Thursday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which co-airs on CNN International and government-funded PBS, was obsessed about South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, devoting over half an hour to the subject with two guests. Guest host Bianna Golodryga interviewed Brown University Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Omer Bartov, and also the former Israeli Consul General in New York, Alon Pinkas.
Guest professor Bartov, who signed an open letter criticizing Jews for invoking the Holocaust over the October 7 atrocities committed against Jews by Hamas, praised South Africa’s biased, hostile anti-Israel case, saying “the presentation was very powerful. And it made a strong case, at least for the need for such a distinguished body as ICJ to deliberate this case….”
Yet while Israeli politicians may say reckless things in the heat of…
