oatmeal<p>Quoting from Nir Hason and Chen Ma'anit analysis of the Supreme Court's judicial decisions over the course of the military campaign. </p><p>Hason and Ma’anit, investigative journalists at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Haaretz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haaretz</span></a> who frequently cover legal and human rights issues, claim the the Supreme Court has systematically approved Israeli military actions while rejecting or indefinitely delaying petitions from human rights organizations. They contend that the court has given a "green light" to various military policies including restrictions on food, medical care, journalist access, and detention practices.</p><p>Here are some notable controversial rulings mentioned:</p><p>Yitzhak Amit (Chief Justice)</p><p>- Starvation case: Issued ruling that accepted the state's position that there was no real food shortage in Gaza, despite border closings</p><p>- Missing persons cases: Approved dismissal of petition seeking information about detained Palestinians, telling lawyer "There's an email address... what more do we need to do?"</p><p>- Red Cross access: Has delayed petition for Red Cross prison visits through 18 extension requests over a year</p><p>David Mintz (Judge)</p><p>- Starvation case: Wrote 8-page section on medieval Jewish warfare law, including discussion of:<br> - Wars of extermination against "seven nations" <br> - Amalek wars requiring genocide ("strike down man and woman, infant and suckling")<br> - Referenced rabbinical debates about whether starvation is permitted in warfare</p><p>- Electricity case: Previously ruled electricity was a basic necessity for Israelis, but voted to deny it to Palestinians</p><p>Noam Solberg (Deputy Chief Justice)</p><p>- Starvation case: Wrote that humanitarian aid reaching Hamas is an "oxymoron" and that "excessive humanism" prevents ending the fighting</p><p>- Various petitions: Repeatedly ruled "there is no cause for our intervention"</p><p>- Missing persons: Rejected petition from families of 62 detained Gazans seeking information</p><p>- Electricity: Ruled that restoring electricity to Gaza was not justiciable</p><p>Daphna Barak-Erez (Judge)</p><p>- Red Cross access: Did not require state to allow Red Cross visits to security prisons</p><p>- Electricity: Ruled in 2020 that electricity was essential for Israelis' dignified existence, but has not applied same standard to Palestinians</p><p>Yael Willner (Judge)</p><p>- Missing persons: Told Palestinian lawyer seeking information about detained relative: "There's an email address... what more do we need to do?"</p><p>- Various cases: Approved state positions on detention without legal representation</p><p>Ruth Ronen (Judge)</p><p>- Missing persons: Rejected petition from families of 62 detained Gazans on technical grounds</p><p>- Detention cases: Approved dismissing cases where Palestinians died in custody</p><p>Ofer Grosskopf (Judge)</p><p>- Missing persons: Approved deletion of petition after detainees died in custody</p><p>Alex Stein (Judge)</p><p>- Electricity: Ruled that restoring electricity to Gaza was not justiciable</p><p>Yosef Elron (Judge)</p><p>- Recent starvation petition: Given recent case but indicated likely dismissal after Israel announced policy changes</p><p>These rulings represent a systematic approval of policies that human rights organizations argue constitute war crimes, with the judges either rejecting petitions outright or allowing indefinite delays that render them meaningless.</p><p>From the ICJ perspective, Israel's judiciary appears to be facilitating rather than investigating alleged international crimes, systematically approving policies like starvation and forced displacement while ignoring international court orders - demonstrating "unwillingness" to provide genuine accountability and thereby triggering international jurisdiction. </p><p>Prof. Eliav Lieblich (Tel Aviv University Law Faculty) states: "It's simply unbelievable that the Supreme Court completely ignores the opinion of the international court when ruling on the same issue."</p><p>Hebrew <a href="https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2025-05-21/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/00000196-f2fd-d85b-af9f-fbfd236a0000" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">haaretz.co.il/magazine/2025-05</span><span class="invisible">-21/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/00000196-f2fd-d85b-af9f-fbfd236a0000</span></a> or <a href="https://archive.is/IPxKT" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/IPxKT</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@hannahpalsa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hannahpalsa</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraelWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraelWarCrimes</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICJ</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICC</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/complementarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complementarity</span></a></p>
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[cont’d] #Israel / Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed
[… ] Khan recently disclosed in an interview with #CNN that some elected leaders had been “very blunt” with him as he prepared to issue arrest warrants. “‘This court is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin,’ is was what a senior leader told me.”
[…] One former defence official familiar with Israel’s counter-ICC effort said joining the court had been “perceived as the crossing of a red line” and “perhaps the most aggressive” diplomatic move taken by the Palestinian Authority, which governs the West Bank. “To be recognised as a state in the #UN is nice,” they added. “But the ICC is a mechanism with teeth.”
