Anti-Israel Bias
One of the four, “Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” featured 19 paragraphs criticizing Israel and just one censuring rocket fire on the Jewish state, with no mention of Hamas.
“This is an opportunity for Vice President [Kamala] Harris to speak out against anti-Semitism,” it said in a statement.
“We have raised the matter with the [Israeli] embassy and informed them that, as a host country, the Netherlands is very invested in the fact that the ICC must be able to carry out its work without interference,” said a Dutch foreign ministry spokesman.
Israeli security forces also questioned Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki’s aides for 90 minutes at the border crossing from Jordan, according to Palestinian sources.
The British Parliament responded to a question on its website about sociology professor David Miller: “The government considers [his] views to be ill-founded and wholly reprehensible.”
Responding to the International Criminal Court’s decision to investigate actions made by the Israel Defense Forces—calling them “war crimes”—Professor Boaz Ganor tells JNS that modern terrorists have adapted their activities to exploit the constraints of combat faced by liberal democratic states.
Prague’s move is “a blatant attack on the Palestinian people and their rights,” says the P.A. Foreign Ministry • “East Jerusalem is occupied land under international law,” claims the Arab League secretary-general.
A new report claims soldiers’ testimony collected by Breaking the Silence was edited to match the NGO’s narrative • Breaking the Silence: This is a “pack of lies.”
The goal of the 2021 campaign is to wage war on the “cultural, medial and popular level” against forming relations with Israel.
“I suggest the Zionists don’t make the mistake that spurs us to action, not even through words,” says Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami.
Nitzan Horowitz’s remark “justifying the political and anti-Semitic action of the court at The Hague and its persecution of IDF soldiers is a disgrace to the Israeli Knesset,” says Ayelet Shaked of Yamina.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris expressed “the administration’s complete opposition to the decision of the prosecutor in The Hague.”
