UN, ICC and ICJ (In)Action Against Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians — Including the January 2024 ICJ Case
An article in three sections: 1. United Nations (UN), 2. International Criminal Court (ICC), 3. International Court of Justice (ICJ).
1. United Nations (UN)
October 2023
While 12 of the Council’s 15 members voted in favour of the Brazilian-led text, one (United States) voted against, and two (Russia, and the United Kingdom) abstained.
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Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said “the time for diplomatic metaphors is long gone.” Anyone who did not support Russia’s draft resolution on this issue bears responsibility for what happens, he said. The current draft “has no clear call for a ceasefire” and “will not help to stop the bloodshed”.
He said Russia’s amendments proposed a call to end indiscriminate attacks on civilians and infrastructure in Gaza and the condemnation of the imposition of the blockade on the enclave; and adding a new point for a call for a humanitarian ceasefire.
“If these are not included in the current draft, it would not help to address the human situation in Gaza and polarize positions of the international community,” he said.
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US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield explained her country’s veto in the Council chamber saying “this resolution did not mention Israel’s right of self-defence.”
Contrary to the 1%, the 99% get it right:
October 22:
The ‘international community’ of Western ‘values’ on October 23:
October 26:
October 27: My own country Austria disgraces itself by being among the merely 14 countries which insanely vote against a ceasefire:
November 2023
From Murray’s November 13, 2023 article:
There are 149 states party to the Genocide Convention. Every one of them has the right to call out the genocide in progress in Gaza and report it to the United Nations. In the event that another state party disputes the claim of genocide — and Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom are all states party — then the International Court of Justice is required to adjudicate on “the responsibility of a State for genocide”.
These are the relevant articles of the genocide convention:
Article VIII
Any Contracting Party may call upon the competent organs of the United Nations to take such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they consider appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III.
Article IX
Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to the responsibility of a State for genocide or for any of the other acts enumerated in article III, shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.
Note that here “parties to the dispute” means the states disputing the facts of genocide, not the parties to the genocide/conflict. Any single state party is able to invoke the Convention.
There is no doubt that Israel’s actions amount to genocide. Numerous international law experts have said so and genocidal intent has been directly expressed by numerous Israeli ministers, generals and public officials.
December 2023
December 22:
From that October 15 statement by the Ziofascist stooge Alice Nderitu:
The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, expresses her strong condemnation at the situation in and around the Gaza Strip, at the very serious risk of military escalation in the region, at the unacceptable withholding of Israeli hostages by Hamas in the area, as well as at the vulnerability of Palestinian and other civilians remaining in or fleeing their homes in light of ongoing and escalating risks of violence irreversibly affecting them. The Special Adviser condemns in the strongest terms last Saturday morning’s multiple and coordinated attacks by Hamas explicitly targeting civilians in Israeli territory and expresses her condolences to the families of all victims, and reiterates that actions that can result into collective punishment should never constitute an answer.
“On 7 October, Hamas viciously attacked Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip and central Israel, including the firing of thousands of rockets toward Israeli population centers. This is unacceptable. Violence against innocent civilians is always inexcusable and cannot be justified. Such violence is particularly vicious when it is targeted on the basis of identity,” said the Special Adviser, who also condemned the abduction of a very significant number of civilians by Hamas.
Special Adviser Wairimu Nderitu, gravely concerned at the escalating dynamics of the last seven days, echoes the call by the Secretary-General for the immediate release of all abducted persons and reiterates the need to reinforce all possible diplomatic actions aimed at restraining the risk of further escalation of violence. The Special Adviser is especially alarmed at the continued indiscriminate rocket fire by Hamas into Israeli territory and at the loss of civilian lives resulting from Israeli bombardments in in the Gaza Strip, and calls for all possible measures to protect those who are most vulnerable. “Compliance with international law must be prioritized and innocent civilians should never pay the price of a conflict for which they bear no responsibility. Their most basic rights must be protected and preserved. Their humanitarian needs must be met. While an unbearable number of lives have already been lost, and nothing can return them to their loved ones, it is not too late to prevent an even larger catastrophe.”
