Not Our Salvation:: Israel, the Genocide Convention, and the World Court 1950–1951

Rotem Giladi

doi:10.1080/09592296.2015.1067525

Not Our Salvation: Israel, the Genocide Convention, and the World Court 1950–1951

Rotem Giladi

Faculty of Business and Law

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Abstract

Jewish individuals and organisations played a cardinal role in making and promoting the 1948 Genocide Convention. The early attitude of the Jewish state—established a few months before the Convention’s conclusion—has not hitherto been explored. This analysis reconstructs Israel’s involvement in the 1951 advisory proceedings at the International Court of Justice concerning the Convention. Based on Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives and Court records, it demonstrates that contrary to what scholarship on subsequent episodes assumes or implies, Israel had no particular attachment to, nor was it vested in, the Convention. Rather, its attitude ranged from indifference and disinterest to scepticism and hostility. It allowed Israeli diplomats to utilise the Convention as a means to affect other neither urgent nor imperative foreign policy ends.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	473-493
Journal	Diplomacy & Statecraft
Volume	26
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2015.1067525
Publication status	Published - 15 Sept 2015

Keywords

Genocide Convention
Raphael Lemkin
Israel-Foreign Relations
international law
Shabtai Rosenne
Jacob Robinson

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