Guardian AGAIN corrects lie about ICJ genocide ruling

Last week, we posted about a Guardian book review written by anti-Zionist, terror supporting academic Avi Shlaim.

The review, of Omer Bartov’s book Israel: What Went Wrong, not only endorsed the author’s genocide libel, but – straight out of the antizionist propaganda playbook, which dismisses Jewish peoplehood and indigeneity in the Land of Israel as a fabrication – called Israel a “settler colonial state”.

While we refuted this ahistorical agitprop in our post, there would be no chance of convincing editors to correct Shlaim’s anti-Zionist academic jargon, as it’s used frequently at the outlet. But, we did complain about a clear factual error in the piece – one that they’ve corrected four previous times following communication with CAMERA UK: the claim that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel was “plausibly” committing genocide.

The international court of justice in The Hague found that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza and ordered Israel to take a series of measures to stop it.

However, the ICJ narrowly ruled that “there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide“. The court did not rule on the merits of the genocide charge itself.