Historian Suzanne Schneider is deputy director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (New York) and a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford (UK). A specialist in the Middle East, she is also interested in the rise of nationalism.
On November 21, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu. Faced with this decision, the Israeli Prime Minister has, in particular, the full support of conservative foreign leaders. Does an informal right-wing coalition exist internationally?
Let us first note that Democrat Joe Biden, the outgoing President of the United States, considered this mandate to be “scandalous”. However, contempt for the ICC will only increase once President-elect, Republican Donald Trump, occupies the White House. Especially since across the world, from Hungary to Argentina via India, there are many leaders at the head of democracies who will ignore this decision. They belong to an emerging coalition forming a global right, whose leading figures are Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, the Argentine President, Javier Milei, and the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
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