I’m pleased to have signed this letter to the President of the @WorldBank, which denounces another smear campaign weaponizing antisemitism – this time directed at Massimiliano Cali, a Senior Economist at the World Bank. 1/4
Mr. Cali is being targeted by bad-faith actors in a malign attempt to delegitimize and silence his wife Francesca Albanese, who is the UN Special Rapporteur for the human rights situation in Palestine. This is clearly the political agenda behind the campaign. 2/4

Dominique de Villepin speaks out

A crime is taking place in Gaza, a crime of genocide. More and more voices... are saying it... I admire the courage it takes to do so, like Omer Bartov and Amos Goldberg or B’Tselem and the Israeli Physicians for Human Rights Association. How can we accept seeing international organizations sidelined like this, international law trampled, not to mention the unprecedented pressures exerted on international justice?

Philippe Sands speaking to Ezra Klein in the NYT on the growing likelihood that the International Court of Justice will conclude that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: I’ve already said... that if Lemkin were to view what has happened, he would have characterized what happened on Oct. 7 as meeting his definition of genocide, and he would certainly characterize what is happening now in Gaza as genocidal...