ICC prosecutor: No probe on Gaza war crimes because Palestine not a state

Published on April 3, 2012

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague said the court cannot open an investigation into cases related to the 2008-09 Gaza war because Palestine is not a state.

Opinion: Demjanjuk’s just epitaph

By Tom Teicholz
Published on March 22, 2012

The recent death of John Demjanjuk, 91, in a nursing home in Germany, brings to a close one of the most extensive and most contested Nazi war crimes prosecutions in history, a process that began in the United States in the mid 1970s and was ongoing at the time of his death as Demjanjuk awaited the appeal of his conviction in Germany as an accessory to the more than 28,000 murders of Jewish men, women and children committed during the time he served as a camp guard at the Sobibor extermination camp.

John Demjanjuk, convicted of war crimes in Germany, dies stateless and in limbo

Published on March 19, 2012

Though the death last weekend of John Demjanjuk brought a close to the seemingly never-ending quest for justice in the case of a man long accused of being a Nazi war criminal, it also brought a premature end to the legal battle over his legacy.

Conference calls on Romania to acknowlege WWII war crimes

Published on November 9, 2011

A conference focusing on Romania's Holocaust-era war crimes in Ukraine and Moldova called on Romania to acknowledge and apologize for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews.

Livni visits Britain after prosecution law amended

Published on October 6, 2011

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has visited Britain for the first time since a law that allows for the prosecution of foreign officials for alleged war crimes was amended.

Fears of arrest gone, Tzipi Livni to visit Britain

Published on October 4, 2011

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni will visit Britain this week now that a war crimes law that clouded Israeli-British relations and kept her away for fear of arrest has been changed.

German Court Convicts Demjanjuk

Published on May 12, 2011

John Demjanjuk found guilty of war crimes

Published on May 12, 2011

A Munich court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of war crimes, and sentenced the 91-year-old former autoworker to five years in prison.

Israel canceled residency status of thousands of Palestinians

Published on May 11, 2011

Israel canceled the residency status of 140,000 Palestinians, allegedly without warning, the daily Haaretz reported.

Dear Mr. Goldstone: Six months until Kol Nidre

By David Suissa
Published on April 4, 2011

You really screwed up. You screwed up so badly that Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic says you contributed, more than any other individual, to the delegitimization and demonization of the Jewish state.

Seattle county does not have to run Israel ‘war crimes’ ad, judge rules

Published on February 22, 2011

A federal judge in Seattle ruled that King County, Wash., did not violate the First Amendment rights of a pro-Palestinian group when it refused to run an Israel 'War Crimes' ad campaign. Judge Richard Jones on Feb. 18 denied a request to force the Metro Transit system to run the ads.

S. African group seeking Livni’s arrest on ‘war crimes’

Published on January 18, 2011

A South African organization dedicated to dispelling stereotypes about Muslims is seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli lawmaker Tzipi Livni for her role in the Gaza war. Livni, Israel's opposition leader and head of the Kadima Party, is set to visit South Africa at the end of the month as a guest of the Jewish Board of Deputies, according to the South African Press Association. She is scheduled to give several speeches and hold meetings in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Igbal Jassat, chairman of the the Media Review Network, told the South African Press Association that his organization has instructed its attorneys to secure the arrest warrant in accordance with the Rome statutes, to which South Africa is a signatory, "which obligates all member states to honor their responsibility in the prosecution of war criminals."

Journalist stole IDF documents to expose alleged war crimes

Published on April 12, 2010

The former IDF soldier currently indicted for espionage told an Israeli court that she took classified documents to expose war crimes, Haaretz reported.

Anat Kam, an Israeli journalist and former soldier, passed off classified documents she had access to during her military service in the office of the GOC Central Command, to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau.

Iran gets away with murder

Published on August 27, 2008

In the summer of 1988, Iran put thousands of political prisoners to death after a desperate cease-fire agreement was reached to end the 1980-1988 war with Iraq.

Israel should probe accusations of war crimes

By Joseph M. Lipner
Published on September 28, 2006

Slave Laborers Get Final Claims Check

By Tom Tugend
Published on August 12, 2004

Frieda Moldavan had to wait 60 years, but last week she was finally "compensated" for digging German anti-tank trenches outside Budapest in the bitter winter of 1944.

Saddam Should Face Iraq ‘Nuremberg’ Trial

By Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Published on December 18, 2003

Smoked out of his rat hole by the U.S. Army, there was the Iraqi dictator, not spewing propaganda but having his heavily bearded mouth probed by a latex-gloved medic. The doctor may not only have been extracting a DNA sample but searching for a cyanide capsule -- the type used by Nazi henchmen Heinrich Himmler and Herman Goering to escape final justice.

World Court Poses U.S., Israel Threat

By Joseph M. Lipner
Published on November 21, 2002

The new International Criminal Court sounds like such a good idea, why would either the United States or Israel oppose it?

World Briefs

Published on January 17, 2002

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