UK lawyers’ regulator suspends ICC prosecutor who charged that Israel committed ‘war crimes’

International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan in March 2024 filed applications for warrants of arrest for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. He claimed that Israel had committed “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity.” Later, when he faced these claims about his behavior (which allegedly involved “nonconsensual sexual contact”), some suggested that he leveled these baseless charges against Israel so as to distract from his own woes. That idea has not been disproven.

Also, Karim Khan appears to be following in the footsteps of Tariq Ramadan. Could they be reading the same book?

“ICC chief prosecutor Khan suspended by British lawyers’ regulator,” by Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch, Reuters, June 19, 2026:

THE HAGUE, June 19 (Reuters) – International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan, who has been accused of sexual misconduct, has been suspended by Britain’s independent regulator for court lawyers.
Khan had already been suspended ​on June 8 by the ICC’s governing body, prolonging a crisis at the war crimes court, ​which is also under U.S. sanctions over investigations into the United States and ⁠Israel….

“He maintains ​that he has acted at all times fully in accordance with his professional obligations,” his lawyers said in a statement sent to Reuters.

Khan’s supporters have suggested that he has become a political target for seeking arrest warrants ​for Israeli officials over Israel’s conduct in its war in Gaza….