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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defense minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza and during the October 2023 attacks.

The court alleges actions like depriving Gaza civilians of essential resources.

Israel and the U.S., non-members of the ICC, reject the warrants, with Netanyahu calling them antisemitic.

Hamas also criticized the decision.

The practical enforcement of these warrants remains uncertain, as the ICC lacks authority to compel arrests.

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[–] Skiluros 124 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have condemned ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s request for warrants as disgraceful and antisemitic.

Antisemitism does manifest itself in both casual and systematic forms. The region-specific component is also important.

However, claims regarding antisemitism from the Israeli government are increasingly becoming a "reverse confirmation" of sorts. One could almost argue that if they call something antisemitic, chances are it's actually not and may even be the correct course of action (clear cut cases notwithstanding).

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 hours ago

Decrying the persecution of crimes against humanity as antisemitic is quite something. It begs the question then, what these people see inherently Semitic about perpetrating these crimes.

The blatant misuse of this term is actually very harmful to Jews around the world, since calls of those actually suffering from anti-Jewish sentiment are not taken seriously anymore.

[–] Kecessa 14 points 5 hours ago

https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism

That's the definition they use, so anything you say against the State they see as being against the ethnicity, which doesn't make sense.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

As a Jew, I'm becoming desensitized to the word "antisemitic." Even my Israeli cousins overuse the word and can't explain to me how this kind of shit is antisemitism beyond "Hamas wants to kill us."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago

the Palestinians did not get to choose the ethnicity of their oppressors.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 hours ago

"You can't cry wolf and BE the wolves. Do you not understand what the villagers do to wolves?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

TLDR: it’s not antisemitic, it’s just anti-Bibi.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 hours ago

It's the local variant of fake news.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have condemned request for warrants as disgraceful and antisemitic.

I wasn't aware he was a stand up comedian. I mean, I always knew he was a clown.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

What region-specific component are you referring to? I’m genuinely asking, not being argumentative. I completely agree that holding Netanyahu accountable for war crimes is not antisemitism, let alone the ICC charging leaders on both sides of the conflict.

[–] Skiluros 5 points 7 hours ago

I am looking at it from a more abstract, generic perspective.

When you lose the right to freely travel, work, live in your country. There is going to be a lot of animosity around this. I don't think it is fair to purely attribute this to a discriminatory attitude.