Organizational Sign-on Letter Calling on States to Support South Africa's Genocide Convention Case Against Israel at the ICJ
PLEASE NOTE: THIS LETTER IS ONLY FOR ORGANIZATIONS, MOVEMENTS, UNIONS AND OTHER GROUPS, NOT FOR INDIVIDUALS TO SIGN. THANK YOU!
A note for organizations:
On December 30, a group of organizations including the Black Alliance for Peace, the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation, Popular Resistance, CodePink, Progressive International, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), the National Lawyers Guild, Samidoun, Veterans for Peace, Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (US Section), World Beyond War, The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center (CMMLK) Cuba, Project Enduring Peace, and others met urgently to support efforts to end the genocide of Palestinians. While there are many legal and human rights-focused groups working to end genocide using various legal interventions, we saw a need to build organizational support by human rights, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist and other groups as a way to increase public pressure.
We invite your organization to sign this open letter calling for nations to submit Declarations of Intervention to the International Court of Justice in support of South Africa's excellent case invoking the Genocide Convention against Israel. Such Declarations can be submitted at any time and will increase the likelihood that a finding of the crime of genocide by the Court is backed up by enforcement.
At present, we are gathering organizational (not individual) endorsements. We urge you to share this internally with organizations that may be supportive of this effort. Once we have gathered a significant number of endorsements, the letter will be published.
We appreciate your endorsement and any support you can provide to gather as many signing organizations as possible.
We, the undersigned organizations, commend South Africa on its Application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) invoking the Genocide Convention against Israel. We now urge other countries to reinforce this strongly worded and well-argued complaint by immediately filing a Declaration of Intervention with the ICJ, also called the World Court.Many countries have rightly expressed their horror at the State of Israel's genocidal actions, war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed against Palestinians. Israeli Occupying Forces have bombed hospitals, residences, United Nations refugee centers, schools, places of worship and escape routes, killing and injuring tens of thousands of Palestinians since October 7, 2023. More than half of the dead are women and children. Israeli leaders have made brazenly genocidal statements openly declaring their intention to permanently and completely displace Palestinians from their own land. South Africa is correct in charging that under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Israel's actions "are genocidal in character, as they are committed with the requisite specific intent … to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a part of the broader Palestinian national, racial and ethnic group."
Parties to the Genocide Convention are obliged to act to prevent genocide; therefore, action must be immediate. A Declaration of Intervention filed with the ICJ in support of the South African case against Israel is one way to ensure that all acts of genocide are stopped and those responsible are held accountable.
Israel’s killing, injuring, traumatizing, and displacing large numbers of Palestinians and denying water, food, medicine, and fuel to an occupied population meet the criteria for the crime of genocide. If a majority of the world’s nations call for a ceasefire, yet fail to press for prosecution of Israel – what is to stop Israel from ethnically cleansing all Palestinians?
For that matter, what is to stop other nations from repeating a horror of this magnitude?We urge national governments to immediately file a Declaration of Intervention in support of the South African case against Israel at the International Court of Justice to stop the killing in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Resources: Here is an example of a Declaration of Intervention by the Maldives in the Myanmar case. There are many other examples.
