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South Africa’s legal team in the genocide case against Israel has won praise. Who are they?

January 12, 2024   South African justice minister Ronald Lamola led a top legal team to argue the country’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 11 January. South Africa argues that Israel’s indiscriminate retaliatory bombing and siege of Gaza contravenes the Genocide Convention. More than 23,000 Palestinians, including at least 10,000 children, …

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE AFRICAN UNION (AU) DEMANDING DECISIVE STANCE TO OPPOSE PROLIFERATION OF APARTHEID VIA SETTLER COLONIALISM

Febuary 18, 2020 Dr Mustafa Mheta I am an interdisciplinary researcher and writer. I am writing this letter about yet another great Western imperialist crime and atrocity against yet another Third World country, Palestine, which is one of the most important observer members of the African Union (AU). It is …

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US Foreign Policy poses the severest threat to the American people and world peace – An international law perspective on the extrajudicial killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani

Feb 3, 2020 Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel* The United States president announced in the aftermath of a carefully planned and orchestrated drone strike which killed Iran’s Major General Qasem Soleimani. Fatalities included deputy commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), Abu Mehdi. Widely reported in the media was the attack …

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