Double Standards. What do you call …?
Double Standards by Gideon Levy, 20 July 2004. “What would happen if a Palestinian were to shoot an Israeli university lecturer and his son in front of his wife and their young son? That's what happened 10 days ago in the case of Dr. Salem Khaled, from Nablus, who called to the [Israeli] soldiers from the window of his house because he was a man of peace and the front door had jammed, so he couldn't get out. The soldiers shot him to death and then killed his 16-year-old son before the eyes of his mother and his 11-year-old brother. It's not hard to imagine how we would react to the story if the victims were ours [i.e. Jewish]”
International Human Rights Organizations and the Palestine Question by Nabeel Abraham and Janice Terry and Cheryl Rubenberg and Lisa Hajjar and Hilary Shadroui, January-February 1988.
The meaning of life by Anas Altikriti, 6 May 2003. “Justice, peace and prosperity will never be achieved in the Middle East until governments and the media learn to value all human lives equally.”
Explaining Arab anger from the BBC, 20 September 2001.
A world plundered by greed and double standards from the Sunday Herald, 30 June 2002.
Chaos reigns in Afghanistan by Abid Ullah Jan, 3 February 2002. “An American colonial shipwreck is looming before the world and the United Nations. The probability that the witch's brew of Afghan sell-outs will pluck a flower of colonial safety from the nettle of allied occupation, warlordism and grim ethnic enmities is submicroscopic.”
US forces' use of depleted uranium weapons is 'illegal' by Neil Mackay, 30 March 2003.
Israel, Zionism and anti-Semitism by Oren Medicks, 07 July 2004.
Torture and Lies as Policy: America's Criminal Occupation by Roger Normand, 30 June 2004. “Each new revelation of torture, abuse, lies and cover-up exposes the American occupation of Iraq as a criminal enterprise masquerading as liberation.”
The Blood by John Pilger, 13 February 2003. “As the world protests against war, we hear again the lies of old. "A painful decision," say the supporters of an invasion. But it is not they who will feel the pain: it will be the Iraqi infants writhing in the dust when the cluster bombs fall.”
Israel is an occupier with a duty to protect by Henry Siegman, 21 April 2003. From the Financial Times, London.
Corporate investment, government double-dealing and the developing Andean war by Toni Solo, 24 May 2004.
Year later, US attack on factory still hurts Sudan by Jonathan Belke, 22 August 1999.
The envoy who said too much by Nick Paton Walsh, 15 July 2004. “One minute he was Our Man in Tashkent, the next he was a major embarrassment for the Foreign Office. Craig Murray, ambassador to Uzbekistan, talks to Nick Paton Walsh about his turbulent year.”
One Year Later, Justice Still Not Served – Remembering the Death of Rachel Corrie by Elizabeth Corrie, 10 March 2004.
Global Rogue State by Edward S. Herman, February 1998.
I would have done the same by Yitzhak Frankenthal, 07 August 2002. “My son was killed by a Palestinian fighter. But Israel's occupation is to blame for his death.”
Double standard about deaths in the Middle East by Ray Hanania, 17 May 2004.
Rogues Have No Right To Self-Defense by Edward S. Herman, 18 August 2003.
White-collar Criminals: Enough Is Enough by Clifton Leaf, 18 March 2002. “They lie they cheat they steal and they've been getting away with it for too long.”
We see too much. We know too much. That's our best defence by John Pilger, 06 April 2003.
Amnesty International: The Case of a Rape Foretold by Paul de Rooij, 03 December 2003.
White Man's Burden: The Never-ending Saga by Habib Siddiqui, 06 June 2004.
Amnesty International: A false beacon by Paul de Rooij, 12 October 2004.
Blair is unfit to be Prime Minister by John Pilger, 03 August 2005.
