Cresce il movimento antisionista nei Balcani

1) 9 settembre 2026: Proteste a Lubiana contro l'apertura della prima ambasciata permanente di Israele in Slovenia

2) FLASHBACK: The People vs. The Abyss: The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal (2025)

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Proteste a Lubiana contro l'apertura della prima ambasciata permanente di Israele in Slovenia

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A Lubiana, circa 1.700 persone hanno partecipato a una manifestazione di protesta contro l'apertura della prima ambasciata permanente di Israele in Slovenia e la visita del ministro degli Esteri israeliano Gideon Sa'ar. 

L'apertura dell'ambasciata si è svolta il 9 settembre nell'ambito di una visita di due giorni di Sa'ar in Slovenia. Il ministro israeliano l'ha definita un evento storico e ha dichiarato l'intenzione di rafforzare le relazioni bilaterali. Durante la visita, Israele e la Slovenia hanno anche firmato un accordo di cooperazione nei settori dell'istruzione, della scienza, della cultura, della gioventù e dello sport.

La manifestazione si è svolta sotto lo slogan "No all'ambasciata del genocidio" ed è stata organizzata dal Movimento per i diritti dei palestinesi e dall'associazione studentesca Iskra. La manifestazione è stata apertamente sostenuta dal primo presidente sloveno Milan Kučan, dalla leadership del partito parlamentare «Levica» e dalla dirigenza dei Socialdemocratici.

La folla ha circondato l'hotel Grand Plaza, dove si teneva la cerimonia. I manifestanti, con bandiere palestinesi, hanno chiesto la chiusura immediata dell'ambasciata, la rottura dei legami con la leadership israeliana e l'uscita dalla NATO, scandendo: «Israele bombarda, la NATO finanzia». Gli attivisti hanno già chiesto al comune di cambiare il nome della strada dove si trova l'ambasciata in "Via Palestina".

L'apertura della rappresentanza israeliana ha segnato un cambiamento radicale nel corso della politica estera slovena. Le precedenti autorità del paese avevano assunto una posizione fortemente anti-israeliana e, nel 2024, avevano riconosciuto lo Stato di Palestina. Tuttavia, il nuovo governo di destra guidato dal primo ministro Janez Janša ha intrapreso un percorso per ristabilire rapidamente i rapporti con le autorità di Tel Aviv.

La svolta del governo di Janez Janša verso Israele è motivata dal desiderio pragmatico di rafforzare la posizione del paese all'interno dell'ala conservatrice dell'UE e della NATO. Tuttavia, la forte resistenza da parte dei veterani della politica slovena e dei partiti di sinistra dimostra che un cambiamento di rotta indolore non sarà possibile. La questione israeliana sarà sicuramente una delle principali linee di conflitto politico interno in Slovenia.

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The People vs. The Abyss: The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal

In the face of genocide and global inaction, the Tribunal recognizes that the challenge of justice falls to people, to legitimate resistance, to acts of solidarity, to civil society, to social movements, and to people of conscience everywhere.

Craig Mokhiber – June 5, 2025

A people’s tribunal

Almost sixty years ago, the world watched in horror as the US carried out brutal aggression and serial atrocities against the people of Vietnam. Those atrocities, and the apparent impunity afforded to the US in their commission, was, for many, too much to bear. 

Because no state, no group of states, or international institution was coming to rescue the Vietnamese people, it quickly became clear that freedom would come only from popular resistance inside Vietnam, and a global solidarity movement outside. 

It was in that context that Bertrand Russell, the prominent British philosopher and public intellectual, launched the first “people’s tribunal” as an organized expression of moral outrage. 

In 1967, he stood before the Russell Tribunal and declared: “We are not judges. We are witnesses. Our task is to make mankind bear witness to these terrible crimes and to unite humanity on the side of justice.” 

Today, another people’s tribunal is following in the footsteps of Russell, this time to confront the Israeli regime’s genocide in Palestine, the racist ideology that underpins it, and the complicit western powers and corporations that enable it. 

