Opinion: South Africa's triumph signals shift in the imperial global order

In an opinion piece for Middle East Eye, Johannesburg-based strategist and former diplomat Zeenat Adam argues that South African triumph at the ICJ signals a shift in the "imperial global order". 

She writes: "South Africa's valiant move to invoke the Genocide Convention at the highest global judicial organ and its momentous triumph bears an incredible shift in the imperial global order, with growing persistent defiance of oppression and supremacy.

This global awakening has come at an immense cost to Palestinians, who have been subjected to unrelenting bombings, deliberate starvation and the inhumanity and indignity of a genocidal holocaust.

Symbolically, having a country that emerged from colonialism and the brutal crime of apartheid leading the case bears tremendous weight, a decision that was not taken lightly."

You can read the full column below. 

Opinion: South Africa's triumph bears an incredible shift in the imperial global order