Others have questioned why Clooney did not apply for British citizenship, given that he and Amal have family there, as well as a house in Windsor since 2014. Amal also has chambers in London and two fellowships at Oxford – not the easiest commute from rural Provence.
Yet it is her involvement on a 2024 advisory panel reviewing the international criminal court investigation into potential war crimes in Gaza that offers the strongest indication as to why the couple felt it imperative to relocate their family from Los Angeles.
A warrant was issued in November 2024, and the following February, Trump issued an executive order imposing sanctions on the ICC and naming Khan in its annexe, promising to “impose tangible and significant consequences on those responsible for the ICC’s transgressions, some of which may include the blocking of property and assets, as well as the suspension of entry into the United States of ICC officials, employees, and agents, as well as their immediate family members”.
Last April, Amal was among a number of senior legal counsels to the ICC warned by the Foreign Office that they could be at risk of sanctions by the Trump administration, including being banned from entering the US.
Accountability is something to be avoid if your Donald Trump or one of his sycophants. The ICC has every right told those responsible for human rights abuse accountable no matter who it is.
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