Netanyahu hails US sanctions on ICC and calls Nobel laureate jurist 'bigot'

Netanyahu hails US sanctions on ICC and calls Nobel laureate jurist 'bigot' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday praised the US for imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued a warrant for his arrest over war crimes in Gaza. "The ICC is not a court. It is a political body that poses a mortal threat to law-abiding democracies worldwide and to the very idea of national sovereignty," Netanyahu's office posted on X. The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the court as an institution on Friday, hours after one of its founding judges, the…