Organizational Signers:
Black Alliance for Peace
Popular Resistance, USA
Palestinian Assembly for Liberation
CODEPINK, USA
Progressive International
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section
World Beyond War
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
National Lawyers Guild, USA
US Boats to Gaza
Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Roots Action, USA
Veterans for Peace, USA
Project Enduring Peace, USA
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Palestine Section
PEN International-Palestine
Peace, Justice, Sustainability, NOW!, USA
Friends of Latin America, USA
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center(CMMLK), Cuba
Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN), Colombia
Women's March Global - Region of the Americas
Landless Workers Movement MST, Brazil
Federation of Mexican Workers and Unions (Confederación de Trabajadores y Sindicatos de Mexico)
Venezuelan Popular Feminist Movement (Plataforma de Feminismo Popular de Venezuela)
Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAR), Western Hemisphere
The Latin American and Caribbean Council on Popular Education (CEAAL)
The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy - MIFTAH
Kenyans for Palestine
Tatuy Tv, Venezuela
Asociación Ecuatoriana de Amistad con el Pueblo Saharaui (AEAPS)
Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos Segundo Montes Mozo S.J., Ecuador
Comité Internacional Paz, Justicia y Dignidad a los Pueblos, Cuba/USA
Euskadi, Cuba
Comité de Solidaridad con la Causa Árabe, Spain
Palestina Toma la Calle, España
Coordinadora por la Paz, la Soberanía la Integración y la No Injerencia CPAZ Movimiento Social de DDHH, Ecuador
Centro de Estudios e Investigación sobre Mujeres, Spain
Fórum de Política Feminista, Spain
Partido Comunista de los Trabajadores de Argentina
Plataforma de Solidaridad con la Causa Palestina (Venezuela)
Foro Itinerante de Participación Popular, Venezuela
Asociación Gremial de Abogados y Abogadas de Argentina
Convocatoria SEGUNDA INDEPENDENCIA de Argentina
Agrupación ESPERANZA Revolucionaria y Socialista, Argentina
Red de Intelectuales y Artistas en Defensa de la Humanidad- Capitulo Paraguay
Conseil National des Comités Populaires (CNCP Martinique)
Instituto Simón Bolívar para la Paz y la Solidaridad entre los Pueblos, Venezuela
Plateforme Haitienne de Plaidoyer pour un Developpement Alternatif (PAPDA), Haiti
Women Democratic Front, Pakistan
Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice, Palestine/International
Feminist Conversations Kenya (FCK)
Syrian Center For Media and Freedom Of Expression
SOLI (Red de Lucha Por la Paz y Solidaridad Internacional) Puerto Rico
ALBA Movimientos, Latin America
Asociación de Mujeres Campesinas y Populares AMUCAP-C, Paraguay
Alianza Latinoamericana Por Palestina contra el Apartheid
Liga Mexicana por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, LIMEDDH
Justice for All, USA
Venezuelanalysis
Diáspora Pa’lante Collective, Puerto Rico
Coletivo Advogadas e Advogados pela Democracia (CAAD), Brazil
Naco Nius México. M. N. N.
ARCH Jerusalem (Geneva, Switzerland)
PAL Commission on War Crimes, Justice, Reparations and Return
Women Advancement for Economic and Leadership Empowerment in Africa (WAELE AFRICA)
Geneva Council For International Affairs and Development
Casa Tecmilco, México
Surgentes, colectivo de DDHH (Venezuela)
Izquierda Libertaria - Chile
Amigos de la Tierra América Latina y el Caribe (ATALC)
Scandinavian Institute for Human Rights/Haytham Manna Foundation
French Observatory for Human Rights
Union of Palestinian Organizations of Latin America (UPAL)
Amman Center for Human Rights Studies (ACHRS), Jordan
Syrian Medical Committee
Horan Rencontre por la Citoyennete, France
International Institute for Peace, Justice and Human Rights - IIPJHR, Switzerland
Fórum Latino Palestino, Brazil
Syndicat National des Journalistes Tunisien (SNJT), Tunis
Muslim Journal, USA
Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists
Ordre National des Avocats de Tunisie
Kuagro Ri Changaina, Colombia
Alkarama (Movimiento de Mujeres Palestinas), Spain
Raíces (Grupo cultural raíces de Guasá), Ecuador
Comisión Étnica para la Paz y la Defensa de los Derechos Territoriales, Colombia
International People's Assembly
Arab American Civic Council
