International Court of Justice

Case accusing Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya to open at ICJ

The outcome will have repercussions beyond Myanmar, likely affecting South Africa’s genocide case at the ICJ against Israel over the war in Gaza.

|ByREUTERS, SHOSHANA BAKER, LARA SUKSTER MOSHEYOF
Judges arrive at the International Court of Justice at the start of a hearing where South Africa requests new emergency measures over Israel's attacks on Rafah, as part of an ongoing case South Africa filed at the ICJ in December last year, The Hague, Netherlands May 17, 2024.
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Wikipedia's Israel page now unequivocally states Jewish state is 'committing genocide'

The edit was made on December 11 and has not been reversed since, despite extensive discussion between editors. The section appears at the end of the third paragraph in the top section of the page.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
JUDGES ARRIVE for a session of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Stopping Jews from bettering mankind: What drives modern antisemitic conspiracies - opinion

The unbridled hatred toward Jews and the State of Israel can be attributed to the baffling need to disavow a race of people who have dedicated themselves to blessing a world that doesn’t want them.

|ByCOOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN
A PROTESTER draped in a Palestinian flag holds up a sign near the International Court of Justice in The Hague, in May. Taken all the way to the ICJ, the defamation accusation against Israel fell flat when no one could effectively or credibly prosecute the case for such an outlandish assertion

World Court to give opinion on Israel's obligations to allow aid to Palestinians

In April this year, lawyers for the United Nations and Palestinian representatives at the ICJ accused Israel of breaking international law by refusing to let aid into Gaza between March and May.

|ByREUTERS

Ex-chief justice: Gov't attack on judiciary paved way for ICC, ICJ war crimes charges

Netanyahu opposes state probe out of concern that diving deep into his failings would undermine his continued ability to serve as prime minister.

JUNE 19, 2024ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Deputy Attorney General for International Law Gilad Noam, Principal Deputy Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel Tamar Kaplan Tourgeman and legal adviser of the Embassy of Israel in the Netherlands Avigail Frisch Ben Avraham look on at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)

IDF chief lawyer gives no timeline for 70 criminal probes

Last month, the IDF military advocate general announced that she is probing over 70 cases of alleged criminal wrongdoing by soldiers during the war.

JUNE 19, 2024ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
YIFAT TOMER-YERUSHALMI – she had to deal with terrorists, suicide bombings, large numbers of murder cases at the same time, thousands of administrative detention cases and thousands of soldiers being stationed constantly in the West Bank and Gaza – both as a lawyer and then as a judge.

Israel follows international humanitarian law; now it needs to speak like it - comment

The Broad Perspective: While we have ample grounds to argue for the justification of the IDF’s operation in the Gaza Strip, it is legally bound to come under public scrutiny.

JUNE 14, 2024ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
PEOPLE LISTEN to the proceedings inside the ICJ, in The Hague.

Int'l lawyer: Palestinian Authority using ICJ case to achieve statehood

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Tamar Uriel-Beeri and Sarah Ben-Nun.

JUNE 14, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Judges are seen at the International Court of Justice before the issue of a verdict in the case of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav who was sentenced to death by Pakistan in 2017, in The Hague, Netherlands July 17, 2019

International lawyer Yuval Sasson simplifies the ICC, ICJ cases against Israel

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Tamar Uriel-Beeri and Sarah Ben-Nun.

JUNE 14, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Yuval Sasson

Aharon Barak resigns from Hague panel, citing family-personal reasons

The Israeli government will now need to decide whether or not to select a new judge to replace Barak on the International Court of Justice.

JUNE 5, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Judge Aharon Barak

'Your bias is outrageous': WSJ editorial condemns ICJ ruling against Israel

"The inversion of international law is something to behold: Hamas slaughters Israeli civilians and hides behind its own so that Israel stands accused.”

MAY 29, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
WHILE MANY view the ICJ as an independent judicial body, it is inherently political. Its judges are elected by the UN General Assembly and Security Council, bodies notorious for anti-Israel bias, the writer says.

A conspiracy of silence, a blood libel against Jewish nationhood - opinion

The latest decisions by the ICJ and ICC highlight a continuous trend throughout human history where Jewish plight is met with silence, and Jewish response is met with blood libel.

MAY 29, 2024ByQANTA AHMED, ABRAHAM COOPER/THE MEDIA LINE
Giuseppe Alberti, Alleged martyrdom of Simonino da Trento, 1677, oil on canvas, Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio. Provincial monuments and collections.

'Judicial reform will let us tell the truth to the world,' says MK Rothman after ICJ ruling

He also addressed the judicial reform, of which he was a chief proponent, and stated that at the time he had received warnings from the legal system in Israel.

MAY 28, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MK Simcha Rothman speaks of the judicial reform. May 29, 2024.

Mexico files declaration of intervention in South Africa ICJ case against Israel

Mexico has become the latest country to invoke Article 63 in ICJ legal proceedings against Israel

MAY 28, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Public hearing held by ICJ to allow parties to give their views on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories before eventually issuing a non-binding legal opinion in The Hague, Netherlands, February 21, 2024.