Leibler urges PM to condemn ‘politically corrupt’ international court
High-profile lawyer Mark Leibler is demanding Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemn the International Criminal Court’s prosecution of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Foreign Minister Penny Wong gave her strongest signal yet that Australia supported his arrest.
In a speech on Monday night, Mr Leibler will lash the decision to deny a visa to former Israeli minister Ayelet Shaked as “capricious, wrong-headed” and the height of hypocrisy given the Albanese government’s failure to sanction Iran’s local envoy for hate speech against Jews.
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