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NORMAN FINKELSTEIN’S NEW BOOK- ICJ PRESIDENT JULIA SEBUTINDE GUILTY OF WHOLESALE PLAGIARISM 

February 3, 2025

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NEW BOOK REVEALS 
ICJ PRESIDENT JULIA SEBUTINDE GUILTY OF WHOLESALE PLAGIARISM 
ONLY BRIBERY OR BLACKMAIL CAN EXPLAIN SEBUTINDE’S WHITEWASHING OF ISRAEL 
News broke yesterday of plagiarism by president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Julia Sebutinde. 
In July last year, the ICJ issued an advisory opinion that found Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories to be “unlawful.” 
Judge Sebutinde issued a dissenting opinion in support of Israel that subverted the overwhelming international legal consensus. 
A report in Middle East Eye points to three instances in Justice Sebutinde’s dissent where the ICJ president appears to have lifted sentences directly from a paper by a key official in the administration of George W. Bush. 
In fact, as explosive new findings by renowned Middle East researcher and analyst Norman Finkelstein demonstrate, the problem with Sebutinde’s judgment runs much deeper. 
Finkelstein documents that no less than 32% of Sebutinde’s dissenting opinion has been directly lifted from publications by notorious apologists for Israel. 
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Finkelstein sets out, in painstaking detail, why the anomalies, errors, and legal contortions in Sebutinde’s dissent could have only resulted from either bribery or blackmail by the Israeli government. 
The problem with Judge Sebutinde, according to Finkelstein’s research, is not just that she’s an unprofessional judge but that the president of the highest judicial body in the world is in thrall to a foreign power. 
The full details of Finkelstein’s allegations against Sebutinde appear in a forthcoming book, Gaza’s Gravediggers: An inquiry into corruption in high places, copies of which will be available from OR Books in June 2025. 
Finkelstein received his doctorate from the Princeton University Department of Politics and has established himself, after decades of groundbreaking research, as the world’s leading “forensic scholar.” 
Among those whose falsehoods have been exposed by his research are Joan Peters, Daniel Goldhagen, Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Benny Morris. 
Professor John Dugard, who served on the UN’s International Law Commission, has described Finkelstein as “probably the most serious scholar on the conflict in the Middle East.”  
For more information about Norman Finkelstein’s exposé of ICJ president Julia Sebutinde and to interview him, please contact publicity@orbooks.com