A US-based nonprofit organization has urged the international criminal court to investigate former president Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

The request, submitted by the Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) last month but made public by the group on Monday, urges the ICC to investigate Biden, as well as former secretary of state Antony Blinken and former defense secretary Lloyd Austin, for their “accessorial roles in aiding and abetting, as well as intentionally contributing to, Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza”.

Dawn’s 172-page submission, which the group says was prepared with the support of ICC-registered lawyers and other war crimes experts, alleges that the former US officials violated articles of the Rome statute, the court’s founding charter, in their support for Israel.

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    15 hours ago

    Trump is worse, though.

    Do you think Trump could get this many Americans on board for paying for a genocide when we don’t even have healthcare?

    Republican voters were for it, but not the “moderates”. Nothing trump could have done would have gotten more than Republican support.

    Biden normalized it and when high ranking Dems do shit like that because 5% of Dem voters and 100% of Republican voters want it…

    No one stops them.

    All Biden did was make Trump’s current handling more acceptable to the general public because for four years they’ve been saying what Biden has been doing isn’t that bad.

    Despite violating multiple US and International laws.

    You yourself, right now, are defending it and downplaying how bad genocide is, even if you’re not trying to.

    You’re choosing to spend your free time downplaying the genocide of millions of fucking people.

    Because at least it wasn’t a Republican doing it.

    Congrats, you now understand exactly how MAGA can support trump despite trump hurting them. You might not realize that tho.

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      13 hours ago

      There are little to none Moderate Republicans. 50 of them confirmed Hegseth, who literally unapologetically thinks killing off every Palestinian is the solution, and all of them consistently vote against socialized healthcare.