The U.S. double standard on rights by Edmund R. Hanauer, 15 January 2006. “Washington's policies toward Palestinians makes a mockery of U.S. claims to uphold human rights. It tarnishes our reputation among citizens of other democracies. It makes it easier for anti-U.S. terrorist groups to find recruits by arguing that the United States hates Muslims and Arabs – witness U.S. support of Israel's displacement of Palestinians. It betrays the values of millions of Americans who expect our elected leaders to support human rights, including freedom and self-determination, for all.”
What Would Jesus Do? by Remi Kanazi, 03 February 2006. “If Denmark, Norway, France, Germany and the rest of Europe believe in the freedom of speech, it should include all instances and all religions. These nations are carelessly defending their hypocrisy and reinforcing the double standard that alienates Muslims and desecrates the Muslim faith, under the guise of free speech.”
What is the Cartoon controversy? by Chandra Muzaffar, 12 February 2006. “The cartoons controversy is not about freedom of expression. It is about how a segment of European society views religion in general and Islam in particular.”
The Quiet Death Of Freedom by John Pilger, 09 January 2006. “The rights of ordinary people to speak out against an unjust war and atrocities unleashed in their name are being crushed. Fascism is at the door. Who else, asks John Pilger, will fight it?”
In Defense of Free Thought by Robert Scheer, 21 February 2006. “The news on Monday that an Austrian court has sentenced crackpot British historian David Irving to three years' imprisonment for having denied the Holocaust seventeen years ago should have alarmed free speech advocates – particularly at a time when Muslim fundamentalists are being lectured as to the freedom of expression that should be afforded cartoonists.”
How the West and Free Press Have Accepted, Approved and Underwritten Israel's Long-Term Ethnic Cleansing and Institutionalized Racism by Edward S. Herman, March 2006.
Sane Britain disappears by Jonathan Cook, 09 March 2006. “With liberal apologists all but in line, the ground is being prepared in Britain for the clash of civilisations US neo-cons have been dreaming of, writes Jonathan Cook.”
Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455: A Glimpse into the Mind of a Terrorist by José Pertierra, 11 April 2006.
 The will of the people was heard in Belarus's election by Alyaksei Mazhukhou, 14 April 2006. “The west is imposing a double standard on our young democracy, says Alyaksei Mazhukhou.”
For Arabs Only: Israeli Law and Order by Jonathan Cook, 14 June 2006.
Another Escalation from the Palestinians: Israeli "Retaliation" and Double Standards by Jonathan Cook, 26 June 2006.
Jewish tribalism comes clean by Jonathan Cook, 30 June 2006. “As far as Israeli Jews are concerned, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who demands that his Palestinian identity be recognised automatically raises doubts about where his loyalties lie, the assumption being that he cannot be at once a Palestinian and loyal to Israel. Of course, no Jew would accept such an attribution of double loyalties in his own case. An American Jew, however Zionist, would denounce as anti-Semitic any suggestion that he is not always a loyal American citizen.”
How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon by Jonathan Cook, 07 September 2006.
A country lost in its own region by Antony Loewenstein, 10 November 2006. “Israel is a nation in serious decline. Its President may face indictment on charges of rape, the "peace movement" is virtually non-existent, corruption is rampant (a 2005 World Bank report found that the Jewish state's economic corruption was one of the worst in the developed world) and the military establishment is addicted to military solutions that have failed.”
Interview with Jeffrey Blankfort from San Francisco Independent Media Center, 20 November 2006. (In nine parts)
There has to be equality by Ismail Patel, 05 December 2006. “If Britons can join the Israeli army, those who fight for Palestine can't be treated as terrorists.”
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Alfred Lilienthal. “This website is dedicated to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Non-Believers, living and dead, who have had not only the courage to place their concern for mankind above their allegiance to any group or sect but also the willingness to do battle in behalf of this conviction.” See especially Terror: The Double Standard.
Between South Africa and Israel: UNESCO's Double-Standards by Omar Barghouti and Jacqueline Sfeir, 03 March 2005.
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