US Congress members denounce SA’s ICJ genocide allegations

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US Congress members denounce SA’s ICJ genocide allegations

 

More than 200 members of the US Congress have endorsed a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken denouncing the ‘grossly unfounded’ genocide allegations by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Co-Chairs of the House of Representative’s Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey, and Kathy Manning, a Democrat from North Carolina, led 208 Members of Congress in denouncing South Africa’s action.

They said in the letter to Blinken: ‘South Africa has filed a grossly unfounded case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of genocide and asking the court to order Israel to immediately halt its military efforts in Gaza.

‘We write to you to express our disgust at this filing, which perpetrates false and dangerous allegations against the Jewish state.’

The letter urges the Biden Administration ‘to offer Israel all appropriate support in opposing the South African application to the ICJ, and to encourage our allies to join us in speaking out against this unfounded attack on Israel, particularly at the United Nations and in other intergovernmental organizations’.

‘While barely acknowledging the Hamas terrorists who gleefully massacred, mutilated, raped, and kidnapped innocent civilians on October 7, South Africa makes grossly unfounded and defamatory charges against Israel on the world stage, abusing the judicial process in order to delegitimize the democratic State of Israel,” continued the lawmakers, noting the accusation was particularly cynical given the term ‘genocide’ was coined following the murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.

‘We vigorously denounce South Africa’s deeply hostile stance towards Israel and thoroughly reject its charge of genocide.’

 

source:US Congress members denounce SA’s ICJ genocide allegations – Daily Friend

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