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Zachary Foster

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Jan 26

Breaking: the President of the International Court of Justice (@CIJ_ICJ), Julia Sebutinde, plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion (icj-cij.org/node/204162) in which she voted against all provisional measures of South African's case of Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

On p. 6, Sebutinde writes: ""The name “Palestine” applied vaguely to a region that for the 400 years before World War I was part of the Ottoman Empire."

This sentence was plagiarized word for word from a 2021 article published by Douglas J. Feith by the @HudsonInstitute titled, "The Forgotten History of the Term "Palestine," (hudson.org/node/44363) in which he writes:

"“Palestine” applied vaguely to a region that for the 400 years before World War I was part of the Ottoman empire."

It gets worse. Sebutinde plagiarized the next two sentences as well. She writes:

"In 135 CE, after stamping out the second Jewish insurrection of the province of Judea or Judah, the Romans renamed that province “Syria Palaestina” (or “Palestinian Syria”). The Romans did this as a punishment, to spite the “Y’hudim” (Jewish population) and to obliterate the link between them and their province (known in Hebrew as Y’hudah). The name “Palaestina” was used in relation to the people known as the Philistines and found along the Mediterranean coast."

These 2 sentences were also plagiarized from the same Feith piece, in which he writes:

"In 135 CE, after stamping out the province of Judea’s second insurrection, the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina—that is, “Palestinian Syria.” They did so resentfully, as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews (in Hebrew, Y’hudim and in Latin Judaei) and the province (the Hebrew name of which was Y’hudah). “Palaestina” referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast."

Sebutinde make a pitiful attempt to change a word here or there, but this is a textbook case of plagiarism. Feith's piece is not cited in her legal opinion, even though she copied and pasted multiple sentences from the piece.

What a joke of judge. She's making a mockery of the ICJ and should be removed immediately.

It gets worse. She also plagiarized at least 4 sentences from The Jewish Virtual Library (jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-and-fact…).

Here are the 4 sentences from Sebutinde, and then the 4 sentences from the Jewish Virtual Library immediately following:

1. Sebutinde: "Prior to the establishment of “British Mandatory Palestine”, Palestinian Arabs viewed themselves as having a unified identity with the Arabs in the subregion until the twentieth century.
1. Jewish Virtual Library: "Prior to partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity."

2. Sebutinde: "When the distinguished Arab American historian, Professor Philip Hitti, testified against the Partition of Mandatory Palestine before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he remarked: “There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in history; absolutely not.”"
2. Jewish Virtual Library: "When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: "There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history, absolutely not."

3. Sebutinde: "In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria."
3. Jewish Virtual Library: "In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.""

4. Sebutinde: "The first Palestine-Arab Congress which convened in Jerusalem from 27 January to 10 February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, adopted a resolution in which it, inter alia, considered Palestine as an integral part of Arab Syria."
4. Jewish Virtual Library: "When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted: We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time.

Needless to say, Sebutinde is a pathetic excuse for a judge. If you are going to plagiarize, at least do so from a reputable source. At least, that way, you may be a dishonest person, but at least you'd get the facts right? The insanity of plagiarizing from the Jewish Virtual Library here is that she is both dishonestly representing other people's work as her own, while also spreading misinformation.

How the heck this person is the world's top judge is truly mind-blowing.

Correction: In the first tweet in this thread, I should have noted, the dissenting opinion (w/the plagiarism) was with regard to the "Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." I incorrectly implied it was on the genocide opinion. My apologies.

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Zachary Foster

@_ZachFoster

Jan 25

The president of the International Court of Justice (@CIJ_ICJ) is Julia Sebutinde.

She was the only judge (of 17) to vote against all provisional measures of South African's case of Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Her dissenting opinion is replete w/lies & distortions. A 🧵

In the opinion, she includes a 785-word section on the history of Palestine before WWI. 90% of it covers the period of ancient Israelite history, 10% covers all other periods, i.e. Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusaders, Mamluk & Ottoman. here's a sample: icj-cij.org/node/204162

Leaving aside the insanity of writing biblical history in a legal opinion about genocide, she propagates multiple myths, including the myth that the Romans vengefully replaced the name 'Judaea' w/Palestinian Syria after crushing the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135 CE.

She writes: "In 135 CE, after stamping out the second Jewish insurrection of the province of Judea or Judah, the Romans renamed that province “Syria Palaestina” (or “Palestinian Syria”). The Romans did this as a punishment, to spite the “Y’hudim” (Jewish population) and to obliterate the link between them and their province (known in Hebrew as Y’hudah). The name “Palaestina” was used in relation to the people known as the Philistines and found along the Mediterranean coast."

This is not history she is telling, it's Zionist mythology, which I debunk at length in my ph.d dissertation, and summarize the findings in this twitter thread: x.com/_ZachFoster/st…

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Zachary Foster

@_ZachFoster

Jan 23

Why is big tech so pro-genocide? A short 🧵.

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1882421064611065975

Microsoft's sales of its cloud & artificial intelligence services to the Israeli army have skyrocketed since Israel's genocide of the Palestinians started in Oct. 2023. See the brilliant reporting by @yuval_abraham and @972mag

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1882421064611065975

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1882199507519324186

Google has also been ramping up sales of its AI tools to help Israel murder Palestinians in Gaza.

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1882199507519324186

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Zachary Foster

@_ZachFoster

Jan 16

A brief history of Israel's violation of ceasefire agreements. 🧵

In December 2024, Israel violated its 1974 Agreement on Disengagement with Syria, occupying a 235-square-kilometer demilitarized buffer zone established b/w Israel & Syria after the Oct. 1973 War. timesofisrael.com/un-slams-viola…

Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement it signed w/ Hezbollah in Lebanon in late November 2024 more than 470 times, killing 32 people & injured 39. aa.com.tr/en/middle-east…

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Zachary Foster

@_ZachFoster

Jan 15

How Israeli soldiers disguise themselves as civilians to murder Palestinians (perfidy). A 🧵

It's a violation of international humanitarian law to feign civilian or non-combatant status during armed hostilities (i.e. when Israeli soldiers wear civilian garb, or use civilian vehicles, or dress up as aid workers or doctors to kill Palestinians). casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossar…

On Dec. 19, 2024, Israeli soldiers used an ambulance as protection to carry out an operation in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank to murder the 80-year-old Halimeh Saleh Awail & the 25-year-old Qasi Hamid. A textbook case of perfidy. theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

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Zachary Foster

@_ZachFoster

Jan 10

1. Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, overview
2. Israel's ethnic cleansing, 1949-59
3. Israel's attempts to cleanse Gaza
4. Israel's cleansing of the Palestinians, 1967-present
5. Israel's ethnic cleansing, 2023
6. Israel's ethnic cleansing, 2024 ⤵️

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1717303486344233131

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