FUTURE OF JEWISH
21 Things Israel Should Really Tell the World Court
Joshua Hoffman
January 13, 2024

Israel, is it true that your decision to respond to the terror attacks on October 7th has included actions of genocidal intent against the Palestinians in Gaza?

Israel: To borrow a now-infamous line from our friends who run some of America’s most prestigious universities, it is a context-dependent decision.

What does that mean?

Israel: The International Court of Justice has never judged a country responsible for genocide. Not Cambodia. Not Rwanda. Not Syria. Not China. Not Sudan. It has never censured the desire for genocide either. This is only expressed against Israel. READ MORE

NEW YORK TIMES Bret Stephens: The Genocide Charge Against Israel Is a Moral Obscenity In recent decades, as many as three million people perished in a famine in North Korea that was mainly government-induced. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were gassed, bombed, starved or tortured to death by the Assad regime, and an estimated 14 million were forced to flee their homes. China has put more than a million Uyghurs through gulag-like re-education camps in a thinly veiled attempt to suppress and erase their religious and cultural identity. But North Korea, Syria and China have never been charged with genocide at the International Court of Justice. Israel has. How curious. And how obscene.

JEWISH POLICY CENTER Shoshana Bryen: The Real Genocides the World Ignores According to legal scholars Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany, the definition of genocide is “well settled” and “commonly agreed.” There is a consensus that “genocide involves killing members of a national or ethnic group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group and inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction in whole or in part.” Despite the baseless accusations against Israel at the International Court of Justice, this is not happening in Gaza. Nonetheless, the ICJ blood libel is an object lesson in how the international anti-Israel mob works.