The three ghosts—war crimes, BDS, and global condemnation—will torment Israel for the next few decades, troubling its conscience and eroding its legitimacy. They are not transient criticisms, but eternal indictments that cut across borders and generations. Charges of war crimes bear moral stains that no diplomatic smokescreen can gloss over. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, while disputed and as yet a non-transformative force, continues to galvanise civil society against perceived injustice, gnawing at Israel’s economic and cultural standing. And global condemnation—maintained by visions of destruction, starvation, pulverised children, and the tolerance of silence—gives birth to a shared relentless memory. Each of these puts together a triad of accounting that possibly could cancel out Israel’s moral and political resilience.

Israel stands today before a court of global conscience. Accusations of war crimes—of collective punishment and indiscriminate bombardment of refugee camps and hospitals—have prompted official investigations before the International Criminal Court. ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan reminded states in May that “no one is above the law, and those who weaponise starvation or collective punishment will be held accountable.” These are not abstractions of law; they are moral indictments.

International lawyers note that the devastation of Gaza has produced “the most comprehensive........

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