Scandal: ICJ Acting President Julia Sebutinde Accused of Plagiarizing Pro-Israel Statement
February 5, 2025Fresh allegations have emerged of Julia Sebutinde, acting president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), appearing to plagiarise large sections of her dissenting opinion on Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Last month, Sebutinde, who arguably holds the most prestigious judicial position, was accused of directly lifting sentences almost word for word in her dissenting opinion written on 19 July.
A study seen by Middle East Eye compiled by Majd Abuamer, a Palestinian researcher at the Doha Institute, for an upcoming book by US scholar Norman Finkelstein has now alleged that “at least 32 percent of Sebutinde’s dissent was plagiarised”.
The research will be presented as part of a chapter in Finkelstein’s upcoming book Gaza Gravediggers, which will be published in June.
Last July, a 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”.
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