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"Killing as a war crime or as a crime against humanity is no less serious than genocide." Germany, according to Sands' internally coherent demand, must decide whether it understands its state raison d'état in a particular way, as unconditional loyalty to Israeli policy, or as a "genuine, non-racialized raison d'état" that breaks the silence wherever international crimes occur "and by whomever they are committed." #Völkerrecht #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands (translated)

Germany is well-versed in ethnic cleansing. So why the silence? In his acceptance speech, award winner Sands accused the German government on Sunday in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt of indecent silence regarding Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip and against Palestinians. #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands #Völkerrecht (translated)

Philippe Sands, the Peace Prize winner of the German Book Trade, criticized in his acceptance speech the loud silence of Germany regarding the Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip and called for an open debate about possible violations of international law, emphasizing that criticism is also necessary among friends. #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands #Völkerrecht (translated)

No axis of good or evil divides the world of jurist and author Philippe Sands in two. Previously, the Austrian historian Mirjam Zadoff, director of the NS Documentation Center in Munich, praised the clear stance of the award winner in her speech: "No axis of good or evil divides the world of jurist and author Philippe Sands in two." #PhilippeSands #Friedenspreis #Völkerrecht (translated)

Philippe Sands, the Peace Prize winner of the German Book Trade, criticized in his acceptance speech the German silence regarding Israel's actions in Gaza and demanded that war crimes be named regardless of their perpetrators in order to uphold law and justice. #PhilippeSands #Friedenspreis #Völkerrecht (translated)

Emrah Erken criticized the UN Human Rights Council and Navi Pillay. He wrote that the body had condemned Israel for human rights violations a total of 116 times since its founding in 2006, while China, Turkey, and Qatar had not been condemned even once. The United Nations, he claimed, had turned human rights into a weapon against the West, particularly Israel. Pillay served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. During this time, the Human Rights Council never condemned China, Erken wrote. UN Watch and former UN employee Emma Reilly accused Pillay of having passed the names of more than 50 dissidents, including Uighurs, to China under her leadership. Additionally, Pillay stayed away from the Nobel Prize ceremony in 2010 in honor of the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Erken further wrote that Pillay later led a UN commission of inquiry that accused Israel of genocide and previously signed calls for sanctions against Israel. In 2012, she criticized the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for its Muhammad cartoons, describing the drawings as malicious and intentionally provocative. Critics also accused her of opting for appeasement and restrictions on freedom of expression rather than defending it in the debate over Muhammad cartoons. Erken called it a shame that Pillay would receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and expressed opposition to post-colonialism, the "Woke Left," and Pillay. #Menschenrechte #UN #Israel (translated)

Philippe Sands, a French-British jurist and professor, was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade at the conclusion of the Frankfurt Book Fair and criticized in his acceptance speech Germany's indecent silence regarding violations of international law in the context of Israel. #Friedenspreis #Völkerrecht #PhilippeSands (translated)

The author wrote that Ukraine needs a new president. He accused Volodymyr Zelensky of having knowingly provoked Russia's unlawful war by inviting NATO to advance to the Russian border. According to him, great powers never accept such things. He also hinted at a need for a change in the USA, but did not elaborate on the thought. #Ukraine #Politik #Selenskyj #UA #RU #US (translated)

The author wrote that Hamas celebrates the Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay. He labeled Pillay as anti-Semitic and accused her of accusing Israel of genocide and denouncing Uighurs to the Chinese government. He ultimately called the award a joke. https://t.co/vwpTM1JISA #Friedensnobelpreis #NaviPillay #Hamas (translated)

"The live broadcast of an execution is equivalent to a public execution and would violate the absolute prohibition of torture," said the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, in a statement to the AFP news agency on Friday. #Hinrichtung #Trump #Menschenrechte (translated)