International Law & the Case of Gaza
The International Criminal Court is an independent judicial body that hears cases on individuals charged with crimes against humanity, starvation, war crimes and genocide. The Genocide Convention, which the U.S. has ratified, defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” In November 2024, after court deliberations on Gaza, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant as well as for a Hamas commander who was later confirmed dead. Israel denounced the ICC ruling as “absurd” and “anti-Semitic.” The U.S. response? It not only ignored the ruling but also leveled sanctions against ICC judges and lawyers. For International law to have any credibility, it must be applied equally without fear or favor.
Recorded at the University of Brighton.
Speaker
Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé has been called “the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel’s ‘new historians.’” He is the director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter and a senior fellow at the University of Exeter’s Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. He was born in Haifa, Israel. From 1984 to 2006, he taught at the University of Haifa. He moved to the UK in 2007. Among his many books are The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Biggest Prison on Earth, A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Lobbying for Zionism, Ten Myths About Israel and Israel on the Brink.
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Listener in Bellingham, WA –
This show with Ilan Pappe was extraordinary. Brilliant analysis and historical overview . Thank you.