To give some credit for the leftist types who were all in for Graham Platner, they mostly cut ties with him when rape allegations came out (admittedly they probably should have bailed months earlier, and at least some of them seem to have been aware that something hinky was going on and deliberately sat on the story). The defenders of Karim Khan (the prosecutor for the ICC’s charges against Netanyahu) are still insisting that Khan being a rapist is nothing but Zionist lies, even though I think there might be more evidence out in public that Khan was a rapist than Platner.
Khan “sought to scapegoat Israel in an attempt to divert attention from his own misconduct,” said Danny Danon, the Israeli envoy to the Unit
Karim Khan—the Qatar-backed chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)—has officially been fired, after it was revealed he was a rapist who abused his position of power to silence his victims, and issued warrants on false charges against Israelis to distract from his scandal.
Trump’s secretary of state claims the global tribunal is interfering with US military and law enforcement operations
Cate Brown at The Guardian:
Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, launched a campaign to dismantle the international criminal court (ICC) on Monday, claiming the global tribunal was interfering with US military and law enforcement operations at the risk of American sovereignty.
Rubio invoked images of US border patrol agents and elected leaders being “dragged before an international court” and tried by judges from around the world in a lengthy op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal Monday.
“If we stand idle, all of them will be at the mercy of foreign judges, thousands of miles away – facing the constant risk of prosecution and even imprisonment for the so-called ‘crime’ of defending their own country,” Rubio warned in a companion video posted to X.
The state department plan to “dismantle” the ICC will involve pressuring other nations to abandon the court, according to CNN. “Nations that refuse to reject the ICC’s false authority while relying on US assistance are likely to come under increased scrutiny,” an official told the outlet, adding that possible punishments could involve sanctions, travel bans and visa revocations.
But three international legal experts described Rubio’s remarks as a mischaracterization of the tribunal’s powers.
“The ICC is not claiming jurisdiction over conduct in the United States,” said Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch. “Rubio is dressing up his quest for impunity for American war crimes under the label of national sovereignty, which ignores the sovereign right of other nations to invoke the ICC for crimes committed on their territory.”
The international court, headquartered in The Hague, can only investigate crimes committed in states that are party to the Rome statute, the 2002 treaty that established the ICC. The United States has not ratified the treaty, nor has the court opened investigations into crimes committed on American soil.
“Trump wants to be able to commit war crimes on the territory of countries that have accepted the court’s jurisdiction – that’s what this is about,” Roth said.
At times the Trump administration has celebrated the concept of ICC jurisdiction – welcoming an investigation into Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine, which is a signatory to the Rome statute.
The office of the ICC prosecutor, led by Karim Khan, opened an investigation into Israel’s conduct in Palestine, which has consented to its investigations there. The court has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Yoav Gallant, the defense minister, in connection to its war crimes investigation.
Six weeks into his second term, Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring a “national emergency” based on what he called the ICC’s “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel”, and imposed a raft of sanctions on court officials, including its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, as well as his two deputies and six judges for their investigations into Israel’s conduct in Palestine and US service member activity in Afghanistan.
The Trump administration’s sanctions regime expanded throughout 2025 by imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, and three Palestinian human rights groups who have been involved in collecting evidence of possible Israeli war crimes.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote an editorial in The Wall Street Journal calling for the dismantling of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The real purpose of Rubio’s call to dismantle the ICC is about protecting war crimes committed by the Trump Regime in the US and Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime.
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Daily Kos: Why is Rubio picking a fight with prosecutors of genocide?
ICC prosecuter Karim Khan tearfully asking that lady, per her own testimony, to THINK OF THE ARREST WARRANTS, after he sexually assaulted her has me gagging jshdhfbjdjd no wonder the ICC is bffs with rapists and sex traffickers (UAE and the entire Arab world basically) when this guy is it's face and highest authority lmaooo
Medhi Hasan: You're not ruling out that there could be a warrant in future?
Karim Khan: Everything is a function of evidence. I will not move, it would be a reckless…
Hasan: You're saying in two years there hasn't been evidence of genocide in Gaza?
Khan: It would be a reckless prosecutor to move simply because of clamor. You move based upon evidence. And if you read that 20th of May application, and if you also read the panel report, they also talk about ongoing investigations and applications more than that I simply can't say, but the suffering in that situation is immense, the investigation is not closed and it continues, and the court, the men and women of the office continue to work and we will not blink or be deterred…
Hasan: So, genocide is not off-limits, you haven't ruled it out.
Khan: No crime is off-limits if the evidence is there.
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Le mot “génocide” est devenu un réflexe médiatique, politique et militant pour qualifier la guerre menée par Israël à Gaza. Problème : le pr
ICC prosecutor admits he found no evidence of genocide in Gaza
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By: Nicolas de Pape
Published: May 14, 2026
The word "genocide" has become a media, political and militant reflex to describe the war waged by Israel in Gaza. The problem is that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, who issued the arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, did not use this qualification.
Summary of the article
In a recent interview, the ICC prosecutor stressed that he had no evidence of genocidal intent on the part of Israel in Gaza.
Information (voluntarily?) little relayed by the press.
Accusing the Jewish state of genocide is obviously fraught with political meaning.
In an interview, the magistrate recalled that a prosecutor does not prosecute on the basis of a slogan, but on the basis of evidence. A crucial nuance, largely ignored.
This is information that should have caused a stir. However, it went almost unnoticed in the French-speaking press. Karim Khan, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, was questioned at the end of April by journalist Mehdi Hasan about the lack of genocide prosecutions against Israeli leaders.
The information has been timidly picked up by social networks and some media in recent days.
His answer is cautious, legal, but clear: the ICC moves forward on the basis of evidence, not under the pressure of media or activist noise. In the interview cited, Khan explained that he had to build a case that could hold up legally, and not produce a "soundbite" intended to satisfy a political clamor.
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It's remarkable that Medhi Hasan – a raging antisemitic Islamist weirdo – apparently has, or has seen, all this "evidence" but either can't produce it or it's completely uncompelling. Almost like it doesn't exist, despite his desperate wishes. (Not coincidentally, the same reason they had to make Pallywood slop instead of simply showing the supposed reality.)
Absolutely nobody wants a "genocide" more than the Towel Terrorists.
This is what radical fundamentalist ideology looks like.
British Bloodthirsty Monster in human skin enabling genocide of Palestinians by Israeli Bloodthirsty Monsters
The British government privately threatened to defund and withdraw from the International Criminal Court if it issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Middle East Eye can reveal.
David Cameron, then foreign secretary in Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government, made the threat in April 2024 in a heated phone call with Karim Khan, the British chief prosecutor of the court.
Less than a month later, Khan announced that he was seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his then-defence minister, Yoav Gallant, as well as for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif. In a statement at the time, Khan called for his office and the court to be allowed to carry out their work with “full independence and impartiality”.
“I insist that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this Court must cease immediately,” he said.
You can't expect British Government to sit idle while a genocide is happening. British Government is thirsty for the blood of babies, children and people across the world. Genociding others is in their gene pool
Speaking of lawyers, the ICC continues to be led by rapists, inculding the ones trying to dismantle Israel and issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu etc. Mr Khan is now being investigated for a second sexual harassment claim. Wow, did I not see that one coming. (Cheques can be made out to SheWasRightAndWouldLikeARefund2025).
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