International law expert agrees: “It’s clear there’s a case” against complicit EU officials
United Nations special rapporteur for Palestine Francesca Albanese has said that senior European Union officials, including European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen, must be held accountable for complicity in war crimes for backing Israel in its genocide in Gaza. Albanese said that:
They will have to understand that immunity cannot equate with impunity.
The fact that the two highest figures of the EU continue business as usual engagements with Israel is beyond deplorable. I’m not someone who says, ‘History will judge them’ — they will have to be judged before then. And they will have to understand that immunity cannot equate with impunity.
Israel has slaughtered more than 200,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, since the Israeli military killed most of the Israelis who died on October 2023 – and is now engaged in the deliberate starvation of almost two million survivors, with almost 300,000 children close to death from hunger.
Former EU head of foreign affairs Josep Borrell said last month:
It is impossible not to see this as an intent to exterminate.
But his replacement Kaja Kallas has followed Israel’s propaganda line that Hamas is to blame for Israel’s actions since the engineered collapse of the so-called ceasefire – Israel continued bombing daily throughout it – in March and has promised continued “solidarity with Israel”.
Von der Leyen is already the subject of a complaint filed with the ICC last year for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, but the court has not yet agreed to prosecute. Humanitarian law expert Mouin Rabbani has pointed out the pair’s failure to take seriously the EU/EC’s obligations under international law to prevent genocide and agreed with Albanese’s call to prosecute:
The 1948 Genocide Convention calls upon signatories to not only punish but also prevent genocide. Here we have the two senior EU officials not only refusing to take even symbolic action to prevent genocide, but actively normalising and supporting it in the full knowledge that their backing enables the crimes they nominally oppose.
So of course, Special Rapporteur Albanese’s points and observations are spot on and entirely correct.
Middlesex University genocide expert Prof William Schabas doubted that the ICC will act but said the case against von der Leyen et al is ‘clear’:
It’s clear that there is a case. Not all of Israel’s supporters around the world would be ‘accomplices’ but she’s the head of a very important intergovernmental organisation and is encouraging Israel.
Albanese said she is also working on a report that will “expose banks, pensions funds, tech companies, and universities for complicity in Gaza’s destruction”, according to the Intercept:
All those implicated and involved in the unlawful occupation, in providing it with support, are aiding and abetting violations of international law and human rights violations and a number of these amount to crimes. There can be individual responsibility and individual liability for those who have been aiding and abetting or enabling such crimes.
Von der Leyen is not the only official that should be prosecuted, nor even the worst. Keir Starmer and his regime are militarily assisting Israel’s genocide and waging war on freedom of speech and those in the UK who speak out against it.
The headline and content of this article have been amended to reflect a clarification by Ms Albanese that she was calling for officials not to “be allowed to evade accountability over the crimes they may have enabled in Gaza” rather than specifically for them to face trial.
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“Former EU head of foreign affairs Josep Borrell said last month:
It is impossible not to see this as an intent to exterminate.”
This from the member of the Spanish so-called “Socialist Workers Party” who in an interview a couple or so years back divided the peoples and cultures of the world into the (Superior/Ubermenschen) “Garden” and (Inferior/Untermenschen) “Jungle”.
And they claim irony is dead!
WTF did this half-wit expect to come from a superiority complex mindset which he so bluntly articulated in such a favourable manner?
And it is not as though this case represents the only example of those Western elites baked criminal activity in this regard.
Right now women are being raped, heads are being chopped off, and graves are being filled with bodies of religious minorities in what was Syria by Western elite hired “moderate” Jihadists using our money and resources.
Libya, Somalia, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Ukraine and many other examples exist of the same modus operandi at work from the same sociopathic, narcissistic and parasitic exceptionalist elites.
Only when every single Western establishment backed elite leader, their string pullers and associated oligarchs behind the scenes, along with their court jester scribes and shills are either locked away or swinging from a hemp rope will this criminal nonsense be eradicated.
There are many politicians who should be held accountable for war crimes, or supporting war crimes. This demonstrates the total failure to prosecute our own war criminal – Tony Blair. Clearly required to appear at the Hague charged with the illegal aggressive war in Iraq any law-abiding state would have offered him up. The fact that we did not, has enabled other leaders, such as Netanyahu and Putin, to believe that “if he can get away with it, then so can we. The Nick Ferrari interview with Kid Starver (how disgracefully accurate that moniker has turned out to be when he managed to come out with the bizarre judgement that Israel had a right to starve, deprive of water and medical supplies, live on air for the world to hear, and for his government to support the Israeli military both with supplies and with spy-plane intelligence whilst a genocide was in full-throttle in full view of the world. The murder of children, women, non-combatants, the wilful destruction of homes, churches, mosques, hospitals, schools, roads, water facilities, and the targeted murder of Hind, her rescuers, the fabrication of nonsense about UNWRA being a Hamas-supporting organisation. I have never ever witnessed such unbridled hatred of one group by another, and our government to their eternal shame has joined in on the side of the haters. I must ask the question I have asked before, What is the hold that Israel have over multiple governments that those governments wholeheartedly support (against the wishes of their own populations) what is clearly war crimes of the most obvious in the entire history of the world?
