Former UN Special Rapporteur: ICJ advisory opinion confirms Israel is committing apartheid

 

Dimitri Lascaris – 23/07/2024

On July 22, 2024, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Professor Emeritus Michael Lynk about an Advisory Opinion issued on July 19 by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

From 2016 to 2022, Professor Lynk served as the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council for the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

As Prof. Lynk explains, the ICJ concluded in its Advisory Opinion that Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) is illegal and must be ended as rapidly as possible. He also interprets the ICJ's opinion as confirmation of allegations by numerous human rights experts that Israel is committing the crime against humanity of apartheid.

Finally, Lascaris and Prof. Lynk discussed the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, in contravention of the Genocide Convention.

The complete ICJ Advisory Opinion can be found here: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default...

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