UN Might Tolerate Netanyahu, and White House Might Welcome Him, But He’s Still Guilty of Genocide

By Mandeep Tiwana, CIVICUS Secretary General 

Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the UN General Assembly just over a week after an independent UN Commission concluded that Israel has committed genocide — the worst crime under international law.

After speaking at an institution he regularly disparages, founded after the horrors of the holocaust, Benjamin Netanyahu made his way to Washington, DC, where President Donald Trump had invited him, confident that, no matter what, “this America will have his back.”

For a man with a standing arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court, a genocide case that’s being weighed by the International Court of Justice, and major human rights groups advocating for his arrest, the man appears to be receiving a greater welcome than Nobel Peace Prize winners.

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