Findings:
- Israel has waged a nearly decade-long secret "war" against the #ICC, deploying intelligence agencies to surveil, hack, pressure, smear and allegedly threaten senior ICC officials to derail inquiries into alleged crimes in Palestinian territories.
- Israeli agencies intercepted communications of ICC prosecutors Fatou Bensouda and Karim Khan, providing Netanyahu advance knowledge of their intentions. Bensouda was allegedly personally threatened by then-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen.
- Israel held secret back-channel meetings with the ICC using intelligence to try to undermine the Palestinian territories case, arguing Israel's military investigates itself properly.
- The U.S. under #Trump imposed sanctions on ICC officials over the Afghanistan probe, believed partly aimed at the Palestinian case, working together with Israel against the ICC.
- Despite intense pressure, Khan proceeded with seeking arrest warrants against #Netanyahu and #Gallant over alleged extermination, starvation and deliberately targeting civilians in Gaza.
Designing Algorithmic Recommendations to Achieve Human-AI #Complementarity https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.01484
"… decision-maker responses should be considered when designing #recommendation algorithms.
… subjects perform better using recommendations that are designed to provide complementary information, relative to algorithms that are instead designed to solve a problem directly."
#AI #decisionMaking
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If you are into it and want to learn more about #LibrarySocialism follow it up with their awesome trilogy on the basic concepts of their whole political idea.
Library Socialism & #Usufruct (2019)
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/library-socialism-usufruct-2019/
Library Socialism & The #IrreducibleMinimum (2019)
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/library-socialism-the-irreducible-minimum-2019/
Library Socialism & #Complementarity (2019)
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/library-socialism-complementarity-2019/
A better world is possible!
#podcast #prefiguration
"The anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday extensively studied gender dynamics in indigenous societies for her classic text, "Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality". Analysing ethnographic data from over 150 cultures, Sanday found the majority of early #huntergatherer bands were oriented around principles of gender #equality or #complementarity rather than #patriarchy."
https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-patriarchy-is-a-modern-invention-not-the-natural-order
Joan WestenbergThe patriarchy is a modern invention, not the natural order. — Joan WestenbergThe "patriarchy", a male-dominated social order with entrenched hierarchies giving power and authority to men over women, is pitched by masculinity influencers and pop social scientists as humanity's natural state. They argue patriarchy represents the primal hard-wiring of the human specie
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Barbie and Ken make us question these assumptions about biology-based gender roles and male dominance and female subordination, and about the way many religious groups now want to depict biology-determined gender roles and the male right to rul as the very heart of religion — when it's not.
#Barbie #gender #GenderRoles #MaleDomination #MalePrivilege #complementarianism #complementarity
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It's all about the complementarianism, the belief that male and female roles are biologically determined, with a creator God determining that males are dominant and females are submissive, males meant to rule and run things and females to obey and submit — and Barbie and Ken run smack up against all these assumptions.
#Barbie #gender #GenderRoles #MaleDomination #MalePrivilege #complementarianism #complementarity
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Rick Pidcock, who grew up in a right-wing white evangelical family and was forbidden to watch "Toy Story" because its trailer featured a group of bikini-clad Barbies, explains why the patriarchy is hyperventilating over Barbie.
#Barbie #gender #GenderRoles #MaleDomination #MalePrivilege #complementarianism #complementarity
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https://baptistnews.com/article/why-the-patriarchy-is-hyperventilating-over-barbie/
Georgia pastor Mike Stone, running for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention, says the church he pastors is the "strictest of the strict complementarians," and he wants this for the whole SBC.
Translation: I promote the dominance of heterosexual males like me over everyone else in the world, especially women and LGBTQ people. And I'm all about pretending that this is how God sees things, too,
Baptist News GlobalSBC presidential candidate describes his church as ‘the strictest of the strict complementarians’ – Baptist News GlobalA Georgia pastor making a second attempt to become president of the Southern Baptist Convention described his congregation as “the strictest of the strict complementarians” and said he wishes all SBC churches were as well. “I don’t think that every...
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Li used #plant traits (plant height, leaf thickness, #SLA , #LDMC ) from 26 species in a #globalchange #grassland #experiment to disentangle #intraspecific and #interspecific components of #dominance and #complementarity and their impact on productivity. We studied how #warming and #nitrogen fertilization impact community functional #composition and #diversity at intra- and interspecific level and how this in turn affects aboveground #productivity. (2/3)