John,

This week, the Israeli military used U.S. bombs to commit massacres at multiple refugee tent camps in Rafah, burning Palestinian children and families alive.

Now Israeli tanks are advancing further into Rafah, all in defiance of the world’s highest court, which ordered an “immediate halt” to military operations in Rafah last week.  

Our country is the primary funder and arms supplier for this genocide, and our government’s leaders are continually enabling Israel to act with impunity.

President Biden had previously warned that attacks on Rafah would be a “red line” for him, but spokespeople for his administration have said these latest atrocities haven’t crossed a red line, noting that there will be “no policy changes” to limit support for Israel’s government.

Instead of condemning or acting to stop Israel’s well-documented war crimes, President Biden’s administration and members of Congress are condemning efforts by the world’s top courts and the United Nations to hold Israel accountable.

For example, Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently told GOP Senators that he’d like to work with them on sanctioning the International Criminal Court for seeking arrest warrants against Israel’s leaders.

Please sign now to demand the Biden administration and Congress stop interfering with the international legal process and stop shielding Israel from accountability. The U.S. government and its allies are not above international law, which prohibits war crimes and genocide.

Israel’s government has committed multiple war crimes this week alone, including bombing an ambulance and a field hospital in Rafah, blocking crucial humanitarian aid through Rafah’s border crossing with Egypt, and targeting journalists and aid workers.

Rather than condemning these horrors or implementing consequences, President Biden’s administration and members of Congress are trying to stop international legal bodies from holding Israel accountable for its human rights violations.

In response to the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders for war crimes, President Biden called this move “outrageous” and said: “We will always stand with Israel.”

Republican senators have also threatened the ICC, including Senator Lindsay Graham, who met with Israel’s Prime Minister and President to talk about undermining the ICC. Graham has also said the International Court of Justice (which is pursuing a genocide case) can “go to hell.”

The Guardian and Israeli media outlets just published an investigation about Israeli intelligence agencies pressuring and threatening the ICC’s former top prosecutor for years, trying to get her to drop her investigation into Israel’s human rights abuses in Palestine. Former President Trump participated in this effort, issuing sanctions against her.

The ICC’s current chief prosecutor recently warned that he will act against “attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this Court.” He said, “such threats, even when not acted upon, may also constitute” a violation of law.

Please sign if you agree: Our country’s leaders must stop enabling Israel to act with impunity. Instead of interfering with the process of international law, Congress and the Biden administration must abide by and enforce international law.

Thank you for continuing to demand a world that values all life, no matter faith or ethnicity. We will not give up in the struggle to save lives.

In solidarity,

Rashida