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It is important to note that what we see is not based on October 7 but the development of a new antisemitic ideological claim of Israel being the new apartheid.

The South African charge is outrageous, meritless, scandalous, without foundation, a blood libel… to cite only a few of the adjectives used. Here is why it should have been rejected by the court.

Videos have been circulating online of Gazans imploring Egyptian soldiers to let them pass, and reports of bribing Egyptian soldiers into letting Gazans out of the strip have begun to appear.

ICJ Judge Joan Donoghue, President of the court will read the Court’s Order at the Peace Palace in The Hague on Friday at 1pm (2pm SA time)

To consider whether South Africa has made its case, the ICJ must rely on the elements of genocide outlined in the UN Genocide Convention of 1948, an instrument that has proven to be notoriously difficult to enforce, let alone apply. By Binoy Kampmark

By MURRAY CJ. January 14, 2024 There was a very good feel at the end of the South African presentation on day one. Everyone felt it had gone extremely well and left very little room for the court to wriggle away from provisional measures. We left the public gallery, and I went with Corbyn (UK)…

Genocide is not a political problem. It is a moral one. We cannot support those who commit or are accomplices to genocide. Genocide is the crime of all crimes. We must stand unequivocally with Palestinians and the jurists from South Africa. We must demand justice. We must hold Biden accountable for the genocide in Gaza.

South Africa presented a powerful and compelling case that Israel is violating the Genocide Convention.

In their often shambolic and occasionally hysterical appearance before the International Court of Justice last Friday, at no point did the lawyers representing Israel give concrete arguments or convincing evidence that Israel’s three-month siege of Gaza should not be considered an act of genocide. Faced with a credible accusation of a crime one of their own called the “epitome and zenith of evil,” “the crime of crimes,” “the ultimate in wickedness,&#x201...

January 15, 2024, by: Dr Binoy Kampmark, Australian Independent Media Israel’s relationship with the United Nations, international institutions and international law has at times bristled with suspicion and blatant hostility. In a famous cabinet meeting in 1955, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion famously knocked back the suggestion that the United Nations 1947 plan for partitioning Palestine had been…