Since then her longstanding email account has been cancelled, as were her affiliations with two American universities, Columbia and Georgetown; her health insurance has been revoked and she has been blocked from selling her apartment in Washington, to which she, her husband and two daughters are banned from travelling.

Albanese was one of the first to describe what was happening in a Gaza as a “genocide”. She has now become something of a rock-star lawyer on social media for her outspoken comments. She has 1.4 million followers on Instagram and her book is published in 60 countries. Speaking to ambassadors in the Hague on Thursday, people clamoured for selfies.

Yet, she says, she now survives by borrowing cash. “I’m a nearly middle-aged person who’s totally dependent,” she said. “I’ve never been as dependent on someone else’s finances since I was 17.”

It’s a situation familiar to the British barrister Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor of the ICC, and the first in the court to be sanctioned by Trump. His sanctioning came in response to his issuing of arrest warrants in November 2024 against Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Yoav Gallant, the country’s former minister of defence, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

“The United States will not tolerate politicised attacks by the ICC on our allies,” wrote Rubio. “Target Israel and we will target you.
“If you move forward with the measures indicated, we will move to end all American support for the ICC, sanction your employees and associates and bar you and your families from the United States. You have been warned.”

In February last year, Rubio carried out his threat and Khan was sanctioned. Since then eight judges from the court have been sanctioned as well as two deputy prosecutors for the arrest warrants and for authorising an investigation into human rights abuses by US soldiers who served in Afghanistan.

Beti Hohler, a Slovenian judge, was targeted last June, just a year after becoming the court’s youngest judge.
“My Apple ID, iCloud, Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal and other accounts have all been blocked or cancelled,” she told the European parliament last month. “These cancellations happened overnight without advance warning.”

Even her house insurance and her credit cards were cancelled. “It is impossible to have a credit card as a sanctioned individual,” she added. “This makes it difficult and sometimes impossible to do everyday things like making a reservation, buying a plane ticket, or subscribing to an online news outlet.”

“Being under sanctions is like being sent back to the 1990s,” said Nicolas Guillou, a French judge who was sanctioned in August.
“These sanctions affect every aspect of my daily life. All my accounts with American companies, like Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal etc, are closed.”
“I made a reservation on Expedia for a hotel in France and, a few hours later, I received an email from the company cancelling my reservation, citing these sanctions.”

Some have likened it to what is referred to as “civil death” in Turkey where the Erdogan government has used a similar strategy against opponents — debanking them and disassociating them from modern life.

At one point some sanctioned judges were reduced to using pen and paper as they could not access computer systems.
Worried that the whole court will be sanctioned, the ICC has been working with a German technology company to develop its own system — something various NGOs are also looking into.

Sanctioned individuals are not the only ones affected. The sanctions not only ban them and their families from travelling to the US and freeze any assets there but also prohibits any American company or its foreign subsidiary doing business with them, punishable with a $1 million fine.

“Even transactions made by people nothing to do with us such as agents booking flights or hotels get cancelled if our name is there,” says Albanese. “If they mention Francesca Albanese on a ticket, for example, or someone books a ticket to go and hear me speak, the transaction gets cancelled because my name is recognised as connected to criminal activities.”

A friend who sent a Christmas present to Judge Hohler had his own Amazon, Kindle and Audible accounts blocked.
“One of the most painful aspects of the sanctions is their impact on my family,” said Gocha Lordkipanidze, a Georgian judge at the ICC. “I can’t, for example, transfer money to my country to pay someone who is helping a relative who needs care.”

Not only was Khan’s long-held account with British bank Natwest frozen but when he tried to transfer money to his ex-wife in the UK for their children, her bank account was also frozen.

He, like the other Europeans sanctioned, is shocked by how European banks have complied.
“The compliance of European financial operators has been very concerning,” said Hohler. “A European bank whose client I was for decades announced that it was closing my bank account a day after I was sanctioned.”
The problem is the dominance of US companies in technology and financial transactions. This was highlighted in a report released on Thursday by 2,000 NGOs that work with the court, under the title Criminalising Accountability: the US Lawfare against International Justice.

>>1509744
>Declare civillian warfare on the fucking president
>Be surprised when the President treats you like a terrorist because you are
>Shocked Pikachu Face.jpg

Good, they shouldn't be using US infrastructure of any kind if they can't handle the lawfully-elected administration of the US being what it is. Fuck 'em, let 'em go get their own groceries.

>>1509759
>>Declare civillian warfare on the fucking president
Literally the only thing they did was investigate US war crimes you fucking bootlicker.