The Special Adviser reiterates that active steps must be taken to revert a course of escalation which is not inevitable. For this, immediate and urgent action can still make a difference. “I appeal to Hamas to immediately liberate all hostages as a sign of goodwill to prevent an escalation for which the Palestinian population should never bear the price.” The Special Adviser also reiterates the importance that all those in position of influence over the Hamas leadership encourage such step.
“Mr. President, one day the massacres will stop. But how will we get over it? How will we get over the mass graves, the inability to bury our loved ones, to offer them a dignified burial, seeing them in plastic bags. How will we get over 1000 Palestinian children amputated without anesthesia?”
January 2024
February and March 2024
The United States on Thursday [i.e. February 29, 2024] blocked a United Nations Security Council statement that would have expressed “deep concern” over the Israeli military’s killing of Gazans seeking food aid earlier in the day, an attack that drew global condemnation.
According to Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. ambassador, the U.S. was alone among the Security Council’s 15 members in opposing the statement, which Algeria put forth during an emergency session called after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd gathered near a convoy of aid trucks in Gaza City.
Robert Wood, deputy U.S. ambassador to the U.N., indicated that the U.S. objected to the statement’s assignment of blame to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). A draft of the statement pointed to reports that “over 100 individuals have lost their lives, with approximately 750 others sustaining injuries due to opening fire by Israeli forces at a large gathering awaiting food aid.”
“We don’t have all the facts yet on the ground,” Wood told reporters on Thursday. “We want to get that, and we want to find language that in some ways can make sure that we speak on this issue but in a way that ensures that we have done the necessary due diligence with regard to culpability on all this.”
Witnesses, including medics who arrived on the scene, described horrifying carnage, with dozens killed or wounded by gunshots lying near blood-soaked sacks of flour. Others were hit by aid trucks as they sped away, and one journalist reporting from the scene in northern Gaza said Israeli tanks ran over many injured people. Palestinian human rights organizations have dubbed the incident “the flour massacre.”
2. International Criminal Court (ICC)
October 2023
From that 2015 Reuters article an in the wake of Ziofascist Israel’s 2014 slaughter of Palestinians:
Israel, which like the United States does not belong to the ICC, hopes to dent funding for the court that is drawn from the 122 member-states in accordance with the size of their economies, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said.
“We will demand of our friends in Canada, in Australia and in Germany simply to stop funding it,” he told Israel Radio. Officials told Reuters the lobbying effort would also target Japan, whose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is visiting Israel.
“This body represents no one. It is a political body,” Lieberman said, adding that he would raise the matter with visiting Canadian counterpart John Baird on Sunday.
A loss of funding would exacerbate the court’s already serious financing problems. Last week, Reuters reported that the unexpected arrival of an indicted defector from Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda would put prosecutors under severe financial strain.
The overwhelming bulk of the court’s funding comes from the advanced economies of Europe and North Asia. Japan is the largest contributor, giving 20.4 million euros in 2014, followed by Germany which gave 13.5 million.
France, Britain and Italy are also major contributors to the ICC’s budget, which will rise 7 percent to 141 million euros in 2015. Canada contributed 5.6 million.
November 2023
From that November 9 article:
Three Palestinian rights groups have filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging the body to investigate Israel for “apartheid” as well as “genocide” and issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.
The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday by human rights organisations Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, called for “urgent attention to the continuous barrage of Israeli airstrikes on densely populated civilian areas within the Gaza Strip”, which have killed more than 10,500 Palestinians, almost half of them children, according to Gaza health officials.
The document also asked the body to expand its ongoing war crimes investigation by looking into “the suffocating siege imposed on [Gaza], the forced displacement of its population, the use of toxic gas, and the denial of necessities, such as food, water, fuel, and electricity”.
These acts amount to “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity”, including “genocide”, the lawsuit said.
The three groups want arrest warrants to be issued against Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
The ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) opened an official investigation into the situation in Palestine in 2021 after determining that “war crimes have been or are being committed by Palestinian and Israeli actors in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip”.
