Rights Group Slams Gallant as ‘Racist Mass Murderer’, Urges US to Deny Entry
Last week, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Gallant and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza genocide.
The charges include “the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare” and crimes such as murder and persecution. The Israeli aggression has claimed the lives of over 44,000 people, primarily women and children.
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CAIR commended the ICC’s decision and criticized Gallant’s prior remarks, including his statement that Gaza would face “a complete siege... no electricity, no food, no water, no gas.” The organization described these policies as acts of deliberate harm targeting civilians.
“Yoav Gallant is an openly racist mass murderer who described all Palestinians in Gaza as human animals and then spent a year starving and slaughtering them. The only international trip he should take is a flight to The Hague to answer the charges against him,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a Monday statement, according to the group’s website.
“Although our government wrongly refuses to accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, the State Department should at the very least bar this fugitive war criminal from setting foot on American soil,” he added.
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CAIR also linked Gallant’s possible entry to broader criticism of U.S. policy toward Israel. The group has been vocal about its opposition to President Biden’s continued military support for the regime during the Gaza war.
“Welcoming this modern version of Slobodan Milosevic to America would represent the latest example of the Biden administration’s total complicity in the Israeli government’s systematic slaughter, mass destruction, forced starvation and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The majority of Americans reject the presence of war criminals in their midst.”
Source: Agencies
