The Supreme Court of the Occupation
JVL Introduction
B’Tselem, Israel’s premier human-rights organisation, is uncompromising in its judgment: that the highest court in Israel has allowed the state to commit a war crime by allowing the expulsion of large numbers of Palestinian residents in the South Hebron hills.
We reported on this travesty of justice last month in The ongoing nakba: the destruction of the villages of Masafer Yatta with news from activist David Shulman of the Villagers Group.
This B’Tselem report complements that previous report, showing quite how outrageous this court decision is and exposes a series of errors, misrepresentations and outright lies in the judgment.
It concludes that not only have the justices allowed the state to commit a crime. In international law, knowing full well that the expected outcome of their decision is the expulsion of these residents, these justices are personally complicit in the crime.
This article was originally published by B'Tselem on Sun 29 May 2022. Read the original here.
The Supreme Court of the Occupation
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Open debate about Truth; Justice; Equality & Fairness in a Fascist State. Truly the triumph of optimism over reality.
This judgment is really not surprising. The Israeli Supreme Court is, despite Corbyn’s diplomatic praise for the separation of powers in Israel, nothing but a camarilla of lickspittles. Nonetheless we in the UK have no reason to be smug. Recent judgments from the UK’s senior judiciary, from the treatment of Assange to that of refugees, illustrates that the UK is heading fast in exactly the same direction. In times of economic crisis and heightened class conflict it was always thus, as some of us are old enough not to have forgotten.
However this does raise the question as to whether the large sums of money now being raised from ordinary people which are spent on the increasingly futile, if not quixotic, exercise of challenging the UK government or establishment in the courts, would not be far better spent by investing instead in coordinating the large number of disparate progressive online media and activist groups into nonsectarian information networks, with the aim of challenging the ruling class through multiple forms of direct action both online, in the workplace, and on the streets.