November 11:
“Doživotni zatvor” means “lifetime sentence.” The other sentences are self-explanatory”:
By November 12, public disgust with ICC inaction and hence complicity in the crimes against Palestinians is becoming more and more apparent:
November 16:
November 17:
On 17 November 2023, my Office received a referral of the Situation in the State of Palestine, from the following five States Parties: South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Comoros, and Djibouti.
In accordance with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, a State Party may refer to the Prosecutor a situation in which one or more crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court appear to have been committed requesting the Prosecutor to investigate the situation for the purpose of determining whether one or more specific persons should be charged with the commission of such crimes.
In receiving the referral, my Office confirms that it is presently conducting an investigation into the Situation in the State of Palestine. This investigation, commenced on 3 March 2021, encompasses conduct that may amount to Rome Statute crimes committed since 13 June 2014 in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. It is ongoing and extends to the escalation of hostilities and violence since the attacks that took place on 7 October 2023. In accordance with the Rome Statute, my Office has jurisdiction over crimes committed on the territory of a State Party and with respect to the nationals of States Parties.
Stephen Harper’s pro-genocide speech:
Submitted Criminal Charges
November 7:
November 8:
November 9:
November 13:
November 13, 2023, San Francisco — Today, Palestinians asked a federal court to enjoin President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin from providing further arms, money, and diplomatic support to Israel on grounds that there is an unfolding genocide by the State of Israel against the civilian population of Gaza and the U.S. officials have a legal duty to prevent, and not further, this most serious of crimes.
Biden, Blinken, and Austin, as outlined in the complaint, are sued in their official capacity for failing to prevent an unfolding genocide where they have influence over the State of Israel to do so, and directly abetting its development with weapons, funds, and diplomatic cover, in breach of duties enshrined in the Genocide Convention and customary international law. The filing is accompanied by a declaration from the leading legal expert on genocide, William Schabas, who identifies features of the Israeli government’s statements, deadly military assault, and total siege as signs of genocide and affirms the United States’ breach of its legal duty to prevent genocide. A separate expert declaration by the genocide and Holocaust scholars Drs. John Cox, Victoria Sanford, and Barry Trachtenberg, explains how the genocidal intentions and actions of Israeli leadership resemble other genocides in recent history.
On November 14, European politicians filed ICC charges against the criminal Ziofascist Israeli regime:
December 2023
Luis Moreno Ocampo: “the siege of Gaza itself […] is a form of genocide. Article 6(c), or 2(c) in the Genocide Convention, define that you don’t need to kill a people to commit genocide. The rules say inflicting conditions to destroy the group, that itself is a genocide. So creating the siege itself is a genocide. […]”
The complicity of the British ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan:
From that April 2023 article:
Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, stood before a podium on March 3, 2023, and issued an unusual qualifier: “Of course the prosecutor of the ICC does not, whatever affection and regard I may have for my dear friends in Ukraine — has no special affinity to any particular country. We’re not a party to any hostilities.”
“We have an affinity to legality,” Khan insisted in British-accented English. “We have an affinity and commitment to the rule of law.”
Khan made his declaration of legal independence while headlining the “United for Justice” conference, an event personally organized in Lviv, Ukraine, by President Volodymyr Zelensky. There, he pressed the flesh with Ukraine’s president and conferred with US Attorney General Merrick Garland, who had stopped in to advance the Biden administration’s effort to haul Russian President Vladimir Putin before an international war crimes tribunal.
It was Khan’s fourth visit to Ukraine since the Russian military invaded the country in February 2022.
On March 17, 2023, Khan introduced a formal ICC warrant for Putin’s arrest, accusing the Russian president of the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a “network of camps” throughout Russia. The warrant arrived days before the 20th anniversary of the NATO invasion of Iraq, a crime directed by US and UK officials whom the ICC has refused to prosecute to this day.
Described as a “practicing Muslim”, who has often cited the Quran in public statements, Khan comes from the Ahmadiyya faith.
