Abstract The ongoing violence in Gaza is upending one reigning liberal exceptionalist justification after another. A poignant illustration of this is Judge ad hoc Aharon Barak’s dissenting opinion on the provisional measures requested by South Africa in its suit against Israel in the International Court of Justice for breaching the Genocide Convention. In his dissent, Barak illustrated his experience as a Holocaust survivor in Lithuania in a manner unusually personal as a matter of judicial opinion. This, I argue, reveals the stark limits of the Continue reading → Continue reading →