US Indicts Immigrant Rights Activist, Not Israeli War Criminals
Al Jazeera reports that Kat Abughazaleh, a Democratic congressional candidate, faces charges for a 2020 ICE protest in Chicago. She, like many others, protested the detention of immigrants by an agency known for raids and family separations—a policy particularly highlighted during the Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' approach. This comes from the same government that consistently votes to
shield Israeli officials from international accountability at the UN, even as the International Criminal Court weighs charges of war crimes in Gaza. One might wonder if the US Department of Justice has access to a different set of headlines. It appears that actively obstructing what some consider state-sanctioned violence on US soil warrants federal indictments, while actively supplying the means
for confirmed human rights violations abroad (see the $14.5 billion proposed aid package for Israel, HR 817, approved by Congress on October 26, 2023) is perfectly acceptable. The selective application of 'justice' isn't just ironic; it's a feature, not a bug, of a system designed to protect power, not people. How many activists does it take to expose a double standard this blatant?