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Indonesia Files Lawsuit Against Israel At World Court

January 20, 2024 Middle East Monitor. Resist! Indonesia, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Occupation, Palestine, South Africa

Israel’s Maariv newspaper reported that Indonesia has filed a new lawsuit against the Israeli occupation at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. In doing so, Indonesia joins South Africa, which filed the first lawsuit against Israel for committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The Indonesian Foreign Ministry had previously assembled a team of experts to help draft Indonesia’s ICJ case to hold Israel accountable for its “policies and practices” in the occupied Palestinian territories. According to the local Jakarta Post website, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said that the case will help support global order based on international law, as well as support the Palestinians.

Global South Takes Israel To Court

January 19, 2024 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Genocide, Global South, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Law, Israel, Palestine, South Africa

On 11 January, Adila Hassim, an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, stood before the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and said: ‘Genocides are never declared in advance. But this court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that shows incontrovertibly a pattern of conduct and related intention that justifies a plausible claim of genocidal acts’. This statement anchored Hassim’s presentation of South Africa’s 84-page complaint against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Both Israel and South Africa are parties to the 1948 Genocide Convention.

Icelanders Intensify Campaign Against Israel’s Genocidal War In Gaza

January 19, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! BDS Movement, Gaza, Genocide, Iceland, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Palestine, South Africa

Progressive and anti-war groups in Iceland have intensified initiatives in solidarity with Palestine and against Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Palestinians. The Iceland – Palestine Association and BDS Iceland have called for a demonstration on January 18 outside the office of the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV) in Reykjavík to urge the national broadcaster to challenge Israel’s participation in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2024 organized by European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in Sweden. In the protest titled ‘United in Music – Torn Apart by Genocide’, several musicians in Iceland will deliver their petition urging RUV to refuse to participate in Eurovision alongside Israel which has been carrying out a genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Israel President Herzog Hit With Criminal Complaint In Switzerland

January 19, 2024 Agence France-Presse, South China Morning Post. Resist! Davos, Gaza, Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Isaac Herzog, Israel, Legal System, Palestine, South Africa, Switzerland

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been targeted with a criminal complaint during a visit to Switzerland, Swiss prosecutors said on Friday, amid allegations of crimes against humanity over the war in Gaza. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office (BA) confirmed that it had received a criminal complaint against the Israeli president, who was at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos on Thursday to discuss the Gaza war. “The criminal complaints will now be examined in accordance with the usual procedure,” BA said in a statement, adding that it was in contact with the foreign ministry “to examine the question of the immunity of the person concerned”.

A Personal Report From The Hague

January 19, 2024 Tarak Kauff, Peace & Planet News. Resist! Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, South Africa, The Hague

This past Wednesday night, January 10, I flew out from Newburgh, NY, headed toward Amsterdam and then to The Hague for the International Court of Justice hearing on South Africa’s charges of genocide against Israel. Usually I travel with my partner, Ellen Davidson, but as she had work commitments, I had to travel by myself. A little scary, as Ellen always does all the navigating. By myself I’m likely to get lost going around the block. Nonetheless, after traveling to the West Bank twice with VFP delegations and making Palestinian friends there, some of whom have been swept up and imprisoned after Oct. 7th, I felt compelled to go.

Israel Tells World Court It Has The ‘Most Moral Army In The World’

January 18, 2024 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Educate! Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, South Africa

In a historic appearance before the International Court of Justice (ICJ or World Court) in The Hague, the legal team representing the Republic of South Africa presented a powerful and compelling case that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. South Africa asked the court to impose nine emergency “provisional measures” to stop the slaughter. South Africa “unequivocally condemned the targeting of civilians by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups and the taking of hostages on 7 October,” South African ambassador to the Netherlands Vusimuzi Madonsela said. But, he added, “no armed attack on a State’s territory no matter how serious — even an attack involving atrocity crimes — can provide any justification for, or defence to” genocide.

International Coalition Applauds South Africa; Denounces Countries Supporting Israel’s Crimes

January 17, 2024 the International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine, Popular Resistance. Resist! Genocide, Germany, Israel, Palestine, South Africa, Yemen

Last week, member groups of the International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine (ICSGP) organized activities around the world, including press conferences at The Hague and outside various South African consulates and embassies, to highlight and support the South African legal team as they presented their evidence of the state of Israel’s acts of genocide against Palestinians to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on January 11. The ICGSP continues to expand with nearly 2,000 signatory organizations from 100 countries on the initial letter calling for mobilization in defense of South Africa’s strong case for genocide.

Craig Murray: Your Man In The Hague — Day Two

January 16, 2024 Craig Murray, Consortium News. Educate! Genocide, Hague, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, South Africa

As with the South African case, according to court procedure the Israeli case was introduced on Friday by their “agent”, permanently accredited to the court, Tal Becker of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He opened with the standard formula “it is an honour to appear before you again on behalf of the state of Israel”, managing to imply purely through phrasing and tone of voice that the honour lay in representing Israel, not in appearing before the judges. Becker opened by going straight to the Holocaust, saying that nobody knew more than Israel why the Genocide Convention existed. Six million Jewish people had been killed. The Convention was not to be used to cover the normal brutality of war.