Movimiento de Pequeños Agricultores, MPA Brazil
Federación Nacional de Cooperativas Agropecuarias (FENACOA), Colombia
Asociación Colombiana de Economistas Negras - Mano Cambiada
Sindicato Aeroespacial SP, Brazil
The Literacy Project, USA
Sindicato na Televisão, Brazil
JUST (International Movement for a Just World), Malaysia
MLN - Movement for Liberation from Nakba, Malaysia
JUST-IS Interfaith Solidarity for Justice and against Militarism, Pakistan
Center for the Study of Islam and Decoloniality, Pakistan
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
New York Peace Council
Law for Palestine
Palestinian Feminist Collective
CAGE International
Vocesenlucha - Comunicación Popular, Spain/Latin America
Asociación Alnakba, Venezuela
Mujeres por la Paz
Sodepau Pais Valencia
Jubileo Sur/Américas
Acción Ecológica, Ecuador
Nación Andaluza
Tunisian National Bar Association
Palestine Ceasefire Dayton, USA
Red de Ambientalistas Comunitarios de El Salvador RACDES
Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, Pakistan
Congreso de los Pueblos, Colombia
Marcha Mundial de las Mujeres Macronorte, Perú
La Vía Campesina
Jornada Continental por la Democracia y contra el Neoliberalismo
Geneva Centre for Democracy & Human Rights
One Justice - France
International Jurists Union - Geneva
Global Legal Alliance for Palestine
Southern Anti-Racism Network
Mütter gegen den Krieg Berlin-Brandenburg
PeaceWorks Brunswick Maine, USA
Trident Ploughshares
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK)
Trade Justice Alliance, USA
Movimiento por un mundo sin guerras y sin violencia (MSGySV)
Veterans For Peace, Ireland Chapter
Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos
Observatorio por el Cierre de la Escuela de las Américas en Chile
Jordanian Federation of Independent Trade Unions
Asociación Americana de Juristas
Engineers Association - Jerusalem Center (Palestine)
Medical Association - Jerusalem Center (Palestine)
Palestinian Dental Association (Palestine)
Pharmacists Association - Jerusalem Center (Palestine)
Palestinian Nursery and Midwifery Association (Palestine)
Agricultural Engineers Association - Jerusalem Center (Palestine)
Palestinian Bar Association (Palestine)
Palestinian Contractors Union (Palestine)
Veterinarians Syndicate - Jerusalem Center (Palestine)
Palestinian Union of Psychologists and Social Workers (Palestine)
Sínodo luterano salvadoreño
Green Mountain Solidarity With Palestine
Sahel fondation
The International Commission for Supporting the Rights of the Palestinian People “Hashd”
Rockland for Palestine
University Network for Human Rights
Charlottetown Mutual Aid
Rede Jubileu Sul Brasil
Movimiento Estudiantil Cristiano de Cuba
Colectivo Voces Ecológicas COVEC, Panamá
National Network on Cuba, USA
Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change, USA
National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis Chapter
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, USA
The Peace Pentagon / Oracle Institute, USA
Our Revolution - North Dakota, USA
Peace Action Montgomery, USA
United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), USA
All-African People's Revolutionary Party
Friends of the Congo
Socialist Action USA
The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Oil and Gas Action Network, USA
Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights
Mom vision prodeca foundation (MVPF), Senegal
Pan-Afrikan Liberation Program, USA
Suffolk University Students for Justice in Palestine, USA
Black Radical Christians, USA
Frente Antiimperialista Internacionalista, Spain
Environmentalists Against War, USA
Democratic Socialists of America - International Committee
Georgia Human Rights Clinic, USA
Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA), USA
Cooperation Jackson, USA
National Jericho Movement, USA
Asociación Interpueblos Estado Español
Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ), USA
American Muslims for Palestine-Richmond VA Chapter, USA
Peace Action of San Mateo County, USA
Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), USA
Friendship Office of the Americas
HUMANITAS: The Africana Ethical Society
This action alert for organizations was sent to WNPJ by Cassandra Dixon of our WNPJ member group, Palestine Partners:
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