The ICJ is failing Palestine like it failed Bosnia.
1. What is the point of the @CIJ_ICJ? Despite the urgency, they are yet to issue their opinion on Israel's obligations towards the UN, including its humanitarian organisations, in Palestine.
2. The timid states did not want to do anything concrete to pressure Israel so they went to the UNGA to refer Israel to the @CIJ_ICJ and then their lawyers made forceful speeches. They passed the ball to the court and the court is dragging its feet.
3. The @CIJ_ICJ can also act on its own initiative ("in propio motu") in the genocide case, South Africa v. Israel, and yet declines to do so, despite the extreme urgency that is clear to anyone with a phone and a conscience.
1. Notice how genocide-deniers/ Zionist propagandists are simply rehashing same claims we've heard since Jan. 2024, as if nothing has happened since then?
2. See, e.g., how Stephens dismisses genocidal statements as simply "furious comments in the wake of Oct. 7 atrocities" when we have over 650 days of statements of intent. See South Africa, 227 p. dossier,
3. Quoting actual statements by Israeli leaders will be embarrassing to the denial narrative: e.g. "Israel's policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza" (Israel Katz, Apr. 2025); "total annihilation" + "Gaza will be entirely destroyed" (Smotrich, Apr./May 2025).
It was clear from the start and all the way: a reminder of some Israel statements of intent 🧵
1. "Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything." Yoav Gallant, 10 October 2023.
2. "we will not allow humanitarian assistance in the form of food and medicines from our territory to the Gaza Strip." PM Netanyahu, 18 October 2023 gov.il/en/pages/pm-ne…
3. "We shall pulverize every accursed plot of land from which it came, we shall destroy it and the memory of it." Brigadier General David Bar Kalifa, 29 October 2023.
One way to support @FranceskAlbs is to read, circulate, cite, quote, and teach the rigorous reports she has written on self-determination, carceral system, child rights, genocide, and corporate complicity. Here is a list:
1) Sep. 2022: "The violations described in this report expose the nature of Israeli occupation: an intentionally acquisitive, segregationist & repressive regime designed to prevent the realization of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination" ohchr.org/en/documents/c…
2) June 2023: "Through an array of physical, bureaucratic and digital mechanisms, the Israeli regime has turned the occupied territory into a panopticon, where Palestinians are constantly surveilled and disciplined" ohchr.org/en/documents/c…