The Department of State and Secretary Antony Blinken must clarify or walk this back without further delay.

Penalizing and intimidating legitimate international institutions or their officers is what autocrats and pariah states do, not democracies claiming to champion human rights and the rule of law.

“Facebook takes money to amplify posts which call for people to be killed, which demean and demonise Muslims and which sow disinformation”

This is an exhaustive report on Meta enabling and amplifying hate speech and genocidal language in India

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When the Trump Administration issued sanctions on the ICC prosecutor and a senior prosecution official, I remember it being among the most alarming moments of the Trump Presidency.
Sadly, I am not shocked by this move by Joe Biden admin. But I am disgusted.
Department of State President Biden

How world governments choose to respond to the ICC, and whether they opt to enforce any forthcoming arrest warrants, will decide whether this moment serves as a powerful assertion of the importance of international law or, rather, reinforce its impotence time.com/6980747/us-isr…

Rules based international order explained

Salman Rushdie--spouting embarrassing sycophantic nonsense even for him--being interviewed in rightwing German tabloids and being posted approvingly by Israeli officials.

What a come down for a man who once, long ago, wrote brilliant piercing political fiction.

We want Hamas defeated and we are working with Israel to make that happen: Joe Biden

Rules based international order explained

“Facebook takes money to amplify posts which call for people to be killed, which demean and demonise Muslims and which sow disinformation”

This is an exhaustive report on Meta enabling and amplifying hate speech and genocidal language in India

thelondonstory.org/wp-content/upl…

This stuff is unreal

The response to the ICC arrest application

Worth recalling today that the ICC's Karim Khan was 'Israel's preferred candidate' in 2021 when he was appointed and that the Israelis supported his candidacy behind the scenes.

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The Panel also unanimously agrees that the evidence presented by the prosecutor provides reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Israel’s minister of defence Yoav Gallant have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. Baroness Helena Kennedy KC

Here are the crimes for which the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has asked ICC judges to issue arrest warrants for Hamas officials Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif & Ismail Haniyeh (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu & Defence Minister Yoav Gallant (right):