Excellent piece, Jeremy, excellent news, excellent reporting and and hopefully resulting in an excellent legal precident.
What has been festering in my mind for some time is this:
Why haven't every Palestinian resistance organization and every Palestinian aid organization taken Western governments and Western media organizations (and also …
Excellent piece, Jeremy, excellent news, excellent reporting and and hopefully resulting in an excellent legal precident.
What has been festering in my mind for some time is this:
Why haven't every Palestinian resistance organization and every Palestinian aid organization taken Western governments and Western media organizations (and also now Western educational establishments) to court for eight decades of ceaseless libel, slander and defamation?
I know that laws vary from one nation to another regarding what is admissable, but surely this is an avenue that can be pursued.
The evidence of wrongdoing and conspiracy is beyond overwhelming. We need test cases to be filed and decided in critical jurisdictions all across the offending nations.
Hamas has actually filed a case before, to get out from under the terrorist branding, against the European Union back in 2010. The first EU Court took 4 years to find that Hamas was not terrorists - not even their armed wing. Then the highest EU court overturned the verdict in a heartbeat. The link to the EU Court finding they were not terrorists is halfway down in this post: https://mariannebergvall.substack.com/p/labelling-hamas-as-terrorists-perpetuates (I missed a letter in the link first, but now it works:)
Excellent piece, Jeremy, excellent news, excellent reporting and and hopefully resulting in an excellent legal precident.
What has been festering in my mind for some time is this:
Why haven't every Palestinian resistance organization and every Palestinian aid organization taken Western governments and Western media organizations (and also now Western educational establishments) to court for eight decades of ceaseless libel, slander and defamation?
I know that laws vary from one nation to another regarding what is admissable, but surely this is an avenue that can be pursued.
The evidence of wrongdoing and conspiracy is beyond overwhelming. We need test cases to be filed and decided in critical jurisdictions all across the offending nations.
Hamas has actually filed a case before, to get out from under the terrorist branding, against the European Union back in 2010. The first EU Court took 4 years to find that Hamas was not terrorists - not even their armed wing. Then the highest EU court overturned the verdict in a heartbeat. The link to the EU Court finding they were not terrorists is halfway down in this post: https://mariannebergvall.substack.com/p/labelling-hamas-as-terrorists-perpetuates (I missed a letter in the link first, but now it works:)