The Gaza Tribunal

Assembled in November of 2024, and meeting for the first time in London in February of 2025, the Gaza Tribunal has just completed its first public meeting in Sarajevo (26-29 May 2025) with the adoption of the Declaration of Sarajevo. 

The Tribunal was initiated by another celebrated public intellectual, this time Professor Richard Falk, preeminent professor of international law, former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Palestine, and now the President of the Gaza Tribunal.

The Gaza Tribunal assembles thinkers and activists from Palestine and around the globe to address not only the colonial and genocidal horrors being perpetrated by the Israeli regime in Palestine, but also, the complicity of powerful states, corporations, media companies, and Israel proxy groups in the West, as well as the inaction or inadequate response of the majority of countries and institutions in the world, whether at the national or international levels. 

Structuring itself around three “chambers,” the Tribunal considers questions of (1) international law, (2) international relations and world order, and (3) history, ethics, and philosophy, examining all aspects of the struggle against genocide and for Palestinian freedom. 

Considering survivor testimonies, expert witnesses, and the analysis of its members, the Tribunal will ultimately convene a “jury of conscience” to pronounce later this year. It is compiling an archive of evidence. And its Declaration of Sarajevo, adopted on 29 May 2025, encapsulates its vision for a global, moral response to the ongoing Nakba in Palestine. 

Why a tribunal? 

The work of the Tribunal is based on a fundamental premise: that the people of Palestine are human beings with human rights, including the right to self-determination, to return to their homes anywhere in historic Palestine, to equality under the law, and to freedom from fear and want. It recognizes that the alignment of dark forces perpetrating genocide in Palestine represents an existential threat to the survival of the people of Palestine, to international peace and security, and to the project of a just international order. And it begins with the recognition that governments and the international institutions ostensibly established to maintain peace and security and to advance human rights and international law have failed to end the impunity of the Israeli regime and to respond effectively to the genocide and to a century of colonial persecution in Palestine. 

As such, the Tribunal recognizes that the challenge of justice falls to people, to legitimate resistance, to acts of solidarity, to civil society, to social movements, and to people of conscience everywhere. It understands the need to mobilize the power of the people, in their millions, to challenge the crimes of the Israeli regime and its co-conspirators, to isolate the Israeli regime and to actively dissent to the complicity of our own governments and institutions. 

It seeks to counter the forces of evil with the forces of justice, by bringing pressure to bear in every sector, and making clear that genocide will not be normalized, that apartheid will not be normalized, that colonialism will not be normalized, and that Palestine will be free. This is the cry of conscience of the Gaza Tribunal. A call to all decent people to oppose the lawlessness and brutality of powerful actors implicated in the genocide in Palestine, foremost the Israeli regime, but also the US, the UK, Germany and their collaborators. 

What the Tribunal is not

While the Tribunal includes some of the most skilled international lawyers on the planet, it is not a formal judicial or legal mechanism, but rather an assembly of civil society, of movements, of thinkers and activists, and of people of conscience determined to end the horrors that we are all forced to witness in Palestine. 

Neither does the Tribunal believe it must wait to act until final pronouncements are made by any international court, years down the road.  In the face of a historic exigency like genocide, members of the Tribunal view passive deference to official institutions as morally indefensible. 

Unlike a court, the Tribunal begins with the recognition of the reality of genocide, of apartheid and settler colonialism, which its members see as undeniable realties. These crimes have long been confirmed by prominent human rights organizations, UN bodies, and genocide scholars, and are by now beyond reasonable doubt. Indeed, this assault in Gaza has rightly been called “the world’s first livestreamed genocide.” 

While official institutions endlessly debate whether the night is falling, the people of Palestine know that the darkness is already here, and that means that we all have a moral obligation to find ways to restore the light. The Tribunal therefore sees an urgent moral imperative in confronting these crimes now, with all the power and resolve that can be mobilized in society. 

