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What can I do? Many of us have repeatedly asked this question in the past months. We predicted the revolution would not be televised; we did not anticipate the genocide would. Scholars of anti-colo…
Whatever the result of the proceedings, this is truly a historic moment where the international “rule-based order” has been compelled to reckon with the realities of apartheid and settler colonialism. South Africa honored the Palestinian plight and the world was forced to listen.
The South is definitely teaching the North a lesson in political morality. The heirs of Mandela acted upon his own words.
We saw representatives of a nation that suffered from and defeated apartheid and oppression, standing up for basic human decency, justice and solidarity and giving their hand to another nation that is undergoing and resisting colonial oppression and genocide.
To borrow the words of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, they were "fighting to save humanity and the international legal system against the ruthless attacks supported/enabled by most of the West".
Yesterday’s oral hearing of South Africa’s case has been damning and devastating. African men and women stood on the side of Palestinian struggle for liberation and presented a challenge to white-supremacy and colonialism.
More than 23,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7th. Around 70% of them are women and children. 85% of the population is forcibly displaced and Israel is still herding them into ever smaller areas, without adequate shelter, in which they continue to be attacked.
South Africa's submission to the ICJ is a very important document and provides a strong and solid case of genocide put rightly in its broader context of ongoing Nakba, settler colonialism, apartheid, occupation and an inhumane siege.
