{"id":252418,"date":"2024-01-22T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=252418"},"modified":"2024-01-17T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T07:07:11","slug":"israel-defends-itself-at-the-international-court-of-justice-from-genocide-victims-to-perpetrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/israel-defends-itself-at-the-international-court-of-justice-from-genocide-victims-to-perpetrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Defends Itself at the International Court of Justice: From Genocide Victims to Perpetrators"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maung Zarni protest at ICJ, 11 Jan 2024 – Photo: Zarni<\/p><\/div>\n

Israel\u2019s legal team, a member of which is a Holocaust survivor and the country\u2019s ex-Attorney General, will likely frontload the politico-legal mantra of Israel\u2019s right to \u201cself-defence\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

11 Jan 2024<\/em> – Five years ago, in her 12-minutes message of solidarity to the Free Rohingya Coalition conference<\/a> at Barnard College\/Columbia University in New York the renowned scholar and revolutionary Angela Davis<\/a> named Israel as Exhibit A of a deeply troubling real-world phenomenon wherein formerly persecuted people (and individuals, such as Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a> of Myanmar, my country of birth) morphing into persecutors themselves.<\/p>\n