Another U.N. human rights report has been released about Israel and the human rights abuses it perpetrates in the Occupied Territories—yet another report that highlights ongoing violations of international law and that criticizes state actors and organs, greeted with yet another symbolic resolution at the United Nations in Geneva. And of course, all the usual suspects are up in arms.
One side says that the report is not strong enough in its condemnation; the other side cries “selectivity”, “bias”, “unfairness”. Neither listens to the other because everyone would rather broadcast to a global public audience. And ultimately those words drown out the very real issues of Israeli violations and of how the spotlight shone on Israel is done so to shield other grave abusers from scrutiny.
