This Week on GR
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
Fourteen months into the daily murder and destruction in Gaza, Israel still denies what it is doing there is a genocide; and finally I agree. While what it is doing is definitively genocide within the legal lexicon, the way Israel is going about this heinous project transcends even that. More than merely "causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group", Israel is ensuring when wounds are suffered they cannot be healed. More than "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", Israel is making certain ameliorating those conditions is impossible, even after military actions cease. No, what Israel has been doing, is continuing to do, is not genocide; it is more properly recognized as a "Holocaust".
Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo is Research Coordinator for the Starling Centre for Just Societies and Technologies at Western University, where she also teaches History. Dorotea too volunteers with the Glia Project, serving as its Director of Development overseeing "capacity building" projects in Gaza. Dorotea's Open Gaza Initiative project was disrupted by Israel's attacks against Rafah last April, and her work refocused to organizing and leading medical missions within the embattled Gaza Strip.
Now back in Canada, Dr. Gucciardo has joined a growing number of medical professionals giving testimony to a variety of national and international bodies in a desperate attempt to both raise awareness and move Canadians still supporting Israel to cease their support to save Palestinian lives.
Dorotea Gucciardo in the first half.
And; not every country in the Western Hemisphere supports the ongoing Holocaust in Palestine; in fact some have faced too the same kinds of sanctions and blockades, coups and assassination attempts that make genocide possible. Venezuela is certainly one of those, but despite more than twenty years in Empire's cross-hairs it remains steadfastly defiant. More than this though, the South American nation is actively rallying smaller countries to resist as it has done, in part by hosting the first Anti-Fascist Youth & Student World Congress in Caracas last month.
Victoria's Tyson Strandlund attended the Congress by invitation of the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Ministry. Tyson's a Métis activist involved in a range of peace and solidarity struggles against fascism, and more. He also serves as General Secretary to the Popular Democracy Movement, an organization he co-founded in Victoria earlier this year.
Tyson Strandlund and organizing for a future without fascism in the second half.
But first, Dorotea Gucciardo and bearing witness here to Palestine's horrors.
Song: 35 Children a Day
Artist: David Rovics
[Correction: The average age of the Canadian population in 2023 was 40.6 years. The median age was also 40.6 years. - Ape]
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024
