Quoting from Nir Hason and Chen Ma'anit analysis of the Supreme Court's judicial decisions over the course of the military campaign.

Hason and Ma’anit, investigative journalists at #Haaretz 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.

Here are some notable controversial rulings mentioned:

Yitzhak Amit (Chief Justice)

- Starvation case: Issued ruling that accepted the state's position that there was no real food shortage in Gaza, despite border closings

- 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?"

- Red Cross access: Has delayed petition for Red Cross prison visits through 18 extension requests over a year

David Mintz (Judge)

- Starvation case: Wrote 8-page section on medieval Jewish warfare law, including discussion of:
- Wars of extermination against "seven nations"
- Amalek wars requiring genocide ("strike down man and woman, infant and suckling")
- Referenced rabbinical debates about whether starvation is permitted in warfare

- Electricity case: Previously ruled electricity was a basic necessity for Israelis, but voted to deny it to Palestinians

Noam Solberg (Deputy Chief Justice)

- Starvation case: Wrote that humanitarian aid reaching Hamas is an "oxymoron" and that "excessive humanism" prevents ending the fighting

- Various petitions: Repeatedly ruled "there is no cause for our intervention"

- Missing persons: Rejected petition from families of 62 detained Gazans seeking information

- Electricity: Ruled that restoring electricity to Gaza was not justiciable

Daphna Barak-Erez (Judge)

- Red Cross access: Did not require state to allow Red Cross visits to security prisons

- Electricity: Ruled in 2020 that electricity was essential for Israelis' dignified existence, but has not applied same standard to Palestinians

Yael Willner (Judge)

- Missing persons: Told Palestinian lawyer seeking information about detained relative: "There's an email address... what more do we need to do?"

- Various cases: Approved state positions on detention without legal representation

Ruth Ronen (Judge)

- Missing persons: Rejected petition from families of 62 detained Gazans on technical grounds

- Detention cases: Approved dismissing cases where Palestinians died in custody

Ofer Grosskopf (Judge)

- Missing persons: Approved deletion of petition after detainees died in custody

Alex Stein (Judge)

- Electricity: Ruled that restoring electricity to Gaza was not justiciable

Yosef Elron (Judge)

- Recent starvation petition: Given recent case but indicated likely dismissal after Israel announced policy changes

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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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."

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2025-05-21/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/00000196-f2fd-d85b-af9f-fbfd236a0000 or https://archive.is/IPxKT

@hannahpalsa
@israel
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ICJ #ICC #complementarity

#Palestine / Israeli Attorney General refuses to investigate officials who called to burn Gaza and destroy cities in the strip

Despite explicit calls to "burn Gaza" and "completely destroy" Palestinian cities, Israel's AG won't investigate Finance Minister #Smotrich and MK Vaturi, claiming their statements were "vague" and protected by parliamentary immunity. This decision came just three days before the ICC issued arrest warrants for #Netanyahu and #Gallant.

[…] Attorney Itay Mack, who complained against Vaturi and Smotrich on behalf of human rights organizations to the Attorney General and State Prosecutor, told Haaretz today that "Vaturi called several times to burn Gaza and explained that there are no innocent people there. These are statements that are outside the framework of protected freedom of expression, and the justification for not conducting an investigation against him due to freedom of expression is like 'adding sin to crime'." According to Mack, "The Attorney General and State Prosecutor are giving approval and normalizing inciting statements by Jewish elected officials." He added, "More seriously, they are practicing selective racist enforcement - for Jewish elected officials, incitement is part of freedom of expression, and for the non-Jewish public, a similar statement would lead to investigation and even arrest and indictment."​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/law/2025-05-04/ty-article/.premium/00000196-9b02-d0b1-a797-df2244870000 or https://archive.is/FjTRO

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #ICC #ICJ
#complementarity

#Complementarity is a fundamental principle that always needs to be accounted for. Too many of our biases direct thinking toward group think, black & white binaries. This is reinforced & amplified in social (qty) situations, including science, the media, & education. #excluded_middle #paradox

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5i7wtt23tcxrnxcksqkmicd/post/3lhxn2plq6c2u

#complementarity is a specific kind of diversity: the quality of being different but useful when combined.

