THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Israeli army reservist’s dream vacation in Brazil ended abruptly last month over an accusation that he committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Yuval Vagdani woke up on Jan. 4 to a flurry of missed calls from family members and Israel’s Foreign Ministry with an urgent warning: A pro-Palestinian legal group had convinced a federal judge in Brazil to open a war crimes investigation for his alleged participation in the demolition of civilian homes in Gaza.

A frightened Vagdani fled the country on a commercial flight the next day to avoid the grip of a powerful legal concept called “universal jurisdiction,” which allows governments to prosecute people for the most serious crimes regardless of where they are allegedly committed.

  • @FelixCress
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    75 hours ago

    Good. Criminals should be prosecuted.

  • Laser
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    1510 hours ago

    You mean the genoncided who have become the genociders are finding out people fucking hate them. Good!

  • @[email protected]
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    2310 hours ago

    Complaining a dream vacation ended because of warcrime accusations looks so strange from this side of the Rubicon…

  • FlashMobOfOneOP
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    2411 hours ago

    Good.

    Make the bastards scared to leave Israel. They deserve so much worse than being confined to their own country.

  • @MothmanDelorian
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    And this is why George W Bush’s administration decided the ICC should have no jurisdiction over the USA during the Invasion of Iraq in 2003. They expected service people to face charges.

  • Flying Squid
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    1210 hours ago

    I guess a lot of Israelis are going to have to be very careful about where they plan on vacationing from now on.

  • Tiefling IRL
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    C’mon guys have done sympathy, all he did was demolish poor people’s housing, it’s not like he leaked scientific papers or smoked a bit of weed /s