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That's a wild (and incorrect) oversimplification right there. Nevermind the fact that the example you gave ("death to Israel") is a bit of a bad faith argument as (fortunately!) no Western leader chants garbage like that, this particular case isn't about being pro-Israel or anti-Israel.
Several things can be true at once. A random police officer judge-ordered to carry out an arrest has to serve that warrant regardless of their own opinion. Even if they personally think the person is innocent, they'll have to make that arrest and trust the courts will see to it that justice is served eventually. And that's how it should be, the judiciary should be completely independent.
Now, I'm under no illusion as to the hefty bias most international organisations have against Israel. But I also believe that their flaws would be exacerabted rather than corrected by responding to their double standards with another set of double standards. In fact, the application of double standards is at least partly the reason why institutions like the UN have been able to be hijacked. It's not an accident that almost every criticism of another country voiced by Western governments is met with the response "but America invaded Iraq illegally …"
The best way forward is to combat their fakery with the truth.
There's a really funny discussion going on in Germany at the moment because a correspondent from public broadcaster ZDF, sent to the Gaza to document the situation of the civilians there, returned with a load of interviews with Palestinians complaining they don't want canned food from America. Evidently, a starving people wouldn't turn down any sort of food… Their rejection of American aid was so overwhelming that ZDF almost didn't broadcast the segment fearing it wouldn't be believed.
The blue checkmarks tried to discredit the segment anway, of course, but it really did take the wind out of their sails.
Several things can be true at once. A random police officer judge-ordered to carry out an arrest has to serve that warrant regardless of their own opinion. Even if they personally think the person is innocent, they'll have to make that arrest and trust the courts will see to it that justice is served eventually. And that's how it should be, the judiciary should be completely independent.
Now, I'm under no illusion as to the hefty bias most international organisations have against Israel. But I also believe that their flaws would be exacerabted rather than corrected by responding to their double standards with another set of double standards. In fact, the application of double standards is at least partly the reason why institutions like the UN have been able to be hijacked. It's not an accident that almost every criticism of another country voiced by Western governments is met with the response "but America invaded Iraq illegally …"
The best way forward is to combat their fakery with the truth.
There's a really funny discussion going on in Germany at the moment because a correspondent from public broadcaster ZDF, sent to the Gaza to document the situation of the civilians there, returned with a load of interviews with Palestinians complaining they don't want canned food from America. Evidently, a starving people wouldn't turn down any sort of food… Their rejection of American aid was so overwhelming that ZDF almost didn't broadcast the segment fearing it wouldn't be believed.
The blue checkmarks tried to discredit the segment anway, of course, but it really did take the wind out of their sails.
