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I'm Amy Goodman.

The International Court of Justice has announced it's delivering an interim ruling on Friday

in South Africa's genocide case against Israel.

South Africa's asked the court to impose a number of emergency measures including ordering a halt to

Israel's assault on Gaza.

This comes as a new poll in the United States shows more than a third of Americans now believe Israel is

committing genocide against the Palestinians. We're joined right now in part two of our

discussion with Mahmoud Mandani.

He's a professor of government at Columbia University

who specializes in the study of colonialism.

He is author of numerous books, including most recently, neither Settler nor Native.

He was previously a professor and director of the Center for African Studies at the University

of Cape Town in South Africa.

Thanks so much for staying with us, Professor Mamdani.

Can you give us a preview?

It's not really a preview because the arguments already took place at the Hague,

around South Africa's genocide case against Israel.

Can you talk about the significance of this?

Well, the South African case has a strong side and a weak side. The strong side is its content, its substance and that is based almost entirely from what I can see on UN documents.

So the court is not going to question

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