The Post-Partisan Emporium

  FACTS FOR PEACE: THE BILLIONAIRE-BACKED CAMPAIGN ATTACKING THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE JESSICA BUXBAUM A week after Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israel, the social media page Facts For Peace was created with the message, “Get the facts on Hamas, Israel, and peace in the region.” A few days later, the  page began advertising  its content. “Here is  Hamas’ Founding Charter  in Their Own Words,” one sponsored post reads alongside video clips of Hamas leaders speaking and snapshots of the document. The page has spent more than  $945,000  on Facebook ads since the war began nearly four months ago, and according to  POLITICO , was the single largest pro-Israel advertiser between November 2 and December 1, spending over $450,000 on Meta ads. The ads have mainly reached male-identifying Facebook users under the age of 35 in California, Texas, New York, and Florida. Labeled as a media/news company on Facebook, now Meta, the page’s posts and its suppor...

  Are We Turning the Corner Away from Genocide and the Criminality Inherent in the Rules-Based International Order? Why Did the ICJ Put the Netanyahu Government in Charge of Preventing and Punishing the Gaza Genocide? ANTHONY JAMES HALL I’m old enough to remember hearing and seeing frequent references to something called “the rule of law.” Then in the post-9/11 era this vital phrase seemed to go the way of our dwindling freedoms, civil liberties and the tattered remnants of our democratic institutions. In the process of aborting the promise of decent human futures for most of the world’s people, the word, “law,” was pushed to the sidelines. Where once we would have seen many references to the importance of making and enforcing good laws for the benefit of all people, that ideal has pretty much become mute and obsolete from the perspective of our puppeteered governors. When the concept of law is assertively put forward, it usually pertains to weaponized lawfare used in warlike attac...