Want to fight Jew-hate, Dems? Reject the ICC’s – Latest News
If Democrats ever care to show they really do stand in opposition to antisemitism, they’ll offer some plan of motion for standing up in opposition to the ethical stain on the Western world that’s the International Criminal Court.
Senate Democrats weeks in the past used the filibuster to kill a invoice sanctioning the ICC for its morally hideous arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense chief Yoav Gallant.
The ICC warrant is predicated on completely specious allegations of battle crimes introduced over Israel’s authentic self-defense in its multi-front battle with Iran and its proxies — a wrestle for existence.
It’s a blood libel, in different phrases, and any American elected severely curious about combating Jew-hate would begin there.
That Sen. Chuck Schumer, the self-described shomer (Hebrew for “guardian”) of the Jewish state, performed stage supervisor in killing the invoice is doubly shameful.
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Beyond its propaganda worth, the warrant has real-world influence: It required Netanyahu, on a latest US journey, to fly a circuitous collection of detours, to be sure he may safely land in case he needed medical consideration.
That’s as a result of many of the 27 European Union nations back this sick weaponization of worldwide law in opposition to Israel.
Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovenia and Spain say they’ll implement the arrest warrant if Bibi touches their territory; France, Germany and Italy are noncommittal.
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Ironically, solely Hungary — the final EU bête noire of the fashionable left — has expressly rejected the ICC.
Meanwhile, American Democrats (with a handful of exceptions, like Pennsylvania’s Sen. John Fetterman) speak countless speak on Jew-hate however refuse to stroll the stroll.
Having shot down the Republican bid to finish the obscene charade round the ICC’s legitimacy, Democrats have a clear ethical responsibility to offer their own reply to the injustice.
Unless, that’s, they need to admit that, when it comes to who runs their occasion, the antisemites have already gained.
