Hungary PM Orban Announces Withdrawal from ICC During Netanyahu Visit
Prime Minister Orban: ICC “is no longer an impartial court, a rule-of-law court, but rather a political court.”
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Hungary on Thursday for a four-day visit, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government announced the decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the self-appointed tribunal that seeks the arrest of Israeli leaders over trumped up ‘war crime’ charges.
“Hungary will begin the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court on Thursday, Minister of the Chancellery Gergely Gulyas told the state news agency MTI,” Germany’s state-run DW TV reported Friday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Hungary for the “bold and principled” decision to pull out of the international kangaroo court. Hungary, a founding member of the ICC, will be the first European Union (EU) member country to leave the court.
❌ Hungary is withdrawing from the @IntlCrimCourt.
The ICC has become a political tribunal, evident in its witch-hunt against Prime Minister @netanyahu. We will not support a court that targets democracies like Israel for political gain. Hungary defends the rule of law. Hungary… pic.twitter.com/gMc57m332D
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) April 3, 2025
Hungary’s decision comes in defiance of last year’s arrest warrant issued by the ICC against Prime Minister Netanyahu for overseeing Israel’s military response to Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
Great to meet with my friend Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán 🇮🇱🇭🇺@PM_ViktorOrban pic.twitter.com/rjXFSHTBA6
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) April 3, 2025
Reuters reported:
Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu applauded Hungary for its “bold and principled” decision to leave the International Criminal Court as he visited Budapest on Thursday, a rare trip abroad in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant.
Netanyahu, invited by Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, faces the ICC arrest warrant over allegations of war crimes in Gaza as Israel has expanded its military operation in the Palestinian enclave. (…)
Hungary has rejected the idea of arresting the Israeli prime minister and has called the warrant “brazen.”
In an announcement timed with Netanyahu’s visit on Thursday, Orban said Hungary would withdraw completely from the ICC, an organisation set up more than two decades ago to prosecute those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
“This is no longer an impartial court, a rule-of-law court, but rather a political court. This has become the clearest in light of its decisions on Israel,” Orban said at a news conference with Netanyahu where they did not take questions.
Netanyahu’s office said he and Orban spoke on Thursday with U.S. President Donald Trump about Hungary’s decision to withdraw from the ICC and discussed “the next steps that can be taken on this issue.”
The ICC presidency expressed concern about Hungary’s decision, urging it in a letter to continue to be a resolute party to the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the ICC, it said in a statement.
WATCH: Remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the joint statements with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapesthttps://t.co/BnCmxTGLbM pic.twitter.com/yardclccGp
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) April 3, 2025
In November 2024, the self-styled world court issued ‘arrest warrants’ for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for directing Israel’s military response after Hamas, on October 7, 2023, murdered nearly 1200 Israelis and kidnapped over 250 innocent men, women, and children.
The international court was set up under the framework of the 1998 Rome Statute and currently has 125 signatory member states. Despite initial good intentions, the court has turned rogues over the years — threatening to persecute Israeli and U.S. servicemen for taking part in military operations against terrorist groups.
Hamas, Germany’s foreign minister condemn Orban for hosting Netanyahu
Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock slammed Hungary for hosting the war-time Israeli leader in defiance of the ICC.
Baerbock, who’s party got booted out of the office in February 2025 election, belong to the outgoing coalition that declared its intention to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu in compliance with ICC ruling if he visited the country.
While most European countries have been silent on the matter, Germany’s incoming government and Poland have announced their decision to ignore the ICC warrant.
The Times of Israel reported:
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock decries the visit by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hungary despite an ICC arrest warrant.
“This is a bad day for international criminal law,” Baerbock says at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.
Germany’s top envoy was joined by the Islamic terror group Hamas in condemnation.
“Hamas condemned Hungary’s decision, calling it ‘a slap in the face to the principle of international justice,” Canadian broadcaster CBC reported.
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Eff Hamas. And Germany too. Apparently, all the good Germans came to the US in the 19th century to become Americans.
Not all of them. I didn’t get here until 1990. And my wife didn’t get here until 1991. 😉
If you include the 20th as well, Eisenhower and are Einstein two big names to our benefit.
Via perplexity.ai
The United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). While it participated in the negotiations that led to the creation of the ICC and signed the Rome Statute in 2000 under President Bill Clinton, it never ratified the treaty. In 2002, President George W. Bush formally withdrew the U.S. signature, citing concerns about potential politically motivated prosecutions of U.S. personnel and threats to national sovereignty.
Since then, U.S. policy toward the ICC has varied across administrations. Some, like the Obama administration, engaged with the court as an observer and supported its work in specific cases, while others, such as the Trump administration, took a more adversarial stance, imposing sanctions on ICC officials and rejecting its jurisdiction over U.S. citizens
Maybe Deutschland should change its name to Wokeland. It would be more fitting.
Maybe Deutschland should change its name to the Fourth Reich, have the men grow funny little mustaches, and goose step around to the tune of Deutschlandlied. Seems more fitting and appropriate for Germany these days seeing as how their animosity towards Jews is making a comeback.
“have the men grow funny little mustaches”
Why leave out deserving women?
Maybe Deutchistan considering their current trajectory.
american lefty/rino coalition has been funding our own demise
enough already
no more money to these globalists who look to destroy civilized society in favor of tribalism
EU really hates Hungry and Orban. I’m surprised they haven’t kicked them out yet for wrong think.
Oh, their goal is to take over Hungary and ban any anti-EU politicians and parties.
All of this is interesting given Hungary’s less than stellar history with Jews who resided in Hungary in the previous two centuries.
Maybe Hungary learned their lesson duringafter WWII. It’s obvious that none of the other European nations did.
Frankly most of Europe has a less than stellar history with Jews (although I’m not sure of every countries history).
Germany and the EU can shove it. How about warrants for ICC staff?
Seems to be a lot of that politicization of the courts going around lately…
USA is Number 1 though. Not something to brag about.
The ICC is merely a “data point” evidencing that the WEF crowd (with king charlie, his UK and Commonwealth), Germany and France with their EU, and, of course, the US’ “CIA & State Dept cabal” with NATO … are individually and in toto the greatest threat to peace in Europe, North America, Asia and thus the World.
Each of Orban and Netanyahu (and Trump) have their faults but I am grateful that they have the courage to stand up to those who claim to be “champions of democracy” but in reality are petty oligarchs (none of whom has the courage to stand on their own because they cannot trust any with whom they are supposedly allied).
Let the “good People” in each country of the West (and elsewhere) realize they are not suffering at the weakness of today’s aspiring tyrants alone.
Orban’s withdrawing Hungary because he anticipates the day this so-called “court” issues a warrant for him too.