Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, today called for strong bipartisan support for the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, in the wake of the decision by the International Criminal Court to ignore the responsible and appropriate limits upon its jurisdiction to call for the arrest of Israeli leaders, for the “crime” of not permitting Hamas to implement Hitler’s Final Solution.

CJV President Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld issued the following statement:

The ICC’s abhorrent equivalence between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas, and Jewish leaders working to end the explicit threat of another Holocaust, can only be seen as antisemitic bigotry. It negates trust in international legal institutions and undermines efforts to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East. To sanction the members of the ICC for their conduct is a moral imperative, and we commend all those working to pass this important legislation.

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