Senate Democrats are unwilling to sanction the International Criminal Court because they are more worried about vague support for global institutions than American interests.
Senate Democrats united to block the GOP’s bill to sanction the ICC, with only Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) crossing the aisle to lend his support. This is after the House overwhelmingly passed the bill with the support of 45 Democrats, an obvious decision given the ICC’s ridiculous decision to announce an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for leading his country in a war against genocidal terrorists who started the war with a massacre of 1,200 civilians.
Democrats didn’t want to support the bill because they didn’t want sanctions to hit American tech companies who work with the ICC, didn’t want to allow President Donald Trump to sanction U.S. allies who help the ICC “investigate, arrest, or prosecute” Americans or American allies who aren’t part of the ICC (like Israel), and don’t want to hinder the ICC from investigating Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Put aside the last point for now (and read my colleague Tom Rogan explaining how the ICC is actually helping Russia and holding back Ukraine’s efforts to reclaim its territory and end the war). The ICC is a politically biased organization that targeted Americans over Afghanistan but doesn’t want to stand against China’s genocide of the Uyghurs. The ICC is targeting Israel as part of the same antisemitic global order that targets Israel at the United Nations, trying to delegitimize the country while providing a moral justification for Palestinian terrorists.
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Why, then, should American tech companies not be sanctioned for working with an antisemitic, anti-American global institution that is trying to interfere in a country’s (Israel’s) defense against an existential threat? Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that, on the ICC’s orders, he would have Netanyahu arrested if he set foot in Canada. In that scenario, why would it not be right to sanction Canada, a U.S. ally, for doing the dirty work of an institution operating on antisemitic propaganda?
The International Criminal Court is not worth being defended. It is yet another corrupted global institution that tries to mask its immoral actions with a noble mission statement. The ICC deserves no defense and no credibility, and that is what Senate Democrats are providing it by blocking the sanctions that it has earned through its conduct.