Legal Affairs
In February 2024, Israel thwarted attempts by South Africa and Algeria end its observer status at the African Union.
Gilad Erdan sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump urging that Qatar be made to “host not just Hamas leaders, but all Hamas supporters.”
“Taken together, this suite of bills sends a clear message that the United States stands firmly with Israel,” said Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“It is inappropriate for the conference to put out a letter of any sort, frankly, without approval of the members of the conference,” Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS.
It will freeze any U.S. and bar him from entry into the United States.
A British national, he was previously reported to be a target of the sanctions, but the White House just added his name in an annex to the executive order.
The U.S. president’s executive order cites Pretoria’s genocide case in The Hague.
The move bars Karim Khan from the U.S. and freezes any U.S. assets he may have.
The order declares the International Criminal Court’s actions to be “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he opposed “the ICC’s deep bias against Israel” but that the legislation was “poorly drafted and deeply problematic.”
The public has been given online access to 380,000 pages related to the 1961 trial of the Nazi war criminal.
“The core of new antisemitism is the attempt to ... undermine [Israel’s] right to self-defense,” Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said.
