US Senator Demands Progress for One Detainee, Ignores Thousands of Others
Al Jazeera reports a US Senator is 'demanding more' be done to free a US teen held in Israeli detention for nine months without trial. This sudden concern for administrative detention is touching, though tellingly selective. While one American teen languishes, Human Rights Watch documents hundreds of Palestinian children — thousands of Palestinians overall—held by Israel without charge or trial,
some for years. Does their lack of a US passport make their trauma less 'demanding' of a Senator’s attention? One might wonder where this senatorial fury was for the thousands of Palestinian children processed through the same Kafkaesque military court system for decades. It appears 'human rights' become a priority when they apply to constituents, particularly those who *might* have family
donating to reelection campaigns, not merely those facing systemic injustice. Funny how that works.