South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court alleging that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide.

Link to the summary of findings submitted by South Africa: https://apnews.com/article/un-court-south-africa-israel-gaza-genocide-71be2ce7f09bfee05a7cae26689ee262

South Africa’s 84-page filing says Israel’s actions “are genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part” of the Palestinians in Gaza.

It asks the ICJ, also known as the world court, for a series of legally binding rulings. It wants the court to declare that Israel “has breached and continues to breach its obligations under the Genocide Convention,” and to order Israel to cease hostilities in Gaza that could amount to breaches of the convention, to offer reparations, and to provide for reconstruction of what it’s destroyed in Gaza.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      158·
      1 year ago

      There has never been anything on the scale of Israel’s apartheid. There have been things like it that are absolutely abhorrent, like South African Apartheid and it’s inspiration, Jim Crow. But there has never been such a widespread, indiscriminate, long term genocidal apartheid.

      • 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        129·
        1 year ago

        To be clear, you’re saying south Africas Apartheid which codified a racial hierarchy into law and nazi Germanys Apartheid if you want to call it that which put people in camps and slaughtering them industrially is less bad than Israel’s military occupation of Gaza? Jesus, of all the takes one could have, that’s definitely one of them…

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t that a good thing though? You almost sound like you despise people learning from their mistakes

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thr Jewish people were subject to genocidal practices 80 years ago.

        A half circle is a 180.

        Being that it is Jewish people now doing it to others. And other parts of the world trying to stop them (SA).

        With that in mind, your comment implies the Israel government is committing genocide first before genocide can be committed on them again, and that this is good and that I’m against it which is bad.

        I think you’ve not understood before commenting.

        • lad@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yes, indeed, I thought the original comment referred to SA being apartheid state since 1948 which is also about 80 years ago