UN & Australian Legal Expert Chris Sidoti Urges Prosecution of Australians Who Fought with Israel’s IDF
October 4, 2025
UN and Australian legal expert Chris Sidoti has called on the Australian Government to prosecute citizens who fought with the Israeli military.
Because let’s be clear:
– If an Australian fights for ISIS → they’re branded a terrorist.
– If an Australian fights for Russia → they face prosecution.
– But if an Australian fights with the IDF while it slaughters Palestinians? Silence.
This double standard is not just hypocrisy it’s complicity.
Australian law is clear: joining foreign armed forces engaged in war crimes is illegal. Gaza is drenched in war crimes. Entire families obliterated. Children buried alive under rubble. Hospitals bombed.
Yet Canberra stays silent. Why?
Because the victims are Palestinian. Because the perpetrators are allies.
Chris Sidoti is right: if the rule of law means anything in Australia, it cannot be applied selectively. Justice cannot wear a blindfold when it comes to Palestine.”
#ChrisSidoti #Australia #IDF #ProsecuteWarCrimes #Palestine #EndTheGenocide #DoubleStandards
English Script:
Chris Sidoti: Australian individuals, some are dual citizens, serve in the Israeli Defense Forces, and many soldiers or former soldiers come to Australia. Our Commission of inquiry has found since June 2024 that the State of Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Both individual acts and importantly, through the whole pattern of strategy and operations, there. We have said that any soldier, airman, aircrew, surveillance personnel, radar personnel, naval crew who have had any involvement in the war in Gaza is a suspect, is a suspect who should be investigated and if the evidence warrants it, prosecuted, and if a court is satisfied, convicted. The necessary consequence of that is that anyone, whether an Australian citizen or not, who seeks to enter this country having served in any arm of the Israeli military in Gaza since the 7th of October 2023, should be treated as a suspect and investigated and, if necessary, prosecuted. We have under the Commonwealth Criminal Law, Australian domestic criminal offenses relating to the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide anywhere in the world. So our law covers this. This is not just international law. This is our law.
