The role of peoples and law is decisive in the mother of all battles of the oppressed against the oppressors: the Palestinian question. Faced with actions and omissions that are unworthy even before they are illegal on the part of many governments, especially Western ones, there have been exemplary popular conduct. Despite the false war propaganda implemented in the West, not only have the majority of people understood what is horrible is happening in Palestine and against the Palestinians by the Israeli state, but the mobilisations, especially students.
Palestinian girls and boys around the world together with girls and boys of different nationalities are mobilizing, agitating and fighting relentlessly after everything that happened after October 7th. The global non-violent student intifada it is the most important political act of recent years in favor of the globalization of humanity and justice. And they can’t this time i truncheons dam the sea as was done in Genoa in 2002 and even earlier in Naples in 2001.
Then there is the fundamental role it can and must have the right in this seemingly unequal struggle of David against Goliath. It is underway meticulous work that many jurists are doing to demonstrate the Zionist genocide in Palestine and the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel against the Palestinians. Therefore, it is no longer just a political position of taking sides, but a fight with the law for justice.
Hence the importance of the action promoted by South Africa against Israel, also with the accusation of apartheid. The request for the adoption of the international arrest warrant by the prosecutor of the international court in The Hague against Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli defense minister is the result of concrete, serious and valuable legal work. But it’s not enough. It is legally sustainable complicity in the crime of genocide towards those who support Israel above all militarily and economically, even remaining inert despite having the legal obligation to prevent the event. Here the responsibility legal ones of governments and states, above all Westerners.
Nicaragua’s summons before the International Court of Germany is therefore significant, especially for the supply of weapons. Italy cannot opt out, complicity exists and must be prosecuted.
Then we have the responsibilities of companies that supply weapons and military technologies to Israel, companies that among other things see their profits increase enormously and fuel the genocidal fury with their actions. The managers of these companies, white collar workers who are often politicians or closely connected to politics, must also be held accountable in criminal proceedings. And I hope that the Italian judiciary, as happened in Holland, intervene in order to interdict further supplies of weapons.
Just as the student protest in asking the academic senates of Italian universities to interrupt is also correct on a legal level research projects with entities that fuel the genocidal policies of the state of Israel on the level of scientific and military technology. The research constitutionally protected in Article 9 does not accommodate those projects prodromal to potentially support horrendous crimes against humanity. As well as Anyone who hinders genocide is not anti-Semitic of a state against a people, but anyone who practices this criminal conduct is anti-Semitic.
The law and the Constitution are instruments that are too little used. If, however, it can be achieved a union between popular masses and the revolutionary function of law then results can be achieved that overturn the balance of power of power. The road is long, arduous and dangerous, but it must be crossed with courage also with the awareness that power will increasingly try to bend the law by abusing it and building it in its own image and likeness. For this reason we must fight in the streets but also in the institutions in order to win with the law and not with weapons.
