Long Reads: Israel on Trial w/ John Reynolds
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🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
At least 26,000 people are now estimated to have been killed by Israel’s war on Gaza, although the real figure is believed to be even higher. The main legal challenge to Israel’s war has come from South Africa at the International Court of Justice. The court published its first response to the South African case on Friday, January 26th.
John Reynolds, professor of law at Maynooth University and author of Empire, Emergency, and International Law, joined Long Reads the day of the court response to discuss the case.
Read John's Jacobin essay, coauthored with Noura Erakat, about South Africa’s submission to the ICJ: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/south-africa-icj-isarel-gaza
Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by features editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you're very welcome to Long Reed's a Jacobin podcast where we look in depth |
| 0:05.9 | at political topics and thinkers. My name's Daniel Finn and the features editor |
| 0:10.7 | here at Jacobin and I'll be presenting the show. At least 26,000 people |
| 0:16.5 | are now estimated to have been killed by Israel's war on Gaza, although the real figure is |
| 0:22.1 | believed to be even higher. |
| 0:24.0 | On January 22nd, Al Jazeera carried this report on Israel's latest offensive in Khan Yunus. |
| 0:31.0 | Her daughter is dead, but she cannot let go. |
| 0:37.0 | You will not take her from me, she says. As Israel's war continues, they injured are brought to overwhelmed hospitals. |
| 0:50.0 | Gaza is now filled with the displaced. |
| 0:54.0 | Palestinians have had to move multiple times during this war in an attempt to stay safe. |
| 0:59.0 | We were forced to leave our home and took shelter at Nassar Hospital, |
| 1:05.0 | Danalaxa University compound. We ended up here in this tent. |
| 1:09.0 | We used wood fire to bake bread and cook what we can get our hands on. |
| 1:14.6 | This winter is fiercely cold. |
| 1:16.7 | This is not even a proper tent. |
| 1:20.4 | The constant bombing, the unprecedented destruction and the relentless killing. |
| 1:24.4 | Palestinians are left to assess the damage inflicted upon them. |
| 1:27.8 | This is Israel's policy of collective punishment to all the family members of any resistance fighter carrying out an operation. |
| 1:37.1 | Property is not more precious than a human soul. |
| 1:40.3 | Compared to Gaza and the Gazans, we are in a better situation. |
| 1:45.0 | The main legal challenge to Israel's war has come from South Africa at the International Court of Justice. |
| 1:51.0 | The court published its first response to the South African case on Friday, January 26th, allowing the case to proceed. |
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