As you look around the globe, what countries’ treatments of their citizens, neighbors, or minorities appall you? Perhaps it’s communist China’s oppressive regime, which forces Uighur Muslims into labor camps and offers bounties on followers of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it’s Iran’s “catalogue of shocking human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment.” Or maybe it’s Turkey’s international belligerence and sponsorship of terrorism. The list of the sins of the dictators, theocrats, and kleptocrats in power around the world is as long as it is disgusting.
Yet, for some, no country deserves condemnation more than Israel. Armchair revolutionaries advocate in support of a movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel but are unable to muster any anger against the greatest criminal regimes of this century.