I'm I'm Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Nora Erikaat.

With its roots in providing justification for European settler colonialism in the Americas,

can international law ever serve the cause of liberatory movements?

Is there a danger that in winning legal victories in forums such as the United Nations

and the International Court of Justice, that radical causes

such as the Palestine Liberation Movement can come to prioritise endorsement by prestigious

multilateral bodies at the expense of other and potentially more effective strategies.

And how strong are the respective cases of South Africa and Israel in their dispute at the ICJ,

and what is the legal, political and moral significance of the case that South Africa has brought?

Those are just some of the questions that Palestinian American legal scholar and human

rights attorney Nora Erakat addresses in today's episode.

By the time that you hear today's interview, the ICJ may have made its ruling

regarding the issuing of provisional measures in response to South Africa's contention that

Israel has broken the genocide convention in its murderous assault on Gaza. But I hope you'll

agree that the conversation remains highly relevant, regardless of what the court ultimately decides.

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Nora Erika is an associate professor at Rutgers University, specialising

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