South Africa has filed a case at the UN’s International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide. The petition accuses Israel of calculated actions intended to bring about the physical destruction of Palestine. Article II of the Genocide Convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 and de-fines the crime of genocide. It has two main elements:
Omer Bartov, a Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, joins Al Jazeera live from Cambridge.
Also, Geoffrey Nice, a barrister and human rights lawyer, explains why South Africa’s case stands out in the history of international law.
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Netanyahu is the terrorist and has to be stopped and jailed, I fully support south Africa and Biden should be prisoned for supporting Genocide
Bravo, South Africa!!!
STUPID HUMAN RIGHT 🚫
We need LEADER’S like South Africa 💪🌎💛
Thats rich coming from a terrorist state israel
One of the mistakes that some political analysts make is to think their enemies should be our enemies,” he said, which was met by applause. “Our attitude towards any country is determined by the attitude of that country to our struggle. Yasser Arafat, Colonel Gaddafi [and] Fidel Castro support our struggle to the hilt. There is no reason whatsoever why we should have any hesitation about hailing their commitment to human rights as they’re being demanded in South Africa. They do not support [the anti-apartheid struggle] only in rhetoric; they are placing resources at our disposal for us to win the struggle. That is the position.”
Nelson Mandela live at a Town Hall in USA in 1990, hosted by Ted Koppel.
What else would one expect from a genocidal state?
You cannot reject a case, any thief can’t reject a case, Trump can’t. You are indicted and that’s it. Your case is being examined if you agree or not.
Израиль Нетаняхо геноциде Газа убивают детей
Thank you South Africa ❤
Your all bias why did file another case agains hammas why did you single out the esrael
Your are terurest also
2023 The YEAR America lost it’s standing in the World.
bravo to S Africa. the morally corrupt US is not able to do what it says it stands for
Of course … Israel is not part of humanity
27000 South Africans are brutally murdered every year and Cyril Rhamaphosa does NOTHING about it. He is a psychopath and any one who takes this hypocrite seriously is sick
A Apartide state has no Rights to anything
Israel is not the legitimate state it is an occupying state committing crime at a massive scale South Africa is a legit country do the math and why is USA and UK committing this atrocity
rubbish. south Africa is biting more than they can chew
Netanyahu and Israel publicly denounced apartheid South Africa but underneath they completely supported the apartheid regime there. All of which goes to show that the Israeli government knows they are using apartheid against the Palestinian people because they have always supported apartheid
So typical of Israel to accuse EVERYONE collaborating with Hamas. Even Greta is not safe.
What is un ? Nothing
Muslim countries should learn something from South Africa.
The Whole World is coming together for Peace and put Israel at its place, seriously what Israel is doing is unspeakable horror…. They should be stopped immediately….!!!
Glad to see black people rejecting sheqels!
When I see images of Gaza , I can only think , how much hate , anger , racism , brutality , Israel has against Palestinians .
Israel was born on May .14 .1948 . Died on October 07 .2023 .
Cause of death , feeling guilty for war crimes against civilians .committed suicide .
south africa is run by a person with the IQ of my left shoe. i can’t even watch this guy give a speech. How does someone like that get elected?
Free GAZA
Isreal is an apartheid state!!! We South Africans stand with Palestine!!!❤
It’s funny that Africa has the idea to do this when Africa is one of the worst for genocidal attacks on its own people. especially South Africa. Maybe they should be making a complaint to the UN to have themselves brought in front of the international court.
South Africa is in support of terrorism. And is not heroic it is weak and cowardly of them.
Its very funny how always arabs attack israeli first and when they lose go to complaint to the world, that happend over and over again since 1948
The idf are the real terrorist, the Zionist government are the real terrorist, the israhelli settlers are the real terrorist
Proud of south africa
From the river to the sea Palestine will be free
*Not IDF They Are ITF=ISRAEL TERRORIST FORCE*
How does this even make sense? Of course the country that’s accused of genocide will deny it.
Sa people made with backbone we a special breed alhamdullilah 🎉
These same pagan ISRAIL terrorists called Nelson Mandela a terrorist and helped white South Africans to massacre black South africans
South Africans are fools
South Africa has double standards. There is a genocide in our Country on our Farmers yet you won’t see them do anything about it.
How do you define what happened in October 7th? Who started all this? Israel or Hamas??
Whose terrorist, whose killed a thousand thousand, wow amazing israel and also america
I am proud to be South African and for this decision. What a disgrace is America, collaborating with terrorist IDP.