Ahmadis claim the title of Muslim, and as minority groups in a number of Muslim-majority nations, have been subjected to persecution after being labeled non-Muslims and even agents of Israel.
Karim Khan has said that his volunteer work in the Ahmaddiya community — which moved its headquarters to the UK in the 1980s after Pakistan passed a law forbidding Ahmadis from calling themselves Muslims — claims the experiences within the community “helped me gravitate to this area (of human rights)”.
Karim Khan has been criticized in the past for having acted as defense counsel for Kenyan Vice-President, William Ruto, when he was charged with crimes against humanity, following post-election violence in 2007 that led to the murder of 1,200 people.
He also drew criticism for defending Charles Taylor, the former Liberian President, who was convicted of war crimes.
During his candidacy, as a UK citizen, he received enthusiastic support from the British government, while also receiving backing from Israel and the United States, two non-signatories to the Rome Statute which governs the ICC.
In fact, the ICC was set to investigate war crimes committed by both the Israelis and Americans, which led to former US President Donald Trump declaring that his government would target the ICC with sanctions, as Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, labeled the court’s decision to investigate potential Israeli war crimes “pure anti-semitism”.
Important for context is that the ICC can only prosecute individuals for war crimes if there is either a direct request from a member/s of the UN Security Council (UNSC), an ICC State member, or if the prosecutor orders it themselves.
When Karim Khan won a 9-year term as prosecutor, he announced that he would prioritize the cases handed to the court by the UNSC, which the Palestine case was not due to the infamous power of the US veto at the Security Council.
However, seemingly doing the bidding of those who supported his candidacy, Khan broke his own rule by quickly prosecuting Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
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Another prominent family member of the prosecutor is his brother, Imran Ahmad Khan, who served as a British Member of Parliament (MP) between 2019 and 2022.
He remained as an MP for the UK’s Conservative Party, before being expelled from the party and resigning as an elected official, following his conviction for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
January 2024
At times, Prosecutor Khan has shown a welcome ability to ensure his Office reacts promptly to the alleged commission of international crimes. However, the lack of meaningful progress in the Palestine situation has been strongly criticised. While it took the Prosecutor only one year to identify concrete cases in the situation in Ukraine, he has not requested any warrants of arrest or summons in relation to Palestine and Israel in the two years and half since he was sworn in on 16 June 2021, inheriting an opened investigation into the situation in Palestine from his predecessor.
A few things suggest that the Palestine situation has not been a priority for Khan before October 2023. It seems that no ICC investigator has ever visited Israel or the Palestinian territory. A further signal of the Court’s paralysis in the Palestine situation is the allocation of resources (contra, see here): the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) assigned no funds to the Palestine situation in 2022 (the budget was finalised on 16 August 2021). In 2023, Khan allocated the lowest budget (944.1 thousands of euros) among all active investigations to the Palestine investigation (one fifth of the budget of 4,499.8 thousands of euros to Ukraine for which the Prosecutor had called upon states to provide voluntary contributions; (almost) one fourth of the budget of 3.506,3 thousands of euros to Sudan; and half of the budget of 1,917.8 thousands of euros to the Philippines ). The way in which the Prosecutor had approached the Palestine investigation appears to be in sharp contrast to the Ukraine situation. After the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion, Khan undertook several visits to Ukraine, attended press conferences, opened the Court’s biggest field office, deployed 42 investigators, opened an online portal to collect evidence, and raised unprecedented amounts of funding from various states. These were the same measures Palestinian human rights groups have been requesting for a while, yet to little or no avail. According to civil society organizations in Palestine, despite repeated requests for a similar commitment to accountability, the Prosecutor ‘never sought outside money for the ICC’s Palestine investigation, never spoke about a “crime scene”…, never sought to visit Palestine’. Since June 2021, the Prosecutor had not provided any updates on the Palestine investigation.
