The State Department’s Human-Rights Report Is an Anti-Israel Travesty
Gathering libels and inanities from every NGO that criticizes the Jewish state.
March 23, 2017
Gathering libels and inanities from every NGO that criticizes the Jewish state.
The Department of State’s annual report on human-rights abuses around the world, released on March 3, devotes 69 pages to Israel and an additional 72 to the West Bank and Gaza, for a combined total equaling that devoted to China. No other nation, not even Syria or Iran, received such attention. But the problem is far more than a quantitative one, as Evelyn Gordon points out:
Gathering libels and inanities from every NGO that criticizes the Jewish state.
Punishing Abbas for rewarding terrorists.
The marketplace of ideas can only do so much.
The case for anchoring the tent, not enlarging it until it collapses.
Enlightened despotism has served it well.
The Department of State’s annual report on human-rights abuses around the world, released on March 3, devotes 69 pages to Israel and an additional 72 to the West Bank and Gaza, for a combined total equaling that devoted to China. No other nation, not even Syria or Iran, received such attention. But the problem is far more than a quantitative one, as Evelyn Gordon points out:
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