NO ONE. BELIEVE ISRAEL AND ALLIES SALUTE TO AFRICA AND SOUTH AFRICA AFRICA. FUTURE OF THE WORLD🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸✌️✌️✌️💕💕
How dare they call you a terriost when there holding the gun
South Africa still kills its own white farmers etc there’s alot going on there the world needs peace and love ❤️ no weapons.
Amir Tsarfati
The criminal government of South Africa complained to the International Court of Justice that Israel is committing a genocide. It’s interesting because the last time I checked it’s that corrupt government that constantly turns a blind eye to the massacre of white farmers all across SA.
Anyway, this is the response of the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs:
Israel rejects with disgust the blood libel spread by South Africa in its application to the International Court of Justice (IC]).
South Africa’s claim lacks both a factual and a legal basis, and constitutes a despicable and contemptuous exploitation of the Court.
South Africa is cooperating with a terrorist organization that is calling for the destruction of the State of Israel.
The Hamas terrorist organization – which is committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and sought to commit genocide on 7
October – is responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by using them as human shields and stealing humanitarian aid from them.
Israel is committed to international law and acts in accordance with it, and directs its military efforts solely against the Hamas terrorist organization and the other terrorist organizations cooperating with Hamas.
Israel has made it clear that the residents of the Gaza Strip are not the enemy, and is making every effort to limit harm to civilians and to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
We call on the International Court of Justice and the international community to completely reject South Africa’s baseless claims.
I mean, if there’s anyone who knows better about apharteid is south african themselves, also one of the experts who directly experience a genocide throughout history.
Israel always accuses anyone who speaks up against it as being either a terrorist or antisemitic. The Israelis are now the terrorists. They have been protected for too long by the US. The genocide they are committing in Gaza is horrendous. How much more can they bomb? There’s nothing left. Bravo South Africa for taking this step. Let’s hope other countries back you.
South Africa has no right to undermine Israel’s right of self defense.
Israel rejects it….. ridiculous israel should be suspended from the UN
The irony of the South African government, a thoroughly corrupt and violent regime, supporting Hamas, another corrupt and pathologically violent regime, is not lost on anybody.
What about u n bricks w ho and international court y they are sailent world people want to justice it’s true Israel PM he is a killer more than 25 thaused enocent people children in gaza 100% it’s crime against humanity and Israel PM is a criminal world people are not a blaind we seen video’s day by day
The guilty seldom if ever accepts responsibility until it has no other option. Kudos to SA for taking this brave step while so called champions of democracy, human rights have only helped Israel commit grave crimes including genocide
Who is the terrorist? Israel is the only very dangerous terrorist in the world.
South Africa is not a great power…they are a ANC communist proxy for Putin loving baby killers rapers and genocidal Hamas lovers
Free the hostages!
Well is kinda strange Since the South African government is involve in genocide with the slow murders of our farmers. We South Africans stand with Isreal
Thank you South Africa 🇿🇦. Finally, a country with the goods to do something about this horror 🔥‼️
It is apartheid, it is collective punishment, and it is genocide. It is pouring bombs on a people displaced into an open-air prison and calling it ‘war’. It is creepy hasbara against higher education.
You should all wake up to what is really happening please.
All so very proud of this sa and its government???
The gov is a puppet of NWO and have been instructed by their masters.
Europeans have never stood for human rights, why are we expecting those European Zionists to uphold them?
Hitler
The Palestinian conflict is religious, while the apartheid in South Africa was political and economic. And S. Africa apper to be merely posturing.
Israel was before South Africa. Nothing can be done to Israel. Israel is here to stay ❤
Dear South Africa. I am a South African Christian and I think that you do not have the right nor the mentality to tell Israelis what they are doing is genocide. You are just imbarassing yourself to the core. Dear South Africa, for the country with the highest crime rates, the highest unemployment rate with the most racism, also the only country that can’t even keep the lights on in their own country, calling it so called loadshedding and fail to even keep their own woman and children safe in their own country. I really think, you, South Africa have a war of your own and that you should shut your mouth and rather be more concerned about your own country’s freaking problems than accusing Israel and be concerned about terror organizations in other countries and warfare. 😠😠😠
S.A has more Homocide per year than the current Death Toll of palestinians during this war
What a joke these people
This is madness, always the colonialists call colonized landless people in their own lands terrorists. These dictators imperialists colonizers are terrorists, they have no morals, land thieves.