>>1509759
Oy vey!

>>1509759
>Orange retard breaks laws
>Orange retard gets to destroy the life of the judge overseeing the case
Maybe Orange retard shouldn't break laws?

>>1509780
They didn't even go after Trump; they went after Netanyahu and war crimes the US committed in Afghanistan.

A court with no enforcement capability is no court at all. That holds true for US courts as well. Hell, that holds true for Congress.
Trump has exposed the lie for the world to see. They tell him that he cannot do something. He says, "hold my beer" and does it. Nothing happens.

He has pulled back the curtain and exposed them to the world.

>>1509784
>A court with no enforcement capability is no court at all
The ICC has an enforcement capability, just not in the USA. This is like arguing SCOTUS isn't a real court because it has no authority in China when in actuality it's because the Republican majority are enrobed clowns that give zero fucks about the law.

>>1509782
kek, so basically they went after Trump's dom.

>>1509784
>A court with no enforcement capability is no court at all.
We'll see about that once Orange Chimp gets impeached next year. You retards basically sealed your fates to lose the Senate with this Iran retardation.
>They tell him that he cannot do something. He says, "hold my beer" and does it. Nothing happens.
It's also the mark of low-IQ wrist-slappers to think that because consequences aren't instant, then they do not exist.

Iran is proof all of you are mentally retarded and can't draw direct lines of cause and effect. Trump "exposed the lie for the world to see" by threatening NATO members, NATO members tell him to fuck himself on invading Iran, now he can't take a splotch of dirt on the other side of the globe.

This is just another incarnation of the inability to think more than one month ahead. By sanctioning the ICC because they want to try Trump and Bibi for the obvious attacks on civilians, they've effectively just sanctioned the use of all War Crimes. Those rules the ICC follow are there to protect *us* you mentally ill degenerate. They're to protect US Soldiers from getting blinded by lasers from 5KM away, having permanent nerve damage from chemical attacks, and early types of cancer from radiation weapons. All of which Iran has and have chosen not to use because they agree that it's inhumane. If you're saying all of that is shit because they can't punish Trump right now, then I hope Miggers are ready to come home as crippled basketcases and be taken care of by those social services they spent their entire lives voting to be cut.

>cancel culture comes to international leftists
kek, how's it feel?

>>1509797
feels like miggers are so fucked in the head that nobody knows the meaning of words anymore

>They are not terrorists ...but eminent judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
lol
lel

>>1509780
There is no such thing as 'international law'
>>1509780
You lost to an orange retard?

>>1509814
>There is no such thing as 'international law'
Treaties are a thing even if you're too dumb to have heard of them.

>>1509814
International law is whatever has been agreed upon by the countries that have signed in agreement to uphold those international laws. It is real, enough so that those wanted by the icc can be and have been arrested and put on trial and punished

>>1509817
>International law is whatever has been agreed upon by the countries that have signed in agreement to uphold those international laws
If they have no ability to enforce those laws. The US does though, so get to choose when and where they are applied.

>>1509814
>>1509826
>There is no such thing as 'international law'
Ok, so why does orange nigger scream and cry about "MUHHH INTERNATIONAL LAWWWWW" literally every time China or Russia fart in his direction? He was crying about MUHH INTERNATIONAL LAWWW literally late last year.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-accuses-russia-violating-international-215700771.html?guccounter=1

You would be shitting, squealing, crying, and moaning if the Iranians disregarded it as much and started showering every US base with nerve gas, and you know it. Your orange nigger king was shitting himself over a drone going a couple kilometers past the Polish border. The one who has the most to lose over not recognizing it us, because we could not stand to hear about Russia sending armies of drones into Europe and annihilating infrastructure or Iran using chemical attacks on US bases.

Your posts are more short-sighted, low-IQ chimp behavior from low-IQ chimp miggers. In a few months Russia will fly a bomber 100 miles within Alaska airspace and brainless chimpanzee will be screaming "MUH INTERNASIONAL LAWWWWW"

>>1509814
>You lost to an orange retard?
Who is "You"? Us normal americans don't have presidential candidates. Mexico has the Democrats, India has the Republicans, both of them serve King Zion in Israel. Nobody represents the land that exists between Mexico and Canada. "I" didn't lose, we lost. We lost when it came down to voting for Israel's interest or voting for Mexico's interests.

>>1509826
This is homer simpson stepping on the rake labeled "do not step on rake" because "pfft stupid sign, it won't happen to me!"

