Legal Affairs
“Khalil spent the past year and a half leading an organization that effectively made large areas of Columbia University off-limits for Jewish Zionist students,” said David Litman of CAMERA.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, told JNS that his mentor has “dedicated his life to fighting injustice, defending the oppressed and advancing human rights.”
The defendant, who obtained more than $3.2 million in fraudulent federal loans between April 2020 and August 2022, faces up to 40 years in prison.
“The enemy should get bullets, not attorneys,” Professor Talia Einhorn quotes the U.S. defense secretary as writing.
“We support Israel and believe that Hamas is a terrorist organization which must be annihilated,” MP Ashley Sauls tells JNS.
Nor would any other E.U. member do so, assesses Bart De Wever, whose country’s previous government joined South Africa’s anti-Israel genocide lawsuit.
Israel’s advocates received the news with satisfaction as its critics speculated that it was the result of intense diplomatic pressure.
The withdrawal will make Hungary the only E.U. member state that does not recognize the court’s mandate.
During Netanyahu’s visit, a senior Hungarian Cabinet minister announced that Budapest would be withdrawing from the International Criminal Court.
The diplomatic moves would serve to strengthen the alliance between Hungary, Israel and the United States at a time of fractious divisions over foreign policy within the European Union.
The visit, which comes at Orban’s invitation, follows the Hungarian leader’s rejection of last year’s ICC decision to seek Netanyahu’s arrest for alleged war crimes.
The NGO, headed by two Lebanese-born activists, has filed lawsuits against at least 28 Israeli soldiers in eight different countries.
