The International Criminal Court is Becoming a Palestinian Propaganda Engine

"In a recent unprecedented and uncalled-for determination by one of the court's pre-trial chambers over a month ago, they ordered a campaign of outreach to Palestinian victims, 'within or outside of Palestine" to better assist the court in their communicating and interacting with the court. The aim is also "to better understand their rights, to assist the court in fulfilling its role and to better advance the interests of justice and protect the rights of victims' (paragraph 12 of the decision)...

This is quite amazing and unprecedented, and the court is openly turning itself into a Palestinian propaganda engine, similar to the UN Human Rights Council, with a regular reporting regime on Palestine and a distinct section of its website devoted to Palestine.

All this despite the fact, referred to in the decision that the Prosecutor has yet to decide to open an investigation on the Palestinian complaints.

Similarly, despite the fact that no juridical body of the court has determined that it has jurisdiction over territory that is not held by the Palestinians, the permanent status of the territory has yet to be agreed upon pursuant to the still valid Oslo Accords, to which the Palestinians are committed and the international community has endorsed..."