🇸🇾 Bashar al-Assad – Responsible for the deaths of over half a million Syrians during the ongoing civil war, including the use of chemical weapons against civilians.
🚫No arrest warrant by the ICC.
🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin – Responsible for starting the war with Ukraine, leading to the deaths of over 100,000 Ukrainians, including numerous massacres and war crimes committed by Russian forces.
🚫 No arrest warrant by the ICC.
🇨🇳 Xi Jinping – Responsible for the genocide of the Uighurs in Xinjiang, with reports of over one million Uighur Muslims detained in camps, subjected to forced labor, torture, and other atrocities.
🚫No arrest warrant by the ICC.
🇮🇷 Ali Khamenei – Responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranians who protested for their freedom, including the ongoing suppression of dissent.
🚫 No arrest warrant by the ICC.
🇺🇸 Barack Obama – Responsible for military actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria during his presidency, with drone strikes and bombings causing thousands of civilian casualties.
🚫 No arrest warrant by the ICC.
🇺🇸 George W. Bush – Responsible for initiating the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, including widespread civilian casualties.
🚫 No arrest warrant by the ICC.
🇬🇧 Tony Blair – Co-responsible for the Iraq War alongside George W. Bush, under the pretext of finding weapons of mass destruction, which led to massive loss of life and instability in the region.
🚫 No arrest warrant by the ICC.
🇮🇱 Benjamin Netanyahu –
Led his country through a brutal war initiated by a massacre on civilians led by the terror group Hamas
✅ Arrest warrant issued by the ICC.
@EYakoby It’s either been updated or you very selectively and misleadingly screenshot this. I’m all for exposing the extreme bias of NYT and other news orgs, but be better and more transparent
The attempts by Netanyahu and his opponents to silence critics and blame the opposition or the families are the actions of cowards.
Our enemy is evil.
Our government has failed.
Both those can things be true at the same time. And they are.
🚨The heads of the security and intelligence services have been urging Netanyahu for months to reach a deal to secure the release of the hostages. "We warned Netanyahu & the cabinet ministers about this exact scenario but they wouldn't listen," a senior Israeli official told me
For more than 30 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has built a regional empire dedicated to killing Israelis, exporting the revolution, and destroying or subduing Israel and any other country that does not agree to be part of its influence.
If not for Iran, October 7 would not have happened. The second Lebanon war would not have occurred. The country most supportive of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad is Iran. The amount of money, time, and blood dedicated by Iran to this fundamentalist project were immense.
The world was silent. At best, it tried to limit Iran's nuclear development. Now, hours ago, Iran has initiated a direct attack against Israel. What Iran is doing is not about the Arab- Israeli conflict. It has sought and seeks now to implement the vision laid out by the first Supreme Leader, Khomeini - to destroy American influence in the region, to annihilate Israel.
This should be a watershed moment. If the West fails to see what is threatened by Iran, Russia, and the rest, if it does not recognize that these developments are a manifestation of an attempt to destroy the liberal order itself, then we face grave consequences. It's not about the nuclear deal, it's not about Gaza, it's not about history. It's about fundamentalism, nationalism, and dictatorship.
The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth.
Representative @EliseStefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again.
In short, they said:
It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews.
This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is:
“the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”
The presidents’ answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership.
Don’t take my word for it.
You must watch the following three minutes. By the end, you will be where I am.
They must all resign in disgrace.
If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.
Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world?
Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context.
To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.
On the bright side, our congressional leaders deserve accolades for showing tremendous leadership and moral clarity in their statements, by the questions they asked, and the respectfulness with which they conducted the hearing.
It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate.
If you have time, please watch the entire hearing. Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.
@anushkapatil: You & @NYtimes must know of Tamini's heinous call for slaughter - ‘We will slaughter you & you’ll say that what Hitler did to you was a joke, we’ll drink your blood and eat your skulls’ - your failure even to allude to it is an embarrassment to objective journalism
@rulajebreal@CNN I'd genuinely love for the 70% figure you cited to be real, but this Gallup poll - from the week before Oct. 7 for both West Bank & Gaza - says only 24% of Palestinians support two-state solution: https://t.co/dE7i7gUOSt
@Aizenberg55 What do you have to say to the quote attributed to Hagari that “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy.” I have not been able to find the original quote in context, but it’s frequently recycled by those criticizing IL. Curious if accurate or if misrepresented/twisted
@karenzraick Don't you think it is just a little bit incomplete and misleading to omit from your November 21 article that - included in the prisoners to be released in exchange for HOSTAGES - are numerous individuals convicted of attempted murder of innocent Israeli civilians?