Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum united to condemn the decision by a three-judge panel of the international criminal court to issue arrest warrants for the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant.
Netanyahu’s office described the warrants as “an antisemitic decision … equivalent to the modern Dreyfus trial”, referring to the 1894 trial of a French artillery captain of Jewish descent that has become one of the most prominent examples of antisemitism.
Netanyahu added: “Israel rejects with disgust the absurd and false actions and charges against it by the international criminal court, which is a biased and discriminatory political body.”
Under the Rome statute that established the ICC, the court was set up to be an independent body that stands apart from international politics.
At this point the anti semitism accusation has been so diluted that it’s beginning to carry very little weight. It’s hard to find someone who has done worse to jews worldwide in the contemporary era than Benjamin Netanyahu. The comparison of a genocide of which he and his administration is guilty of to actual historical cases of anti semitism is beyond embarrassing.
The world at large rejects Israel with disgust.
I wish most western politicians were a part of that world at large.
I think that most western politicians probably are privately but they can’t say it out loud because of politics.