South Africa's genocide case against Israel sets up a high-stakes legal battle at the UN's top court - eviltoast

Link to the summary of findings submitted by South Africa: https://apnews.com/article/un-court-south-africa-israel-gaza-genocide-71be2ce7f09bfee05a7cae26689ee262

South Africa’s 84-page filing says Israel’s actions “are genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part” of the Palestinians in Gaza.

It asks the ICJ, also known as the world court, for a series of legally binding rulings. It wants the court to declare that Israel “has breached and continues to breach its obligations under the Genocide Convention,” and to order Israel to cease hostilities in Gaza that could amount to breaches of the convention, to offer reparations, and to provide for reconstruction of what it’s destroyed in Gaza.

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    10 months ago

    It’s one thing to do […] Israel bashing […] on a forum […]

    It’s an entirely different thing […] to try to prove a factual and meaningful case based on actual law and legal definitions.

    And that’s exactly why I think what SA does is an important thing to do. Besides, what does the condition of SA’s state have to do with the legitimacy of this?

    Edit: it’s SA, not SAR

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      10 months ago

      It doesn’t do that. What you see is a giant dopamine hit to your confirmation bias. And the motivation of a bad actor attempting to abuse the courbts for political reasons is important.

      Like I said, you’re the target audience, it’s just to rial up all the alt-left and get em circlejerking the upvotes on Lemmy and radicalized further the gullible.