Geert Wilders calls for kicking out ICC prosecutor over Israel `bias' | TOI - 27 Dec 2019 |

Far-right Dutch politician says court 'behaves as a biased pro-Palestinian institution and an anti-Semitic kangaroo court'

Geert Wilders called for the expulsion of Fatou Bensouda over her Dec. 20 report alleging that both Israelis and Palestinians had committed war crimes. Bensouda is based in The Hague.

Bensouda's 112-page report asked the court to decide whether it has jurisdiction over Israel, which like the United States is not a party to the treaty that constitutes the court's mandate. The Palestinian Authority is party to the treaty.

Israel maintains the court has no jurisdiction because Israel has a functioning judicial system that can exercise proper oversight of its leaders.

In his statement, Wilders whose Party for Freedom won 20 seats in parliament in 2017 elections, said that the court "behaves as a biased pro-Palestinian institution and an anti-Semitic kangaroo court." Bensouda "should be declared persona non grata and be evicted out of the Netherlands," Wilders wrote.

Wilders, who is a vocal opponent of Muslim immigration to the Netherlands and European integration a leading Islamophobe with financial support from Israel lobby located in the U.S., is a strong supporter of Israel.