Moreover, in contrast to his predecessor Fatou Bensouda, the current Prosecutor had also failed to issue any preventive statement. The OTP policy paper on preliminary examinations explicitly mentions the possibility of adopting ‘public, preventive statements’. In previous years, Bensouda’s preventive statements arguably had some deterrent impact. For example, following Bensouda’s preventive warning, Israeli authorities stopped the already planned eviction of the Bedouin communities of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank. In November 2022, 198 human rights organizations asked Khan to issue preventive statements in relation to the escalation of violence in Palestine and Israel’s repression of Palestinian civil society organizations. This request was completely ignored by the Prosecutor. One might argue that ignoring calls for an early warning statement was due to the Prosecutor’s scepticism towards the policy in question. However, this is unconvincing. In relation to Ukraine, the Prosecutor issued the first of a number of preventive statements shortly after the start of the Russian 2022 invasion.
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the Prosecutor has, knowingly or not, discriminated victims on the basis of their nationality or ethnicity. The contrast between the prompt meetings between the Prosecutor and Israeli victims, and his previous persistent unwillingness to meet with Palestinian victims, their legal representatives, and Palestinian human rights groups, was bound to raise serious concerns. The contrast with the approach adopted by the former Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is also stark. She constructively engaged with Palestinian human rights groups that cooperated with her office. Yet Prosecutor Khan turned down calls from Palestinian victims and their legal representatives, who had repeatedly requested meetings. For this reason, Palestinian human rights groups took the unprecedented step not to meet the Prosecutor in Ramallah in early December 2023.
April 2024:
The International Criminal Court may be considering issuing international arrest warrants in the relatively near future against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials for alleged war crimes, N12 reported Thursday night.
Around 125 countries are members of the ICC, including essentially all of Europe, and are bound by treaty law to honor the ICC’s arrest warrants, though there have been examples of countries protesting such warrants and refusing to honor them.
The report was extremely puzzling given that the ICC has not decided all of the relevant jurisdictional questions it is supposed to decide before reaching an arrest warrants stage. […]
Replies to Cotton:
3. International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Someone who has been at the forefront of lobbying for a state to invoke the ICJ’s genocide convention was the independent journalist Sam Husseini:
Reasons for the delay:
December 29, 2023: South Africa invokes the ICJ’s genocide convention
Reactions
Western hypocrisy and double standards:
January 2:
Turkey has officially backed South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, which accuses the state of genocide in its ongoing war on Gaza.
Turkish foreign ministry spokesperson Oncu Keceli said in a statement that Ankara welcomes the South African case, which says Israel has violated its obligations under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
“Israel’s murder of more than 22,000 Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, in Gaza for nearly three months should not go unpunished in any way,” Keceli said.
“Those responsible for this must be held accountable before international law,” he continued, adding: “We hope that the process will be completed as soon as possible.”
Eylon Levy [projecting Ziofascist Israel’s own genocidal, sadistic and Nazi-like behavior]: “On October 7, Hamas perpetrated an act of genocide on Israeli soil. Its death squads executed a campaign of systematic extermination with a clear mission: to murder as many Israelis as possible, as sadistically as possible. It was an act of genocide perpetrated with Nazi-like cruelty.”
January 3:
Dershowitz:
Dershowitz downgrades 200–300.000 Palestinian victims to 2–3.000:
Example 2467 for why Harvard is a Zionist trash institution:
Alan Dershowitz: “Where are all those radical feminists when it comes to the [fabricated] Hamas rapes of young Jewish girls, sexual abuse, beheadings. They are quiet, they are silent. The incredible hypocrisy of the me too movement — me too, except if you’re a Jew. And I wanna have a list of all the radical feminists […] how many have been silent, and how many — like the national lawyers guild — have actually approved of what Hamas did.”
The role of defending Israel went to other such as the British Malcolm Shaw though:
December 7:
The Israeli government has mounted a pressure campaign urging governments around the world to publicly denounce South Africa’s genocide case at the International Court of Justice, which is set to convene hearings on the detailed charges on Thursday.
