My Take | How Washington makes up a fake genocide but enables a real one
- United Nations report warns US unilateral actions are hurting the very people they were supposed to be defending in China’s Xinjiang region
Do American leaders really care so much about the Uygurs but nothing about the Palestinians? After all, Washington has made a concerted global effort to rally allies and Western NGOs to manufacture a case of genocide against China.
By contrast, it has gone to extraordinary lengths, risking global isolation and compromising its own national interests, to defend and enable Israel’s merciless war in Gaza and extreme repression in the West Bank.
How does that compute? An aerial survey of Urumqi and Gaza today will make anyone question Washington’s most peculiar judgments about where a real genocide is taking place.
By contrast, Israel has banned the UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese from entering the country or Palestinian territories. It has also conducted, with help of a network of pro-Israeli lobby groups, a global propaganda campaign against Albanese and made unfounded allegations of antisemitism against her.
Her crime? She has concluded that Israel’s conduct in Gaza has reached the threshold as defined in the Genocide Convention.
Back to the UN’s Douhan. Since 2017, the US has imposed a long series of sanctions over alleged human rights violations and genocide, against Chinese state agencies, individual officials, and against companies and executives.
