[Peace] UIUC’s Francis Boyle is interviewed on “Democracy Now!” Tuesday, 2 January, 2024

[Karen Medina]

Dear Peace Discuss,
[Check out UIUC’s Francis Boyle is interviewed on “Democracy Now!” Tuesday,
2 January, 2024. -Karen Medina]

Democracy Now! title of interview: “South Africa Files Genocide Case
Against Israel at International Court of Justice”
Link to the audio and the written transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/2/south_africa_israel_genocide_icj


Basic notes from the interview:
* ’South Africa has filed a case at the main judicial body for the United
Nations, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, accusing
Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
* PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: The collective punishment of Palestinian
civilians through the unlawful use of force by Israel is a war crime. The
deliberate denial of medicine, fuel, food and water to the residents of
Gaza is tantamount to genocide.
* Boyle believes South Africa will win an order against Israel to cease and
desist from committing all acts of genocide against the Palestinians

* Why South Africa? > there is a direct comparison between the Israeli
apartheid system on all the Palestinians
* Why the International Court on Justice (ICJ)? > Orders of the ICJ can do
a lot.
* Examples of past successes through ICJ: stopping the genocide of Bosnia
(and Herzegovina) by Yugoslavia
* “We here in the United States of America have the power to stop this”
[genocide]. Israel has a history of listening to the United States’ orders
to stop its assaults on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
* Other examples: To stop U.S. President Reagan’s war against Nicaragua

Who: Francis A. Boyle, a human rights lawyer, professor of international
law at the University of Illinois College of Law. His books include: * “The
Bosnian People Charge Genocide” (1994) Aletheia Press,
* “Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law” (2003) Clarity Press,
* as well as “World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law” (2021)
Lexington Books.
[To see the 19 book titles, see his list of publications:
https://experts.illinois.edu/en/persons/francis-a-boyle/publications/ ] *
from his College of Law bio: “Over his career, Francis Boyle has
represented national and international bodies including the Blackfoot
Nation (Canada), the Nation of Hawaii, and the Lakota Nation, as well as
numerous individual death penalty and human rights cases. He has advised
numerous international bodies in the areas of human rights, war crimes and
genocide, nuclear policy, and bio-warfare. From 1991 to 1992, Boyle served
as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace
Negotiations.”
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