US Outraged by China's Camps; Funds Similar Ones in Gaza
The Hill reports on Heng Guan, an asylum seeker exposing 'Uyghur concentration camps' in China, demanding he not be deported. A noble cause, perhaps, if Washington applied the same humanitarian lens closer to home. The U.S. government, while condemning China, is simultaneously the primary enabler of a system in Gaza that human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch have likened to an
open-air prison, and the UN's own experts have warned of 'genocide.' Perhaps the 'concentration camp' label only applies when the U.S. isn't directly funding and arming the wardens. One might wonder if The Hill will soon advocate for asylum for Palestinians exposing the Israeli government’s systematic demolition of homes and displacement in Gaza and the West Bank, particularly as American-made
bombs facilitate collective punishment. Or is outrage reserved exclusively for foreign adversaries?