A motion that urged Ireland’s government to back South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was defeated in parliament on Wednesday. A motion introduced at the Dail, parliament’s lower house, by the Social Democrats with cross-party backing from Labour, Sinn Fein and People Before Profit was voted down by the governing coalition of Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Green Party. The motion had called for the Irish government to immediately and formally support South Africa’s charges of genocide against Israel as it wages war on the Gaza Strip. A governm…