Whether or not anything comes from the International Criminal Court or International Court of Justice remains to be seen, but what has been done with these institutions is destigmatize the act of leveling criticism against the state of Israel, criticizing Israeli society; Israel's rampage being livestreamed and frequently archived has permanently tarnished its reputation within the West. The act of enabling genocide has denigrated the legitimacy of the US and its allies.
The state of Israel has severely diminished its credibility as self-appointed papacy of the Jewish faith and aegis of the Jewish people.
What this horror has proved is how direct action by activists impacts policy decisions in the private sector and challenges the state for good or ill to take action. Repression and capitulation by state and capital - and not through electoral politics - sheds light to myth that elections and electioneering - abdication of power through delegation - is a farce; this exposition radicalizes the young and heritors of society.
Though I can't cite when or where Ilan Pappe said this, but he noted that Israel is approaching or in the next stage of BDS. Divestment.
What I think all of this would amount to is further castration of liberalism's capacity to manage social and class antagonisms; the state will lean into further escalation of force with greater frequency.
Our democracy, already an extant rotating dictatorship, will punish dissidents across the mainstream with closing parity as it has with internally colonized and preexisting second-class citizens.
(I was OP! :D )
the worldnews thread on this article is a cesspit of genocide apologia.
It's clearly and openly dishonest. The Isreali ministers of government, including the Prime Minister and President of Israel, were openly announcing their intent not one day after October 7th of their desire to ethnically cleanse and destroy Palestine and Gaza as a polity and a people.
Any proof showing the death, suffering, starvation, and ruination of Gazan Palestinians is Hamas propaganda according to them.
I want to believe most of these are bots or paid posters, but I can absolutely believe there is a multitude of just depraved and cruel white supremacists of different flavors.