The Netherlands-based ICC’s indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes happened on Monday.
The Netherlands-based International Criminal Court on Monday exposed itself as a deeply antisemitic and politicized institution that ignores facts and jurisdiction to conduct lawfare against democracies that defend themselves against terrorism. American policy should now turn toward pressuring allies to defund this kangaroo court and imposing financial sanctions to grind its operations to a halt.
In effect, the ICC has joined an Iran-led axis as a partner in a multi-front war to destroy the one Jewish state – all under cover of international law. In a perverse game of public relations, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan packaged the Israeli indictments alongside charges against the terrorist leaders of Hamas – an attempt to look even-handed while creating a false moral equivalency between bloodthirsty terrorist organizations and democratic governments.
Today the target is Israel. Tomorrow, however, it might be the United States. Like Israel, the US is not a member of the ICC and is a democracy with a respected system for self-accountability. The threat to the United States from the ICC isn’t hypothetical. Washington faces an active ICC investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. Defending Israel from the ICC’s lawfare now will help protect American soldiers and government officials down the road.
Tragically, it took only 79 years for Europe to become a place where Jews are put on trial for fighting Nazis. That Japan and Germany are the top donors to the institution perpetrating this abomination should be jarring. That the United Kingdom and France are the next two top donors should be nauseating. No democracy can call itself an ally of the United States and fund antisemitic lawfare against Israel that invites future lawfare against America, too.
The ICC should not be dismissed as symbolic or a joke. The institution is misusing law as a weapon of war, and the United States should act accordingly.
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