Bolstered by a momentous ICJ ruling, Palestinians, including Americans, gave three hours of testimony against the Biden administration.
Lawyers involved with the lawsuit playing out in federal court said that the ICJ ruling bolsters their case. Their lawsuit argues that Biden, Blinken, and Austin are liable under U.S. law for failing to uphold their obligation to prevent genocide in Gaza.
Barry Trachtenberg, a professor of Jewish history and author of two books about the Holocaust, testified as an expert witness in the case – over repeated objections from Justice Department attorneys. When he filed his declaration in the case in November, he said, some 11,000 Palestinians had been killed. Today, that number is far greater.
“Everything that we feared and more is unfolding,” he said, noting that often, legal actions about genocide happen long after the fact. “What makes this situation so unique is that we’re watching the genocide unfold as we speak. And we’re in this incredibly unique position where we can actually intervene to stop it using the mechanisms of international law that are available to us.”
Holy Whataboutism Batman
What aboutism would be to say that your arguments are invalid because you also live somewhere where the thing you’re complaining of has happened. This is no way whataboutism.
Or it would be like if I said “South Africa’a complaint should be tossed because it was an apartheid state.” See, that would be a ridiculous argument to make.
Do you have an answer as to why it is that you’re agreeing with Iran and disagreeing with Canada?
Well because people in Iran eat food and I eat food too.
I guess that means that you and people in Canada don’t eat food because else you’d would agree with Iran.
Don’t play ignorant.
Iran doesn’t deny that food exists and want to murder all farmers. Quit avoiding it.
Offer some plausible explanation from the polarity between the support and opposition on South Africa’s complaint and the incongruity with your position, or avoid the question a fourth time. What will you do…