Rome Statute

February 6, 2025 | |

‘No Jurisdiction Over the United States or Israel’: Trump Signs Executive Order Sanctioning International Criminal Court

Trump Signs Executive Order Sanctioning the ICC: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on February 6 sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC) for targeting...

January 10, 2025 | |

‘Kangaroo Court’: House Passes Bill to Sanction ICC for Israel Arrest Warrants 

House Passes Sanctions on ICC: Rebuking the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former...

January 9, 2025 | |

‘In These Exceptional Circumstances’: Poland Backtracks on Netanyahu Arrest Threats

Netanyahu Welcome to Attend Auschwitz Commemoration: Poland’s parliament adopted a resolution on January 9 that would ensure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other...

May 20, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

Defund ICC’s ‘kangaroo court’ as it wages anti-Israel lawfare

The Netherlands-based International Criminal Court on Monday exposed itself as a deeply antisemitic and politicized institution that ignores facts and jurisdiction to conduct lawfare against democracies...

May 6, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

The ICC Had Better Be Ready to Reap the Whirlwind

Biden thought an olive branch would keep the court within its jurisdictional bounds. He was wrong.

September 16, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The UN General Assembly at 75

It’s not the organization it used to be and never was

September 3, 2020 | Orde Kittrie |

U.S. Needs a New ICC Strategy

The State Department announced sanctions yesterday on two senior officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their role in an “unjust and illegitimate investigation” of alleged war crimes...

March 25, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Globalists gone wild

A transnational prosecutor puts American soldiers in her crosshairs

September 25, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Americans’ right to self-rule

In a stern and defiant speech earlier this month, National Security Adviser John Bolton made clear that the United States will not...

May 25, 2018 | David May

“Palestine 194” Resumes, Signaling Palestinian Frustration

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), acting under the name of the “State of Palestine,”...

November 21, 2017 | Grant Rumley |

Why Trump Moved Against the PLO

This week, the Trump administration threatened to clos...

January 4, 2017 | Orde Kittrie |

What UNSCR 2334 Could Mean Beyond the United Nations, and How the Trump Administration Can Respond

Notwithstanding the distractions of the holiday season, a considerable debate has erupted over the significance of U.N. Security Council ...

June 2, 2016 | Grant Rumley |

The Palestinian Pathway to Paris

This week, the French government, which has long tried to help broker a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, will launch its latest attempt with an international conference in Paris...

June 16, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief

South Africa Flubs its Chance at Justice for Bashir

Suspected war criminals scored a victory Monday as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir defied a South African judge’s order and...

February 24, 2015 | |

How a Major American Court Ruling Could Plunge the Palestinian Authority Into Crisis

A New York court ruled on Monday that the Palestinian Authority was responsibl...

January 23, 2015 | |

Inside The Slow-Burning Internal Crisis That’s Gripping The Palestinian Leadership

"Palestine cannot be run by bullying, dictatorship and the falsification of facts which Mahmoud Abbas and his gang use on daily basis.” So ...

December 30, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief |

A Last Minute Palestinian Resolution at the UN Security Council

The Jordanian delegation at the UN Security Council called for a vote on a draft resolution on Palestinian statehood Tuesday evening, in a session called for hastily earlier in the day. The resol...

August 8, 2014 | |

Palestine’s ICC Threat: Pluses and Minuses for Mahmoud Abbas

The shooting has resumed in Gaza. But where will things go when it ends? Inevitably, in each operation in Gaza since 2008 there is a "Goldstone-ification" on the Palestinian side—a shift fr...

May 30, 2012 | Robert Barnidge Boston University International Law Journal

A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online

Gaza “Blackout” and the Laws of War

Although, as the Jerusalem Post reports, the so-called "Gaza blackout" was instigated by the Hamas terrorists who run the enclave as a sort of cynical publicity stunt, it has drawn the u...