The UK Gov has undermined international law and fuelled antisemitism

The 18th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham coined the term ‘international law’ as a catch-all for the rules, norms, conventions, and standards that multiple nations accept in the mutual interests of the nations involved. Obvious examples of necessary international law today include passports, trade, weights-and-measures, national boundaries, and aviation-and-shipping regulations (including compulsory use of the English language). A nation that fails to fulfill its ‘international’ obligations can be subject to punitive sanctions.

‘International’ hardly, if ever, means all nations; it means multiple nations. The International Criminal Court (ICC) for instance comprises only 125 nations, including Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Bangladesh (but not India), Jordan (but not Egypt or Libya), the State [sic] of Palestine (but not Israel), and the UK (but not the USA).

The stated purpose of the ICC is to prosecute and try individuals for genocide, war crimes, and other crimes against humanity. The ICC has had a credibility problem since its foundation in 2002. It has failed to take on individuals such as Bashar al Assad of Syria, Xi Jinping, and Ali Khamenei. The ICC’s ragtag of nations seems to arbitrarily pick and choose its targets. The ICC Prosecutor – presently the British barrister Karim Khan KC – can open an investigation on his own initiative.

In May of this year, Khan decided to open an investigation on PM Benjamin Netanyahu. The UK’s Conservative Government announced they planned to challenge Khan’s decision. The Biden administration, in May (and again last week), slammed the ICC’s actions as ‘outrageous’. However, in July, the new Labour Government announced that the UK would not challenge the ICC.

The ICC has now made its ruling, and Khan’s fellow British barrister PM Sir Keir Starmer KC tells us that he supports the arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

The UK Government will now either have to face the consequences of challenging and defying the ICC, or face the consequences of sanctions from Israel’s greatest ally, the USA. Both the Biden administration and the incoming Trump administration have declared the ICC’s ruling as illegitimate. And last week, Senator Lindsey Graham, a senior ally of President-elect Trump, has warned (widely reported in international and British media) that if the UK helps the ICC to arrest the Israeli PM, the USA will sanction the UK and ‘crush’ our economy.

The USA has condemned the ICC as ‘antisemitically biased’. PM Benjamin Netanyahu himself tells us here in English on X that this ICC process and ruling is outrageous and antisemitic. I wholly agree with him.

It seems to me that the ICC has ‘put a monkey wrench in the works’ of international law. If the UK abides by the ICC, we will be deemed to be breaking international law by the USA, and sanctioned. The ICC has failed in its own legal requirements in this bogus prosecution, experts in international law tell us.

Antisemitism is resurgent globally, including in the USA, and including here in Britain. As the late Rabbi Lord Sacks warned us, in this important short speech to the House of Lords in 2018, antisemitism is a ‘mutating virus’. ‘The oldest hatred’ now manifests itself as hatred of the Jewish nation state, ‘the scapegoat state’.

Antisemitism is no stranger to the British Labour Party. As recently as 2020, a ‘full statutory investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party’ by Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) resulted in the issue of an ‘unlawful acts notice’. One would have hoped that PM Keir Starmer did not fall into the trap of ‘respecting’ the ICC and its antisemitic bias.

The British Jewish barrister Natasha Hausdorff explains here to Sky News Australia that the ICC has violated its own rules and laws. ‘Every phrase of every sentence’ of Khan’s summary has been ‘shown to be false’. And here, talking to Mike Graham on Talk TV, Natasha suggests that the ICC, having lost respect and credibility since its foundation, is trying to ‘rehabilitate itself’ by ‘picking on the easy target’: Israel.

Israel is always the easy target in international forums. The UN singles out Israel for condemnation more times than all other nations combined. In the first decade of the UN’s Human Rights Council (founded in 2006) for instance, the organization issued 62 condemnations of Israel, and 55 condemnations for the rest of the world combined (catalogued by UN Watch). The ICC is the offspring of the UN.

The ICC’s latest project, regardless of how shoddy, will augment antisemitism globally, and fuel the blood libel, promoted in the legacy media, that Israel, in her existential struggle in a seven-front war including against Iran and its proxies, is committing genocide.

British legacy media, not least the BBC, are negatively obsessed with Israel, as documented recently in the 200-page Asserson Report, led by the British lawyer Trever Asserson with a team of researchers, lawyers and data scientists who have analyzed the BBC’s English-language and Arabic-language outputs.

In September 2024, General Sir John McColl, the British former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, visited Gaza with a European delegation. He said: ‘I came away from the trip satisfied that the IDF’s operations and rules of engagement were rigorous compared to the British Army and our Western allies… Israeli soldiers are fighting in conditions of extraordinary complexity and risk’. General McColl admitted that he had not expected to come to this conclusion, from the opinions formed by his consumption of British media:

‘Basing my views about the Israel-Hamas [sic] war on UK media coverage, I arrived in Israel critical and sceptical of their military operations. … There is balance missing in the reporting of events in Gaza’.

The actual perpetrators of genocide are Iran and its proxies, whose declared intention is to wipe Israel off the map.

Not only is the ICC losing respect and credibility, Karim Khan himself is engulfed in legal problems of his own. The ICC is launching an external investigation on Khan for alleged sexual misconduct. Family honor is at stake: Khan, an observant British Muslim, is the brother of former Conservative MP Imran Khan, convicted in 2022 of sexually assaulting a minor. Furthermore, any cursory search of the Internet reveals that Karim Khan has been under considerable pressure from influencers in the Islamic bloc (OIC) to use his position to condemn the Jewish state for ‘genocide’.

Which ‘respected’ and ‘independent’ international body can investigate the antisemitism of the ICC? None, of course. Only God of Israel can judge the antisemitic judges (see Psalm 2).

God bless Israel. May her warfare be accomplished.