The apartheid state of Israel will face charges of genocide in 2024.
Israel will indeed face accusations of genocide in the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has scheduled a hearing for next Thursday (mark your calendars folks), for the lawsuit brought forth by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. The apartheid state has claimed it will defend itself before the United Nation’s top court against these charges, which is already a rare engagement by Israel with the self-proclaimed world body, which the apartheid state often denounces as biased against it (can’t begin to imagine why).
South Africa launched the case late last week at the ICC in the Netherlands, arguing that the magnitude of death, destruction and humanitarian crisis inflicted on Gaza from the Israeli military campaign meets and indeed exceeds the threshold of genocide under international law. South Africa asked the court to order Israel to halt its attacks in Gaza. Israel of course dismisses these international cases against it as unfair and biased and rarely cooperates. Which makes the recent decision to respond to these charges a possible signal that the governing regime is beginning to grow concerned about the damage to their reputations.
“The state of Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice at the Hague to dispel South Africa’s **absurd blood libel**.”
**accurate descriptions of Israeli war crimes**
-Eylon Levy, Netanyahu’s spokesperson
This trial could be a total sham and the apartheid state will almost definitely suffer no actual consequences, but even the slight appearance of progress should be recognized here. Every day we grow closer to a ceasefire in Gaza and to the eventual liberation of all of Palestine.
Side Items
Scumbag Sunak: In what the UK prime minister calls, “delivering for the British people”, Rishi Sunak emphasized his full commitment to cutting down on the number of people immigrating into Britain. Sunak announced that new students from overseas will no longer be able to bring family members to the UK with them. So the majority of foreign university students won’t be able to travel or live with family members in the UK. Some postgraduate research or government-funded scholarships students will be exempt, but it’s still a pretty cruel way to get a point across
Japanese Plane Crash: A passenger plane and a small Japanese coast guard aircraft collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport early this morning, with five people on the smaller plane killed after it burst into flames. In a strange twist, a Japanese coast guard spokesperson said that the plane had been due to head to the city of Niigata to deliver relief goods to residents affected by the deadly earthquake that struck the region earlier on Monday