Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, today thanked President Trump for his Executive Order imposing renewed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, due to what the President called its “illegitimate and baseless actions.” CJV called sanctions a “moral imperative” when calling for passage of the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act last month.

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. We said previously that to sanction the members of the ICC for their conduct is a moral imperative, and we thank President Trump for his Executive Order following the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass sanctions into law.

Photo: International Criminal Court building by O’Seveno, with CC BY-SA 4.0 license on Wikimedia Commons