US vassals band together to suspend ICC prosecutor Karim Khan for Israel
US vassals have banded together in a vote of the International Criminal Court’s 21-state ‘Bureau’ to suspend ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan. Khan has been driving the ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli war criminals, including Benjamin Netanyahu and former ‘defence’ minister Yoav Gallant.
ICC — Shameless political stitch-up
Israel and the US have previously circulated allegations against Khan – a standard Israel lobby tactic – of improper behaviour. Now Khan has been suspended by the Bureau on a supposed ‘no indication of guilt’ basis. But as former UK ambassador Craig Murray points out, the move is a shameless and politically-driven stitch-up:
The rest of the world should impose sanctions against the 21 criminal states. Just as the ANC encouraged sanctions against their own country (apartheid South Africa) we should encourage sanctions against our own imperialist or client countries.
— Mark Howell ❤💙 (@markhowell7) June 9, 2026
The US, Israel and their allies will now be working overtime to pressure other ICC signatory nations to try to secure the votes required to take down Khan at the coming “special session of the Assembly of States Parties”.
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This is bad. But what is much worse is that the ICC itself had already lost all credibility. It is totally discredited, after its unjustified and unenforceable “arrest warrant” for Vladimir Putin, over unsubstantiated allegations of abductions of Ukrainian children. Despite repeated Russian demands for the Ukraine regime to produce evidence – or even a list of names of families whose children were allegedly abducted, no such evidence has ever been provided. Russia certainly did rescue some children from a war zone where the Ukrainian regime were attacking purely civilian residential targets – and indeed continue to do so with the recent massacre at Starobelsk by 3 waves of drones, and the murderous attack on an ordinary civilian bus near Gorlovka. We see no ICC indictments of the Ukraine regime – yet the warrant against Putin has still not been rescinded
The ICC has a deservedly dismal reputation in the Global South for its history of targeting only those that the West deems its enemies. We should not expect institutions created by the West in its own interests to act against them.
I refer all commentators to our arguments btl here, which continue to be proved correct.
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026/06/05/palestinian-eu/#comment-53595