US Human Rights Report Whitewashes Israel’s Abuses Against Palestinians

Expand The American and Israeli flags outside the U.S Embassy in Tel Aviv December 5, 2017. © 2017 Reuters The US State Department’s newly released human rights report, designed to be a “factual resource” on human rights abuses in nearly 200 countries and to inform US foreign policy, has numerous problems and omissions – including with the chapters covering Israel and Palestine. The problems start with the chapters’ names. In previous years, the State Department produced joint but separate chapters on “Israel” and “The Occupied Territories.” This year the State Department renamed the chapters…

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