Sunday, December 21, 2025
Elder of Ziyon.jpg)
In the wake of Egypt's $35 billion deal to buy natural gas from Israel, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese tweeted:
Egypt can say what it wants but purchasing $35bn of gas from Israel violates int'l law, including the ICJ advisory opinion of 2024, and is, honestly, an incredible sign of support to Israel during the genocide of the Palestinians.States must stop placing profits above humanity.
The ICJ case she is referring to is an advisory opinion which means it is not binding international law, and she knows it.
But even if it were, it doesn't say what she claims it says.
Paragraph 279 of the opinion, which she is basing her statement on, says:
[T]he Court considers that, in view of the character and importance of the rights and obligations involved, all States are under an obligation not to recognize as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. They are also under an obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Every normal international lawyer interprets this as not supporting settlement activity or other Israeli activities in the territories. In no way does this opinion say that any trade with Israel is illegal - but Albanese does.
In fact, and she has said this, she believes that the ruling says that all states must cease all diplomatic relations with Israel. Outside of crazed BDS pseudo-lawyers, she is the only person who believes that this is what the opinion calls for.
In fact, the ICJ explicitly says in the previous paragraph that it insists on states "distinguishing dealings with Israel between its own territory and the Occupied Palestinian Territory." This means that dealings with Israel, and certainly with Israeli gas in the Mediterranean that have nothing to do with any claimed Palestinian territory, are perfectly legal.
Albanese is trying to pretend the UN just made state-level and UN-level BDS international law. No serious legal scholar agrees with her.
It is simply a manifestation of her antisemitism.
|
"He's an Anti-Zionist Too!" cartoon book (December 2024) PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism (February 2022) |
 |
Buy
