Netanyahu hails US sanctions on ICC, calls Nobel laureate jurist 'bigot'

Netanyahu hails US sanctions on ICC, calls Nobel laureate jurist 'bigot' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday praised the United States for imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued a warrant for his arrest over war crimes in Gaza. "The ICC is not a court. It is a political body that poses a mortal threat to law-abiding democracies worldwide and to the very idea of national sovereignty," Netanyahu's office posted on X.