The Massive Human Rights Inversion: Are Israelis Not Entitled to Human Rights?

The Western ideological and indoctrination machinery appears to be working overtime. On a daily basis, we are witnessing a mass-phenomenon of deliberately one-sided accusations being leveled solely against Israel, alleging human rights violations against Palestinians.

Openly-slanted social media platforms, once-reputable international media outlets, politically-biased United Nations bodies, and human rights committees, politically-pressured and influenced national and international leaders and parliamentarians, fomented university students and academic staff, and clearly ignorant show-biz celebrities, all unthinkingly accuse Israel of such crimes as genocide, apartheid, discrimination, cruelty and disproportionate military actions.

Curiously, all these “paragons of international virtue” appear to be selectively blind as to the human rights of everyone else in the world, except Palestinians. They ignore:

• The plight of millions of Iranian citizens being arbitrarily subjected, in real time, to daily brutal subjugation and wholesale murder of thousands of them.
• The systematic butchering of tens of thousands of civilians from non-Arab ethnic groups in Sudan, Darfur, and El Fasher in 2025.
• The extremely high 2025 civilian death toll and injuries in the Ukraine-Russia conflict,
• Systematic violence and state repression in Myanmar against the Rohingya and other ethnic minorities,
• Mass atrocities in Nigeria in attacks by the Boko Haram and other extremist groups,
• Massacres of Christians in churches and hospitals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• The intentional civilian targeting and extra-judicial killings in Tanzania by security forces during election-related unrest.

This hypocrisy and double standards by those claiming to protect universal human rights is glaring. They audaciously and undisguisedly ignore, and even deny Israel’s human rights and protections and those of its citizens, those same rights that they so insistently and emotionally claim for Palestinians.

The politically-manipulated and hypocritical choir of incited international accusers of Israel, fixatedly and disproportionately levels one-sided accusations, while flagrantly ignoring the fact that Israel and its citizens are no less deserving of human rights.

As such, they have inverted what should be a universally acknowledged and equally observed moral humanitarian standard into a cynical and one-sided political weapon, purposefully directed only against Israel. They ignore the fact that the public in Israel suffer from ongoing and daily acts of terror by Palestinian terror groups and Islamist fanatics acting under the incitement, encouragement, and financing both of the Palestinian leadership as well as the Islamist regimes of Iran, Qatar, and Turkey that support them.

The impression one receives from this massive and manipulated international indoctrination machine singling out Israel is that they have deliberately chosen to forget, or deny, the tragic massacre, rape, butchery, burning, and torture of thousands of Israelis and foreign citizens on October 7, 2023. They seem to ignore the taking and holding of hundreds of hostages, and the cynical use by the Hamas Palestinian terror group of its own Palestinian residents as human shields.

This narrow-minded and shallow point of view considers Israel to be the only international criminal engaged in an illogical human-rights repression spree against Palestinians.

Catchphrases and Buzzwords

Popular and easily repeatable, internationally recognizable buzzwords and catchphrases, liberally and ignorantly declaimed against Israel, have become the lingua franca of this Western propaganda machine. 

“Genocide,” “apartheid,” “colonialism,” “racism,” “starvation,” “settler-colonialism,” “indiscriminate destruction” – all are religiously, liberally and consistently directed only against Israel. They are chanted and repeated at street demonstrations by ignorant, incited useful idiots, exclaimed unthinkingly in parliaments by politicians plying clearly partisan, anti-Israel, and often anti-Semitic bias. They figure in government statements driven by often naïve and uninformed leaders swayed by internal political pressures, and they are exhorted by highly politicized international courts and bodies inspired and guided by political UN resolutions and partisan regional political and economic interests.

All this is being orchestrated through a meticulous, well-oiled and well-financed system of brainwashing, emanating from the coffers of the likes of Qatar, Iran, and Turkey.

But sadly, this is all being willingly and enthusiastically absorbed and cheered-on by a woke-inspired international choir in Europe and other Western countries, all too willing to absorb and propagate such propaganda and brain-washing and to direct it solely against Israel.

Some of these deceptive and deliberately misleading catch-phrases and buzzwords that have become lingua franca in the vocabulary of the international anti-Israel incitement movement, need to be shown in their utter absurdity and irrelevance.

