What Does the Recent ICJ Finding with Regard to Israel’s War in Gaza Mean?
In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu and Azeezah Kanji talk with former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Michael Link, Palestinian human rights attorney, scholar, activist, and teacher Noura Erakat, and Burmese scholar and dissident in exile, Maung Zarni. They discuss the recent International Court of Justice ruling on the Gaza genocide case, which found that Israel is plausibly engaging in genocide in Gaza. They explore the case and its implications, as well as the colonial backdrop of the international law behind it, with They also address the recent decision of a number of countries to defund the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, which was established by the United Nations in 1949. Finally, they talk about what global civil society can and must do to effect change where international law cannot.