100 years of American hegemony pissed away because red-hat toting morons think the laws of physics somehow do not apply to American bases, soldiers, or equipment. Or that we didn't sign treaties purposefully in our favor to prevent that. You probably don't even live in this country.

>>1509838
Midwit take.
People who talk about 'muh international law' don't actually care about the law. They're using it manipulate other nations to act in a certain way or as a justification to act in a hostile way themselves.
Weak nations (see: the rest of NATO) endlessly whine about international law because they rely on the US as their enforcement arm. The US doesn't give a shit because the US can do whatever it has the political willpower to do. Grow up.

>>1509814
>There is no such thing as 'international law'
lol
America is the one who created most of the treaties and laws that govern war, because we wrote the rules to benefit us. Think of us, what do the laws ban?
>Chemical and nuclear weapons
because we have the best conventional weapons
>Strict airspace control
because we have the best spy satellites
>Strict munitions control
because we make the best artillery pieces and firearms
>No cluster bombs
because we have the best precision bombs
>No attacking civilian shipping
because we're the ones that rely on it the most
>No attacking civilian airliners
because most of our elites fly on those

literally and factually the only ones that lose if we say stupid shit like what you're saying, that all that matters is if it can be enforced, is us. we can't even stop Iran from peppering ships in the strait.

>>1509849
>Weak nations (see: the rest of NATO) endlessly whine about international law
Oh like Trump
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-accuses-russia-violating-international-215700771.html?guccounter=1
This is why you're a mentally ill migger. You take sanity for 'midwit takes' because you're incapable like him from seeing the consequences of your actions.

>The US doesn't give a shit because the US can do whatever it has the political willpower to do. Grow up.
Is that why the US is crying about it? Grow up. Migger.

>>1509744
>“They have made us financial and technological outcasts,” said Francesca Albanese
Good. I hope it gets worse for her and her fellow retards.

>>1509849
>Midwit take, we should abandon 80 years of American treaties made by American politicians forced onto our enemies because we should all go back to being babbling barbarians that fight in exclusively WW1 warfare lmao
if that's the midwit take, you just gave us the shit-throwing chimp take

>>1509851
>Is that why the US is crying about it?
lol
Europoors are the ones that keep nagging the US to nuke Russia and arm Ukraine. They can't shut the fuck up about how Putler Voldemort Vader is going to march from Moscow to Minnesota if they're not stopped forever totes frfr no cap
>Is that why the US is crying about it?
It's a thinly veiled threat retard. Because the US is the only one that has the capability to enforce the law.

>>1509759
>>Declare civillian warfare on the fucking president
I suppose these sanctions are a form of retaliation for the Netanyahu arrest warrant.

>>1509826
>If they have no ability to enforce those laws.
They do. Which is why we're sanctioning them. Thanks to the ICC, Israeli official can't step foot in half the planet without ending up dying in prison.

Trump doesn't like that they're threatening Netanyahu, but he can't stop them from doing so, btw.

>>1509759
I was unaware Benjamin Netanyahu was the fucking president of the USA.

>>1509856
>but he can't stop them from doing so
Yeah sure.

>>1509849
>>1509854
>W-When I cry and scream it's a thinly veiled threat!!!
lol
America would fold in a day if it had to protect every single one of its bases worldwide from weaponry which it had banned in international law. Because it involves things like the sonic weaponry tested out on American bases in Cuba

https://www.vice.com/en/article/state-department-declassified-a-report-about-cubas-sonic-weapon/
the one that took MONTHS to find out what happened to hundreds of people to lose their hearing. And btw, the investigation shows you aren't as bulletproof as you think:
>“The Department of State’s response to these incidents was characterized by a lack of senior leadership, ineffective communication, and systemic disorganization,” the report said. “No senior official was ever designated as having overall responsibility, which resulted in many of the other issues this report presents.”
this is the Trump admin investigating itself and finding itself to be stacked with a bunch of fucking incompetent retards. at one base. you're too stupid to extrapolate what would happen if this attack were to occur at hundreds of bases.

>>1509857
oh, i think we kind of figured that out day 1 of Trump's first term

>>1509860
Jews are white.

>>1509859
>Because it involves things like the sonic weaponry tested out on American bases in Cuba
You're retarded. All of the voodoo shit that happens around US military bases is the US testing out experimental weaponry and vehicles on its own people. Anybody with introductory knowledge on the history of US arms development already knows this.

