Since being elected to Congress in 2018, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has used her Twitter account repeatedly to condemn the Assad regime’s war crimes against Syrian civilians.
Just kidding.
Over thousands of tweets, Tlaib posted just three times about the Syrian plight, and one of those times was to attack then-President Donald Trump’s policy in the region.
Instead, the congresswoman’s social media feed is filled with blood libel-worthy criticisms of Israel, including accusing the country of genocide.
The same goes for Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), and Cori Bush (D-MO) — all members of the radical progressive “Squad” in Congress. They rant and rave about Israel under the guise of human rights but have little anger left for real human rights crises all over the world, including in Syria, Sudan, and China.
Their faux concern with Israel’s alleged crimes belies the blatant hypocrisy and, yes, antisemitism that course through America’s far Left. Why is the Squad obsessed with a tiny Jewish state the size of New Jersey struggling to defend itself against terrorism?
Because it is a Jewish state.
The same hypocrisy runs rampant through the United Nations. The U.N. Human Rights Council is populated by dictatorial countries with horrific human rights records. And yet, they spend the majority of their time condemning Israel’s alleged human rights violations.
They don’t care about human rights. They only care about attacking Israel.
Radicals such as Tlaib and institutions such as the U.N. give voice to the thousands of protesters who mimic their antisemitic crusade using words such as “justice,” “resistance,” and “solidarity.”
The protesters who shut down airports in support of Hamas are silent about Bashar al-Assad massacring 500,000 of his people. Reminder: The Assad regime perpetrated rape, torture, and murder against its own people. They are constantly under fire from airstrikes, and no warning pamphlets are dropped beforehand.
The systematic killing of the Darfuri people in Sudan has left more than 10,000 people dead, 4.5 million displaced, and a further 1.2 million, mostly women and girls, fleeing to neighboring countries. As recently as November 2023, genocidal gunmen went from home to home for three days in a refugee camp in Darfur, Sudan, looking for Masalit men and killing them. By the time they had finished, between 800 and 1,300 members of the African ethnic group had been killed.
On the other side of the world, the Chinese Community Party holds more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps. CCP officials subject Uyghurs to physical beatings, sexual assault, and gang rapes of women. Female sterilizations, forced abortions, mass rapes, and sexual torture are part of the CCP’s family planning policy.
Why is Taylor Swift not attending fundraisers for the Uyghurs, and where are all the “Queers for Xinjiang” signs? Did I miss the blockade of international airports over the Syrian genocide?
They don’t exist because the “Resistance” doesn’t care about human rights. These protesters don’t care about the plight of Palestinians. If they did, they would be appalled at how Hamas treats its own people. They would decry the terrorists that build tunnels under schools, indoctrinate young children, and steal humanitarian aid.
If the “Queers for Palestine” cared about Palestinians, they would know that a gay Palestinian is freer and safer in Israel than he is in Gaza, where his pronouns are likely to be was/were.
If Tlaib cared about human rights, she wouldn’t defend genocidal calls such as those from the protesters who chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a call to exterminate the Jewish people from the Middle East.
Such activists don’t care about human rights, justice, or freedom. They only care about the Jews. They are masking their antisemitism as a human rights crusade and are almost getting away with it.
The moral of this immoral story? Israel is unfairly scrutinized, lectured, and denounced. It’s a tale as old as time. But detractors are mistaken if they think the nation is interested in their stamp of approval.
Former Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir wisely observed, “The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.”
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The Jewish people are not interested in being pitied. They are not interested in Tlaib’s dishonest conception of “human rights,” the U.N.’s self-righteous pronouncements, or college students’ indignant hunger strikes.
Israel is focused on surviving. Israel is not committing genocide — it is preventing one.
Mor Greenberg is the director of public affairs at ColdSpark, a political consulting firm.