On The Urgent Need For Provisional Measures To Protect Palestinians

January 15, 2024 Blinne Ní GhrÁLaigh, Mondoweiss. Educate! Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, Gaza, Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, South Africa

Madam President, Members of the Court, there is an urgent need for provisional measures to protect Palestinians in Gaza from the irreparable prejudice caused by Israel’s violations of the Genocide Convention. The United Nations Secretary-General and its Chiefs describe the situation in Gaza variously as “a crisis of humanity”, a “living hell”, a “blood bath”, a situation of “utter, deepening [and unmatched] horror”, where “an entire population” is “besieged and under attack, denied access to the essentials for survival”, “on a massive scale.”

At The Hague, Aharon Barak Will Play Dr. Jekyll To Israel’s Mr. Hyde

January 15, 2024 Orly Noy, +972 Magazine. Educate! Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, South Africa, The Hague

The announcement that Israel has chosen Aharon Barak, the renowned former Supreme Court President, to join the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as it judges a landmark case charging Israel with genocide has sent the country into a tizzy. Barak will be Israel’s representative on a panel that is hastily being convened to discuss South Africa’s petition for an emergency suspension of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip — a panel that will consist of the ICJ’s 15 permanent judges plus one from Israel and one from South Africa. Barak has long been reviled by the Israeli right for having enshrined various liberal principles in the state’s quasi-constitution during his tenure as Supreme Court president from 1995-2006.

Your Man In The Hague (In A Good Way)

January 15, 2024 Craig Murray. Educate! Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, South Africa, The Hague

I attended the hearing on Thursday of South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide at the International Court of Justice. I was able to sit in the public gallery and watch all the proceedings. I was, however, handicapped in reporting by the fact that we were not allowed pens or pencils (though we were allowed paper). I asked the Head of Security at the ICJ why pens were not allowed in the public gallery. He told me, with a perfectly straight face, that they could be used as a weapon. So bereft of my deadly ballpoint, this account is less detailed and more impressionistic than I would wish to give you.

Namibia Condemns Germany For Defending Israel In ICJ Genocide Case

January 14, 2024 Al Jazeera. Educate! Genocide, Germany, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Namibia, Palestine, South Africa

Namibia has criticised Germany’s “shocking decision” to support Israel in the genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) brought by South Africa, as Israel’s war on Gaza entered its 100th day. “Germany has chosen to defend in the ICJ the genocidal and gruesome acts of the Israeli government against innocent civilians in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian Territories,” the president of Namibia, Hage Geingob, said in a statement on X on Saturday. A two-day public hearing in the case at the World Court – the highest legal body of the United Nations – took place on Thursday and Friday during which South Africa and Israel presented their arguments.

The Case For Genocide

January 13, 2024 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, South Africa, US Imperialism

The exhaustive 84-page brief submitted by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide is hard to refute. Israel’s campaign of indiscriminate killing, wholesale destruction of infrastructure, including housing, hospitals and water treatment plants, along with its use of starvation as a weapon, accompanied by genocidal rhetoric from its political and military leaders who speak of destroying Gaza and ethnically cleansing the 2.3 million Palestinians, makes a strong case against Israel for genocide. Israel’s smearing of South Africa as “the legal arm” of Hamas exemplifies the bankruptcy of its defense, a smear replicated by those who claim that demonstrations held to call for a ceasefire and protect Palestinian human rights are “anti-Semitic.”

Israel’s War On Palestine And The Global Upsurge Against It

January 13, 2024 Vijay Prashad, People's Dispatch. Resist! Genocide, History, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, South Africa, The Nakba

Hundreds of millions of people across the world have been deeply moved by the atrocity of the Israeli war on Palestine. Millions have attended marches and protests, many of them participating in such demonstrations for the first time in their lives. Social media, in almost all the world’s languages, is saturated with memes and posts about this or that terrible action. Some people focus on the Israeli attack on Palestinian children, others on the illegal targeting of Gaza’s health infrastructure, and yet others point to the annihilation of at least four hundred families (more than ten people in each family killed).

Israel Dismisses Genocidal Intent As ‘Random Assertions’

January 12, 2024 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, South Africa

In its defense against allegations by South Africa that it is committing genocide in Gaza, a British barrister arguing at the World Court on Friday for Israel downplayed numerous statements by senior Israeli officials of genocidal intent against Palestinians as mere “random assertions” that prove nothing. Instead, the barrister turned the tables, accusing South Africa itself of complicity in genocide. Kings Counselor Malcolm Shaw, for Israel, told the Court on the second day of a two-day hearing: “As far as acts are concerned in this case, there is little beyond random assertions to demonstrate that Israel has or has had the specific intent to destroy in whole or in part the Palestinian people as such.” Without proving intent, Shaw argued, a genocide case is impossible.

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