{"id":47090,"date":"2014-09-08T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=47090"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:38","slug":"russell-tribunal-session-on-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/09\/russell-tribunal-session-on-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Tribunal Session on Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Prefatory Note: On September 24 [2014] a special session of the Russell Tribunal will examine war crimes allegations<\/em>\u00a0against Israel arising from the 50-day military operation that commenced on July 8th. The RT has developed a record of examining the criminality of state actors that enjoy impunity internationally because they are insulated from accountability by what I have called a ‘geopolitical veto’ in this case exercised by the United States and several major European countries. Where governments and the UN fail to implement international law, there exists a right of peoples to play a residual lawmaking function. It is somewhat analogous to the residual role that the General Assembly is empowered to play when the Security Council is unable or unwilling to perform its primary role in relation to international peace and security. To fill this normative vacuum the RT has long played made an honorable contribution to what might be called ‘the empowerment of legal populism.’ I encourage attentiveness to this event, including publicizing its occurrence and disseminating the results of its deliberations. As the announcement below indicates, I am proud to be a member of the jury for the session along with a series of truly distinguished and qualified high profile international personalities known both for their professional achievement and for their principled stands as ‘citizen pilgrims’ dedicated to a humane future shaped by global justice.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s Crimes in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge \u2013\u00a0Extraordinary session of the Russell Tribunal<\/p>\n

RT Israel\u2019s Crimes in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge \u2013\u00a0Extraordinary session of the Russell Tribunal<\/a><\/p>\n

24-25 September \u2013 Brussels \u2013\u00a0Albert Hall, Brussel<\/em><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, members of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, outraged by Israel\u2019s terrible assault on Gaza and its population, decided to start working on an extraordinary session of the Tribunal that will look into Israel\u2019s Crimes (including War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and the Crime of Genocide) during the still ongoing \u201cOperation Protective Edge\u201d as well as third States complicity.<\/p>\n

During this session<\/a>, that will take place on one day in Brussels on 24th<\/sup>\u00a0September, our jury, so far composed of Michael Mansfield QC, John Dugard, Vandana Shiva, Christiane Hessel, Richard Falk, Ahdaf Soueif, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Roger Waters, Radhia Nasraoui, Miguel Angel Estrella and Ronnie Kasrils will listen to testimonies from Paul Behrens, Desmond Travers, Pierre Barbancey (TBC), Max Blumenthal,\u00a0Eran Efrati, Mads Gilbert,\u00a0Mohammed Abou-Arab,\u00a0Mads Gilbert,\u00a0Paul Mason,\u00a0Martin Lejeune, Mohammed Omer, Raji Sourani,\u00a0Ashraf Mashharawi, Agnes Bertrand, Michael Deas and Ivan Karakashian.<\/p>\n

The jury will give its findings on 25th<\/sup>\u00a0September in the morning during an international press conference at the International Press Center (IPC, Brussels). In the afternoon, the Jury will be received at the European parliament and address a message to the UN General Assembly for its reopening.<\/p>\n

To register for the session (free), email us your name and organisation at :\u00a0rtpgaza@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Do mention if you are coming as a journalist and would like to record parts of the session.<\/em><\/p>\n

To stay in touch with our work, \u201clike\u201d our facebook page<\/a>! Thanks. (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/russelltribunal<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Looking forward to seeing you all in Brussels.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s Crimes in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge \u2013 Extraordinary session of the Russell Tribunal<\/p>\n

24-25 September \u2013 Brussels \u2013 Albert Hall, Brussel<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, members of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, outraged by Israel\u2019s terrible assault on Gaza and its population, decided to start working on an extraordinary session of the Tribunal that will look into Israel\u2019s Crimes (including War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and the Crime of Genocide) during the still ongoing \u201cOperation Protective Edge\u201d as well as third States complicity.<\/p>\n

During this session, that will take place on one day in Brussels on 24th September, our jury, so far composed of Michael Mansfield QC, John Dugard, Vandana Shiva, Christiane Hessel, Richard Falk, Ahdaf Soueif, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Roger Waters, Radhia Nasraoui, Miguel Angel Estrella and Ronnie Kasrils will listen to testimonies from Paul Behrens, Desmond Travers, Pierre Barbancey (TBC), Max Blumenthal, Eran Efrati, Mads Gilbert, Mohammed Abou-Arab, Mads Gilbert, Paul Mason, Martin Lejeune, Mohammed Omer, Raji Sourani, Ashraf Mashharawi, Agnes Bertrand, Michael Deas and Ivan Karakashian.<\/p>\n

The jury will give its findings on 25th September in the morning during an international press conference at the International Press Center (IPC, Brussels). In the afternoon, the Jury will be received at the European parliament and address a message to the UN General Assembly for its reopening.<\/p>\n

To register for the session (free), email us your name and organisation at : rtpgaza@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Do mention if you are coming as a journalist and would like to record parts of the session.<\/p>\n

To stay in touch with our work, \u201clike\u201d our facebook page! Thanks. (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/russelltribunal<\/a>)<\/p>\n

_____________________________<\/p>\n

Richard Falk is a member of the TRANSCEND Network, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, author, co-author or editor of 40 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.\u00a0In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council<\/a> (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur<\/a> on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories<\/a> occupied since 1967.” Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies, and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. His most recent book is <\/em>Achieving Human Rights (2009).<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 richardfalk.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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