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A big win for terrorism: The ICC targets Israel’s leaders, ignoring Hamas’s atrocities – opinion

If the ICC wants to prove its moral clarity, it must rescind its arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently issued arrest warrants, before the ceasefire between Israel to Hezbollah, for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Israel’s war against Hamas.

At first glance, this might seem like a commitment to justice. But a closer look reveals a troubling reality: The ICC’s failure to grasp the complexities of asymmetric warfare and its double standards for democracies combating terrorism.

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Liram Stenzler-Koblentz PhD

Dr. Liram Koblentz-Stenzler a scholar and practitioner with a wealth of experience in fields of counterterrorism, antisemitism studies and global far-right Extremism. She is senior researcher and head of the Global Far Right Extremism Desk at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Reichman University, Israel and lecturer at Yale University. She advises security agencies, technology companies, other organizations, and communities to achieve better understanding of the language, global connections, and action patterns of right-wing extremists in order to prevent acts of terrorism, incitement to violence, and antisemitism.

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