CROOKED COURT: President of UN’s ICJ – Who Ordered Israel to “Halt Rafah Op” – Has Long History of Hatred Toward the Jewish State

“Wickedness was in the court… I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.” – Ecclesiastes 3:16-17

“They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.” – Psalm 83:1-4

FOX News reports: The controversial ICJ (International Court of Justice) is not only facing severe criticism for its Friday order declaring that Israel must stop its military offensive in Rafah to root out Hamas, but also for the well-documented anti-Israel bias of the U.N. court’s presiding judge.

“Put simply, the U.N.’s highest legal body is a political tool of global antisemitism. The presiding judge in this case was ICJ President Nawaf Salam of Lebanon – a country that does not recognize Israel’s right to exist. The Islamic nation is home to the Hezbollah terrorists,” said Anne Bayefsky, director of Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust.

“In his spare time, he has tweeted such things as a meme directed toward Israel that read, ‘Unhappy birthday to you: 48 years of occupation.’ He’s a politician (a rabid anti-Israel politician) who’s been dressed up by the U.N. as a judge.”

Bayefsky, a legal expert on the U.N. who oversees Human Rights Voices, said, “And from where did his kangaroo Court get its facts in the case? Well, the United Nations, of course. An institution whose highest bodies – the Security Council, the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council – have an obvious hatred for Israel and have never even condemned Hamas terrorists and their October 7 atrocities.”

Orde Kittrie, senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, argued in a February Wall Street Journal opinion article that Salam’s political activism in Lebanon contributed to his bias against Israel and it violates ICJ rules. He wrote that the ICJ’s conflict-of-interest rules declare: “no judge may exercise any political function.”

Kittrie, a law professor at Arizona State University, also noted that the ICJ charter states that “no jurist may participate in the decision of any case in which he has previously taken part as an advocate or in any other capacity.”

Salam ran for prime minister of Lebanon in the last two elections and, as Kittrie wrote, was Lebanon’s U.N. ambassador from 2007 to 2017. Salam was routinely “denouncing and casting votes against Israel and their presence in ‘disputed’ territories,” wrote the legal expert.

In 2015, Salam tweeted, “Ending Israel’s occupation remains long overdue.”… (Continue reading)