By Laurence F. Sanford

The International Criminal Court (ICC) should be renamed the International Court of Criminals and Clowns (ICCC).

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for the “war crime of starvation as a method of warfare: and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts” in Gaza.

Warrants were also issued against Hamas leaders but are meaningless, as the Hamas leaders are purported dead. Hamas and its leaders are the ones who committed crimes against humanity with its October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel. The ICC is equating Hamas’s atrocities with Israel’s defense response.

Though independent from the UN, the ICC is endorsed by the General Assembly. The difference between the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the ICC is that the ICJ cases involve countries, whereas the ICC is a criminal court that brings cases against individuals.

The ICC lead prosecutor is Karim Khan, a British barrister of Pakistani descent. He has been accused of sexual harassment by a well-regarded ICC female lawyer. Khan is a member of the Muslim Ahmadi sect, a group founded in 1889 in British India, which views itself as leading the propagation and renaissance of Islam.

The ICC charges are baseless, as Israel is responding in self-defense to the October 7 Hamas invasion, during which over 1,400 Israelis and some visiting Americans were slaughtered, tortured, raped, or taken hostage. The war would end immediately if Hamas surrendered and released the hostages.

The ICC, founded in 2002, is headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, and its 124 member nations fund it. The current ICC membership does not include the United States, Russia, Israel, China, Turkey, Pakistan, and 60 other countries.

The U.S. did not join the ICC because it was concerned that the U.S. military would be accused of war crimes, which would be contrary to existing U.S. laws. It should be noted that the ICC charter states that it does not act if a country has an existing legal system. Israel has an existing legal system.

The ICC is not only targeting the Jewish state, but it is also investigating the U.S. for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. The ICC assault on Judaism is a proxy assault on America.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stated he will honor the ICC warrant and arrest Netanyahu if he steps foot in Canada. This is the same Trudeau who danced the night away at a Taylor Swift event while anti-Israel riots led by Islamists rioted the night away in Montreal.

The Trudeau-led Canadian government:

• Arrested a conservative reporter for disturbing the peace because he was filming a group of pro-Palestinian protestors in a Jewish neighborhood in Toronto.
• Allocated only 1.22% of its GDP to defense in 2023 and has not met the NATO target of 2% since the 1980s. Canada has pledged to raise the percentage to 1.76% by 2030.
• Allows terrorists to infiltrate the U.S. from Canada.
• Allows Hezbollah to wash hundreds of millions of dollars from cocaine and fentanyl with Chinese triads, Middle Eastern organized crime gangs, and Latin American drug cartels.

The British government and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrel have also supported the ICC’s arrest warrants. Borrel stated the narrative must “avoid any kind of clashes based on religion, civilization, or ethnicity.” Borrel must not be aware of Hamas calling for Islamic supremacy, the elimination of Israel, and the killing of Jews.

South Africa has asked the ICJ to prosecute Israel for genocide. The Marxist-led government, and a founder of BRICS, has yet to ask ICJ to file charges against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for genocide against the Muslim Uighurs or against Russia for atrocities in the Ukraine invasion.

American leaders have voiced their opposition to the ICC warrants against Israel:

1. President Joe Biden declared the ICC warrants “outrageous.”
2. Representative Mike Waltz of Florida, President-elect Trump’s designated National Security Advisor, wrote on X that “the ICC has no credibility, and the U.S. government has refuted these allegations.”
3. U.S. Senator Tom Cotton: “The ICC is a kangaroo court, and Karim Khan is a deranged fanatic. Woe to him and anyone who tries to enforce these outlaw warrants.”
4. Senator Lindsey Graham called the ICC a “joke” and corrupt to its core.

Summary

The criminal and clown-show ICC is one of many international organizations, including the United Nations, corrupted and influenced by the anti-Western, anti-American ideologies of Marxism and Islamism. Western Civilization is under assault.

The U.S. should make it very clear that any country that complies with the ICC warrant will face serious consequences from the U.S.

Rather than exit international organizations, the U.S. should exert its power and money to alter them. In the case of the ICC, since the U.S. is not a member, then the U.S. could issue sanctions against ICC leaders and lead a robust campaign against ICC corruption.

In the case of the UN, the U.S. should eliminate all voluntary contributions. In 2022, the U.S. government contributed more than $18 billion to the UN, of which approximately $15 billion was voluntary. China contributed a total of $2.1 billion and yet has infiltrated and controls significant agencies within it.

Action

1. Recognize Western Civilization is at war with Marxism and Islamism.
2. Eliminate U.S. aid and favorable trade agreements with countries and organizations that actively engage in anti-American behavior.
3. Reform K-12 U.S. education. Teach American history of individual freedoms and free markets and not a Marxist version of racism and injustice.
4. Stop funding universities that stifle free speech, allow anti-Semitism to flourish, and enroll CCP students to steal U.S. technologies.

Laurence F. Sanford is a senior analyst at the American Security Council Foundation.