{"id":2508,"date":"2024-01-26T18:31:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T18:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/the-icj-ruling-is-a-repudiation-of-israel-and-its-western-backers-kenneth-roth\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T18:31:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T18:31:04","slug":"the-icj-ruling-is-a-repudiation-of-israel-and-its-western-backers-kenneth-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/the-icj-ruling-is-a-repudiation-of-israel-and-its-western-backers-kenneth-roth\/","title":{"rendered":"The ICJ ruling is a repudiation of Israel and its western backers | Kenneth Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Israel\u2019s allies urge Israel to comply with the court\u2019s ruling? It would do enormous damage to the \u2018rules-based order\u2019 if they make an exception for Israel<\/p>\n<p>The international court of justice\u2019s (ICJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/01\/26\/world\/middleeast\/icj-gaza-provisional-ruling.html\">ruling<\/a> in South Africa\u2019s genocide case was a powerful repudiation of Israel\u2019s denialism. By an overwhelming majority, the court found a \u201cplausible\u201d case that provisional measures were needed to avoid \u201cirreparable prejudice\u201d from further Israeli acts in Gaza that could jeopardize Palestinian rights under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/genocideprevention\/documents\/atrocity-crimes\/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf\">genocide convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The public posture of various Israeli officials was in essence, how dare anyone accuse us of genocide. After all, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/01\/11\/world\/israel-hamas-houthi-yemen-news?smid=url-share#israel-presents-its-defense-against-claims-of-genocide-in-gaza\">pointed out<\/a>, Israel was founded after the Holocaust to protect the Jewish people from genocide, Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, and many of Hamas\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-to-present-its-defense-against-genocide-claims-on-second-day-of-icj-hearings\/\">statements<\/a> seem genocidal in intent.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch (1993-2022), is a visiting professor at Princeton\u2019s School of Public and International Affairs<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/26\/icj-ruling-israel-western-backers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Israel\u2019s allies urge Israel to comply with the court\u2019s ruling? It would do enormous damage to the \u2018rules-based order\u2019 if they make an exception for Israel The international court of justice\u2019s (ICJ) ruling in South Africa\u2019s genocide case was a powerful repudiation of Israel\u2019s denialism. By an overwhelming majority, the court found a \u201cplausible\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"The ICJ ruling is a repudiation of Israel and its western backers | Kenneth Roth\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/the-icj-ruling-is-a-repudiation-of-israel-and-its-western-backers-kenneth-roth\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The ICJ ruling is a repudiation of Israel and its western backers | Kenneth Roth\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}