As the International Court of Justice takes its next steps on investigating and prosecuting war crimes in Israel’s war on Gaza, the top expert on Palestine at the United Nations is pushing for even more international accountability.
In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with The Intercept, U.N. special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, called for top European Union officials — including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen — to face charges of complicity in war crimes over their support for Israel during its 18-month assault on Gaza.
“The fact that the two highest figures of the EU continue business as usual engagements with Israel is beyond deplorable,” Albanese said. “I’m not someone who says, ‘History will judge them’ — they will have to be judged before then. And they will have to understand that immunity cannot equate with impunity.”
Germany supporting Israel is an example of fascism, just because reality vaguely aligns with Russian propaganda which incorporates kernels of truth to be effective doesn’t mean Europe isn’t complicit in genocide. this sounds like conspiratorial thinking to me.
in order for Ursula to be demonized, Albanese’s facts would have to be untrue which you haven’t proven yet. are you just defaulting to trusting Israel every time over the UN saying these are crimes against humanity?
By that criterion, Xi Jinping and the Iranians are also complicit in Ukrainian genocide and boom, you’ve just emptied international arrest mandates of any meaning while demonizing VdL who has even less responsibility in the matter as mostly a figurehead, but the russians act like she is the ruler of Europe and uninformed people in Europe and the US believe it. It’s a pathetic giveaway, like that time a republican started talking about warm water ports.
Even if you are generous with Albanese, and you understand that she is desperately shooting in every direction hoping to hit someone who she actually has leverage over to stop the killing, ultimately these weak accusations detract from the prosecution of actual war criminals and their direct helpers and supporters e.g. genocide trump. That’s who you should be focusing your efforts on.
idk what made you think this would be a gotcha moment. this logic is actually very consistent with Albanese’s, any world leaders complicit in genocide should be punished.
I agree Trump should be tried by the ICC as long as you maintain this logical consistency for Biden, who was the first after Oct 7 to mainstream this narrative that Israel is justified in ethnically cleansing Palestine because “all Palestinians are Hamas dontcha know, Jack?”
you seem to have fallen victim to the logical fallacy that claims you can’t focus on more than one big thing at a time.
“Hey, the UK sells weapons to Israel, why not send an international arrest warrant against King Charles?”
The only people who benefit from this debasement of international arrest warrants are its current targets: genocide bibi and genocide putin.
ignoring the bad faith of comparing Ursula to Charles and assuming that Charles was a supporter of the Palestinian genocide, then absolutely yes. it would be hilarious to finally see a British Royal be held accountable for their genocides.