Juveriah Alam takes a look at the hysterical and unhinged Zionist response to the totally justified arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders by the International Criminal Court yesterday.
The international criminal lawyer, Tayab Ali, has stated that yesterday’s arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant are “the most significant ruling in the history of international humanitarian law. The ICC just smashed Israel’s decade long impunity to pieces.”
With the same sentiment, the Independent Alliance in Parliament wrote to the Prime Minister regarding the “historic decision” from the ICC and demanded that he “immediately welcome the ICC’s arrest warrants” and enforce them.
This is undeniably a crucial development – for the first time the Palestinian cause is witnessing a small measure of justice in its favour. However, since Elon Musk’s Twitter exposes us all to the most ultra-Zionist commentators around, we have also had to endure an epic, large-scale, Zionist meltdown in real time.
The initial wailing, primarily from various U.S .Republican senators, ranged from trying to discredit the highest criminal court in the world to attacking ICC prosecutor Karim Khan himself.
The ICC has been labelled a “kangaroo court,” “absurd,” “irresponsible” and “a dangerous joke” while those spouting these irrational smears have called for U.S .sanctions against the ICC itself.
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Karim Khan himself has been called “corrupt” and “a deranged fanatic.” Indeed, the saying “every Zionist accusation is a confession” has never been so clearly illustrated on such a scale.
Perhaps they feel that America is next – and like a character from an Edgar Allan Poe story, their frantic words only draw attention to their murderous guilt.
Our very own Priti Patel called the decision “concerning and provocative” and urged the Labour government to condemn and challenge it. The Board of Deputies of British Jews called the ICC’s decision to arrest the Israeli officials “counter-productive” in respect of “defeating Hamas.”
The reaction from the “useful idiot” Arab Zionists did not disappoint. In true “coconut” fashion, they discarded their dignity and passionately joined in the meltdown. A favourite was a tweet from Egyptian Zionist and Jewish convert, Khaled Hassan, who stated: “Mark my words, all those politicians who sided with the ICC will face electoral wipe out. Whether here in the UK, Canada, or France, those leaders stand for nothing, they offer their people nothing, and they will soon be nothing!”
We might, as pro Palestine activists, simply scroll past and disregard these commentators. After all, they are just a bunch of pro-Israel cheerleaders, and some are on the AIPAC payroll. It is easy to dismiss them as “crazy Americans” or “extreme Tories” because subconsciously we don’t regard them to be serious people. But the fact is, some of these are individuals elected into public office and should be challenged on their unconditional support for a state engaging in genocide.
In the past, the ICC has been a mere tool for them to enthusiastically refer to when a non-Western country breaches international law. But now that the same institution has turned against their ally, they are willing to disregard it completely. They are willing to forgo their right to refer to the ICC ever again for any future war crimes that occur – all for Israel. To go from praising the ICC for its Putin arrest warrant to disparage it entirely is a pitiful sight to witness.
Indeed, only last year Keir Starmer stated that he welcomed the ICC’s decision to open war crime cases against Putin and other senior Russian figures for their “barbaric actions” in Ukraine. In light of this, refusing to welcome the arrest warrants against Israeli officials would amount to hypocrisy of the highest order.
It should also be noted that the ICC decision to issue arrest warrants was based on the application of the international law after carefully considering all the evidence available. Yet none of these frenzied commentators have taken the time to challenge the ICC’s judgement on any specific grounds. There has been no engagement with facts – just emotional statements of outrage, rushing to Israel’s defence in the most bizarre manner.
It is remarkable that these senators and congressmen cannot see that threatening the ICC with sanctions if it does not reverse the arrest warrants appears incredibly coercive and brutish to normal people around the world.
Of course, the highlight of yesterday’s meltdown came from the war criminals themselves. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the decision “antisemitic”. It was inconceivable that the word “antisemitism” could possibly lose more meaning than it already has, but alas, Israel made it possible.
There was a time when being called an “antisemite” would be shocking and force a person to reflect on their words and actions. That is no longer the case. The word “antisemitism” hasn’t just been weaponised by Zionists, it has been rinsed repeatedly rendering it useless and devoid of all meaning. In today’s world, if you haven’t been accused of antisemitism, you are most certainly not working hard enough for Palestine.
Indeed, first they came for Jeremy Corbyn, then they came for UNRWA – and finally they are here for the International Criminal Court itself.
Further, president of Israel Isaac Herzog called the ICC decision “outrageous” claiming that it has “turned universal justice into a universal laughing stock.” No Mr Herzog, the ICC isn’t a laughing stock today – rather it has been a laughing stock for the past year as it stood idly by allowing you to commit horrific crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Notably, these are quite typical reactions to being issued with an arrest warrant for war crimes. The Serbian warlord Radko Mladic went through these very stages: he denied the charges, claimed he was being persecuted, claimed he was defending his people and challenged the legitimacy of the tribunal. He even claimed he was a victim of political motives – a claim that Zionists are making at this moment.
In any case, these arrest warrants do not nearly go far enough. Netanyahu and Gallant did not act alone – it is also Israel’s allies, the UK, U.S. and Germany who have aided and abetted the genocide with diplomatic and military support. Heads of state repeating Israeli propaganda while endorsing the cutting off essential supplies to Gaza also amounts to war crimes. Unless further arrest warrants are issued against senior figures amongst Israel’s allies, true accountability will not be achieved.
In the meantime, the Zionist meltdown provides some much-needed light relief after having to endure our own senior figures in the UK deny that a genocide is taking place in Gaza. But the mindless hysteria has made something alarmingly clear: that Israel’s supporters in the West would sooner tear down the ICC and the concept of international law entirely, than allow them to be used to hold their favourite genocidal state to account.
