Will Trump Kidnap Israel’s President Herzog for Violating Trump’s Israeli Sedition Edict?
Paul Craig Roberts
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has violated Trump’s Sedition Edict that protects Israel and Jews in general from criticism. The US Department of Justice has committed to implementing Trump’s edict that conflates criticism of Israeli behavior with anti-semitism. https://paulcraigroberts.org/trumps-sedition-act-for-israel/
According to the New York Times, in a recent speech Israeli President Herzog warned that the inhuman behavior of Israeli settlers is being normalized and is becoming mainstream. He said the Israeli settlers in the West Bank are a lawless, anarchistic mob whose attacks on Palestinians “defile our home and depart from every basic norm–moral, legal or Jewish.” Of course Israel’s attack on Gaza also violates every moral and legal norm. That Washington has enabled the Israeli attack on Gaza proves that Washington also has no moral or legal norms. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/world/middleeast/israel-herzog-violence.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20260525&instance_id=176146&nl=today’s-headlines®i_id=31655120&segment_id=220428&user_id=37e12dbf03bcba359546104d0b48992b
Can the President of Israel now expect Trump to kidnap him and bring him to Washington to be put on trial for violating Trump’s Sedition edict?
Why do Trump and his attorney general think that Trump has authority to place the inhuman acts of Israelis off limits to criticism? Nothing like this has ever happened before in history. The US president has prohibited every American, and in view of the extra-territorial claims of US law perhaps the entire population of the world, from criticizing the actions and policies of a foreign government. In other words, Trump has repealed the First Amendment. And this is making America great again? How can patriots support Trump — “the Butcherer of the American Constitution.” America is not Trump. America is the Constitution. By attacking the Constitution, Trump is attacking America in behalf of Israel, a government bereft of moral and legal norms.
By the way, what has happened to kidnapped Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife? What dungeon are they in, awaiting what? How can Trump avoid arrest and prosecution for his personal crime of using the US military to kidnap a head of state and his wife? This is even more outrageous than the behavior of Israeli settlers. With Trump’s supporters celebrating Trump’s and Israel’s criminal acts, what next for America?