Amal Clooney’s 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.

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.

Eyebrows rose when it emerged last week that Amal may have had a hand in drafting a constitution for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which President Trump is in the process of designating a terrorist group.

Amal Clooney, human rights lawyer and law professor, is a “mouthpiece for the opinions of Hollywood,” said a human rights activist and attorney who works to defend the rights of Jews. AP

It came to light in a resurfaced video clip of an interview between her actor husband, George Clooney, and Drew Barrymore in 2022.

Speaking about calling his wife soon after they met in 2012, George said he invited the London-based barrister on a date.

“She said, ‘Yeah, I am at a meeting at the Muslim Brotherhood right now. I’ll come right over,’ because she was in the middle of trying to redo a constitution for the Egyptians. Her life and my life are very different,” the actor told Barrymore.

Those Egyptians would have been linked to Mohamed Morsi, who had come to power in June 2012 as the country’s first democratically elected president. He was a longtime prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood and head of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood’s political front.

Morsi previously described Zionists as “bloodsuckers” and descendants of apes and pigs in a series of Arabic-language interviews in 2010.

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

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

He was ousted by the Egyptian military in July 2013. Months later, the government banned the Muslim Brotherhood and froze its assets.

“Presumably, any constitution of the Muslim Brotherhood would never be inclusive and fair and follow the harsh rules of sharia law,” said a New York-based professor of American foreign policy and constitutional law who did not want to be identified, noting that establishing a caliphate ruled by Sharia law dictated by the Quran has long been one of the Brotherhood’s goals.

“I am sure Amal Clooney was included to put a sweet face on the proceedings,” they added.

Despite her husband’s words, there is no official record of Amal Clooney being involved with the writing of the Brotherhood’s constitution. It is also possible she could have met with them in an advisory capacity or to give legal advice.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and ex-Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant have both been issued arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court. Facebook/Yoav Gallant

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

A spokesman for the Clooneys did not return a request for comment from The Post.

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 the terror group ISIS, both extremely noble causes.

But Miami-based human rights lawyer Brooke Goldstein — founder and executive director of the Lawfare Project, a nonprofit that works to protect the civil rights of Jews — said apparently cozying up to a group such as the Muslim Brotherhood decreases her credibility.

“As a human rights attorney, Amal Clooney asserts her commitment to defending free speech and women’s rights globally,” Goldstein told The Post.

“However, statements regarding meetings with the Muslim Brotherhood or her suggestion that Israel is committing genocide undermine her own mission.”

Amal was a member of the International Criminal Court’s panel of experts that 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.

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’s wedding to the Hollywood actor in Venice in 2014. GC Images

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.

“She [Amal] has worked to push forward bogus investigations that may end up undermining American servicemen and helped turn the ICC into a kangaroo court,” claimed Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor and executive director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at George Mason University.

“She wasn’t the most obnoxious on the [ICC] panel but she was there because she represents the views of the European cosmopolitan elite criticizing Israel,” Kontorovich told The Post.

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

Another jurist also slammed Amal’s work for the Hague-based tribunal.

The panel was “convened by discredited ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan to promote his decision to charge Israeli leaders with war crimes,” claimed Avi Bell, a professor of law at Bar Ilan University in Israel.

“Khan 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’s dubious decision to criminally charge Israeli leaders.”

Goldstein categorized Amal Clooney as a “hired gun” for the ICC, adding his view that “[She] lacks moral objective authority,” Goldstein said,

Darren Walker (second from right) was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s annual gala in October. Philanthropist Melinda French Gates (third from right) 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

“Rather, she’s more of a mouthpiece for the opinions of the Hollywood elite and kangaroo courts.”

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’s plane made sure to avoid all European airspace.

Trump imposed financial and visa sanctions against Khan, the court’s British chief prosecutor, who has been on leave since May amid an internal sexual misconduct probe.

UK officials also warned Amal and other British lawyers who served on the panel that they might be barred from entering the US.

She had since played it safe, holding the Clooney Foundation for Justice gala awards ceremony in London instead of at their regular venue, the New York Public Library.

A funeral ceremony for the remains of 41 victims from the Yazidi minority, who were executed by the Islamic State. Amal Clooney fought in court to bring captured ISIS members to justice over the attempted genocide. AFP via Getty Images

Among this year’s winners of the Albie Awards, named for South African anti-apartheid lawyer and activist Albie Sachs, were philanthropist Melinda French Gates and Darren Walker, a member of the Clooney Foundation’s own board. Walker, former president of the Ford Foundation, won the nonprofit’s lifetime achievement prize.

Among the “supporters” of the annual gala were Nespresso, the coffee company that employs George as a spokesman. He once said he used most of the money he makes from the company on a satellite to surveil the Sudanese border.

George was a co-founder in 2007 of Not On Our Watch, a nonprofit that focused on raising awareness of the human rights crisis in Darfur, Sudan. That charity merged with another nonprofit in 2019.

The Clooney Foundation for Justice, which was set up in 2016 and claims to work in 40 countries, took in more than $15 million in donations in 2023, according to its most recent federal tax filing. Among the group’s board members are Bryan Lourd, CEO of Creative Artists Agency, who is also George’s longtime Hollywood agent. The agency also represents Amal.

A spokesman for Clooney and the foundation did not respond to requests for comment last week.