@greensagainstcovid.bsky.social

The policy implications are clear. We need:
✅ Clean Air in schools so kids don't catch #Covid several times a year
✅ To direct JCVI to look again at the costs & benefits of vaccinating kids, including #LongCovid risks
✅ Free vax access
✅ Honest communication of real & serious risks to kids.

What institutional values do they suppose this communicates?

or how about these for how it's reaching into and upending people's lives all over the US

Another possible explanation is that he thinks the warcrimes he describes are exactly what "a state policy intending the systematic annihilation of a people" would look like on the ground, & he agrees with other experts that the publically available evidence suggests such a policy exists.

Biggar wonders why the Archbishop of York chose to speak of “genocidal acts” rather than “genocide”, suggesting:
"One explanation is that he understands the latter to refer to a state policy intending the systematic annihilation of a people, and he does not accuse Israel of that."

He argues that deliberately indiscriminate acts, such as “when hospitals and schools are targeted, when children are targeted” do not amount to “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”
(They are nevertheless warcrimes)

His critique of the Archbishop of York's position boils down to:
He "accuses Israel of “genocidal acts”, by which he means “deliberately indiscriminate acts”, as, for example, “when hospitals and schools are targeted, when children are targeted”

This is also a good point:
"I do not see how Israel’s military actions in Gaza are co-ordinated with a political strategy to achieve a just and lasting peace — which is what just-war thinking requires."

It's unauthorized use of military force as a matter of domestic constitutional law. It's also international aggression, and violating international maritime law. It's extrajudicial killings, a human rights abuse. And the murdering survivors bit is its own specific LOAC crime on top of all the rest.

It would be (and has been in some of the other cases) no less murder even if they were drug smugglers, of course. But in this case it's apparent they probably weren't even. They blew up a boat full of people, and then murdered survivors in cold blood, who probably weren't even the claimed targets.