Iran 'Spy' Trial: Where Are the US Media Outcries?
The New Arab reports Iran has opened the trial of a dual national accused of spying for Israel. A seemingly straightforward news item, yet, one immediately wonders where the usual chorus of media pundits condemning 'authoritarian justice' and 'human rights abuses' has gone. The same outlets that decry due process in Tehran often gloss over parallel judicial practices in Tel Aviv, especially when
it concerns Palestinian citizens of Israel or residents of the occupied territories facing military courts without the same public scrutiny. ( The New Arab ) This selective indignation highlights a glaring double standard. While Iran's judicial system certainly warrants critical examination, the silence from mainstream Western media on the hundreds of Palestinian children held in Israeli military
detention, often without charge or access to family, is deafening. Or the arbitrary arrests and administrative detentions of Palestinian journalists and activists. One might almost suspect that 'justice' is only problematic when it’s not being administered by a U.S. ally. The outrage meter, it seems, is calibrated by geopolitics, not consistent human rights principles.