According to a cable obtained by Axios, the Israeli Foreign Ministry is calling on the country’s embassies to pressure host country diplomats and political leaders to swiftly issue an “immediate and unequivocal statement along the following lines: To publicly and clearly state that YOUR COUNTRY rejects the outrage[ous], absurd, and baseless allegations made against Israel.”
The cable warns that “a ruling by the court could have significant potential implications that are not only in the legal world but have practical bilateral, multilateral, economic, security ramifications.” Israel is seeking to prevent an injunction ordering the country to suspend its attack on Gaza.
Yousef Munayyer, a Palestinian American political analyst, called Israel’s lobbying campaign “an effort to intimidate the judges” at the ICJ, which Israel has previously boycotted.
Former Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth argued that the cable shows Israel is “evidently worried about a judgment on the merits in South Africa’s case.”
“Israel is pressing others to denounce the case in the hope of persuading the International Court of Justice to decide based on politics rather than the facts,” Roth wrote on social media.
The United States, Israel’s top ally and arms supplier, has already rejected South Africa’s case, calling it “completely without any basis in fact” even though the Biden administration has not formally assessed whether Israel is complying with international humanitarian law during its assault on the Gaza Strip, which is now entering its fourth month with no end in sight.
Attorneys have warned U.S. officials that they may be complicit in genocide if they continue arming the Israeli military, which has committed atrocities with American weaponry.
Several MKs have condemned his actions, including MK Sharon Nir of Yisrael Beiteinu, who suggested he resign from the Knesset and said that he is sure that supporters of terrorism would “welcome [him] with open arms.”
An organization, Btsalmo (In His Image), called for the ethics committee to remove Cassif from the Knesset after Cassif announced he would join the lawsuit against Israel in the Hague. According to its website, Btsalmo is a self-described human rights organization with a focus on Jewish rights, although not exclusively.
Its primary effort in the past has been to ensure that the homes of terrorists are demolished. The organization also seeks to prevent “incitement in culture” against Israel and Jews.
Btsalmo has taken action against Ofer Cassif within the past month for disparaging IDF troops during war.
The Knesset quickly moved to punish Cassif for his comment
The chairman of the Israel Beitenu faction, MK Oded Forer, began to collect 70 signatures from members of all factions in the house in order to bring about the removal of MK Ofer Kasif from the Israeli Knesset on Monday morning, the day after Cassif’s announcement.
MK Oded Forer stated, “The treasonous words of MK Kasif can no longer be heard while the blood of our soldiers and citizens is crying out from the ground. MK Kasif, who was previously disqualified from running for the Knesset following a petition I submitted to the election committee, has chosen during the war to join one of the most destructive initiatives for the security of the State of Israel, and thus he supports the struggle of Hamas against Israel. He must soon find himself beyond the borders of the Knesset and preferably beyond the borders of the State of Israel.”
The Basic Law of the Knesset Section 42a.(1) states that the Knesset may, by a majority of 90 members, decide to terminate the membership of a member of the Knesset if it has determined that the member, after the election of that Knesset, has supported an armed struggle of an enemy state or terror organization against the State of Israel (section 7a).
The law states that after a collection of signatures from 70 members of the Knesset is submitted to the Knesset committee, the impeachment procedure for the removal of MK Kasif, which will require 90 members of the Knesset to vote for, can begin.
From that 2021 video during the Sheikh Jarrah protests:
Ofer Cassif: “I’m a member of the Knesset, but the police is not interested in that. They don’t care about my immunity, they don’t care about my rights, they just care about protecting the criminal settlers who ask to invade here. And you see they keep shooting now. They keep shooting here although the demonstrators are peaceful. They didn’t do anything, we didn’t do anything. This is the police — this is the police of this fascist government that protects the criminal settlers against the Palestinian indigenous people and against peaceful demonstrators. All the world should know what’s going on here. Don’t support this Neonazi government. Do something about it.
