The global left loves to invoke “international law” in support of its causes, blithely ignoring the corruption of the institutions that supposedly uphold this “moral order.”
The latest example: Not only did Qatar gin up the International Criminal Court’s lawless prosecution of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged “war crimes,” the Arab petrocracy also reportedly hired high-end private intelligence firms to discredit the Malaysian attorney who accused her boss, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, of sexual assault.
How damning for the smarmy ICC, which bills itself as the most moral arbiter of international criminal law, though none of the world’s most powerful nations recognize its authority or are subject to its jurisdiction.
Just weeks after he was accused of rape in 2024, Khan issued arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, allegedly after Qatari leadership promised to “look after” him if he moved against Bibi.
Khan denies all allegations, and his lawyers say he made no deal to press the Bibi charges
Khan stepped away from the case against Netanyahu in May 2025, pending resolution of his underling’s rape accusations; this month, the court voted to move ahead with disciplinary proceedings against him.
Qatari-paid detective agencies, per The Wall Street Journal, have been sniffing around Khan’s accuser — a Muslim who is on the record as supporting the case against Netanyahu — implying that she has Israeli citizenship or at least “a Jewish grandmother.”
This is the “substance” behind Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s posturing on how he’ll bring New York City “back into compliance” with international law by sending the NYPD to cuff Bibi should he dare come to town.
The indictment of Netanyahu is clearly so compromised and corrupt that it would’ve been thrown out at the start if the ICC operated under any proper code of justice.
But the ICC, like other instruments of global authority, is accountable only to bureaucrats in Geneva, Turtle Bay and the Hague, the seats of the collective fantasy of “international law.”
Properly speaking, law is how sovereigns maintain order, but no sovereign world body of any kind exists; the United Nations is just a debating society loosely linked to an utterly unaccountable bureaucracy.
The farce of global governance reached peak absurdity this week when Iran — yes, that Iran — was nominated and selected to serve as a vice president at the UN nuclear non-proliferation conference.
The Islamic Republic’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is notorious, but facts matter nothing in the UN halls; deference to the diplomatic dignity of tyrants trumps reason or reality, every time.
That the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine directly employed Hamas militants who joined in the Oct. 7, 2023, atrocities is further proof how these international bodies simply serve as skinsuits for criminals and terrorists to pass as elevated humanitarians.
The United States was wise not to join the Rome Statutes that authorize the ICC; the increasingly puzzling question is why we send a dime to the toxic United Nations.
Washington ought to be calling out these moral frauds, not tolerating them.
