Searching for information on the International Court of Justice hearings yielded an Israel-sponsored ad calling the ongoing genocide hearing against it “meaningless.”
Israel is defending itself against allegations that its siege of Gaza is a genocide with Google search ads, in what appears to be a world first.
A Google search for the ongoing hearing against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) yielded an ad calling South Africa’s genocide case against it “meaningless” and linking to an Israeli government website for some users on Thursday. Motherboard viewed the ad, which appears above news coverage of the hearing being held in the Hague in the Netherlands. Google told Motherboard it reviewed the ad against its policies and did not take any action.
The ad was first noted on X when a user posted a screenshot of their Google search for “icj” which yielded a sponsored ad titled “Israel response to Hague ICJ” above the Google information panel for the ICJ. The ad includes subheadings of “October 7th: The Invasion” and “The North Border,” as well as survivor testimonies and resources.
Motherboard was not able to replicate the search using only the term “ICJ,” but was able to find the ad when searching “ICJ Israel.” The ad’s descriptive text reads in full, “SA’s claim is meaningless—the malicious blood libel advanced by South Africa seeks to slander the State of israel. South Africa’s claim lacks any factual or legal basis and renders meaningless.”
The ad links to the Israeli government website govextra.gov.il. The page lists information about Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack which killed 1,200 Israelis, and a video claims that “Israel is doing everything in its power to prevent harm to innocent civilians in Gaza and is acting according to international humanitarian law.”
Israel understands the first rule of international politics: you can do whatever you want so long as a global superpower has your back.
If the ICJ judges determine that Palestine is a victim of genocide (indeed), the same so-called global superpower, as one of the ratified members, is bound to stop Israel from committing further genocide on Palestinian people.
That so called global superpower would rather invade the ICJ than recognise such a ruling. Let’s be real here.
Am not even going to dignify that nonsense with a response.
Has the US ever respected an ICJ ruling against it?
- The US cannot purport to defy an ICJ ruling meant for Israel.
- The US cannot stop the other ratified nations from carrying out their sworn obligation to stop genocide under the international genocide convention.
- The US cannot stop the other ratified nations from carrying out their sworn obligation to stop genocide under the international genocide convention.
What you want here is a normative statement , not a descriptive one. In other words, yes the US can definitely prevent others from intervening against Israel. Whether they should is another matter.
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I think you are confusing the ICC with ICJ. Those are 2 different institutions.
America was happy enough to threaten one. What makes you think they won’t threaten the other?
What ifs don’t add anything to the argument.
Anyway, here’s to hoping other nations will do the right thing when the ICJ ruling is passed and hold all the financial supporters of genocide against Palestinians to account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members’_Protection_Act
You have some exciting learning to do! The above act, also known colloquially as the “Hague Invasion Act” gives the president power to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court”.
So it’s not nonsense to suggest the US would rather invade the ICJ than recognize such a ruling.
Hold on there, the ICJ is not a country you can invade!
And as I said earlier, ICC & ICJ are 2 different institutions.
Do you think such technical arguments are relevant to the question of whether the USA will abide by an ICJ ruling?
They have no choice and let me remind you once again, the U.S is not the only powerful country that has signed the genocide convention treaty.
Hague Invasion Act. I think an NPC like you has the bare minimum capability to search and read about it.
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Yeah, guessed it. You stink of the shit beneath US government boots.
You should probably stop and think if South Africa is telling you that you are doing something fucked up.
“Don’t investigate because there is nothing wrong being done there, I swear” - Israel probably
“Israel is doing everything in its power to prevent harm to innocent civilians in Gaza and is acting according to international humanitarian law.”
:ScepticalThor: Really? Because that’s really not how that’s coming across here.
“Everything in its power” would literally mean not bombing or shooting anyone and supplying each of them with anything they might need that could prevent harm (food, water, shelter, medical services,…), regardless of consequences.
Totally not propaganda.
you wouldn’t steal a country
“It’s not stealing if the owner’s dead.” -Museums
i think that’s the official motto of the british museum
Is that a joke or that’s actually the official name.
Granted, they’ve yet to find Palestinians which they deem “innocent”…
The Israeli government is like a sociopath trying to act normal around people.They really think google ads will make people emphatise with them?
Lol I have a google ads account and they literally sent out a terms of service outling how this is against the terms of service, but I guess its fine if you support israel, disgusting.
I’ve been getting tons of pro-Israel ads since the war started. Mostly YouTube ads.
The narrative is literally all they have.
https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-social-media-opinion-hamas-war/
Israel spent something like $7 million on google ads as of November 2023. Considering that Palestine doesn’t have a PR campaign (or even electricity, or even drinking water…) we can see that the truth does shine through, and hopefully justice will be realized before too many more people die.
This is just morbid.
You guys are a bunch of Hamas supporters and antisemites, how dare you question the actions of the “only democracy in the middle East”? /s
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