ICJ president accused of plagiarism in dissenting opinion on Israeli occupation
Julia Sebutinde, the current president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has been accused of plagiarising parts of her dissenting views in the court's advisory opinion on the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
In July last year, the 15-judge panel found that Israel's decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories was "unlawful", and that its "near-complete separation" of people in the occupied West Bank breached international laws concerning "racial segregation" and "apartheid".
While the opinion was agreed upon by most of the judges, Sebutinde rejected the findings of the court, stating that the case should be settled through negotiations between the parties.
At least three sentences from her dissent appear to be lifted, almost word for word, from an article published in December 2021 by Douglas J Feith in the Hudson Institute.