ICJ Ruling: Zionist Israel is Now an Illegal Apartheid State

[Loofydralb]

Which basically renders the state as an illegal entity.

From here on, SG doing business with it will be implicated as complicit in genocide and aiding an apartheid illegal state.

 

[superpower]

ICJ: Israeli policies in occupied Palestine amount to apartheid, discrimination
Israel's decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories is illegal and needs to end "as rapidly as possible", the UN's top court said Friday.

The United Nations' highest court said that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are illegal and all states should cooperate to bring an end to Israel's war on Gaza, in an important advisory opinion issued on Friday.

The findings by judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), known as the World Court, are not binding but carry weight under international law and may weaken support for Israel.

"Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the regime associated with them, have been established and are being maintained in violation of international law," President Nawaf Salam said, reading the findings of a 15-judge panel.

The opinion said that Israel should pay reparations to Palestinians for damages caused by the occupation.

It also found that the UN Security Council, the General Assembly and all states have an obligation not to recognise the occupation as legal and not to give aid or support toward maintaining it.

https://www.newarab.com/news/icj-israel-policies-occupied-palestine-amounts-apartheid

 

[superpower]

The ruling is non-binding. Question is: will Singapore go along with it and isolate Israel and recognize the Palestinian state, or will the PAP continue to suck up to the Zionists?

---

Erwin van Veen, a senior research fellow at the Clingendael think tank in The Hague, said that if the court rules that Israel’s policies in the West Bank and east Jerusalem breach international law, that is unlikely to change Israeli policies but it would “isolate Israel further internationally, at least from a legal point of view.”

He said such a ruling would “worsen the case for occupation. It removes any kind of legal, political, philosophical underpinning of the Israeli expansion project.”

It would also strengthen the hand of “those who seek to advocate against it” — such as the grassroots Palestinian-led movement advocating boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel.

He said it also could increase the number of countries that recognize the state of Palestine, in particular in the Western world, following the recent example of Spain and Norway and Ireland.”