Orienting a society towards complementarity means
- seeing non-hierarchical differences within a society as something generative.
- turning the focus from capital and competition toward humanity and cooperation

Regardless of a person's interests, skills, or abilities, we must all be free to labor and leisure. Basically: inclusivness++ :)

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In tonight’s tutorial, we talked about how psychology makes sense of emotions like love. Is it all subjective? Maybe not as much as you think. Love can be studied scientifically—not just through brain scans showing neurotransmitters like dopamine and oxytocin but also through observable behaviours.

Take reciprocity: when someone likes us, we’re more likely to like them back. Or similarity: shared values, interests, and beliefs often strengthen attraction. Add proximity and familiarity—the magic of repeated exposure—and you start seeing how relationships form. Then there’s complementarity: where differences between people don’t divide but balance and enhance connection.

What fascinates me is how psychology bridges the personal and the universal. Yes, love feels deeply subjective, but studies show patterns we can test and measure—observing behaviours, tracking emotional responses, and using physiological data to explore what we feel.

Have you noticed these dynamics in your relationships? #Psychology #Love #Relationships #Emotions #Reciprocity #Similarity #Proximity #Familiarity #Complementarity

#GazaGenocide / Israel has submitted an objection to the investigation against it at the Hague and claims that the prosecutor's request for a warrant of arrest is not lawful

[...] Israel argues that the International Criminal Court in The Hague does not have jurisdiction over issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including due to the Oslo Accords. In addition, Israel claims that the court should allow it to investigate the allegations raised by the prosecutor itself.

[...] The prosecutor, Karim Khan, has been accused by #Israel of not following the principle of #complementarity. According to Israeli law, if the prosecutor opens a new investigation, he must notify the state being investigated and inform it of what he is investigating. The state has the option to return to the court within a month and show that it is investigating the same issues - then the prosecutor's investigation will be suspended or terminated.

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/law/2024-09-20/ty-article/.premium/00000192-0f2f-df25-ab9e-5fff6d1d0000 or https://archive.ph/iw66U

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes
#IsraelOccupation

@martinvermeer absolutely non what-so-ever 🙄 but it's not so simple in the current climate in Israel. If the prosecutor will be forced , politically, to drop these cases, it'll be really something the ICJ and ICC can't ignore.

#complementarity

#Israel / Israel's High Court Cannot Hold Back the Legal Avalanche Against the Occupation

For too long, #Israel's legal system distorted international law norms and whitewashed crimes committed by soldiers and settlers against Palestinians through lack of accountability. The emerging "legal avalanche" against Israel from international bodies is a consequence of its judiciary insisting on enabling violations of the laws of occupation for decades.

Rather than a “judicial overhaul” planned and payed for by right-wing American Jews - many of whom support the occupation - what’s needed in Israel is a meaningful legal reform to create accountability and regain credibility in line with international standards. Otherwise, Israel's #complementarity claims will continue ringing hollow to the #ICC, among others.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-06-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israels-high-court-cannot-hold-back-the-legal-avalanche-against-the-occupation/00000190-279e-dafe-a3d6-3fde2f7c0000 or https://archive.is/nkP2s

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation #IsraelWarCrime
#ICC #ICJ

[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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@israel
@palestine
#complementarity #IsraelWarCrimes

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

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

Any Niels Bohr experts out there in the #Fediverse? His principle of #complementarity—expansively, that *how* we know is part of *what* we know—is clearly applicable to the social sciences, as Bohr frequently speculated. But if so, we social scientists must do our best to understand it closer to its origin in physics...do we? One recent paper: can someone walk me through it? https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?URI=optica-7-2-93

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/

#MenasKafatos - What Does #QuantumTheory Mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Hrd-kOhTY&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Complementarity #Entanglement #Metaphysics #Indeterminacy #Uncertainty #NonLocality #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#JeffTollaksen - What Is #Ultimate #Reality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOLRzxPJPxM&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Physics #FundamentalPhysics #UltimateReality #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Complementarity #Uncertainly #UncertaintyPrinciple #Time #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

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,

#SouthernBaptists #complementarity #MaleEntitlement

https://baptistnews.com/article/sbc-presidential-candidate-describes-his-church-as-the-strictest-of-the-strict-complementarians/

Reality is inherently mysterious and ambiguous.
#humility #ambiguity #science #spirituality #complementarity