On March 28th The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on South Africa’s third and most recent request, asking that it impose additional measures on Israel to prevent what South Africa claims is genocide in Gaza. The court did in fact issue two new measures, but they are quite similar to the ones already in …
Mary Lawlor, a UN Special Rapporteur, recently wrote that there is no moral justification for continued weapons sales to Israel. She says that Israel’s conduct in Gaza is disproportionate and therefore illegal, cites numerous allegations of Israeli war crimes, and says countries which continue to supply Israel with weapons are failing in their obligation to …
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Two lawsuits were recently filed about the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN body charged with assisting Palestinian refugees. One, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), seeks to compel Germany to give UNRWA money and says any country that stops funding UNRWA is complicit in genocide. The other, filed in U.S. District …
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Recently the U.S. government announced sanctions against four Jewish residents of the West Bank. They will be prohibited from entering the United States, and also any assets they have in the U.S. will be frozen. Shortly after that Britain followed suit, and then France banned 24 West Bank settlers from entering the country. The reason …
Last week an undercover team of Israeli soldiers, disguised as doctors, patients, and even a woman carrying a baby, snuck into a Jenin hospital, entered a patient’s room, and killed three people Israel claims were terrorists. This brought international condemnation and accusations of war crimes. Usually we associate war crimes with targeting civilians or causing …
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On January 26th the International Court of Justice (ICJ) indicated provisional measures against Israel designed to protect Gaza Palestinians against possible genocide. It of course bitterly stings many of us for Israel to be accused of genocide, let alone be deemed potentially responsible for such a crime. But if we examine the ICJ ruling in …
Three reasons senators voted down Bernie Sanders’ bill requiring a report on Israel’s conduct in Gaza This week, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) forced a vote on a measure that would bring U.S. scrutiny to Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war. He wanted to do this by invoking a provision of U.S. law that requires the …
As is by now well known, South Africa is suing Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), alleging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza (it’s available here). Their complaint begins by establishing the court’s jurisdiction and explaining that neither a situation of war nor the perpetration of the Oct. 7th atrocities can …
South Africa recently accused Israel of genocide in a complaint filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Evidently the ICJ will agree to hold an initial hearing in the case next week. It looks like Israel plans to participate, and will send a legal delegation to present its case. What does this mean, and …
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) was created to make sure those who commit the most serious of atrocities are punished, in the hopes this would help deter these crimes from happening at all. Unfortunately, the ICC is having the opposite effect. It may even be partly responsible for Hamas’s hostage taking and other war crimes …
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