The Tribunal also differs from many official institutions in that it does not engage in the moral prevarication that is so common among governments and official institutions, including the political offices of the UN. The Tribunal rejects the rhetorical application of a “both sides” approach to a situation like Palestine, in which the two sides are colonizer and colonized, occupier and occupied, oppressor and oppressed, genocidaires and victims. 

Neither does the Tribunal recognize an Israel exception to international law, so often insisted upon by Western powers to buttress Israeli state impunity and to protect individual Israeli perpetrators from accountability.  But either the law is real and applies to all equally, or it is a lie, a perfidious weapon of oppression and subjugation in the hands of power. The Tribunal comes down squarely on the side of the rule of law. 

Finally, the Tribunal refuses the gag orders imposed by the Israeli regime, its Western allies and proxies, and its   complicit media corporations. The Tribunal speaks openly about root causes, the words that states and official institutions often refuse to utter, including Zionism, settler colonialism, ethno-supremacism, and apartheid, because they are the root of the problem. And the Tribunal confronts genocide directly, never diverting its eyes, never employing the familiar rhetorical tricks (“only a court can declare genocide”) often used by UN officials to avoid the question. 

The Tribunal does so not only because it’s right in moral terms, but also in recognition of the simple truism that no conflict can be resolved without attention to root causes. And it should by now be clear to all that the Palestine crisis will certainly not be resolved by reviving the stinking corpse of the Oslo process, by establishing Palestinian Bantustans, or by an amorphous promise of a two-state solution somewhere down the road. 

As evidenced by its Declaration of Sarajevo, the Tribunal speaks the truth outload, and has the audacity to demand actual justice, not empty rhetoric or meaningless consolation prizes in its stead. 

A Declaration of conscience and a call to action

Thus, the Sarajevo Declaration offers itself as an antidote to the moral obfuscation, the distorted narratives, and the silent complicity that has dominated official positions for the past nineteen months, indeed, the past seventy-seven years. The declaration is an appeal of conscience that directly addresses the struggle against the darkness, the evil of the Israeli regime, its ideology and actions, and its collaborators. And it provides a platform for collective action upon which people can organize.  

Thus, in the Declaration of Sarajevo, the Gaza Tribunal declares moral outrage at the genocide and the myriad other crimes of the Israeli regime, solidarity with the people of Palestine, and commitment to working with partners across global civil society to end the genocide, and to ensure accountability for perpetrators and enablers, redress for victims and survivors, and a free Palestine. 

It demands an immediate end to those crimes, including the occupation, the siege, the apartheid, and the genocide, and freedom for all Palestinian prisoners. It calls on all governments and on international organizations to act. And it denounces all those who have been complicit in the regime’s crimes, from states to media companies, arms corporations, and others. 

Importantly, the Declaration expresses the conviction that the struggle against all forms of racism, bigotry, and discrimination necessarily includes the equal rejection of Islamophobia, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism, and antisemitism, as well as an acknowledgment of the horrific effects of Zionism, apartheid, and settler-colonialism on the Palestinian people. The Declaration explicitly rejects “the destructive ideology of Zionism, as the official state ideology of the Israeli regime, of the forces that colonized Palestine and established the Israeli state on its ruins, and of pro-Israel organizations and proxies today.” And it calls for decolonization across the land, an end to the ethno-supremacist order, and the replacement of Zionism with a dispensation founded on equal human rights for Christians, Muslims, Jews, and others. 

Expressing concern both at the failings of the international system and at attacks on those international institutions that have challenged genocide and apartheid in Palestine, the Declaration demands immediate action to isolate, contain, and hold accountable the Israeli regime. To these ends, it calls for universal boycott, divestment, sanctions, a military embargo, suspension from International organizations, and the criminal prosecution of perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, gross violations of human rights, and complicity. 

It denounces the wave of persecution and crackdowns on human rights defenders, peace activists, students, academics, workers, and professionals, and honors those who, despite this persecution, have had the courage and moral convictions to stand up and speak out. And it calls out the tactic of smearing as “antisemites” or “supporters of terrorism” all those who dare to speak up against the Israeli regime and its crimes. 

The Declaration honors “the courageous resistance and resilience of the Palestinian people, and the movement of millions standing in solidarity with them,” and it recognizes the right of the Palestinian people to armed resistance in accordance with international law. It recalls that the Palestinian right to self-determination is “jus cogens and erga omnes and is non-negotiable and axiomatic.” And it respects “Palestinian aspirations and recognizes full Palestinian agency and leadership over all decisions affecting their lives.”  

While critical of the failure of most international institutions to act effectively to challenge the Israeli regime and its crimes, the Declaration also recognizes those international actors that have acted with principle. It praises the International Court of Justice for its historic genocide case against the Israeli regime and for its landmark advisory opinions on Palestine. It recognizes South Africa for bringing the genocide case to the ICJ. And it calls for expediting the case of the International Criminal Court against Israeli perpetrators, for states parties to meet their obligations to arrest them, and for the US to cease its persecution of the court. 

The independent special procedures of the UN Human Rights Council are also the subject of praise, and the Declaration recognizes them “for their expert contributions and for their strong and principled voices in holding the Israeli regime to account and defending the human rights of the Palestinian people.”  And the Declaration declares particular support for humanitarian actors and international agencies that have acted to defend the rights of the Palestinian people, foremost among them, UNRWA. 

We will not relent: The final words of the Declaration 

The Declaration of Sarajevo ends with a warning that “the world is approaching a dangerous precipice, the front edge of which is in Palestine.” It finds that key international organizations and most countries of the world have failed in defending the human rights of the Palestinian people and in responding to the Israeli regime’s genocide in Palestine. And it concludes by declaring:

“The challenge of justice now falls to people of conscience everywhere, to civil society and to social movements, to all of us.  As such, our work in the coming months will be dedicated to meeting this challenge. Palestinian lives are at stake. The international moral and legal order is at stake. We must not fail. We will not relent.” 

Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official. He left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international law. 

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The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal

29 May 2025 – Updated:30 August 2025

We, the members of the Gaza Tribunal, having gathered in Sarajevo from 26 to 29 May 2025, declare our collective moral outrage at the continuing genocide in Palestine, our solidarity with the people of Palestine, and our commitment to working with partners across global civil society to end the genocide and to ensure accountability for perpetrators and enablers, redress for victims and survivors, the building of a more just international order, and a free Palestine. 

We condemn the Israeli regime, its perpetration of genocide, and its decades-long policies and practices of settler colonialism, ethno-supremacism, apartheid, racial segregation, persecution, unlawful settlements, the denial of the right to return, collective punishment, mass detention, torture and cruel and inhuman treatment and punishment, extrajudicial executions, systematic sexual violence, demolitions, forced displacement and expulsions, ethnic purges and forced demographic change, forced starvation, the systematic denial of all economic and social rights, and extermination. 

We are horrified by the Israeli regime’s systematic devastation of Palestinian lives, lands, and livelihoods, including its intentional destruction of all sources and systems for food, water, healthcare, education, housing, culture, as well as mosques, churches, aid facilities, and refugee shelters, and its targeting of medical personnel, journalists, aid workers, and United Nations staff, and its direct targeting of civilians, including children and older persons, women and men, girls and boys, persons with disabilities and those with medical conditions. 

We demand an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces and an end to the genocide, to all Israeli military action, to forced displacement and expulsions, to settlement activities, to the siege of Gaza and restrictions on movement in the West Bank. We call for the immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners, including the thousands of Palestinian women, men and children held in abusive Israeli detention facilities. We insist on the immediate resumption of massive humanitarian aid to all of Gaza without restriction or interference, including food, water, shelter, medical supplies and equipment, sanitary equipment, rescue equipment, and construction materials and equipment. We call as well for a complete withdrawal of all Israeli forces from all Lebanese and Syrian territory. 