December 8:
December 9:
December 10:
The 15 judges and their likely votes:
The January 11–12 ICJ Case
The timetable:
A historic case:
Prominent visitors:
Official international support:
Respective live television coverage of the ICJ case in the ‘free’ and ‘democratic’ Ziofascist West:
The South African legal team:
1st lawyer from South Africa:
2nd lawyer Ronald Lamola:
3rd lawyer Adila Hassim:
4th speaker Tembeka Ngcukaitobi:
6th lawyer Max du Plessis:
7th lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh:
Examples for Ziofascist Israel genociding Palestinians during the ICJ genocide case against them:
Comments after day 1:
Noura Erakat: “For starters, it continues to isolate the United States and Israel politically on the global stage. And more significantly, it empowers other states that are ready to hold Israel to account to prosecute accused Israeli war criminals within their own national courts under universal jurisdiction, as well as to impose boycott, as well as to, ah, refrain from continuing to sell arms to Israel.”
From the Ziofascist-captured USA:
Ziofascist mental case Avi Meyer:
The actual “global community” and vast majority:
January 12: Ziofascist Israel’s ‘Defense’
Differences in Western mainstream media reporting:
Distractions and lies by Tal Becker, Malcolm Shaw and others:
Malcolm Shaw: “I have lost a page.”
Malcolm Shaw: “Well, someone has shuffled my papers.”
Ziofascist liar at the ICJ: “Hospitals have not been bombed.”
“Israhell has publicly stated repeatedly…”
Genocide that Ziofascist Israel commits while claiming in court that it does not:
Summaries:
On the judges:
In addition to the normal fifteen judges of the court, each of the parties to the dispute, South Africa and Israel, had exercised their right to nominate an additional judge. After the judges filed in to the court, proceedings started with these two judges taking an oath of impartiality, which gave us the first Israeli lie of the case before it had even started.
The nomination of Aharon Barak as the Israeli judge on the International Court of Justice is extraordinary, given that as President of Israel’s Supreme Court he refused to implement the ICJ judgment on the illegality of the wall, stating that he knew the facts of the matter better than the ICJ.
Barak has an extremely long history of accepting all forms of repression of Palestinians by the Israeli Defence Force as legal for “national security”, and in particular has repeatedly refused to rule against the longstanding Israeli programme of demolitions of Palestinian homes as collective punishment. That reads across directly to the destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gaza now.
Barak is viewed as a “liberal” in Israel in the constitutional struggle between the judiciary and executive. But that is about the ability of Netanyahu’s corruption to go unchallenged, not about Palestinian rights. By appointing his apparent opponent Barak to the ICJ, Netanyahu has exhibited typical cunning. If Barak rules against Israel, Netanyahu can claim his domestic opponents are traitors to national security. If Barak rules in favour of Israel, Netanyahu can claim Israeli liberals support the destruction of Gaza.
I expect it is the latter claim we shall be seeing.
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The President of the court, Joan Donoghue, is a US State Department, Clinton hack who has never formed an original idea in her life, and I should be astonished if she starts now. I half-expected her strings to actually be visible, emerging from holes in the hall’s magnificent deep relief-panelled wooden ceiling. But others are more puzzling.
There has been no more rabidly anti-Palestinian national elite than that of Germany. Rather than channel feelings of inherited guilt into opposition to genocide in general, they seem to have concluded that they need to promote alternative genocides to make amends. Added to which, the German judge on the ICJ, Nolte, does not come preceded by a liberal reputation. But friends in Munich tell me that Nolte has a particular interest in the law of armed conflict, and is a stickler for intellectual rigour. Their view is that his professional self-esteem will be the key factor, and that only points one way with regard to what the Israeli Defence Force has done so blatantly to the civilian population in Gaza.
On the other hand, there is a Ugandan judge on the ICJ who you might assume would align with South Africa. But Uganda, for reasons which frankly I do not fathom, joined the United States and Israel in opposing Palestine’s membership of the International Criminal Court, on the grounds Palestine is not a real state. Similarly India you might expect to support South Africa as a key member of BRICS. But India also has a Hindu Nationalist government prone to hideous Islamophobia. I haven’t found any evidence of Judge Bhandari’s domestic record on inter-communal issues.
