“In this one instance, Palestinians are able to overcome the enormous asymmetry that exists between Israelis and Palestinians, just for this fleeting moment,” said Khaled Elgindy, director of the Program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs at the Middle East Institute, a research group in Washington. The accusation, laid out in South Africa’s 84-page application to the court last month, cites incendiary statements by Israeli officials that it says “constitute clear direct and public incitement to genocide, which has gone unchecked and unpunished”. Israel’s defence team presented its defence to the court on Friday, a day after South Africa’s lawyers presented...