A federal judge declared on Wednesday that Israel is plausibly engaging in genocide in Gaza and implored the Biden administration to reconsider its “unflagging support” for Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.

The comments came in a ruling in response to a lawsuit that accused President Joe Biden and senior administration officials of complicity in and failure to prevent Israel’s genocidal acts, as required by both international and U.S. law. The Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal organization, filed the lawsuit on behalf of two Palestinian human rights organizations and Palestinians in Gaza and in the United States.

The judge, Jeffrey S. White of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, dismissed the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds —citing legal doctrine that prevents the judiciary from interfering in matters of foreign policy. But his strong-worded statement is unprecedented, as was his unusual decision to allow more than three hours of testimony from Palestinian plaintiffs during a powerful hearing last week, including a doctor calling into court from a Gaza hospital hallway.

During that hearing, which took place in Oakland just hours after the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled that Israel had plausibly engaged in genocide in Gaza, White described the case as the “most difficult” of his career.

“It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza, but it [is] also this Court’s........

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