The German Ziofascist genocide apologizers:
Britain-based charity Oxfam said on Thursday that the daily death toll of Palestinians in Israel’s war on Gaza surpasses that of any other major conflict in the 21st century, while survivors remain at high risk due to hunger, diseases and cold, as well as ongoing Israeli bombardments.
“Israel’s military is killing Palestinians at an average rate of 250 people a day, which massively exceeds the daily death toll of any other major conflict of recent years,” Oxfam said in a statement.
For comparison, the charity provided a list of average deaths per day in other conflicts since the turn of the century: 96.5 in Syria, 51.6 in Sudan, 50.8 in Iraq, 43.9 in Ukraine, 23.8 in Afghanistan, and 15.8 in Yemen.
Oxfam said the crisis is further compounded by Israel’s restrictions on the entry of aid into Gaza, where only 10 percent of weekly food aid that is needed gets in. This poses a serious risk of starvation for those who survive the relentless bombardment, it said.
Also on Thursday, United States-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its World Report 2024, which said civilians in Gaza have been “targeted, attacked, abused, and killed over the past year at a scale unprecedented in the recent history of Israel and Palestine”.
The genocidal nation of Canada joined the genocidal nation of Germany in its support for the genocidal nation of Israel and got rebutted as well:
Official Namibia noticed the German genocidal attitude and rebutted it as follows:
Parallels to the later German Nazi genocide:
Curiously, the officials in some colonized African countries which are indebted to the US International Monetary Fund also sided with the Ziofascist Israel settler-colonizers:
Ziofascist Israel clarifies that it cannot be bothered to adhere to international law or court rulings:
The News Agents’ Lewis Goodall: “Israel is always in the position where it gets to set all of the terms, isn’t it? You decide when the war ends, you decide what kind of state they have, you decide when the settlement can happen and when it can’t. I mean do these people not have rights to self-determination in their own terms Eylon?”
Ziofascist propagandist Eylon Levy [lying]: “Lewis, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005. We gave the Palestinians the keys to Gaza and said: ‘We want to see you build an economically and politically prosperous area here.’ […]”
Lewis Goodall: “If the ICJ were to rule against you in the preliminary round, the actual, eventual conclusions would take many years. But in terms of their preliminary assessments, will you comply with their stipulations”?
Ziofascist propagandist Eylon Levy [evading]: “We fully expect the ICJ to throw out this spurious claim.”
Lewis Goodall: “Yeah, but if they don’t?”
Ziofascist propagandist Eylon Levy [evading some more]: “I’m not going to answer absurd hypotheticals.”
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Lewis Goodall: “Why are you even signatories to the convention if you are unwilling to commit to abide by the means by which that convention is policed and enforced? What is the point?”
Ziofascist propagandist Eylon Levy [evading some more]: “Lewis, the state of Israel was one of the first signatories to the Genocide Convention…”
Lewis Goodall: “And so I would have thought that the state of Israel would be the first to say that they would want to see that that court stipulations are adhered to for precisely the reason that you are referring to.”
The January 26 Ruling
January 24:
January 26:
From the US judge: Judge Robinson is absent. A dispute exists. The case is not thrown out, as requested by Israel. South Africa has standing with the court. She also reads out the definitions of genocide:
The US judge also affirms that Palestinians belong to a protected group. More importantly, the
Most importantly, there are 15 to 2 and 16 to 1 votes in favor of the provisional anti-genocide measures which legally imply that Ziofascist Israel is indeed genociding Palestinians:
Curiously, the Ugandan judge Julia Sebutinda is the only judge who voted against every single one of them and whose record is thus even more extreme than that of the Israeli judge:
More comments on the demanded provisional measure of a ceasefire not being addressed by the ICJ:
In particular:
Reactions from the Ziofascist Israeli regime:
The summary:
The aftermath, including of Ziofascist Israel ignoring the ICJ ruling
Jordon Steele-John: “We must take tangible action to ensure that crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes are punished before international law.”
February 12:
March 1:
March 18, 2024:
March 28, 2024:
