Trump sanctioning the ICC is a new low.
America 🇺🇸 has joined Israel 🇮🇱 as a pariah nation.
The words of Francesca Albanese ring true:
“The International Community is made of 193 States and this is the time to give the US 🇺🇸 what it has been looking for- isolation.” pic.twitter.com/1bqFGjt2Zc
— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) February 7, 2025
The “international criminal court” is something of a joke. Not a serious organization.
Sanctioning them is probably a good idea, but to do it in the name of Israel is the problem.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday authorized economic and travel sanctions targeting people who work on International Criminal Court investigations of U.S. citizens or U.S. allies such as Israel, repeating action he took during his first term.
ICC condemned the sanctions on Friday and called on its 125 member states to support its staff.
“The court stands firmly by its personnel and pledges to continue providing justice and hope to millions of innocent victims of atrocities across the world, in all situations before it,” it said in a statement.
The #ICC condemns the issuance by the US of an Executive Order seeking to impose sanctions on its officials and harm its independent and impartial judicial work. https://t.co/wxWxzsih7A
— Int’l Criminal Court (@IntlCrimCourt) February 7, 2025
We call on our 125 States Parties, civil society and all nations of the world to stand united for justice and fundamental human rights.
— Int’l Criminal Court (@IntlCrimCourt) February 7, 2025
Trump’s move coincided with a visit to Washington by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who – along with his former defense minister and a leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas – is wanted by the ICC over the war in the Gaza Strip.
It was unclear how quickly the U.S. would announce names of people sanctioned. During the first Trump administration in 2020, Washington imposed sanctions on then-prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and one of her top aides over the ICC’s investigation into alleged war crimes by American troops in Afghanistan.
The sanctions include freezing any U.S. assets of those designated and barring them and their families from visiting the United States.
The Netherlands, the host nation of the court based in The Hague, said it regretted the sanctions.
The US and Israel were already not signatories to The Hague treaty and wouldn’t enforce it unless they felt like it was a good idea.
Lindsey Graham and all these people praised the ICC for issuing a warrant against Putin for… evacuating children from a war zone…? and then flipped out when they finally said Bibi shouldn’t be mass murdering children.
It’s not a serious thing, the ICC. It wasn’t serious to issue a warrant for Putin and it wasn’t serious to wait for over a year to issue one for Bibi and then not issue one for Biden, who was providing all the bombs to the Jews.
President Trump has signed sanctions on the ICC. Last May, I asked chief prosecutor Karim Khan about possible retaliation for seeking arrest warrants. “We’re not going to be dissuaded by threats,” he told me then. “We have to fulfil our responsibilities as prosecutors… to… pic.twitter.com/GtCyIk16C6
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) February 6, 2025