Explanation:
Contrary to popular belief, we do not consider the so-called “Hague Court of Arbitration” or any other similar international institution to be in any way, to any extent, separate and distinct from the octopus of capitalist terror and horror. The entire “United Nations” and all its institutions, organs, and spheres are an inseparable part of the structure of order, power, barbarism, deception, thought engineering, and the brainwashing machine of capital. The bourgeoisie is a scattered class and is in internal turmoil, while all its layers, mafias, governments, and sections share an iron alliance and steely determination in defending the very existence of capitalism, in the physical and intellectual suppression of the global working class, in the imposition of all the misery, hunger, misery, deprivation, war-making, and holocausts inherent to capital on billions of workers in the world, and compete fiercely with each other over the distribution of profits, power, ownership, sovereignty, and the results of the exploitation of the global working class, forming fronts against each other, and setting the world on fire. They form alliances, compete, bargain, partner, establish military alliances against each other. They create institutions for resolving disputes and engage in every other atrocity. The International Criminal Court is also an integral part of the overall structure of capital order and power and a reflection of the internal division of labour of capitalism. There is no doubt about this, but the ongoing disputes and conflicts of the mafias and various sections of the bourgeoisie occasionally become a hole for the eruption of news related to the atrocities, savagery, genocide and ongoing crimes of this entire octopus. No worker anywhere in the world should be deceived by these conflicts and disputes, should not fall into the abyss of the evil and worse vision of this or that section of the bourgeois reaction, should not become the foot soldiers of settling the scores of these beasts, but delving into the disputes and seeing more and more clearly and consciously what capitalism is bringing upon humanity is the need to improve our anti-capitalist knowledge and awareness.
Robert Inlakesh’s report is also included here with the same perspective.
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Microsoft’s role in Gaza goes way beyond the ICC email lockout
Originally published: MintPress News on May 21, 2025 by Robert Inlakesh (more by MintPress News) | (Posted May 22, 2025)
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Last week, headlines lit up with a staggering development: Microsoft locked the world’s top war crimes prosecutor out of his email. Karim Khan, chief of the International Criminal Court (ICC), had dared to go after Israeli officials for war crimes and was instantly digitally silenced. His accounts were frozen. His name smeared. His power stripped.
It looked like petty revenge. But it wasn’t just that. It was the latest move in a coordinated campaign, backed by Washington, Tel Aviv, and Silicon Valley, to destroy the one court willing to challenge Israeli impunity.
And Microsoft is at the center of it.
While the press obsessed over the email lockout, few paid attentions to what came before: a U.S.-Israeli information war against the ICC.
After the court announced arrest warrants against both Hamas and Israeli officials for war crimes in Gaza, U.S. officials went into overdrive. Biden called the decision “outrageous.” Lawmakers threatened sanctions. Netanyahu smeared the court as “antisemitic.”
Despite the outrage, the warrants reflected a 3-to-2 ratio: Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mohammed al-Deif of Hamas; Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Prime Minister Netanyahu.
All three Palestinian leaders have since been killed. The Israeli officials remain untouched.
Then came the kicker: the U.S. government sanctioned Khan himself. His bank accounts were frozen, and his allies were warned: help him and face criminal charges.
It wasn’t the first time, either. In 2002, Congress passed the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, better known as the Hague Invasion Act. It authorizes the president to send troops into the Netherlands if any American or allied official is detained by the court.
But while the U.S. handled the threats and the muscle, Microsoft played a more subtle role. According to Khan, the company blocked him from his official ICC email account just as he was formalizing charges against top Israeli leaders. The timing, to many, wasn’t a coincidence—it was a message.
Following October 7, Microsoft signed $10 million in new contracts with the Israeli military. Through a secretive program called “Project Azure,” the company provided infrastructure for Israeli intelligence and air force units, including Unit 8200 and Unit 81. These are the same units compiling “kill lists” in Gaza.
The company stayed quiet until recently, when it admitted to providing “emergency support” to Israel. But insisted that there was “no evidence” its tech harmed civilians.
That’s not all. Microsoft previously poured $78 million into the Israeli surveillance firm AnyVision, whose facial recognition tech was deployed across the West Bank. It also powered an app developed by the Israeli military—“Al Munaseq”—which spies on Palestinian permit-holders. Its cloud systems processed their private phone data.
Worse still, Microsoft has been stacking its upper ranks with veterans of Israel’s Unit 8200, effectively embedding a foreign intelligence agency into the core of one of America’s most powerful corporations and building its next data centers in Israel.
While the ICC is being sabotaged from the top, resistance is brewing from within. On April 4, two Microsoft employees, one a whistleblower, disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration, accusing it of complicity in genocide. Both were fired.
Then, at the Build 2025 conference, Palestinian engineer Joe Lopez interrupted CEO Satya Nadella mid-speech: “My people are suffering!” Security dragged him out. A day later, another protester shouted down a separate keynote: “No Azure for Apartheid!” Protesters outside waved Palestinian flags and demanded answers.
These demonstrations were organized by the group No Azure for Apartheid, which has been documenting how Microsoft’s tools are helping Israel wage war. Inside the company, those who speak out face retaliation.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu is gloating. “The prosecutor should be worried about his status,” he said after the warrants were announced. That threat has aged well.
Many critics of Microsoft’s outsized role in Israel’s war argue that when a foreign state and its allies in Silicon Valley can paralyze an international court with the click of a button, it’s not just Gaza under siege, it’s in our institutions, our tech, and our sovereignty.
Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the occupied Palestinian territories and hosts the show ‘Palestine Files’. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’.