Amal Clooney\u2019s public image is one of a trailblazing human rights lawyer unafraid to hold world leaders to account, who just happens to be married to a movie star.<\/p>\n
But critics say the British barrister and professor is selective in her approach, favoring causes that are at odds with the state of Israel, while questioning her choice to work with a hardline Muslim group.<\/p>\n
Eyebrows were raised when it emerged last week Amal may have had a hand in drafting a constitution for Egypt\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood, which President Trump is in the process of designating a terrorist group.<\/a><\/p>\n Amal Clooney, human rights lawyer and law professor, is a \u201cmouthpiece for the opinions of Hollywood,\u201d said a human rights activist and attorney who works to defend the rights of Jews. AP<\/p>\n It came to light in a resurfaced video clip <\/a>of an interview between her actor husband, George Clooney, and Drew Barrymore in 2022.<\/p>\n Speaking about calling his wife soon after they met in 2012, George said he invited the London-based barrister on a date.<\/p>\n \u201cShe said, \u2018Yeah, I am at a meeting at the Muslim Brotherhood right now. I\u2019ll come right over,\u2019 because she was in the middle of trying to redo a constitution for the Egyptians. Her life and my life are very different,\u201d the actor told Barrymore.<\/p>\n Those Egyptians would have been linked to Mohamed Morsi, who had come to power in June 2012 as the country\u2019s first democratically elected president. He was a longtime prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood and head of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood\u2019s political front.<\/p>\n Morsi previously described Zionists as \u201cbloodsuckers\u201d <\/a>and descendants of apes and pigs in a series of Arabic-language interviews in 2010.<\/p>\n Amal Clooney wore a custom gown by Versace, one of the sponsors of the gala for the Clooney Foundation for Justice in October, 2025. Getty Images for The Clooney Foundation For Justice<\/p>\n Mohammed Morsi, former president of Egypt and longtime leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, led Egypt between 2012 and 2013, when he was deposed by the military. AP<\/p>\n He was then ousted by the Egyptian military in July 2013. Months later, the government banned the Muslim Brotherhood and froze its assets.<\/p>\n \u201cPresumably, any constitution of the Muslim Brotherhood would never be inclusive and fair and follow the harsh rules of sharia law,\u201d said a New York-based professor of American foreign policy and constitutional law who did not want to be identified, noting establishing a caliphate ruled by Sharia Law dictated by the Quran has long been one of the brotherhood\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n \u201cI am sure Amal Clooney was included to put a sweet face on the proceedings,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n Despite her husband\u2019s words, there is no official record of Amal Clooney being involved with the writing of the Brotherhood\u2019s constitution. It is also possible she could have met with them in an advisory capacity or to give legal advice.<\/p>\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and ex-Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant (left) have both been issued arrest warrants be the International Criminal Court. Facebook\/Yoav Gallant<\/p>\n Amal Clooney speaking at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 2018. British officials have since warned she may not be able to travel to the US after President Trump placed sanctions on those associated with the International Criminal Court. AP<\/p>\n A spokesman for the Clooneys did not return a request for comment from The Post.<\/p>\n On the website of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, Amal takes credit for freeing outspoken journalists from prison in repressive states and freeing Yazidi women and children from terror group ISIS, both extremely noble causes.<\/p>\n But Miami-based human rights lawyer Brooke Goldstein \u2014 founder and executive director of the Lawfare Project, a nonprofit that works to protect the civil rights of Jews \u2014 said apparently cozying up to a group such as the Muslim Brotherhood undermines her credibility.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a human rights attorney, Amal Clooney asserts her commitment to defending free speech and women\u2019s rights globally,\u201d Goldstein told The Post.<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, statements regarding meetings with the Muslim Brotherhood or her suggestion that Israel is committing genocide undermine her own mission.\u201d<\/p>\n Amal was a member of the International Criminal Court\u2019s panel of experts which issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n Ramzi Alamuddin, the father of Amal Clooney, is a former professor at the American University in Lebanon. He is shown with George Clooney at his daughter\u2019s wedding to the Hollywood actor in Venice in 2014. GC Images<\/p>\n The ICC has no jurisdiction in either Israel or the US because neither country is signed up to the court. As a result, legal experts and US lawmakers dismissed the warrants as illegal and dangerous.<\/p>\n \u201cShe [Amal] has worked to push forward bogus investigations that may end up undermining American servicemen and helped turn the ICC into a kangaroo court,\u201d claimed Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor and executive director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at George Mason University.<\/p>\n \u201cShe wasn\u2019t the most obnoxious on the [ICC] panel but she was there because she represents the views of the European cosmopolitan elite criticizing Israel,\u201d Kontorovich told The Post.<\/p>\n Amal Clooney arrives for the gala celebration of the Clooney Foundation for Justice. For the first time, the event was held in London, perhaps over fears that the British barrister would be subject to US sanctions for her work on the International Criminal Court. Getty Images for The Clooney Foundation For Justice<\/p>\n Another jurist also slammed Amal\u2019s work for the Hague-based tribunal.<\/p>\n The panel was \u201cconvened by discredited ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan to promote his decision to charge Israeli leaders with war crimes,\u201d claimed Avi Bell, a professor of law at Bar Ilan University in Israel.<\/p>\n \u201cKhan had no legal authority to create the panel, and he filled it primarily with celebrities, not experts. The purpose of the panel was to issue two publications supporting Khan\u2019s dubious decision to criminally charge Israeli leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n Goldstein categorized Amal Clooney as a \u201chired gun\u201d for the ICC, adding his view that \u201c[She] lacks moral objective authority,\u201d Goldstein said,<\/p>\n Darren Walker (second from right) was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the Clooney Foundation for Justice\u2019s annual gala in October. Philanthropist Melinda French Gates (in yellow) was also a winner of an Albie award, named for a South African jurist who fought against apartheid in South Africa. Getty Images for The Clooney Foundation For Justice<\/p>\n \u201cRather, she\u2019s more of a mouthpiece for the opinions of the Hollywood elite and kangaroo courts.\u201d<\/p>\n All 125 members of the ICC, including France and the United Kingdom, are required to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they enter their territories. When he last flew to the US, Netanyahu\u2019s plane made sure not to avoid all European airspace.<\/p>\n Trump imposed financial and visa sanctions against Khan, the court\u2019s British chief prosecutor, who has been on leave since May amid an internal sexual misconduct probe.<\/a><\/p>\n