ABSTRACT
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been characterized as a multifarious conflict, waged at the local, national and international levels, and through social, political, economic, diplomatic and other areas. Legal challenges to the barrier have proliferated through israel's Supreme court, resulting in changes to the routing of the barrier but not to the legitimacy of the barrier itself. A more controversial campaign on Israel's security barrier has been waged through the institutions of the United Nations, principally the International Court of Justice (ICJ) also known as the World Court. The ICJ provides advisory opinions only to specified United Nations bodies and agencies. Critics of the ICJ's advisory opinion have drawn parallels between the politicization of the ICJ and UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 passed on November 10, 1975, stating that "Zionism is Racism". The United Nations General Assembly passed a subsequent resolution on July 20, 2004 calling upon Israel to abide by the ICJ ruling.