Because certain billionaires who claim allegiance to that state control the global money supply, possibly?
Along with controlling The Official Narrative.
How else could an illegal regime change coup using $5 billion to achieve the objectives set out here in this 2019 Rand Report……
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf
……along with the ethnic based attacks on civilians who speak the wrong language and worship at the wrong churches over a period of eight years; moving your borders, troops and strategic missiles a thousand miles to the east whilst increasingly holding more and more offensive exercises right up to someone else’s border; deliberately breaking agreements designed to buy time to re-arm and retain a rabid neo-Nazi proxy that you have been nurturing since the end of WW2;…..
…be succesfully sold as the fault of a single individual – a notion which clearly implies that all problems will be solved with the removal of that individual – whose Country has bent over backwards to stick to broken agreements going back to the early 1990;s?
Thanks Dave Hansell, the question is why Russia had to remain an enemy after the Soviet Union collapsed, after all both Yeltsin and Putin were capitalists who wanted Russia to take its place in Europe and sell the vast mineral riches which Russia’s 11 Time zones had in abundance. The US led West had other ideas i.e. US hegemony to be achieved with the expansion of NATO, gradually surrounding Russia and placing NATO bases and missiles several minutes flying time from Moscow. What could possibly go wrong, [remember Cuba]? The Powers that be thought Russia was weak and that NATO aggression would have to be accepted. How wrong that has been proven, now we are at the end stage of US hubris, and who will have to accept their hegemony is over, and a new power in the world is emerging, the BRICS led by Russia and China. The West will just have to get used to it, or use nuclear weapons.
Former analyst for the CIA (among other roles) Larry Johnson provides a treasure trove of data relevant to the shenanigans on that particular front.
Starting with this three part series……
https://sonar21.com/the-road-to-war-in-ukraine-the-history-of-nato-and-us-military-exercises-with-ukraine-part-1/
……which details all the offensive exercises on or near the border with the RF since the 1990’s.
At a time when…….
……….the armed forces of the RF had shrunk to a fraction of their former size and quality during the Soviet period:
https://sonar21.com/why-the-hell-was-nato-expanding-as-the-size-of-the-russian-military-shrank/
“Gaslighting the American public about the military threat posed by Russia, especially during the 20 years following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, proved to be an effective piece of propaganda. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama should be required to answer one simple question: Why did each of you expand NATO while the Russian military decreased in size? ”
Gaslighting not only on this front but also every other front: Iraq, Syria, Libya, China, et al and every issue you can name from the bollocks that was Salisbury to the Israeli Genocide.
The same play book. The same MO.
Cuba, by the way, was an interesting example of the futility of acting in good faith with people who are, and always have been, non-agreement capable. As the move to install missiles in Cuba was a direct response to the siting of Titan missile aimed at the SU in Turkey.
The deal was a quid pro quo of removal all round, but the Russians agreed not to publicly reveal anything about the Titan missiles, hoping Kennedy would prevail over the MIC.
As we approach the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, the irony of what Israel has been doing so far, and its intention to invade and occupy Gaza (as if it hadn’t already) matches virtually word for word what the Nazis promised to do with the Jews. Sometimes “irony” doesn’t even come close to describing the actions of right-wing thugs.
And how well are Russia being represented at the VE Celebrations, as if I couldn’t tell? Back in the post-war period, Europeans had a much more appreciative view of Russia’s contribution to the victory over the Nazis, as shown by the polls featured in this piece by Kit Klarenburg…
https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/05/the-anglo-nazi-global-empire-that-almost-was/
Meanwhile, eighty years after fighting Nazi Germany, a slovenly bunch of neo-Nazi regime troops who cannot even march in time with each other properly amble down Whitehall in front of the British Establishment and are cheered by the ancestors of those who died fighting these knuckle draggers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAhzdfkWJo4&ab_channel=OneindiaNews
All those involved in organising this travesty – whoever they are – shame the memory of all those who died fighting this cancer.
The Israeli Occupation Force Cabinet, which includes the Far Right who wouldn’t get a sniff of power if it had first past the post, has just approved a plan to take full control of Gaza “And Palestinians there are to be moved for their safety.”
The arrogance of the Lumpen Zionists, and remember The Balfour Declaration which set the legal precedent for Palestine (by a white elite from thousands of miles away and without consulting Palestinians) from above said “A Jewish Home in Palestine” but NOT a state or country which Zionists at the time had pressed for.
Oh & would you believe it, it also said that this “should not do anything that would be to the detriment of the indigenous (Palestinian) population.” (Bernard Regan, The Balfour Declaration).
This is probably one of the longest injustices the world has ever witnessed but the complicit West turns a blind eye because they want a share of the profits from Gaza’s land, gas, oil & possibly a new canal whilst promoting arms sales & profits.
Free Palestine.
One Multi-Ethnic Democratic State of Palestine from the rivers to the sea.
(Said, Olymar).