission has documented the crimes by Hamas. But no crime, however grave, justifies genocide. To respond to atrocity with atrocity is to abandon the very values international law was created to protect.
History will judge how the world responds. In Rwanda, the international community did not prevent the genocide, nor did it intervene to stop the killing once the genocide began. Today the international community is again failing to act — this time, in Gaza. The facts are reported daily. The warnings are unequivocal. The law is clear. The stakes, the survival of a people, could not be higher.
The obligation to prevent genocide belongs not only to states but also to the international system as a whole. The U.N. Security Council must not be the graveyard of conscience. Regional organizations, national parliaments, civil society and ordinary citizens all have a role to play in pressing governments to act. The Genocide Convention was born from the ashes of the Holocaust with a solemn vow: “Never again.” That vow is meaningless if it applies only to some and not to others.
I urge every government, every leader and every citizen to ask: What will we say when our children and grandchildren ask what we did while Gaza was burned to the ground? Every act of genocide is a test of the humanity that binds us.
The prevention of genocide is not a matter of discretion of states. It is a legal and moral obligation, and it admits no delay. The law requires action. Our common humanity demands it.
Navi Pillay is the chair of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. She is a former U.N. high commissioner for human rights.
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@BestStephenD:
It was not on my bingo card that Prime Minister @MarkJCarney would call for something so hateful, bigoted, and cruel as calling for a “Zionist Palestine.” I never imagined he was capable of such evil–evil is the right word–thinking.Carney is catholic, of course he’s capable of such evil. Look at the horrors and crimes catholics commit, in the name of god. FFS. I think Carney was specifically chosen to destroy Canada and aid Nazi USA-Israel, because he’s catholic.
Does Carney not realize that it is Zionists who are visiting genocide, this day, on Palestinians?Of course he does, he thinks it’s great and is why I did not vote for him. He’s a fucking Nazi – Zionism is racism is Nazism.
@iroguerobot:
Mark Carney is a Zionist fanatic. There is no other explanation for his militarism and imperialism and his support for genocide in Gaza. The notion of a “Zionist Palestine” is simply unhinged. I am actually shocked to hear it out of his mouth
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME:
Today, Prime Minister @MarkJCarney suggested he would not recognize a Palestinian state unless it was “Zionist.”
In doing so, Carney is asking Palestinians to adopt the political ideology of their oppressors as a pre-condition for self-determination.
He is dead wrong.and is a fucking cruel sadistic pro genocide inhumane “christian.” Zionism has played a central role in the dispossession and oppression of the Palestinian people, and Palestinians have absolutely no obligation to endorse it.
Moreover, the ICJ has affirmed that the right to Palestinian self-determination is inalienable and “cannot be subject to conditions on the part of the occupying Power.”
Carney must immediately apologize for these deeply ignorant and offensive statements.which the vicious pro mass murder religious fucker has not done yet Neither Canada nor Israel get a right to veto Palestinian freedom.
And Carney, and Harper, and Bibi, and Trump, and Vance, and Irwin Cotler, and Rosalie Abella, and and and …
@rfb71.bsky.social:
So the President that wants executions livestreamed misses out again?Think how many more christians will join the Pedo Cult – they love mass murder, guns, blood and rape!