Genocide:

The malicious use of the buzzword “genocide” is particularly offensive and clearly contrived, inasmuch as it has been deliberately copy-pasted from the horrific events of the Holocaust conducted by the Nazis with the aim of extinguishing the Jewish race.

The term “genocide” was in fact coined by the Polish Jewish jurist Rephael Lemkin in 1944 as part of his attempt to initiate the drafting of an international convention criminalizing the acts of the Nazis against the Jews.

This cynical attempt to repackage the term genocide and to attribute it to Israel is blatantly superficial. It has been deliberately adopted by South Africa in its initiative accusing Israel at the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) of violating the same 1948 UN Genocide Convention, by its actions in Gaza.

While this flawed accusation knowingly misinterprets the definition of the crime of genocide set out in the international convention itself, the ICJ nevertheless processes this South African allegation, supported by a curious group of some 14 states, openly hostile to Israel, that have willingly joined in to this attempt at international lynching of Israel. These include such examples of democracy and humanitarian values as Brazil, Colombia, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, Bolivia, Chile, Nicaragua, Libya, Cuba, and Belgium.

The international propaganda machine has dutifully adopted South Africa’s flawed initiative and has turned it into its main rallying cry against Israel.

Perhaps the most ironic aspect of this attempt at international inversion, is that in plying this false and misplaced genocide accusation against Israel, those states that have espoused and supported it, together with the masses of incited demonstrators that follow them, are conveniently ignoring the genocidal Islamist and Hamas rallying cry and inspirational call that heralded the opening the Hamas 7 October 2024 “Al Aqsa flood” to eliminate Israel “from the river to the sea.”

Ironically the ICJ has not been petitioned to initiate any prosecution against those states supporting the calls for genocide against Israel, nor has the International Criminal Court (ICC) been petitioned to open any investigation against those leaders and international elements calling for the genocide of Israel and the Jewish People.

Apartheid:

Equally offensive and contrived is the buzzword “apartheid” used against Israel which, similar to the genocide accusation, has simply been copy-pasted and repackaged in an attempt to attribute to Israel the repressive South African institutionalized and legalized system of racial segregation and discrimination in which one racial group was deprived of its political and civil rights.

The source of the phenomenon of attributing to Israel the accusation of apartheid may be found in the infamous 1975 UN General Assembly resolution 3379, initiated fifty years ago by the former Soviet Union. This resolution labeled Zionism as racism thereby legitimizing UN anti-Jewish and anti-Israel discrimination. In adopting this Resolution, the UN formally transformed itself into the main international vehicle openly generating, advocating and sanctioning discrimination against Israel. While the offensive determination of this resolution was subsequently revoked by the UN in 1991, the damage had nevertheless been done.

The “apartheid” smear returned to haunt Israel with the 2001 UN World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, where a choir of world leaders and non-governmental organizations, led by PLO leader Yasser Arafat, openly accused Israel of apartheid. This accusation subsequently figured in the final declaration of the conference’s NGO forum and basically blemished the entire conference.

The glib use of the term “apartheid” against Israel epitomizes the lack of understanding of that racist phenomenon, as well as an even wider misunderstanding of the character of Israel as an open, pluralistic, liberal and democratic society.

Any comparison of Israel to the former Apartheid regime in South Africa has been rejected outright by those with an intimate understanding of the Apartheid system, especially South Africans. The aim of such propaganda, besides delegitimizing the very basis of the existence of the State of Israel, is to cynically manipulate the international community and to encourage imposition of an international sanctions regime against Israel modeled on the actions against the former regime in South Africa.

This false accusation knowingly ignores the fact that Israel is a multi-racial and multi-colored society. Israel’s Arab citizens and residents enjoy constitutional equality and freedom of expression. They exercise a strong and influential political presence in Israel’s parliament (Knesset). Arab citizens play a central role in all spheres of Israeli society. Arab judges serve in Israel’s court system including as Supreme Court justices. Israeli Arabs serve as heads and senior staff of hospital departments and Israeli universities. Similarly, Arabs serve in Israel’s diplomatic and consular corps, as well as filling senior posts in the police and army.

Each religious community in Israel has its own religious court system, applying Sharia, Canon, Druze, and Jewish law respectively and equally.

Unlike those Arab and other countries in which one religion is declared the state religion, or in Western countries where Christianity is the predominant religion, or even those Muslim countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia where certain areas, towns, and roads are restricted to “Muslims only,” where women are treated as second-class citizens and gay people as criminals, Israeli law regards Judaism, Islam, and Christianity as official religions and constitutionally ensures complete freedom and equality to all.

