As the International Court of Justice takes its next steps on investigating and prosecuting war crimes in Israel’s war on Gaza, the top expert on Palestine at the United Nations is pushing for even more international accountability.
In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with The Intercept, U.N. special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, called for top European Union officials — including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen — to face charges of complicity in war crimes over their support for Israel during its 18-month assault on Gaza.
“The fact that the two highest figures of the EU continue business as usual engagements with Israel is beyond deplorable,” Albanese said. “I’m not someone who says, ‘History will judge them’ — they will have to be judged before then. And they will have to understand that immunity cannot equate with impunity.”
It would be just.
It was baffling how politics, politicians, and governments openly and actively continued to support Israel despite the information and images we saw.
continues supporting* in present continous
Let’s not forget genocide enablers with Germany in front.
Yes, that is absolutely right. Active support for genocide is also a crime against humanity and must be prosecuted.
To finally do this at all levels is also absolutely in the interest of the voters, because the majority of them are of the opinion that Israel must of course be held accountable for all its terrible misdeeds. Despite all the one-sided reporting by the obviously partisan media, it is absolutely clear that Israel commits mass murder, completely disregards international law and constantly commits the worst war crimes. Yet these disgusting opportunists who are supposed to be our representatives simply disregard the will of the people - they must also be held personally accountable.
I am truly ashamed of the behavior of the German government. It is outrageous and simply inexplicable to me how almost all parties in Germany still cling to their unconditional support for the criminal regime in Israel.
It is simply absurd to even supply weapons to a government against some of whose highest representatives arrest warrants have long been issued by the International Criminal Court. Unlike the USA, which has never recognized this institution for obvious reasons, decisions of the International Criminal Court are binding for Germany. And yet: not a word of criticism of Israel, instead even active support for genocide. I can only explain this with massive corruption at the highest levels.
Germany’s historical responsibility is not to Israel, but to all persecuted groups. In this sense, it is precisely Germany’s responsibility to resolutely oppose Israel’s crimes. But no, our politicians continue to stand by the side of the most horrible monsters and even take the liberty of justifying this with the very historical responsibility they are mocking. It is disgusting.
As I said, as a German I am ashamed of Germany’s actions.
Wow, if these comments are any indication Europeans are fucking cooked. Not everything you don’t like is Russian propaganda, folks.
The Germans were once tried for war crimes against the Jews. Now they are once again tried for war crimes, this time for the Jews.
The Jews and the Israeli government are two different things, i think it is important to make that distinction because there is plenty of Jewish people who do not support the genocide.
The antisemitic dogwhistle of saying “the Jews” instead of Israel.
Yes, and both times they were driven by economical interests. Pecunia non olet.
Why? The only arguments made in it, are that she talks with the Israelis and that she does not stop arms sales to Israel. Foreign policy including banning arms sales requires all members to agree, which is not going to happen. Von der Leyen and no EU offical for that matter can do that. So her only crime is that she continued to have diplomatic relations with Israel, which is also the case for most other countries in the world.
The argument to charge her for that crime seems to me to be incredibly weak.
I’m not sure if I believe her to be guilty of supporting genocide, but I would like to see a judge decide on that. On the other hand, we can’t send all political leaders to court at the time.
I would like to see a judge decide on that.
Pff based on what? That’s like saying you’d want a judge to decide whether I walked a red light yesterday in a city I wasn’t even in.
Von der Leyen doesn’t have executive power, she is incapable of being complicit in Israel war crimes from her position in EU even if she wanted to.Definitely not a fair comparison, although you’re right in that she is more the outer face than the decision maker in this. But still, the EU and the commission certainly have influence on the member states, some of who supply weapons and stay quiet. And yes, those are the politicians who need to answer to a judge more then vdl.
Don’t worry, all possible proof will “accidentally” get deleted.
There is no such thing as a EU president.
The whole article is a pathetic attempt at propaganda against EU. They have nothing to show that she or EU did anything wrong.
Albanese said she is working on a report which will expose
They have nothing except throwing slander around.
Also Von der Leyen has no executive power.We have a president??
Oh, the Commission president. Another article written by somebody who has no idea how the EU worls and what the people in it do. I would have expected someone in the UN to have at least a faint idea how a relatively important international body was governed.
Shouldn’t you start with the UN then? Seems to be more within your control
