• 11 Posts
  • 594 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 12th, 2023

help-circle



















  • In the article you posted elsewhere in the thread she is quoted as saying:

    “In my respectful dissenting opinion the dispute between the State of Israel and the people of Palestine is essentially and historically a political one. It is not a legal dispute susceptible to judicial settlement by the Court,”

    I think we would both agree with Mark Kersten, cited in the article, that she’s wrong about that.

    It explains however why she would vote the way she did. She is of the opinion that the court does not have jurisdiction, and the rest of her behaviour follows from that. That again does not constitute bias, it constitutes a consistently held (albeit wrong, according to Mark, me, you, and the court majority) opinion.

    Listen, I am standing up for her not because she’s right, but because I think that politically this narrative of pro- and anti- Israel justices serves the Israeli Apartheid establishment in undermining the authority of the court.