Israel’s judge in The Hague is its government’s bogeyman
EVEN IN RETIREMENT Aharon Barak, a former president of Israel’s supreme court, remains a controversial figure. Binyamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government spent most of 2023 attempting to dismantle his constitutional legacy. Yet when asked to appoint a judge to join the panel of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing South Africa’s claim that Israel is committing genocide in its war in Gaza, it chose Mr Barak, Israel’s most renowned jurist.
