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Israel picks purported American rapist as defense lawyer at ICJ in Gaza case

Thursday, 04 January 2024 7:19 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 04 January 2024 7:59 PM ]

American lawyer Alan Dershowitz

A purported rapist lawyer will likely defend the Israeli regime at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague against allegations of genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip.

South Africa filed an 84-page suit against Israel at the ICJ on December 29, asking the top UN court to urgently declare that the regime has breached its responsibilities under international law since October 7, when it launched its genocidal campaign in Gaza.

Barak Ravid, the political reporter at Axios, has revealed that American lawyer Alan Dershowitz, 85, will likely defend the case for Israel.

“Israeli officials say [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu wants Alan Dershowitz to represent Israel at the @CIJ_ICJ hearing next week about South Africa’s accusation that it is conducting genocide in Gaza,” Ravid said on X.

Israeli officials say Netanyahu wants Alan Dershowitz to represent Israel at the @CIJ_ICJ hearing next week about South Africa's accusation that it is conducting genocide in Gaza. I called @AlanDersh who didn't deny and said: "I can't comment about it at this time"
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) January 2, 2024

Often referred to as Israel’s “attack dog,” Dershowitz in 2004 alleged that the top court was “founded” on discrimination, only because it had ruled that the Israeli-built “Separation Wall” was erected “contrary to international law.”

Dershowitz, among others, has defended sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. This is while a federal judge in New York last month ordered the identities of more than 150 people mentioned in court documents related to the crimes of Epstein to be released.

🚨 #AlanDershowitz is mentioned frequently (at least 137 times) and damningly in the Jeffrey #Epstein data dump and accused by Jane Doe #3 of sexual assault when she was a child.

📺 Dershowitz reacts by going on TV and demanding a list of all these “radical feminists” who pushed… pic.twitter.com/CUwnr40Z4R
— AHMED | أحمد (@ASE) January 4, 2024

One of the victims said Epstein trafficked her to Dershowitz for sex at least six times, beginning when she was only 16.

A long-time friend and advisor of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Dershowitz also defended convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, a disgraced Hollywood producer who was arrested and charged with rape in New York back in May 2018, and was finally found guilty of two of five felonies in February 2020.

The only rapist here is the lawyer defending Israel in genocide court #AlanDershowitz pic.twitter.com/XiQ92nr1Gc
— PVT (@hoaxvstruths) January 4, 2024

South Africa says Israel has violated its obligations under the Genocide Convention, stressing that it “has engaged in, is engaging in and risks further engaging in genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza.”