Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister, tweeted:This court does not seek justice, but rather the persecution of the Jewish people. Decisions that endanger the continued existence of the state of Israel must not be listened to. The concepts of “crimes against humanity” and “genocide” were created by a Jewish law professor, Raphael Lemkin. Its whole national identity is intertwined with the Holocaust, just as South’s Africa’s is indivisible from apartheid. There will be many in Israel who dismiss the ruling as another sign of the antisemitic nature of the UN, an organisation it has loathed for decades.'

Source: The Guardian January 26, 2024 18:58 UTC