Kenneth Roth
@KenRoth · Think tanks & analysts — US/UK
Kenneth Roth is an American human rights activist.
Iran's executions follow grossly unfair & summary proceedings. Usually no allegation of killing is made. Executions are based on vague national security charges for allegedly damaging public property, throwing stones, or breaking into government buildings. https://t.co/xMf5UA2Nsk
Two children were among the dead after Israel carried out a new strike in the northern Gaza community of Beit Lahiya. The strike killed a husband and wife, alongside their two daughters, aged 8 and 12. https://t.co/iISIygl8PR
Thanks to Trump's war of choice with Iran, "the global price of oil reached $100 a barrel on Wednesday for the first time since July....That’s nearly 40 percent higher than on the eve of the war in Iran." https://t.co/7NGfYTU4nw
“To hold on to his coalition partners, stay in power and drag out his trial on multiple corruption charges, Netanyahu has been ready to sell out any core Israeli value and frustrate any U.S. peace plan." https://t.co/SMS0G8Ddjg
In addition to banning trade with Israeli settlements, the 12 governments should ensure the selection of the next International Criminal Court chief prosecutor includes no litmus test for exempting Israeli officials from prosecution. Unlike last time. https://t.co/utiaSE4Ldl
Trump hasn’t criticized Britain for its new ban on products from Israel’s war-crime settlements. He appears reluctant to leap to the aid of Netanyahu, who persuaded him to launch his counterproductive war of choice against Iran. https://t.co/xWNJvcwnGC
It is remarkable that Netanyahu is still Israeli prime minister, and is running for reelection, despite pending corruption charges at home and war-crime charges at the International Criminal Court. https://t.co/ogruLvxE4Q
Unless it changes paths, "Israel will become a pariah, à la apartheid South Africa. The Jewish state has already lost the support of much of the Democratic Party in America, of many young Republicans and of pretty much every liberal party in Europe." https://t.co/BlSN0hsABo
Israeli opposition politicians said that Netanyahu was “unfit” for office after Haaretz reported he had been warned that Hamas was planning a major operation weeks before the Oct. 7, 2023, attack but did not alert security officials. https://t.co/BTqMXdnwrK
Families grieve in the ruins of an Iranian school where a US strike killed dozens of children. https://t.co/qKzlFDZJhc
British prime minister Andy Burnham says he is toughening pressure on Israel to preserve the possibility of a Palestinian state, but the Netanyahu government is adamantly opposed. It wants endless apartheid or mass forced deportation of Palestinians. https://t.co/8uavrWzkJ2
"Settler terrorists supported by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government are committing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank," British foreign secretary Ed Miliband says, "in the UK’s starkest condemnation since the foundation of the Israeli state." https://t.co/EIeqTGUluV
I discuss Israel's war-crime expansion of settlements, the aim of its E1 project to render a contiguous Palestinian state impossible, and how the international response is toughening but inadequate -- on @AsiaOne_News. https://t.co/TFqMR8sMfj https://t.co/2nHl5lZQnt
Syrian authorities have announced the detainment of an Assad-era former general, Major-General Mohammed Ali Durgham, who is accused of taking part in the Hama massacre in 1982 and ordering the shooting of unarmed protesters in 2011. https://t.co/0abS1QU4Hb
It never stops: Israeli strikes on a southern Lebanese town killed at least 12 people including two children early on Monday in one of the deadliest days of Israeli bombardment in recent weeks. https://t.co/LJgLxKizlS
From a hilltop sprawl of industrial buildings, a family of Israeli settlers is cranking out prefabricated buildings to accelerate the expansion of illegal Jewish outposts in the occupied West Bank, driving Palestinians from their homes. https://t.co/jJIGsQTFE9
Britain plans to impose a UK ban on the trade in goods and some services from illegal Israeli settlements. These are war crimes, so no one should be complicit in them. Of course Trump is upset. Who cares! https://t.co/xiKqpYAMlf
The United Arab Emirates leader visits Germany this week. Will senior German officials find their voice to condemn the UAE's provision of arms and mercenaries to the genocidal Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. Isn't genocide something that concerns Germany? https://t.co/orN5qcinuH
"The question Israelis refuse to ask: what has Netanyahu done to our conscience? After so many years under the leadership of a corrupt politician whose public life embodies a moral void, Israelis have stopped caring about universal moral terms." https://t.co/oXaubkR4jC
Trump’s war of choice w/ Iran is a disaster so he escapes by focusing on grandiose building projects in Washington. Too bad the rest of us can’t so easily escape the consequences — loss of life, surging inflation, wasted expenditures, a depleted military. https://t.co/1Ax8M8XjL4
“Six months after the U.S. bombing of the school in Minab, Iran that killed over 150 civilians, the U.S. Department of Defense is still refusing to release its investigation’s findings into the strike; it has not even admitted that it was a U.S. strike.” https://t.co/5Uz4nKpRT8
Israeli ministers are increasingly open about their plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians -- the main point of the genocide. Why do Israeli enablers like Trump and Merz keep ignoring them. https://t.co/OpFDowFnGY
“Given that Israel and its leaders appear to take pride in their extremism, cruelty, and callousness, it should come as little surprise that their echo chamber in the US [AIPAC and the lobby] is struggling to make popular arguments and to win debates.” https://t.co/i4ui0tj9ro
Trump promised no more forever wars, but that’s exactly what he has started with his war of choice against Iran, warns a former US defense secretary. https://t.co/kXsob8Ifm1
How can Germany's AfD flirt with Naziism while being "pro-Israel"? Because Israel is increasingly seen as an extreme nationalist state, willing to commit atrocities to promote ethnic purity. That suits the AfD just fine. https://t.co/xK68A2BMtl
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