Tag: International Court of Justice
Turkey joins South Africa genocide lawsuit at The Hague
Ankara, which has outright supported Hamas in the terrorist group’s current war against Israel, has decided to join South Africa’s lawsuit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan...
Former top Hague judge: Media wrong to report court ruled ‘plausible’ claim of Israeli...
Media reports that the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel was “plausibly” accused of genocide are inaccurate, Joan Donoghue, a judge and former president of the main U.N. judicial arm in The Hague,...
AJC New England calls Warren’s genocide claims ‘inaccurate and hurtful’
The Boston-based office of the American Jewish Committee’s New England branch sent a letter from its regional director, Robert Leikind, to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), on April 11.
He acknowledged that the senator has been “a supporter...
South Africa petitions ICJ over Gaza ‘starvation’
After failing to convince the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to halt Israel’s defensive war against Hamas in Gaza, South Africa again petitioned the court on Wednesday, citing reports of “widespread starvation” in the Gaza Strip.
In...
Nicaragua takes Berlin to UN court over support for ‘genocide’ in Gaza
Nicaragua has filed an application at the International Court of Justice against Germany, accusing Berlin of being complicit in genocide by supporting Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, The Hague-based court...
US opposes calls at ICJ for immediate Israeli withdrawal
The United States on Wednesday called on the International Court of Justice not to issue an advisory opinion that Israel must immediately withdraw from Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
Instead, Richard Visek, acting legal adviser at the...
UN court opens hearings on Israel’s ‘ongoing occupation’
Public hearings opened at the International Court of Justice in the Hague (ICJ) on Monday regarding the legal repercussions of Israel’s “ongoing occupation” of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
The court is hearing arguments due...
This is not 1938
The International Court of Justice has delivered its interim judgment on the South African government’s “genocide” charge against Israel. Even a political body appointed by the U.N. General Assembly whose members are mainly non-democratic...
Earn the right to say ‘never again’
International Holocaust Remembrance Day has perhaps never been more difficult to observe. It should be a day to contemplate the antisemitism that murdered six million Jews. It should be a moment to reject viewing...
Herzog: ICJ genocide case a ‘blood libel’
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday night slammed the International Court of Justice for agreeing to hear a case accusing the Jewish state of genocide in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, a charge he described as a...