ICC Arrest Warrants: No Platforming of Suspected Israeli War Criminals in Academic or Cultural Settings by the BDS National Committee

Given the gravity of Israel’s Gaza genocide, in particular, and the near consensus support for it among Jewish Israelis¹, and given Israel’s decades of perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity against Indigenous Palestinians, Israeli academics, scientists, programmers, college students², artists, writers, athletes, among others, who fall under any of the following categories must be investigated and, if warranted, prosecuted by all States – as part of those States’ legal obligation to, inter alia, prevent genocide and ensure accountability for grave breaches of international humanitarian law:

1. 1. Anyone who has served since 7 October 2023 in the Israeli military (including logistical and intelligence units).
2. 2. Anyone who is reasonably suspected of aiding, assisting, or conspiring in the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide anytime³, whether during military service or not.
3. 3. Anyone who is reasonably suspected of involvement in public incitement to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide anytime⁴, whether during military service or not.

Also, anyone who resides in an illegal Israeli colonial settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem, or in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, is knowingly participating in a war crime and must therefore be held accountable.