Genocide: South Africa vs. Israel at the World Court

Send us Fan MailRichard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of Palestinian human rights in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, discusses the case South Africa has brought to the International Court of Justice charging Israel with genocide in Gaza and asking the ICJ to order preventive actions.  Falk discusses the divide between white settler-colonial states and European former colonial powers on one hand, and the Global South on the other, over Israeli actions in Gaza, the merits of the arguments by South Africa and Israel, the crime of complicity perpetrated by the United States and some other Western countries, and the long-standing crisis of implementation at the United Nations that has kept the U.N. from acting effectively to prevent war. This Jan. 20th interview provides the background to the ICJ decision rendered Jan. 26