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Lemkin's Funeral
Archive image: October 15, 2023; People rally in Melbourne in support of Palestine and in solidarity with the Palestinian people as the State of Israel continues its bombing attacks of Gaza, resulting in the killing of thousands of civilians and displacement of hundreds of thousands more - with no means of escape. (Source: Matt Hrkac via Flickr)

Analysis

Lemkin's Funeral

Raphael Lemkin coined genocide in 1944, got it into law in 1948, and died with seven people at his funeral in 1959. The ICJ's 15-2 order in South Africa v Israel proves he built something precise enough to apply — and a world too compromised to apply it. He built it anyway.

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