Minister of the PM's Office Gergely Gulyás briefs the press on 23 May 2024

ICC Warrant against Netanyahu ‘Unacceptable’, Hungarian Government Says

At the weekly government press briefing last week the Hungarian PM’s chief of staff, Minister Gergely Gulyás stated that Hungary would not enforce the ICC arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu. He declared that it is not appropriate to use a court as a political tool, and it should be remembered that the ‘utterly ruthless, disgraceful and despicable terrorist attack’ suffered by Israel was the root cause of everything that is happening in the Gaza Strip.

Slovak PM Fico In ‘Stable, But Very Serious’ Condition — World Leaders Reacted in Shock to the Attempted Assassination

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a stable but very serious condition after he was shot at point-blank range by a 71-year-old perpetrator, described as a poet and political activist in media reports, on Wednesday afternoon. The international community responded with shock to the news of the attempted assassination, as world leaders expressed their support for Slovakia.

A pro-Palestinian protestor holds a Palestinian flag near a line of LAPD officers outside Pomona College's commencement ceremony at Shrine Auditorium on 12 May 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

The Complexity of the Pro-Palestinian Protests

‘It is ironic…that the protesters, while having legitimate positions, have remained altogether silent on the atrocities committed by Hamas, to say nothing of their main sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran. In truth, ever since an estimated 750,000 Palestinians lost their homes amidst the creation of the State of Israel 1948, there have been American Jews deeply unsettled by Israeli policies toward both the Palestinian refugees and Arabs living under Israeli rule. These critics of old into the American Jewish establishment, such as leaders and staff members of the American Jewish Committee.’

Demonstrators prepare to confront police who are planning to break up an encampment on the campus of the Art Institute of Chicago after students established a protest encampment on the grounds on May 04, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

Hiding Behind Palestinian Human Rights, Antisemitism Sets US Universities Ablaze

While the intensity of the widespread protests across the country obviously varies from university to university, students seem to have come a long way from peacefully expressing solidarity with Palestinian civilians and opposition to the war. The slogans accusing Israel of genocide, calling for a free Palestine and relativising Hamas’ atrocities are only the mildest versions of the chants repeated by the students. According to a Jewish-American student at Columbia University, he has heard chants on campus in recent weeks such as “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground’; “Globalize the Intifada”; “We are Hamas”; “October 7 will happen again and again”, and “Go back to Poland”.