Episode 328 Promo - Invoke The Genocide Convention (w/ Sam Husseini)

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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You may know him from his viral questions posed to the heart of empire, but independent journalist Sam Husseini has much more to say than what’s allowed at State Department press briefings. On today's show, Sam argues that activists should focus on pressuring governments that are already willing to acknowledge Israel’s genocide in Gaza to invoke the Genocide Convention treaty so that the International Court of Justice can hold Israel accountable for war crimes. Why haven’t any countries sympathetic to Palestine who are party to the treaty done this— even Palestine itself? Sam also unpacks a theory about RFK Jr’s commitment to Zionism and its possible relationship to his uncle and fathers’ assassination.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

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0:00.0	it is an empirical fact that you know it is occupied territory and the fourth Geneva Convention should apply and do apply but the United States is not recognizing that that legal reality and is therefore attempting to completely shred international law.
0:13.0	So you make this point in an article that you wrote at your sub-stack called
0:18.0	To Save Gaza in both the Genocide Convention.
0:21.0	You point out that there have been a number of countries including South Africa,
0:23.6	Bangladesh, Bolivia, Djibouti, etc. that have moved for the international
0:28.0	criminal court to prosecute Israeli officials, but all of the countries that have
0:31.6	used the word genocide called out Israel for an
0:34.9	acting genocide in Gaza have yet to invoke the Genocide Convention specifically
0:40.1	and you have a theory as to why that might be the case.
0:43.0	Yeah, well, a lot of these countries have gone to the International Criminal Court.
0:47.0	International Criminal Court has basically done the bidding of the U.S. and. In the many years of its existence,
0:54.0	it has proven to be a dead end,
0:57.1	at least so far.
0:58.4	The current barrister made a little bit of noise
1:01.4	that he might do the right thing, but he just went to Israel and he didn't go to Gaza
1:05.6	So he's a British barrister and once again it seems that the international criminal court isn't going to do
1:12.3	its alleged job. It goes after African the International Criminal Court isn't going to do.
1:12.6	Its alleged job, it goes after African dictators,
1:15.6	and it goes after Putin.
1:16.9	It doesn't go after Israel.
1:18.2	It doesn't go after NATO.
1:19.4	It doesn't go after the United States,
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