We call for an end of the smearing of UNRWA and other humanitarian workers, for the free and unhindered access of UNRWA and all other United Nations and humanitarian organizations in all areas of Gaza and the West Bank, for full compensation by the Israeli regime for damage caused to UN and humanitarian facilities, alongside full compensation and reparations to the Palestinian people, and for full accountability for the harassment, abduction, torture, and murder of UNRWA and other humanitarian workers and their families. 

We call on all governments and on regional and international organizations to end the historic scandal of inaction that has characterized the past nineteen months, to urgently respond with all means at their disposal to end the Israeli assault and siege, to uphold international law, to hold perpetrators to account, and to provide immediate relief and protection to the people of Palestine. 

We denounce the continued complicity of governments in the perpetration of Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Palestine, and the shameful role of many media corporations in covering up the genocide, dehumanizing Palestinians, and in the dissemination of propaganda fueling anti-Palestinian racism, war crimes, and genocide. 

We equally denounce the wave of persecution and crackdowns on human rights defenders, peace activists, students, academics, workers, professionals, and others, perpetrated by Western governments, police agencies, the private sector, and educational institutions. We honor those who, despite this persecution, have had the courage and moral convictions to stand up and speak out against these historic horrors, and we insist on the full protection of the human rights of free expression, opinion, assembly, and association, as well as the right to defend human rights without harassment, retaliation, or persecution. 

We reject the unjust tactic of smearing as “antisemites” or “supporters of terrorism” all those who dare to speak up and act to defend the rights of the Palestinian people and to condemn the injustices and atrocities of the Israeli regime and its perpetration of apartheid and genocide, or those who criticize the ideology of Zionism. We stand in solidarity with all those who have been smeared or punished in this way. 

We are convinced that the struggle against all forms of racism, bigotry, and discrimination necessarily includes the equal rejection of Islamophobia, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism, and antisemitism. It also includes an acknowledgment of the horrific effects that Zionism, apartheid, and settler-colonialism have had and continue to have on the Palestinian people. We commit to fighting all such scourges. 

We also reject the destructive ideology of Zionism, as the official state ideology of the Israeli regime, of the forces that colonized Palestine and established the Israeli state on its ruins, and of pro-Israel organizations and proxies today. We insist, in the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and that there are no exceptions to this rule. We call for decolonization across the land, an end to the ethno-supremacist order, and the replacement of Zionism with a dispensation founded on equal human rights for Christians, Muslims, Jews, and others. 

We are inspired by the courageous resistance and resilience of the Palestinian people in the face of over a century of persecution, and by the growing movement of millions standing in solidarity with them around the world, including the principled advocacy and nonviolent action of thousands of Jewish activists who have rejected the Israeli regime and its ethnonationalist ideology, and have declared that the Israeli regime neither represents them nor acts in their name. 

We recognize the right of the Palestinian people to resist foreign occupation, colonial domination, apartheid, subjugation by a racist regime, and aggression, including through the use of armed struggle, in accordance with and as recognized in international law and as affirmed by the United Nations General Assembly. 

We recall that the Palestinian right to self-determination is jus cogens and erga omnes (a universal rule not subject to exception and binding on all states) and is non-negotiable and axiomatic. We recognize that this right includes political, economic, social, and cultural self-determination, the right to return and full compensation for all harms suffered in a century of persecution, to permanent sovereignty over natural resources, and to non-aggression and non-intervention. We respect Palestinian aspirations and full Palestinian agency and leadership over all decisions affecting their lives, and we stand in solidarity with them. 

We are gravely concerned at the direction of international relations, international politics, and international institutions, and by attacks on those international institutions that have challenged genocide and apartheid in Palestine. We believe that the normative foundations of the global order, grounded in human rights, the self-determination of peoples, peace, and the international rule of law, are being sacrificed at the altar of ruthless political realism and obsequious deference to power, with the people of Palestine left undefended and vulnerable on the front lines. We insist that another world is possible and intend to fight to bring it about. 

