ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'

Julia Sebutinde, the Ugandan vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has said God "is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel" and the signs of the "end times" are "being shown in the Middle East". 

Early last year, Sebutinde was the only judge on a 17-member ICJ panel that ruled it was "plausible" that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, who voted against all six measures adopted by the court.

And in July 2024, she was again the sole dissenter when a 15-judge panel found that Israel's decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories was "unlawful". 

In February 2025, a study accused her of directly lifting sentences almost word for word in her dissenting opinion written on 19 July 2024.

It alleged that “at least 32 percent of Sebutinde’s dissent was plagiarised”. Sebutinde declined to comment on the controversy to MEE at the time.

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