Over 200 Members sign up with bipartisan letter to Biden Administration. Smith, Manning lead letter knocking South Africa’s grossly unproven genocide allegation versus Israel
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Washington, Jan 23, 2024– In a letter today to United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Kathy Manning (D-NC), Co-Chairs of the House Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, led 208 fellow Members of Congress in knocking the hostile genocide claims imposed by South Africa versus Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
“South Africa has actually submitted a grossly unproven case versus Israel at the International Court of Justice, implicating Israel of genocide and asking the court to purchase Israel to right away stop its military efforts in Gaza,” the 210 legislators composed. “We compose to you to reveal our disgust at this filing, which commits incorrect and harmful accusations versus the Jewish state.”
Supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Smith-Manning letter prompts the Biden Administration “to use Israel all proper assistance in opposing the South African application to the ICJ, and to motivate our allies to join us in speaking up versus this unproven attack on Israel, especially at the United Nations and in other intergovernmental companies.”
“While hardly acknowledging the Hamas terrorists who happily massacred, mutilated, raped, and abducted innocent civilians on October 7, South Africa makes grossly unproven and defamatory charges versus Israel on the world phase, abusing the judicial procedure in order to delegitimize the democratic State of Israel,” continued the legislators, keeping in mind the allegation was especially negative provided the term “genocide” was created following the murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
“We intensely knock South Africa’s deeply hostile position towards Israel and completely decline its charge of genocide,” the legislators composed to Blinken.
Smith, who has actually chaired 15 congressional hearings to expose and fight antisemitism, is the author of the law that developed the Office to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism at the United States State Department, in addition to the law that developed ambassadorial-level management of the battle versus antisemitism abroad. Smith likewise functions as Co-Chair of the Israel Allies Caucus together with Reps. Brad Sherman (D-CA), Doug Lamborn (R-CO), and Brad Schneider (D-IL)– all of whom likewise guaranteed the letter.
“I thank my associates from both celebrations who joined me in asking the Biden Administration to support Israel as it reacts to this scurrilous abuse of the International Court,” stated Smith. “Anyone acquainted with the legal meaning of genocide and the requirements established around it will comprehend that South Africa’s petition is absolutely nothing more than a workout in disparagement. I hope numerous other federal governments join us in knocking this abuse of the ICJ procedure.”
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