Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to the International Criminal Court’s rumored plans to indict Israeli officials for war crimes by claiming that for the ICC to do so would be an ‘antisemitic hate crime.’ Yes, you read that correctly. ‘If this does happen, it will be an indelible stain on humanity. It would be an unprecedented antisemitic hate crime that would add fuel to the antisemitic incitement that is already raging in the world,’ said Netanyahu this past Tuesday. So, to be absolutely clear, Israel’s top government official has announced that charges against himself and other Israeli leaders for obvious war crimes like intentionally bombing and starving civilians would be both ‘antisemitic’ and a ‘hate crime.’ So, to make things even clearer, when a supporter of the state of Israel claims to be sincerely super duper worried about ‘antisemitism,’ this is the kind of thing they are talking about.” (05/02/24)