We fear that the nascent and flawed international normative order, built up since the Second World War, with human rights at its center, is at risk of collapse as a result of the sustained attack waged on the system by the Israeli regime’s Western allies in their quest to buttress Israeli impunity. We pledge to oppose this attack and to work to protect and advance the project of building a world in which human rights are governed by the rule of law, beginning with the struggle for Palestinian freedom. And we believe that the weaknesses and inequities hard-wired into the international system from the start, including the geopolitical right of exception codified in the United Nations Security Council veto, the disempowerment of the General Assembly, and the structural obstacles that mitigate against the enforceability of International Court of Justice (ICJ) decisions, must be reformed and rectified. 

We demand immediate action to isolate, contain, and hold accountable the Israeli regime through universal boycott, divestment, sanctions, a military embargo, suspension from International organizations, and the prosecution of its perpetrators, and we commit ourselves to this cause. We equally demand individual criminal accountability for all Israeli political and military leaders, soldiers, and settlers implicated in war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, or gross violations of human rights, as well as accountability for all persons and organizational actors guilty of complicity in the regime’s crimes, including external proxies of the Israeli regime, government officials, corporations, arms manufacturers, energy companies, technology firms, and financial institutions. 

We applaud the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its ongoing historic genocide case against the Israeli regime and for its landmark advisory opinion findings on the illegality of the Israeli occupation, of the apartheid wall, and of the Israeli practice of apartheid and racial segregation, and its findings that the rights of the Palestinian people are not dependent upon or subject to negotiation with their oppressor and that all states are obliged to abstain from treaty, economic, trade, investment, or diplomatic relations with Israel’s occupation regime. We celebrate the principled action of South Africa in bringing to the ICJ the historic genocide case against the Israeli regime. 

We call on all states to ensure the implementation of all provisional measures adopted by the ICJ in the genocide case against Israel, to fully respect the findings of the ICJ in its advisory opinion of July 2024, to comply with all elements of the United Nations General Assembly resolution of 13 September 2024 (A/ES-10/L.31/Rev.1), ending all arms trade with and implementing sanctions on the Israeli regime, and to support accountability for all Israeli perpetrators. We urge civil society organizations and social movements around the world to initiate and strengthen campaigns to support the ICJ’s decisions and opinions on Palestine, and to press their own governments to abide by them. 

We similarly applaud the International Criminal Court for (albeit belatedly) issuing arrest warrants for two senior Israeli regime leaders and call on the ICC to both expedite action on these cases and to issue further warrants for other Israeli perpetrators, both civilian and military. We call on all ICC State Parties to urgently act on their obligations to arrest these perpetrators and hand them over for trial, and we demand that the United States lift all ICC sanctions and cease all obstruction of justice. 

We express our gratitude and admiration to the independent special procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council for their expert contributions and for their strong and principled voices in holding the Israeli regime to account and defending the human rights of the Palestinian people. They have shown themselves to be the conscience of the organization, and we call on the United Nations and all member states to defend and support these mandate holders without fail. We applaud, as well, the principled action of those United Nations agencies that have acted to defend the rights of the Palestinian people and to provide aid and relief to the survivors of genocide in Palestine in the face of unprecedented risks and obstacles, foremost among them, UNRWA. 

We believe that the world is approaching a dangerous precipice, the front edge of which is in Palestine. Dangerous forces in both the public and private spheres are pushing us toward the abyss. The events of the past nineteen months, and our own deliberations, have convinced us that both key international organizations and most countries of the world, whether acting individually or collectively, have failed in defending the human rights of the Palestinian people and in responding to the Israeli regime’s genocide in Palestine. We are convinced that the challenge of justice now falls to people of conscience everywhere, to civil society and to social movements, to all of us. As such, our work in the coming months will be dedicated to meeting this challenge. Palestinian lives are at stake. The international moral and legal order is at stake. We must not fail. We will not relent.