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At @The_Hague_Group’s September 25 UN meeting, foreign ministers from around the world warned against attacks on international judges, prosecutors, courts and UN mandate holders. Regardless of whether they were parties to the Rome Statute, 40 states raised their voices in defence of multilateralism and international law in the face of mounting threats. The latest U.S. sanctions against the @IntlCrimCourt—which follow earlier sanctions against 13 judges and prosecutors, but now target the institution as a whole—are a direct consequence of the Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. The ICC dared to seek accountability for crimes committed by a U.S. ally. This is its punishment. We have long known that the United States, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, has been hostile to the ICC, viewing it as a potential constraint on its global projection of power. But for the Court to pursue accountability for the crimes of a U.S. ally—rather than confining its prosecutions to leaders and perpetrators from the Global South—crosses a red line Washington is unwilling to tolerate. These sanctions lay bare a ruthless double standard that cannot go unchallenged. The international community, whether or not individual states are parties to the Rome Statute, cannot stand idly by in the face of such brazen extraterritorial intimidation. www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-strongly-rejects-...