For her Friday show, MSNBC’s Joy Reid launched a wildly anti-American and anti-Israel segment where she could hardly contain her excitement that South Africa was “standing up” to the West at the International Court of Justice as it accuses Israel of genocide. Guest and HuffPost senior diplomatic correspondent Akbar Shahid Ahmed was even more wild as he suggested support for Israel was racist and its actions are akin to Russia’s.
While the ICJ did not dismiss the case as Israel wanted, Reid managed to acknowledge that it did not order Israel to stop its campaign, a move that led Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to portray the ruling as a win of sorts, but as Reid tells it South Africa came out the big winner, “Besides having major implications for Israelis and Palestinians, this is also a big moment for South Africa, and frankly, the Global South…
