Mexico has filed a declaration of intervention in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday, the ICJ announced in a press release.
Mexico’s move places it on a growing list of countries accusing Israel of violating the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention.
Since January, Columbia and Libya have also declared their intention to join the case. Other countries including Egypt and Turkey have said they will join.
So is this just virtue signaling? bc I keep hearing about countries wanting to join S.Africa but nothing about opening cases or actually joining.
I may just be ignorant of the news however
It says there that they filed a declaration with the court. They’ve joined the accusers. It’s maybe like filing an amicus brief basically adding weight by saying they agree with South Africa and giving reasons why. Not sure how much more they can do. They’d need to investigate and compile evidence to really help but I’m not sure if South Africa needs help with that or not.
Thank you for the update!
Do you have a source for this info?
Literally the text right here on this site without even needing to click the link:
Mexico’s move places it on a growing list of countries accusing Israel of violating the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention.
Since January, Columbia and Libya have also declared their intention to join the case.
When done in the ICJ as I understand it (badly) it’s not like just a press conference where a Foreign Minister throws accusations or insults. This is going to the court as one of the parties who may bring action against other parties and saying to the court “we bring action, here’s the basis, here are our charges”. As I understand it (again could be wrong, correct me if so) ICJ as a venue for country level disputes doesn’t have like a prosecutor like the ICC, instead a country comes up, prosecutes their own case (with or without support from others) against another country who defends their case in front of a panel of judges.
I see today Erdogan making a speech saying he will join.
I dont believe him, because he has never done anything before, and Arab politicians usually promises stuff to Palestinians and never deliver. I also travelled to Turkey once and thr amount of people there badmouthing Palestinians shocked me.
For me, I only respect South Africa. They did something useful about it.
All the others just want to surf on the waves made by South Africa
Yup, that’s exactly what’s going on right now. Just awful virtue signaling from countries that have been pretty happy to do business with genocidal settlers colonist regimes.
Probably because most of the world is terrified of the CIA coups, US military invasion, censuring and sanctions,sanctions,sanctions. I mean, every country that has taken a stand against US imperialism ends up in relations like Iran, at best. And Mexico joining the case against Isntreal will definitely enrage the D.C. ghouls. You know at least one senator will call for nuking Mexico City (and be forced to publicly walk it back a little).
Central and South America have been trapped in the basement since before the Monroe doctrine. Every nation that risks angering the US gets us a little closer to the illegitimacy of the hegemon and to a multi-polar world. At this point, I welcome any gesture in this direction.
Honestly, the US is the great international terrorist. I hope someday, maybe in my lifetime, we can see an intense de-Nazification (or more accurately- de-Americanization, in the dismantling of the settler ideology and Manifest Destiny, in dismantling of the neocons and every aspect of the US exceptionalism ideology, in the dismantling of the US’ structures of unofficial apartheid, and all the countless terror cells it cultivates and legitimates as “alphabet agencies”) of the country, even if it requires an international occupation force to do so. I don’t think anything less can save the Anglosphere, and the US in particular, at this point.
I look forward to the day Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Russian, Iranian, even Saudi troops, and whoever else is willing, patrol the streets of Washington DC. I’m an atheist, and I understand the material and historical context behind why the US is as it is, and yet I can only describe it and the network of Anglosphere regimes as demonic, the epitome of evil- the culmination of 500 years of genocide, racism, imperialism, and every crime imaginable, the culmination of at least 100 years (if not more) of cultivating the worst examples of humanity from across the globe- Nazis from across eastern Europe, war criminals and tribalist compradors from across the global south, deranged cultists and slavers like Falun Gong, Scientology, ISIS, the Khalistanis, or the Tibetan theocrats; organized and white-collar crime from across the world, etc… hundreds if not (certainly) thousands of “Operation Paperclips” writ large.
Honestly, the US is the great international terrorist.
100%. That’s about as succinct as it gets. I want to feel like that realization is the next great awaking. And the US on the verge of geo-political self-awareness… That is until I talk to any typical american and feel nausiated by the level of psychotic cognitive dissonance they wrap themselves in. You talk to one person who’s good on Palestine to discover they consider the seeseepee some kind of evil for exactly no coherent reason whatsoever. It’s a real bummer. At some point the US (and its institutions) cannot be allowed to exist or this will never end.
pretty much
What does “join” mean? Cheerleading?
That won’t help the judges decide anything, as this is a matter of law.
Maybe they mean collecting proof or helping to pay lawyers?
