Krystal Ball

Krystal Ball   (broadcaster)
Born	24 November 1981
Alma mater	University of Virginia
Member of	New Leaders Council
Interest of	Buck Sexton
American progressive political commentator.  Host of Breaking Points In office June 2021 - Present Co-hosts with Saagar Enjeti  Host of the webcast Rising In office 2018 - May 2021 Employer The Hill Co-hosted with "former" spooks Buck Sexton and Saagar Enjeti  Host of The Cycle In office June 25, 2012 - July 31, 2015 Employer MSNBC

Krystal Marie Ball is an American progressive political commentator who hosts the US news and opinion series Breaking Points.

Career

Krystal Ball was previously a political candidate, as well as a television host at MSNBC, a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and was a former co-host of The Hill's Rising along with Saagar Enjeti. In May 2021, Ball and Enjeti announced that they were leaving the show in order to release their own independent project – titled Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar.

Ball is also currently a co-host with Kyle Kulinski on the progressive podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends. She has made guest appearances on various programs and networks, including on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

Democrat candidate

Krystal Ball was the Democratic Party nominee for Congress in Virginia's 1st congressional district in the 2010 election, losing to Republican incumbent Rob Wittman. She co-hosted the MSNBC show The Cycle from June 2012 to July 2015. In May 2017, she created the People's House Project, a political action committee working on behalf of Democratic causes.

Young Progressive Leader

She was recruited, trained and promoted as a young progressive leader by the New Leaders Council.

Genocide in Gaza

Krystal Ball BREAKS DOWN Israel's genocide defence

In a Breaking Points program on 13 January 2024, Krystal Ball dissected Israel's defence to the charge of genocide in the case brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

A commentator responded:

Thanks for covering these points. I'm an international lawyer and just wanted to add a couple of points (sorry in advance for my poor English).

As you said, Israel's claims were no surprise for those who have been following how its politicians were trying to cover the atrocities in Gaza. And South Africa was very well aware of these claims made by Israel, so they were very smart about it when writing their application, and anticipated pretty much everything.

In a way, you can read the whole application as a response to the claims Israel made, which makes the whole case reversed. So, the irony is that Israel were making all these points today, but they were not really answering South Africa's claims, they were just repeating their PR nonsense upon which South Africa built its case. South Africa already answered most of Israel's claims before they even had a chance to present them in front of the Court. You can clearly start by watching Israel's "defence" first, then watch the South Africa hearings, and you would think they are just destroying Israel's claims - they anticipated it very well. And there's a reason why Israel couldn't make a real response / defence: they only have their PR nonsense, and when someone (in this case South Africa) destroys this nonsense (as in the application), Israel doesn't have any other argument but to repeat that nonsense, over and over, with a few nuances every time.

Now, on the procedural points, if we really want to look at this case on a scholarly perspective, one could write a thesis on the kind of legal technicalities that were claimed by Israel. I actually work in a Court (not the ICJ of course), and what I can say is that, in such a case, i.e. provisional measures, where the stakes are so high, and the matter is so urgent, as long as the application is not clearly inadmissible, the Judges don't go too deep with the technicalities, and I don't think the ICJ will try to avoid its competence with this claim of "non dispute".

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