{"id":5090,"date":"2020-08-05T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T04:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T03:44:14","slug":"double-standards-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2020\/08\/double-standards-abound\/","title":{"rendered":"Double standards abound"},"content":{"rendered":"
This past fortnight there have been two admissions of bias that should be a shock. Most recently, Twitter executives defended their decision <\/a>to restrict President Trump but not Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And just before that, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade defended their funding of antisemitism <\/a>and admitted they don’t fund any other hate.<\/p>\n The MFAT funding is via UNRWA<\/a>, and the double standards at the UN are much more pervasive than just that organisation. Israel is singled out at the UN <\/a>in almost every committee or council. There are more resolutions against Israel in any given year than all of the other 191 member countries combined. And New Zealand plays a role in perpetuating this bias<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are also gross double standards from self-proclaimed “human rights advocates” who use their interpretation of “international law” to accuse Israel of all manner of crimes and violations while ignoring or applauding actual crimes.<\/p>\n Some of the most egregious examples of this include the “flotilla” publicity stunts<\/a> that aids Hamas and the mass demonstrations against Israel while the Yazidis (whos slaughter we remember this month<\/a>) and Uyghurs hardly get even letters of support.<\/p>\n