#BlockTheBoat | Organizer with Block the Boat action in Oakland, CA

Lara Kiswani, Executive Director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), the main organization behind the wildly successful #BlockTheBoat protests in Oakland.

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Members of the Bay Area Arab community and their allies prevented the Israeli cargo ship Zim Piraeus from unloading goods at the port for four straight days, in protest of Israel’s latest horrific assault on Gaza. We discuss the planning that went in to making the action a success, how that success has led to a rapidly spreading global movement, and what AROC has planned going forward.

Follow Lara on twitter at @kiswaniya. Find out all about AROC at their website. Get #BlockTheBoat news by following the hashtag.




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THE LEGAL RIGHT OF RESISTANCE

Is Resisting Genocide a Human Right?

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Right to Resist

81 Notre Dame Law Review1275 (2006). Conducting an in-depth study of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and also discussing other genocides, this article details the inadequacy of many of the international community’s response to genocides, such as “targeted sanctions” or international peacekeeping forces. Examining international legal authorities such as the Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Court of Justice, the article demonstrates that groups which are being subjected to genocide have a legal right of self-defense. International treaties, Security Council arms embargoes, or national gun control laws cannot lawfully be enforced in a manner which prevents self-defense resistance to a genocide in progress, because under international law, the prohibition against any form of complicity in genocide takes legal precedence over lesser laws.
With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. In PDF.
http://www.davekopel.com/2a/Foreign/genocide.pdf


MORAL, HISTORICAL & LEGAL RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE



GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE

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Genocide in Photos

Since 1937 (Pre)Israel terrorism commits ongoing massacres in Palestine. Violent genocide, but the least known, silent genocide causing excess death by deliberate racist policies of deprivation. The same deprivation which according the Israeli narrative have cost 1/6 of Jewish Holocaust victims (1 of 6 million). The cost in human lives by avoidable mortality for the sake of the creation of Israel according to research (by Dr. Gideon Polya) in Palestine and neighboring countries is 24 million lives.



DEBUNKING THE ISRAELI MYTHS


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