The ICC has made a historically unjust decision in issuing arrest warrants for Israel’s democratically elected leaders and defense officials, who for 14 months have been fighting a war they did not start or want in response to a genocidal terrorist organization’s unprovoked attack. This decision is a win for terrorists everywhere, who now see that the ICC has no compunction equating terrorists who target civilians with democratic states that employ legal frameworks and infrastructure to save as many civilians as possible.
  

Israel goes above and beyond the requirements of international law as it tries to stem the flow of missiles and rockets that continue to terrorize its citizens and have forced tens of thousands of innocents to evacuate their homes for over a year. In targeting Israel as it turns a blind eye to the world’s real human rights violators, the ICC—to which the US and Israel are not signatories—has shown that Jews and the Jewish state are held to a different standard than the rest of the world. That is antisemitism, pure and simple, and the court should work to immediately rescind these warrants.