African Women Refuse to Join the Lynch Mob Against Israel

UN Special Advisor Alice Wairimu Nderitu, ICJ Justice Julia Sebutinde stand on principle

On Monday, November 25, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board published a piece entitled The U.N’s Anti-Israel ‘Genocide’ Purge. In it, they explain that United Nations Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu of Kenya will not have her contract renewed. Why? She will not call Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza a genocide. From the Jewish Press:

In a 2022 paper, Nderitu explains that the term “genocide” was coined in 1944 by Jewish-Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin to describe massacres of entire ethnic groups with the intention of eliminating them, following the Holocaust.

“As a legal matter, establishing a pattern of violence as a genocide requires demonstrating intent. Israel’s campaign of self-defense doesn’t qualify. The war against Hamas has had many deaths, but Israel’s strategy is intended to dismantle a terrorist regime, not eliminate an ethnic group,” the WSJ noted.

Last summer on IBSI’s Forum on Israel, Africa, and Black America, Senior Staff member Olga Meshoe Washington explained how Justice Julia Sebutinde of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) also refused to condemn Israel unlawfully. Justice Sebutinde is from Uganda.

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to the world’s (soon-to-be) largest and fastest-growing Christian population. According to Pew Research, Africa is also home to the world’s most committed Christians, the vast majority of whom are supporters of the Jewish state of Israel. Yet, these facts are not what either woman cited in their decisions regarding Israel. They simply operated with integrity, applied principles, and resisted the growing Israel-hatred and antisemitism that pressured them to conform.

In the biblical story (Exodus chapter 1), the Egyptian Pharaoh commanded the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, to kill every Hebrew baby boy after he was born. The women refused to carry out the evil plan and God blessed them for their courage. UN Special Advisor Nderitu and ICJ Justice Sebutinde are modern-day Hebrew midwives who will not go along with the evil plans to attack and destroy Israel. What’s more, it is the women’s commitment to truth that guides them, not a pro-Israel sentiment. This is further proof that defending Israel’s right to exist and defeat its enemies is synonymous with defending the truth.

This is the right side of history.