Delyani: ICJ judge turns the sanctity of the judiciary into overt loyalty to a genocidal state

Dimitri Delyani, a member of the Revolutionary Council and spokesperson for the Democratic Reform Current in the Fatah movement, said: “When a judge at the highest international court stands on a public platform to declare, ‘God is counting on me to stand with Israel,’ the judicial positions that follow become saturated with Zionist ideology rather than the spirit of justice or the authority of international law.” He added that the remarks of the vice‑president of the International Court of Justice, Julia Sebutinde, have stripped her office of any judicial neutrality and turned her position into a platform to justify the continued Israeli crimes of genocide against our Palestinian people.

The Fatah leader explained that the gravity of Sebutinde’s statements does not stop at blatant bias, but is reflected in her decisions as the sole judge who rejected all six provisional measures the Court adopted in South Africa’s case against the Israeli genocidal state. Those measures were aimed at stopping the genocide, ensuring the delivery of humanitarian assistance, and preserving evidence of war crimes from Israeli tampering. According to Delyani, this refusal was not a legal interpretation so much as an expression of a politically aligned stance favoring the occupying state, grounded in an ideological basis.

He added that the scandal deepens with a careful review of the texts of Sebutinde’s opinions that diverged from the rest of the Court, showing that 32% of the wording of her opinions was copied verbatim from Zionist propaganda platforms such as the Virtual Jewish Library and PragerU, without any reliance on academic sources or judicial precedents. This amounts to introducing Israeli propaganda into the core of UN judicial discourse, damaging the standing of the International Court of Justice and undermining its prestige.

Delyani concluded by stressing that the integrity of the international judiciary is facing a decisive test: Sebutinde’s continued presence in her post could provide judicial cover for the Israeli genocidal state and obstruct the possibility of holding it accountable and securing justice for Palestine, which he said is confronting the most bloody criminal project of the modern era.