Amal Clooney Loses the Plot on Women’s Rights

Time’s 2022 woman of the year, Amal Clooney, is a human-rights lawyer who has earned a reputation for defending women’s rights. Not just a glamorous jetsetter with a celebrity husband (actor George Clooney), she has made her mark, Time wrote, by ensuring “that women who are victims of mass atrocities, including genocide and sexual violence, are not forgotten, that they get justice, that their lives and communities are better as a result.”

Clooney was most recently an adviser to the International Criminal Court in its decision to issue arrest warrants for Hamas leaders and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Gallant. Anti-Israel activists applauded her for joining the panel of experts who aided and affirmed ICC prosecutor Karim Khan’s effort. Although Clooney has been relatively quiet about the war since Hamas attacked Israel in October, this move redeemed her in pro-Palestinian circles; her fans forgave her silence in light of her role with the ICC. One person wrote on X: “Amal Clooney quietly working on the ICC proceedings to bring Israel to The Hague for war crimes while she was being dragged online for not posting about Gaza. Queen, sorry we doubted you.”

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Time’s 2022 woman of the year, Amal Clooney, is a human-rights lawyer who has earned a reputation for defending women’s rights. Not just a glamorous jetsetter with a celebrity husband (actor George Clooney), she has made her mark, Time wrote, by ensuring “that women who are victims of mass atrocities, including genocide and sexual violence, are not forgotten, that they get justice, that their lives and communities are better as a result.”

Clooney was most recently an adviser to the International Criminal Court in its decision to issue arrest warrants for Hamas leaders and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Gallant. Anti-Israel activists applauded her for joining the panel of experts who aided and affirmed ICC prosecutor Karim Khan’s effort. Although Clooney has been relatively quiet about the war since Hamas attacked Israel in October, this move redeemed her in pro-Palestinian circles; her fans forgave her silence in light of her role with the ICC. One person wrote on X: “Amal Clooney quietly working on the ICC proceedings to bring Israel to The Hague for war crimes while she was being dragged online for not posting about Gaza. Queen, sorry we doubted you.”