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Sheman Kitener is the Martin Luther King Jr.

Professor of Law at the University of California at Davis. She is a leading international law authority and served

for a number of years at the State Department Legal Advisors Office.

She is the author of a lengthy piece today on law fair about South Africa's petition under the Genocide Convention against Israel in the International Court of Justice,

it is that rare thing, a sober and dispassionate look at a subject that has lots of people running around waving their hands in the air.

Shimen joined me in the virtual jungle studio to talk about the litigation, what South Africa's claim is under the

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