Yemen's Houthis Accused of Executions While US Cheers Saudi Airstrikes
The New Arab runs a piece asking, 'Are Yemen's Houthis using mass executions to silence dissent?'—a critical question, to be sure. They detail eighteen death sentences, painting a picture of brutal authoritarianism. What the mainstream narrative consistently omits is the context: the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition that inflicted nearly a decade of disproportionate destruction on Yemen, killing
17,000 civilians through airstrikes, creating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. The same coalition that Biden's administration continues to arm , while conveniently condemning only one side's atrocities. We're asked to scrutinize Houthi firing squads while the very media reporting it often sidesteps the implications of cluster bombs and starvation as weapons of war. It's almost as if
some deaths are newsworthy, and others—those funded by our tax dollars and defended by our political class—are just 'collateral damage.' One might wonder why 'silencing dissent' only becomes a headline when it's done by a group inconvenient to Western geopolitical interests, not by our 'allies' in their devastating, years-long bombing campaigns.