About those ICC charges against Netanyahu

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

The trouble isn’t over for Karim Khan. He’s the International Criminal Court prosecutor who requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders in 2024, shortly after learning he had been accused of sexual assault. He took leave in May 2025, and this month the court’s governors voted to advance disciplinary proceedings. Now a witness statement says the Qatari government promised to “look after” Mr. Khan if he moved against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This builds on the Guardian newspaper’s November report on a Qatar-linked private intelligence operation by at least two firms, Highgate and Elicius Intelligence, hoping to discredit Mr. Khan’s alleged assault victim. Elicius didn’t reply to requests for comment. Highgate said in a statement that it had worked on a file in defense of the ICC, but denied it was commissioned by a government entity or aimed at discrediting any individual.

The new witness statement is by a person familiar with that operation who requests anonymity. We’ve reviewed it along with supporting audio recordings. The statement was submitted to the FBI to request an inquiry and is known to several Members of Congress. It suggests the private intelligence operation also sought to target two Americans: Tom Lynch, the senior ICC official who first reported the assault allegation, and Sen. Lindsey Graham. Several ICC officials who became targets have been interviewed by the NCTV, the Dutch counterterror agency, two sources confirm.

In recordings, private investigators discuss their intelligence operation’s connection to what seems to be Qatar, which they call the “client country.” In writing, one investigator instructs others to say “client” to describe “Q country.” Two sources familiar with the intelligence operation tell us Qatar was ultimately the client.

The witness statement says that a source of Elicius’s had claimed—albeit without providing evidence—that Israel’s Mossad believed Mr. Khan to be a Qatari agent. This led the private intelligence team to discuss the ICC prosecutor.

“I spoke to the client about it,” the intelligence operation’s manager is heard saying in an Aug. 5 recording, “and they weren’t surprised that it had leaked that they were wrapping their arms around him.”
Around “KK”—Karim Khan—a researcher clarified.

“It’s not that long that they wrapped their arms around him,” the manager continued, per the recording and the witness statement. “It’s all in the context of issuing the warrant. That was basically the deal. He was like, ‘I want to issue the warrant, but I’m terrified to do it.’ And they said, ‘if you do it, then we’ll look after you.’”

The intelligence operation’s manager was asked whether the support came from an individual sheikh or from the Qatari state. He said, “No, it’s the state.”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/04/qatar-reportedly-vowed-to-look-after-disgraced-icc-prosecutor-khan-if-he-targeted-netanyahu/

[SVPete]

The trouble isn’t over for Karim Khan. He’s the International Criminal Court prosecutor who requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders in 2024, shortly after learning he had been accused of sexual assault. He took leave in May 2025, and this month the court’s governors voted to advance disciplinary proceedings.

This timeline tells a lot about the ICC:

* Khan was accused in 2024;

* Khan took leave in May 2025;

* The ICC voted to "advance disciplinary proceedings" in April 2026.

The accusation against Khan was taken so seriously that it too a year and a half or two years for the ICC to decide to do ....... something.

Haters being what they are, the ICC will be all the more vociferous in their hatred of Israel. Israel probably does not mind that, plus or minus an aircraft carrier or two of uncertain reliability, she may have more active naval ships than the UK or France or Germany.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

This timeline tells a lot about the ICC:

I'm half expecting to hear the victim of the assault was a Mossad plant.

[SVPete]

Here's a lot more about the story, and Oy!, is it slimy:

Playing Dirty Pool at the International Criminal Court

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/01/playing-dirty-pool-at-the-international-criminal-court-n3814498

The central figure in this story is Karim Khan a British lawyer who works for the ICC. Khan is best known for two things: First, he's the lawyer who issued arrest warrants on behalf of the ICC for Israeli leaders including Benjamin Netanyahu. So, for instance, when Zohran Mamdani suggests he'll arrest Netanyahu in keeping with international law, he's referring to Karim Khan's work.
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Khan, a hard-charging British lawyer, was in New York in early December 2023 for the court’s governing body meeting at United Nations headquarters. Stung by the criticism (that he was a “genocide enabler” for not indicting Netayahu, et al), the 55-year-old prosecutor was increasingly lashing out at his team, according to ICC officials.

One assistant, a woman in her 30s who often traveled with him for her job, asked to meet with Khan to urge him to ease up. He called her that evening to his corner suite high in the Millennium Hilton hotel next to the U.N.

There, she said in testimony to U.N. officials, Khan began to touch her sexually, a pattern of behavior that she said had been going on for months.

She said she attempted to leave the room several times, but he took her hand and eventually pulled her to the bed. Then he pulled off her pants and forced sexual intercourse, according to the testimony.

This story (allegedly) played out multiple times with the woman, who is married, trying to leave and Khan, who is also married, dragging her toward his bedroom in locations around the globe. Khan would eventually deny all of this.

The lawyer, who was from Malaysia, claims she didn't quit the job for multiple reasons, including needing the money to pay for her mother's medical care, fearing retaliation from Khan and being invested in the work he did at the ICC. In particular, she was eager to see Israel targeted by the ICC.
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As the abuse allegations were swirling among ICC staff and others, Khan allegedly tried to get his accuser to disavow them by telling her the charges would hurt the Palestinian investigation, according to her testimony.

The casualties of the allegations would include “the justice of the victims that are on the cusp of progress,” he said to her, according to a record of a call that is now part of an independent U.N. investigation into her allegations. “Think about the Palestinian arrest warrants,” she said he told her on another occasion, according to the testimony.

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And that's really just the beginning of this story. Last November we learned from news reports that Qatar funded an intelligence operation against Khan's accuser. The goal of the operation was to find some connection between her and Israel which could then be used to undermine her credibility.
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You can see how this was going to shape up. They would find the woman had visited Israel or had a friend in Israel or something and then use that to insinuate her claims of abuse were part of a Mossad plot. Only there wasn't any plot and the lawyer making the allegations was on Khan's side when it came to the arrest warrants.

Which brings us to this week when the Wall Street Journal did a follow up about the intelligence operation against the accuser.

The new witness statement is by a person familiar with that operation who requests anonymity. We’ve reviewed it along with supporting audio recordings. The statement was submitted to the FBI to request an inquiry and is known to several Members of Congress. It suggests the private intelligence operation also sought to target two Americans: Tom Lynch, the senior ICC official who first reported the assault allegation, and Sen. Lindsey Graham.

But the bigger reveal is that people who were part of the private intel operation knew Khan was being supported by Qatar, i.e. the people funding the operation.
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The U.N. investigators also note that another woman who worked as an unpaid intern for Khan in 2009 when he was a defense attorney came forward to speak to them about “adverse experiences of a sexual nature” with Khan, according to the summary.

Evidently, at the UN, if a sexual assault perp is of the right Oppressed Class and a Joooo-Hater, it takes a lot to put salt on his ... . Even if he raped a Joooo-Hater multiple times.

I won't say the Joooo-Hater female deserved to be raped, but the rapist needs consequences and she is not a sympathetic figure to me beyond that.