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The host cities and the brand for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2027 were revealed today at a spectacular launch event in Johannesburg as South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia prepare to host the tournament in October and November. Read More...

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On July 13 Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a campaign to destroy the International Criminal Court. Calling the ICC “a global tribunal staffed by unelected globalist bureaucrats who claim their power is almost unlimited,” he charged the court with “waging a war against our country, not with bullets or missiles but with statutes, compacts, and the force of so-called international law.” As long as the court exists, he insisted, any number of Americans—“border patrol agents removing violent criminals from our country, American marines risking their lives to defend our homeland, prosecutors working to dismantle terrorist plots”—will risk “prosecution and even imprisonment for the so-called crime of defending their own country.” To that end, according to a State Department press release, the US government had resolved “to systematically disable the ICC’s ability to operate, target American servicemen or officials, or otherwise threaten American sovereignty.”

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...the secretary’s decision to announce this campaign at this time seems likely to have been motivated, at least in part, by the forthcoming elections in Israel. One of the heads of government recently indicted by the ICC—in addition to Vladimir Putin of Russia and Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines—is Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for whom the ICC issued an arrest warrant in November 2024 over the crimes Israel committed in Gaza after Hamas’s crimes of October 7, 2023. (The court also issued arrest warrants for Israel’s former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, and for the Hamas leader Mohammed Deif, who was later confirmed to have been killed by the Israeli military.) When Trump sanctioned the ICC in February 2025, he explicitly cited the court’s “baseless arrest warrants” against Netanyahu and Gallant as a rationale. Now that Netanyahu faces a difficult campaign for reelection, degrading the ICC serves his interests all the more urgently. Most Israelis probably have a low regard for the ICC, which accepted Palestine’s membership more than a decade ago and has taken seriously its mandate to investigate violations there. But many are all the same likely to find it embarrassing to have their prime minister indicted.

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At the same time, there is also a long history of American opposition to international human rights law. The Genocide Convention, for instance, was adopted by the United Nations without dissent in 1948 and quickly ratified by many other governments before it went into effect in 1951. The US, however, took until 1988 to adopt it, despite the efforts of advocates like Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, who made some three thousand speeches in the Senate over a nearly twenty-year period calling for ratification. Some southern senators feared that the convention would be invoked against segregation; other American critics denounced it as a step in the direction of world government. When the US did ratify the convention, in what was known as the Proxmire Act, it did so at least in part because President Ronald Reagan found it politically convenient after he was criticized for a visit he paid to a German cemetery where S.S. officers were buried. Even then, the US insisted on a “reservation” stipulating that Article IX—which allows a party to the convention to go to the International Court of Justice to resolve disputes—could not be applied to the US without its consent. In 1998, when the treaty establishing the ICC was adopted in Rome, the Clinton administration, which had helped draft the document, reverted to this tradition by opposing its adoption. The administration’s principal objection was that it wanted the UN Security Council to authorize prosecutions. This would have enabled any of the five permanent members—the US, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, or China—to veto any prosecution unilaterally. The United States would be able to shield Israel; Russia or China could protect North Korea; France could have blocked prosecution of Rwandan officials during the genocide there, and so on. That proposal would have nullified the work of the court.

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The Netherlands will vote next week in favour of removing the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court over allegations of sexual misconduct. Foreign minister Tom Berendsen and justice minister David van Weel said in a letter to parliament on Thursday that the government will follow the recommendation of the court’s oversight body to remove Karim Khan from office. In June, Khan was formally suspended from his position by the oversight body’s executive committee. The British lawyer has denied the allegations that he had an inappropriate relationship with a female subordinate. He has been on voluntary leave since last year while the investigation was underway. A UN investigation found that Khan had engaged in inappropriate behaviour, but a panel of judges who reviewed the findings found there was insufficient evidence to make a conclusion.

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