Yossi Schwartz, International Socialist League (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 15.07.2025
You may wonder why Netanyahu and his former war minister are not brought to trial. The simple truth is that the Judges are scared of sanctions. The threat of sanctions against UN employees who do not dance to the tune of Trump and Netanyahu is causing them to resign from their positions. Capitalism in its decline raises dark regimes, similar to those of Roman emperors Nero and Caligula during the decline of the Roman Empire.
Navi Pillay, chairwoman of the UN Human Rights Council’s Permanent Commission of Inquiry against Israel, resigned from her position last night. Together with her, two other committee members also resigned. Israel Hayom has learned that the main reason for Pillay’s resignation is that she will not be able to meet with her daughter, a resident of New York.
Pillay, and after Operation Guardian of the Walls by the Human Rights Council, headed a permanent commission of inquiry that criticized Israel’s policies. As part of this work, Pillay periodically submitted findings to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague – a cooperation that the Trump administration considers an “attack on America.”
Pillay maintained even closer ties with the ICC in The Hague: she led a team of 18 UN staff that collected “evidence” for use against Israel. Pillay also traveled to The Hague to meet with the ICC’s deputy prosecutor, Nazhat Shamim Khan, who coincidentally or not, appointed Pillay to her position in July 2021.
But now the Trump administration has changed the rules of the game. According to information obtained by Israel Hayom from a Western source familiar with the details, Pillay feared that she would not be able to meet with her daughter, Izvari Fazer, and her grandson, who live in New York.
Against this backdrop, and apparently out of concern about the additional consequences of the sanctions, Pillay and the two other members of the commission resigned from their positions last night. UN Watch revealed that last night, the three had submitted letters of resignation. Pillay, the chair of the inquiry committee, explained the surprising step by citing considerations of “age, medical problems, and the weight of a number of additional commitments.” Her colleagues, Milon Cothrie and Chris Sidotti, also submitted letters of resignation.
As a result of this approach, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week imposed personal sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, for her work with the ICC.
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim A.A. Khan KC, ac was elected by the Assembly of States Parties and assumed office on June 16, 2021. Pro Zionists forces cooked a story of sexual harassment, the Zionist army killed the medical staff of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, in addition to 60,000 civilians, including doctors, journalists, teachers, and nothing happened to the war criminals.
Let us be clear, these days the entire imperialist order is sinking, and it threatens to sink humanity with this rotten sinking system. The only way to march forward is by overthrowing the existing order through a working-class revolution. As Lenin said, for humanity to live, imperialism must die.