A federal court in California has ruled that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “plausibly” amounts to genocide, but dismissed a case aimed at stopping US military support for Israel as being outside the court’s jurisdiction.

“There are rare cases in which the preferred outcome is inaccessible to the court. This is one of those cases,” the US district court in the northern district of California ruled. “The court is bound by precedent and the division of our coordinate branches of government to abstain from exercising jurisdiction in this matter.

“Yet, as the ICJ [the international court of justice] has found, it is plausible that Israel’s conduct amounts to genocide,” the judge in the case, Jeffrey White, said in his ruling, in a case brought by Palestinian human rights groups and individual Palestinians against President Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary.

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    Interesting line from the ruling (page 4 of 9):

    Both the uncontroverted testimony of the Plaintiffs and the expert opinion proffered at the hearing on these motions as well as statements made by various officers of the Israeli government indicate that the ongoing military siege in Gaza is intended to eradicate a whole people and therefore plausibly falls within the international prohibition against genocide.

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      Bold that first part too. That’s based on uncontroverted testimony, expert opinions, and statements by the Israeli government. Kind of hard to argue against that.

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        “We didn’t say we were committing genocide, we said we were just killing everyone. Is that hard to understand?” 🤷

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      Golly gee, I wonder why Israel didn’t even bother showing up for this case that is completely out of jurisdiction and has no bearing on reality…

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        1 day old account spreading misinformation and propaganda. Nothing to see here, folks; just down vote and move on.

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            You’re right. You defending a state committing genocide on a people is a bad look. Not sure I’d call Israel terrorists yet, but I’ll let it slide.

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        Calling Biden an israeli politician wouldn’t be far off the truth. But rumors have it he’s residing somewhere in the US.