The world can finally see our government for what they are.
I am South African. The ONLY reason South Africa laid this charge is to deflect from their own human rights abuses and incompetence. There are more innocent people being violently murdered every day in South Africa, than civilians killed in Gaza, the West Bank and Ukraine PUT TOGETHER….
The ethnic minority groups in South Africa are targeted through racist laws, exclusion from the economy, exclusion from tertiary educational institutions and denial of basic rights… White farmers are being systematically killed in large numbers and the government looks the other way (at best).
Israel of the US/UK/EU should be laying charges of human rights abuses against the South Africa government….
Israel is illegal occupier and terrorist state and war criminal,
It’s pathetic other countries are scared of that fake tiny dot on the map
It’s a case of ‘accusing other while stand behind the door yourself’. Go see what’s going on in SA and neighbouring countries. SA support terrorism, this is why they react like this. Do they expect Israel to allow murderers to kill them, like it’s expected from South African people?
Israel is a terrorist state, they are a great threat to humanity. We need not cover their crimes.
Al Jazeera is blatant terrorist Propaganda now…how is this channel allowed on YouTube?
It’s a genocide for sure, and you know that fully well that it is a Genocide for real. Hey Sir, Israeli continues to fire off rockets from planes indiscriminately killing as many Palestinians as possible. The public has eyes and we are seeing what really is going on in Palestionrn are singled out as pariahs and as people that Israel don’t want around them, so they continue to kill off these people by the thousands. To date I am sure that over 25,000 Palestinians, Palestinians have been murdered by IDF of Israel, this has happened within a couple of months and is such a deliberate genocide, who is not able to see this as a Genocide an ethnic cleansing, they probably have their heads up in their A.H. This should definitely be an international issue, especially since Biden, who continues to provide weaponry and our taxpayers dollars to Israel to this genocide at our expense, when we have thousands of people, homeless, hungry, and elderly people who can’t even pay for the prescription medication or their food, they approved $23 of snap food stamps to elderly people for an entire month and this is not a joke. Hi grapple with this every day that I have worked all my life here in America and now I ambeing starved someone needs to stop this bias war.
Empire of lies, thank u south Africa, Israel is the terrorist, apartheid regimes
We don’t care what racist Israel says. Don’t trust those hateful people.
Bravo, South Africa!!
Is there a real difference between the genocide that Germany did on the Jewish community compared to what the Jewish community is doing to the Palestine?
Israeli cried to hamas for hostages released..
Cyril’s doing it because he’s trying to deflect attention from the fact his party has bankrupted itself and South Africa
Genocide is committed in Ukraine and no mention is made of it, why not, is this a one-sided affair?
It’s unbelievable
Not surprised. What surprises is why the accused one has a permission to accept or reject 😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is what israel govt is notoriously known and good at — playing victims but entitled and deflecting their own crimes and other evil doings to their enemies and their enemies’ allies.
I expected Netanyahu to be truthful once and accept it.
The world have seen who the real terrorist is. Israel with their nazionism.
For Ukraine war. The ICC within three weeks after the displacement of about 200 Ukrainian Kids to Russia, had issued an international arrest Mandate against Russia President Poutine. In Gaza, For 9. 000 children Already been killed and not a single international arrest mandate have been issued against the terrorist leaders of an Apartheid & terrorist state of Israel
The hamas leadership is in Qatar, not in gaza. The guys doing the fighting are just pawns in a much wider game.
Israel as Holocaust survivors should be the last people to be this evil
People in south Africa must read the Qur’an to know why Israel is rejecting them
I still ask: so the genocide of white farmers in SA as sanctioned by the anc is excempt from this law???
Oh really? You coveniently forget apartheid south africa was your best buddy while at sane time calling nelson mandela a terrorist?. newsflash…unlike rest of your critics we in south africa know full well what genocide is. We exoerienced it from the same type of gov and army as yours
By the way Israel….in soouth africa we have a massive jewish community eith whom we live in peace with . And just a reminder judaism and zionism is not same
Genocider denying his genocide. Whos surprised?
Ïsrael is not doing genocide .Hamas has claimed that they want to genocide against the Jewish people
This is like a rape victim speaking out about a rapist who is raping another person. Yes it’s brave but it’s natural, I’m proud to be a South African for the courage of our government ❤
Is this a human rights lawyer or a military strategist? Surprising that he does not call out Israel for its practices