Benjamin Netanyahu
November 21, 2024 · israelnationalnews.com ↗
"The antisemitic decision of the ICC is akin to a modern-day Dreyfus affair." Also Nov 21, 2024: "This is an antisemitic move with one goal: to deter me, to deter us, from exercising our natural right to defend ourselves." Jan 27, 2025 on X: "the ICC has disgraced itself with antisemitic attacks on Israel." UN 2025: those who "peddle blood libels and lies against Israel are no better than those who peddled blood libels against Jews in the Middle Ages."
Why It’s Conflation
A court charged a prime minister with war crimes. He called the court antisemitic. If charging an Israeli leader is antisemitism, then no Israeli leader can ever be charged with anything. A case against one man isn’t an attack on Jews.
What Actually Happened
ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes / crimes against humanity in Gaza. That’s a legal instrument aimed at officials of a state, not at Jews as a people.