Australian Police Asked to Investigate Herzog: A Courtesy Call to Impunity?
📰 THE STORY: Australian and Palestinian legal teams have formally requested Australian Federal Police to investigate Israeli President Isaac Herzog for his alleged role in inciting genocide and other war crimes in Gaza, citing universal jurisdiction principles. Herzog's planned visit to Australia in 2026 for ANZAC Day commemorations could trigger such an investigation. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING
YOU: Historical Context: This isn't the first time universal jurisdiction has been invoked, nor the first time such attempts have been quietly defused. In 2011, then-Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak cancelled a speech in London to avoid a potential arrest warrant for war crimes in Gaza. The UK government later altered its universal jurisdiction law, making it harder for private citizens to
pursue such cases without the consent of the Attorney General. Similarly, figures like Henry Kissinger, responsible for orchestrating the 1973 coup in Chile and the carpet-bombing of Cambodia, largely faced no legal repercussions, living out his days lauded as a statesman, effectively shielded from accountability for millions of deaths. This pattern of protecting Western-aligned figures from
inconvenient justice is deeply ingrained. Double Standard: Imagine if analogous accusations of inciting genocide were leveled against, say, a leader of an African or Latin American nation not aligned with Western powers. The international outcry, the immediate sanctions, the swift calls for arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC) would be deafening. Yet, when it comes to Israeli