The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in 2024 after years of many asking it to take action, see below. On Tuesday, AP reports: “A sexual misconduct probe against ICC’s chief prosecutor says he engaged in ‘serious misconduct.’”
CRAIG MOKHIBER, [email protected], @CraigMokhiber
Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and activist and a former senior United Nations human rights official.
He posted today: “The decision by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties, a political body dominated by Western states and their allies, to suspend ICC Prosecutor Khan, despite the exculpatory findings of both the judicial panel that reviewed the case and the OIOS [Office of Internal Oversight Services] oversight body, can only be seen as just the latest step in a long campaign by the Israeli regime and its U.S. and other allies to obstruct, delay, and punish the prosecutor and the court for their attempts to hold Israeli regime perpetrators to account, and to send a message to judges and future prosecutors: ‘challenge the Israeli regime and we will crush you.’ The full Assembly must overturn this scandalous action and take concrete steps to protect the court and prosecutors from Israeli, U.S., and Western persecution. If they fail to do so, the still nascent ICC will wither and die on the vine, and with it, any hope of international criminal accountability in our time.” He has written a series of articles on U.S. and Israeli violations of international law, attacks on international courts, manipulations of the UN and methods of overcoming these moves.
JOHN QUIGLEY, [email protected]
Quigley and other legal scholars have long criticized the ICC for refusing to act on Israel as it prosecuted several African leaders and issued arrest warrants for Putin. Quigley was featured the IPA news release “‘At Long Last’ ICC Arrest Warrant Issued for Netanyahu” in 2024 — and on “ICC and Israel: Claims of Genocide and the Means to Stop It” in 2014 — which documents how the ICC falsified its jurisdiction to avoid taking action against Israel for years.
Professor emeritus of international law at Ohio State University, Quigley’s books include The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense, The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict, (both Cambridge University Press) and The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II.