Zia Rehman

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[Jordan Valley Activists نشطاء غور الأردن @JVActivists]

Arresting Palestinian shepherds on their own lands is a crime often initiated by illegal outpost settlers and executed by the occupation forces.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Italy, France, Greece did it again.

Three Rome Statute parties opened their airspace to fugitive Netanyahu, in breach of their obligation to cooperate with the ICC.

I call on competent authorities to investigate possible complicity.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​Planes carrying military shipments from the UK to Israel were stopped in Belgium.

​Belgium banned planes carrying military equipment to Israel from landing and using its airspace.

​Well done 👏👏

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

Karim Khan, who was your preferred candidate for ICC prosecutor in 2021, is not the reason you are charged with war crimes.

YOUR WAR CRIMES ARE THE REASON YOU ARE CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES.

In case anyone needs a reminder of them: https://t.co/UYs4ZmM3nf

[Imran Mulla @Imran_posts]

We revealed David Cameron threatened Karim Khan over the Israel warrants. Then the Labour govt told Khan it wouldn't back him as ICC Prosecutor.

Unless Burnham dramatically changed the policy last week, Britain has been fully complicit in Khan's ousting:
https://t.co/VkCopBWx8S

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

For the first time ever in our country's history, a barrister is facing contempt proceedings over the content of their closing speech. It is seriously concerning and entirely disproportionate.

Rajiv Menon KC is facing up to two years in prison for the way he defended his client.

Even though the case was adjourned on Friday - the threat isn't over. This is only a delay and not an end to the proceedings against Rajiv Menon.

Barristers cannot fearlessly defend their clients while worrying that doing so will get them sent to prison.

The judge in the trial of the Palestine Action defendants issued a series of orders tightly restricting what could and couldn’t be put to the jury, something that is happening more and more in protest cases.

This is part of an ever-rising clampdown on people coming together to demonstrate, one of the most effective tools we have to hold our leaders to account. Prosecuting a defence barrister for contempt of court would mark a new low in the attacks on our right to protest.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Netanyahu 🇮🇱 wanted for crimes against humanity

Flying to 🇺🇸

Allowed over the air space of multiple countries that are signatories to the ICC

As Albert Einstein said:

‘The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything’

[EUobserver @euobs]

While an internal panel cleared Karim Khan of misconduct, US and Israeli pressure has pushed ICC governments toward a politically charged removal vote that quietly rewrites the court’s own rules.

https://t.co/H0wkTnBaV6

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Bizarrely, the Rubio State Department has made its war on the ICC a priority. The benefactor is Israel.

The first countries that will surrender to this pressure are the vassal states....

[HatsOff @HatsOffff]

All of these journalists in Gaza were killed by Israel

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

What is happening in Palestine is not a “conflict.” Call it what it is: occupation, apartheid and genocide.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is, unsurprisingly, a complete inversion of reality.

Netanyahu says the ICC under Khan went after him to distract from the sexual misconduct allegations against Khan.

But the truth is that the allegations suddenly started surfacing a couple of weeks AFTER Khan informed the US of his decision to seek warrants, and after he was told - in the public record - by US senators (including Marco Rubio): "Target Israel and we will target you."

This is the actual timeline (source: https://t.co/9Y0jsxLVFy):

- 25 March 2024: Khan informs the US administration of his decision and that warrants would be sought by the end of April.

- 19 April 2024: A senior US official warns Khan by phone of "disastrous consequences" if he proceeds; Khan says he rejected this, citing Israel's lack of cooperation.

24 April 2024: 12 Republican US senators (including Marco Rubio) send Khan a letter warning "Target Israel and we will target you."

26 April 2024: Netanyahu publicly criticises the ICC on social media, saying: “Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defence.”

2 May 2024: The sexual misconduct/harassment allegations are first put to Khan in person by members of his team, on the same day, per his later ICC submission, that he had been planning to announce the Netanyahu/Gallant warrants.

Draw your own conclusion 🤷‍♂️

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Just because you lobbied to have the man who issued the war crimes taken down doesn’t mean the war crimes disappear or your guilt is assuaged. You will not outrun justice. You will not lobby history. You are a murderous maniac Benjamin Netanyahu. You will always be remembered as such.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

The truth is that you are a war criminal and should face trial at The Hague.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

We live in an absolutely insane world where this genocidal war criminal who has slaughtered tens of thousands of Palestinian women, mutilating their bodies, openly boasts of how the US & Israeli regimes ousted the prosecutor of the ICC, and cynically claims it's justice for women

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

An ICC arrest warrant bears your name for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the use of starvation as a weapon. Named at the ICJ for genocide. A fugitive from international justice.

Enjoy nothing, Mr. Genocide.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

David Lammy refused to condemn Israel's war crimes.

He claimed Israeli babies were raped on 7th October - a vile lie which helped legitimise genocide.

He portrayed a genocidal assault as 'self-defence' - and continued to arm it.

Good riddance.

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

CNN will never show you this : An Israeli settler pointing a gun at a Palestinian farmer.

"This land is mine now. Get out. Never come back"

The farmer's family worked that land for generations.

The settler flew in from Eastern Europe.

[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

If this doesnt wake up the western world, nothing will.

🇮🇱 Israel has banned this ICC Judge from using his bank card.

Why? Because he DARED to issue an ARREST WARRANT for war criminal, Netanyahu.

As a result of this, he was sanctioned by America, a close "ally" of #Israel

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

With the carnage of the war on Iran, the world has forgotten what US-UK-EU-backed Israel did to Gaza.

Survivors of the genocide live in a hellscape of rubble and ash, which looks like the aftermath of a nuclear war…

And the world looks away.