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The Hypocrisy of the Human Rights Industrial Complex

(Jerusalem Post) Dr. Dan Diker - Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, a "human rights" agenda has been weaponized against Israel by NGOs and the international community. The UN, for example, inexplicably accepted death statistics provided by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry and quoted them as fact, although the numbers of civilians purportedly killed were intermingled with those of militants, and some numbers were statistically impossible. The UN called for a ceasefire without demanding that Hamas release Israeli civilian hostages. The "human rights industrial complex" criticized Israel, which has fought Hamas Islamist militants who massacred Israeli civilians, while treating Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) with kid gloves for doing the same to Alawites and Christians. No campus protests were held for murdered Alawites or Christians. Israel has been a target for "human rights" political warfare because it is convenient to corner Jews and the Jewish state, while it is politically inconvenient - and politically incorrect - to criticize Sunni-Shi'ite tribal warfare in Syria or anywhere else. The writer is president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.
2025-03-18 00:00:00
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