Today begins a historic moment for the International Court of Justice.
South Africa's case is rock solid, in part because Israel made the case crystal clear: with its outrageous violence, its use of powerful and unguided bombs in urban environments, its open strategy of dehydration and starvation, its public celebration of violence against Palestinians, as well as its explicit calls for eradication of the Palestinians by Israeli government officials.
#Israel on trial?
This is not what the #ICJ organises. Its role is to establish the law.
A halt of invasion?
In 2022, the ICJ issued a condemnation on the #Russia invasion, to no consequence.
Kate Ferguson: “Will it be enough to stem the tide of atrocity crimes? No, of course not.” https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-kate-ferguson@israel
The #UN#ICC keeps an investigation file into: "war crimes allegedly committed in #Palestine by Israeli personnel or Palestinian armed groups since 13 June 2014."
Priyamvada Gopal: "This is the devastating j'accuse of the century spoken in the voice of decolonisation. Regardless of what the judges do or bow to, history has been made."
It is high time we start seeing the situation through the appropriate lens: (de)colonialism
Israel is a colonial project, it is a colony of European and American people. The violence we see is colonial violence, and resistance to colonialism.
Yes, it is a colony that has existed for some time, so it’s not straightforward what decolonisation might look like. But there’s no place for colonialism in a just world.