Even if U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan ends the war in Gaza, the international campaign to delegitimize Israel and cast it as a pariah state akin to apartheid South Africa will surge ahead.
The battlegrounds are familiar: worldwide media, NGOs, universities, the European Union, the International Criminal Court and the United Nations and its judicial arm, the International Court of Justice. These forums routinely portray Israel as the last vestige of Western colonialism while romanticizing Palestinians as humanity’s archetypal victims.
South Africa’s genocide case against the State of Israel before the ICJ, and joined by several state intervenors , epitomizes this ideology. Likely financed by Iran and Qatar, South Africa alleges that Israel is guilty of humanity’s great