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Israel Accuses International Courts of Antisemitism
(Ha'aretz) Chen Maanit - Dr. Gilad Noam, Israel's deputy attorney general for international affairs, told the Israel Bar Association on Wednesday, "The [international] courts have a big problem, and there is, without a doubt, to put it mildly, a tendency toward serious bias against Israel - to put it less mildly, there is also antisemitism. This is something sweeping across the world, and it has not passed international judicial institutions by." "These courts were established for very noble purposes, purposes that I think we can all relate to, and they have now lost their way....Their professionalism, in everything related to determining facts, establishing the truth and facts, is questionable, and we saw this with the super-fast and unprecedented rush for arrest warrants against the prime minister and former defense minister." Noam is now seeking to have the arrest warrants rescinded on the ground that the court acted without relating to Israeli claims that the ICC had no jurisdiction over the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. He strongly rejected claims that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza. "The State of Israel does not direct attacks against a civilian population. It distinguishes between an innocent civilian population and those who are working to destroy it, and it does so in an extremely challenging situation that no country has ever faced, of a terrorist organization that we all know employs tactics that challenge us."