After Hamas raped, tortured, burned, kidnapped, and murdered innocent Israelis on October 7, the worst genocidal act against Jews since the Holocaust, it is astonishing to see how so much of the world has turned to blame the victims and reignite the historic scourge of anti-Semitism.

Are you perplexed by the pro-Hamas demonstrations and the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, the democratically elected prime minister of the State of Israel, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s former defense minister, and Mohammed Al Dief, a leading Hamas official, who has been dead for four months? Let me offer a few thoughts.

Demonstrations

Pro-Hamas and anti-Jewish demonstrations are meant to terrorize, muzzle and isolate anyone who is Jewish or who supports Israel. It’s a pretense of unearned power. Some of those who join in -- particularly in places like the UK -- have been deliberately gaslit by the media. The BBC comes to mind, but it is an international phenomenon. On campuses, some of the same mind distortions by faculty who equate all the troubles of the world on fantastical notions of white oppression and “colonization,” ignore the fact that their safe, padded perches were -- like all the technological advances of the modern age which improved the lives of everyone on earth -- products of the very people and cultures they attack. The press and faculty who play such an important and destructive role are, in my view, people with chaotic minds, and such people inexorably work to recreate a world as chaotic as the one in their own psyches. In places like London where these have not been kept in check by law enforcement, they grow and become ever more lawless. Ignoring rational laws about harassment, destruction of property, and assault by mobs only encourages more of it. In places like Calgary which doesn’t allow this, they quickly cease as unproductive.

Regardless of the size and endurance of these mass thuggish displays, they are not winning where it counts -- at the ballot boxes. Instead, they are provoking ever stronger enmity almost everywhere. As for the campus outbursts, weak administrations have only begun to taste the bitter gall coming their way as donors flee, top students apply elsewhere, and a new national administration will certainly give them a jolt when federal funding is sharply reduced and an effective Justice Department starts enforcing civil rights laws on the books, which the current administration has steadfastly ignored.

The ICC

The ICC is an international tribunal in the Hague with authority to prosecute individuals in signatory states for war crimes and genocide. It was created in 1998 by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a signatory to this agreement. It does not have universal territorial jurisdiction. Like most international organizations, it has exceeded its authority and, indeed, become organs of anti-Western, anti-democratic states. The ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, who issued the arrest warrants, for example “is an Ahmadiyya Muslim who focuses on missionary work to spread Islam and........

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