Israel, before international courts. Two processes underway are trying to determine whether a genocide is being committed in Gaza.

Israel attended the first public hearing motivated and outraged by the accusation of genocide, but did not deign to appear at the second. Palestine has become the touchstone of the United Nations system and international law. There is no way to justify this increasingly visible and stark double standard without being ashamed. Only the most tyrannical regimes can rejoice in such impotence, writes Shmuley Boteach.