Some human rights organizations and media sources base their “apartheid” claim on the allegation that Israel maintains differing legal systems for Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank areas of Judea and Samaria, including restrictions on movement and unequal access to land, resources, or political rights.

However, such allegations deliberately ignore the fact that restrictions imposed by Israel in these areas are far from racial, and are not violative of human rights values, but purely security-driven in light of the prevailing security situation in which a hostile Palestinian public, incited by Hamas and other terror organizations, with the support, encouragement, and financing of the Palestinian Authority, engages in acts of terror and violence, to which Israel has the legitimate right under international humanitarian law, to respond.

Starvation:

The allegation of starvation has figured repeatedly in claims against Israel during the course of its military activities against the Hamas terror organization in Gaza.

This is being promoted by the Palestinian leadership, using false statistics, and supported by Arab, and foreign media, the United Nations, as well as by several international bodies including the ICC Prosecutor.

In view of the ongoing conflict situation arising as a result of the October 7, 2023, massacre, while a measure of genuine hardship is faced by the civilian population in Gaza, this is not, in any manner, a deliberately-generated policy of starvation. It stems primarily from the lack of distribution of food already inside Gaza and the chaotic handling of incoming aid by the international bodies responsible for humanitarian supplies. This, in addition to the fact that aid trucks and their cargos are systematically and forcibly commandeered by Hamas, and their contents sold in the local markets at enhanced prices. 

This “starvation” smear is being enhanced within the international community and linked to the above-noted genocide accusations, by claiming that denial of humanitarian aid and access to food, water, medication, and medical equipment are part of a starvation policy. This was given formal cognizance in the November 2024 politically-influenced arrest warrant issued by the ICC Prosecutor against Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, specifically citing the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare.

The starvation allegations rely principally on a subsequently discredited August 2025 study by the UN-associated “Famine Review Committee.” This study was criticized internationally for serious methodological flaws and errors, all in an attempt to shape both its data and methodology to support its conclusions.

Despite these accusations of intentional withholding of humanitarian aid and starvation of the Palestinian population, Israel has repeatedly emphasized that it enables rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for civilians in the Gaza Strip.

The famine accusation in Gaza in July 2025 has been proven false, according to the UN’s own statistics. The World Food Programme (WFP) has confirmed the activity in food markets throughout Gaza, including sales of humanitarian aid, thereby contradicting claims of starvation.

Indiscriminate Or Excessive Attacks, Disproportionate Use of Force and Arbitrary Destruction of Property

These accusations are regularly disseminated in the West by the Hamas disinformation machine, knowing that it will be readily taken-up and amplified by those politicians and media outlets intent on vilifying Israel.

In pursuing military actions against the Hamas terror emanating from Gaza, and pursuant to its obligations under international humanitarian law, Israel goes to considerable efforts to limit its operations in order to ensure that uninvolved civilians are removed from areas endangered by military operations. This, despite the deliberate and blatantly illegal use by Hamas of its civilian population in towns and villages as human shields. The use of private homes, schools, and hospitals, as well as high-rise buildings as tactical and strategic communications, intelligence, planning, storage, and operating facilities is the accepted Hamas operational tactic. Its vast network of underground tunnels under civilian concentrations typifies its defiance of any humanitarian norms.

International humanitarian law prohibits such use of civilian infrastructure as human shields, and justifies military action directed proportionately against such legitimate military targets in order to prevent their continued use.

In seeking to remove innocent Gaza residents from such areas in order to enable military action against terror locations, Israel has taken all measures required by humanitarian law to minimize human suffering. Its actions are strictly directed against legitimate military targets

Conclusion

It is high time that the states and organizations within the international community, as well as international media outlets and the manipulated social media platforms, become aware of the absurdity and acute lack of any logical proportion in their anti-Israel fixation.

To fixate solely upon flawed accusations against Israel, while totally ignoring ongoing, proven, and massive acts of violence, murder, and repression throughout the world, is indicative of an ominous and disturbing historic precedent.

It is high time to replace this manipulative thinking and reconsider the accurate situation in correct and logical proportion.

This massive international human rights hypocrisy, through the total inversion of values, aimed only at singling-out Israel, should be so obvious.

But sadly, it is not.