Lobbies (organised groups seeking to influence public decisions) are not inherently corrupt: they bring diverse perspectives into policymaking.
But when money buys access and private interests dictate public policy, behind closed doors, they may be a legalised form of corruption.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
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Int'l Lawyer | Scholar | Former UN Official | Sen.Adviser @ARDD @ar_renaissance
#Ahimsa: non-violence toward all beings.
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I am shocked by the political inertia in the face of what Israelis -settlers and soldiers- are doing in Palestine, where terror has become a daily reality. In the West Bank, torching century old trees and poisoning livestock. When will the EU take action against Apartheid Israel?
Israel’s expanding network of checkpoints is UNLAWFUL and must be dismantled immediately.
Part of the carceral geography of apartheid, it makes Palestiniams' daily life fully dependent on arbitrariness.
Thank you @npub1qqf6...tcde for exposing this viciousness:


WIRED
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures...

RT: @npub17zrs...nqj2 This story is insane.
The Palestinian Bedouin Israeli Yusef Alziadna is widely regarded as a hero in Israel after having saved 30 lives on Oct. 7.
Today, in recognition of his bravery, Israeli security forces arrived at his home with bulldozers & demolished the foundations of his family's home. They also demolished his storage shed & a chicken coop & damaged the area used by his brother’s flock of sheep.
It's not just his own property -- it's the whole neighborhood Israel wants to destroy. 65 demolition orders hang over the homes in the neighborhood. Just a week ago, his nephew got married; shortly before the wedding, he, too, had received a demolition order for his home. When the bulldozers arrived, it turned out that the newlywed had already demolished his own home to avoid a forced demolition.
There is 1 and only 1 reason Israel is trying to wipe Yusef's neighborhood off the map:
Yusef and his family have P-positive DNA. They are Palestinian Arab Bedouin, not Jewish. But Israel is a state for people with J-positive DNA. Jews. That means Israel will do whatever it can to push Yusef, his family and community off their land, because they have the wrong DNA.
Rahat itself was constructed decades ago to force Bedouins off their ancestral lands in the Naqb, into settled communities where they would have no access to land where they could tend to their flocks of goat, sheep, animals, etc.
Today, Yosef was scheduled to give an interview on Reshet Bet and recount once again how he saved... ...many on October 7th. He cancelled the interview. Instead of coming to the studio, he invites people to come to him and see what the bulldozers did in his neighborhood today. https://www.mekomit.co.il/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A9-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%90%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%93%D7%97%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%95-%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%95-%D7%A9%D7%9C/


Remember the alarm raised over Israel clearing Gaza’s rubble without caring to recover bodies for burial or preserve evidence (as requested by ICJ)? @CBC investigation confirms that warning mattered.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/is-israel-erasing-evidence-of-alleged-war-crimes-in-gaza-a-visual-investigation-9.7357122
Below an informative interview with @weizman_eyal.