The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes committed in Gaza. As a result, the two will be unable to travel to at least 124 countries.
The recent UN General Assembly vote on the illegality of the Israeli occupation shows Israeli impunity is no longer guaranteed and the foundations of Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid have begun to crumble.
A vote this week in the U.N. General Assembly provided decisive global pushback against the U.S. and Israeli war on international law.
Basic morality and simple logic dictate that the right of self-defense belongs to the Palestinian people, not to their oppressor. And international law agrees.
Western media companies have made themselves a part of the mechanism of genocide in Palestine, and there are historical precedents for holding them accountable.
The ICJ’s authoritative ruling on the Israeli occupation makes clear that boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli occupation, colonization, and apartheid are not only a moral imperative but also a legal obligation.
The ICJ’s ruling that international law protects the rights of Palestinians, and they need not negotiate with their oppressors for those rights, dealt a definitive blow to decades of Western efforts to situate Israel outside the reach of the law.
Craig Mokhiber discusses the importance and impact of the International Court of Justice’s ruling that the Israeli occupation of Palestine is illegal.
Yumna Patel talks to Hassa Ben Imran from Law for Palestine, and Dave Reed speaks with Spencer Ackerman about the “bombshell” ICC indictments of Israeli leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
The current American threats to sanction the ICC could spell the death of International Law. Whatever little hope people had for a just international system will disappear.