Tag: International Criminal Court
Israel faces an uncertain path in the wake of the ICC arrest warrants
For the past several months Israel has been fighting on multiple fronts, however, one of the war's most critical theaters has increasingly been not Lebanon or Gaza, but The Hague. Anti-Israel activists have been...
Khamenei: ICC should sentence Netanyahu to death
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Monday to issue a death sentence against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not an arrest warrant.
Speaking before a...
Israeli politicians condemn ICC warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant
Israeli politicians from across the political spectrum condemned the International Criminal Court’s decision on Thursday to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar...
South Africa files genocide case against Israel at UN court
South Africa on Monday submitted to the United Nations’ top court its “main case” against Israel, arguing that the Jewish state is intending to commit a genocide in Gaza.
“Undergirding Israel’s genocidal acts is the...
UNRWA is a front for terrorism
A bill to outlaw any dealing with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is supposed to come up for a vote in the Knesset at the end...
A call for global action
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) recently issued an “advisory opinion” on the “legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories,” advising that Israel has effectively annexed parts of the historical, ancient and biblical...
ICC’s request for arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant reportedly hurt US, UK support
The decision by the International Criminal Court prosecutor ahead of his staff’s planned visit to the Jewish state to request arrest warrants for top Israeli officials has reportedly “harmed operational cooperation” with Washington and...
International law is not the problem
There is much room to improve international law in order to deal with terrorism and the use of force by non-state actors. But that is not essential to fighting terrorism. The law matters but is not...
Give ICC prosecutor ‘taste of own medicine,’ senators tell US attorney general
Four Republican senators are urging Merrick Garland, the U.S. attorney general, to investigate the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, whom they accused of having “broken American law by materially supporting terrorism through his unjust and unjustified targeting...
Netanyahu: Israel has ‘no better friend’ than Sen. Lindsey Graham
The Jewish state has no truer friend than Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the visiting U.S. lawmaker during a tête-à-tête at his office in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
“We have no better friend, and...