Malpractice or Complicity?

GPM # 101 We’ve been sharing extracts from a People’s Tribunal on the Gaza Genocide, that took place in Sarajevo at the end of May. Inspired by the 1966 Russell Tribunal on the US war on Vietnam, and the 2003-2005 World Tribunal on the US war on Iraq, the Gaza Tribunal was launched in London in November 2024. Faced with a “total failure of the organised international community to implement international law in the most severe, visible case of genocide in real time,” the Gaza Tribunal “aims to legitimize an alternative paradigm of international law, one that derives its authority from people and their sense of justice rather than relying solely on governments and their institutions.” The Gaza Tribunal is governed by an eight-member Steering Committee headed by Richard Falk, Emeritus Professor of International Law and former UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine, assisted by a 29-member Advisory Policy Council of civil society leaders and public intellectuals from Palestine, Europe and North America. The Tribunal’s final judgement will be rendered by a ‘Jury of Conscience’, following closing hearings in Istanbul in late October. That judgement, together with personal testimony, civil society submissions, and closing reports from each of the Tribunal’s three Chambers, will be incorporated into a set of public archives that will remain open for continuing submissions. In today’s GPM podcast — voices from a tribunal session about corporate media reporting on the Gaza genocide, chaired by Turkish attorney Mehmet Karli. Donate with a $15/monthly subscription Participants include: Lubna Masarwa, Palestine/Israel bureau chief for the Middle East Eye; British journalist Victoria Brittain; Ezgi Basaran, Oxford University scholar on Turkish and Middle East politics; Assal Rad, Middle East history scholar and non-resident Fellow at DAWN, a group founded by murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and British broadcaster and journalist, Lauren Booth. Listen to the panel in today’s podcast. Click on the play button above, or go here.