This week in The Hague, the International Court of Justice will hear South Africa’s case against Israel, preposterously accusing the Jewish state of the blood libel of carrying out ‘genocide’ in Gaza.
South Africa might not have proper running water and an energy crisis, but they have prioritized serving as lead counsel for the jihadist, raping, terrorist group Hamas.
The crime of ‘genocide’ is one of the most egregious charges in international law. The term was originally coined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin, to actually describe the systematic extermination of Jews by the Nazis.
It should not go unnoticed that the barbaric October 7 massacre, in which Hamas terrorists slaughtered, raped and burnt over 1,200 people and took hundreds hostage, including women, children and the elderly, was the single largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.
Yet, instead of holding Hamas accountable, South Africa has decided to perversely distort the very definition of genocide, in filing this pernicious and baseless claim against Israel.
The actual definition of ‘genocide’ is well settled under international law, and specifically the Genocide Convention of 1948, which governs its consideration. In essence, it means the committing of acts, including by killing, that are intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.