>>1509849
here's how the enforcement of ICC rulings works
>ICC issues arrest warrant
>states that are parties to the Rome statute are legally obliged to enforce it
>Netanyahu can no longer visit 125 countries
the ICC has no enforcement arm, it relies on states, but that doesn't mean it's all fake and gay

>>1509854
The Ukraine will still have the support of (most of) Europe with or without the US. You don’t understand how worrying Russian westwards expansion it is for Europeans. The reason why the US weaponry is needed is because that’s the way NATO has been set up, everyone else besides a few are reliant on US arms supply

By the way this is some crazy shit
>At one point some sanctioned judges were reduced to using pen and paper as they could not access computer systems.

>>1509866
Making me think about the importance of internet anonymity

>>1509744
What are leftists going to do when they push Israel on to China's side? 2030 rolls around and woohoo! Israel is shunned by the west! And instead of having the US as their UN security council partner, they rely on China to block resolutions for them, and they give China advanced technology and a friendly outpost in the middle east.

What say you, retards?

>>1509869
>and they give China advanced technology and a friendly outpost in the Middle East
You sound like a Jew who left the Democrats because the Republicans are the party of Zionism and that’s more important to you than literally anything

>>1509867
more like the importance of having your own OS

>>1509871
You sound like a shill desperately coping and pretending republicunts aren't America's rabidly pro-Israel party

>>1509871
I'm not voting for leftists anytime soon, but that doesnt mean I'm voting for retard republicans either. Honestly I'm more annoyed that this issue is such a big deal, I couldn't give less of a shit about Israel or Palestine. But since it is such a big issue in our politics for some reason, I hope Israel finishes the job in Palestine before 2028.

If the 2028 republican nominee would put out a plan to realistically replace Obamacare, I would vote for him in a heartbeat. But no they're too busy funneling money to themselves and their friends.

>>1509863
>A-ACTUALLY THE US DID IT
never mind the report the trump admin did outright said it wasn't the US who did it
lol
coping retard

>>1509826
>>1509814
>>1509849
>There is no such thing as 'international law'
>If they have no ability to enforce those laws.
>The US doesn't give a shit because the US can do whatever
Oh ok, does that mean the US is going to take the strait in two weeks? You said the US is almighty and has the power to do whatever, so go ahead, take the strait.

You're not just lying and coping, right?

>>1509869
Oh no! we're going to lose the support of our greatest ally, Israel! They'll be forced to start bombing Chinese ships and pretending they're Egyptian, instead.

>>1509864
you think miggers know how this works? they literally think the US is the sole global hegemony even after Trump flushed its trade and partnerships down the toilet.

>>1509882
China is the sole global hedgemoney.
The US has been a sinking ship since the 90s.

>>1509744
It's going to be funny as shit when trump is handed over to the ICC to stand trial.

>>1509879
Good post. Never critically think, always believe what your superiors tell you.

>>1509864
>that doesn't mean it's all fake and gay
That's exactly what it means retard. Laws have no power if nobody is willing to enforce them.

>>1509874
Israel has free public universal healthcare, you could move there

>>1509881
>Oh ok, does that mean the US is going to take the strait in two weeks?
Sure. But that would require glassing the strait and killing 90 million civilians.
Don't play gay chicken with the US, faggot, we'll win every time.

>>1509909
I wish I could

>>1509910
>Heh, don't push us, we'll destroy the entire oil industry because we started a fight we can't win
Also glassing the strait is a great way to make this inflation even worse and semi-permanent

>>1509929
don't bother engaging with the shill. they don't actually know about America's wartime capabilities, and we can't actually glass the region even if Trump demanded it

>>1509929
Sorry to hear about your town being the newest source of trinitite anon.

>>1509917
You could “convert” to “Judaism”. Actually surprised more American people aren’t doing this, Israel is way safer and has better public services than the US

Israel is doomed once the baby boomer generation dies out. Nobody under 50 years old wants anything to do with their degeneracy.

>>1509910
awesome, so you're going to do that and take it in two weeks, right?

>>1510059
I'm pretty sure it's way more involved than just "yo rabbi make me Jew n shit! I wanna go to Israel dawg!"

>>1510066
https://www.wikihow.com/Convert-to-Judaism

>>1510067
>Understand that converting to Judaism is a major decision.
>Be prepared for the rabbi to try to dissuade you, or turn you away, 3 times or more
>You will need to spend at least 1 year (sometimes 2 or more) studying (many organizations offer night classes) and living a Jewish life before your conversion is finalized
>At the end of your studies, you are tested on how much you learned. You will also be questioned before a Jewish court
Yeah as I thought. And that's just converting. That's not even getting to Israel.