[Opinion] NGOs’ Selective Outrage and Hypocrisy
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They dumped his body on his family’s doorstep. Twenty-two-year-old Odai Nasser al-Rubai was tortured and murdered — his face disfigured, his bones broken, his corpse used as a grim warning to others — because he dared to join a recent protest in Gaza calling out Hamas’s corruption and brutality.
Al-Rubai was one of thousands of Gazans who took to the streets in late March and early April, demanding an end to Hamas’s oppressive rule and the devastating war it provoked. Media reports indicate that other demonstrators were also arrested, tortured, and executed.
And yet, as Palestinians dared to speak out, even at the risk of being murdered by the terror group governing Gaza, the world’s leading human rights organizations remain silent.
Where are the watchdogs of injustice now — NGOs like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Paris-based FIDH, Al-Haq, and U.N. bodies like the Human Rights Council? These are the same groups that have flooded headlines with false accusations of Israeli “genocide,” that rushed to submit International Criminal Court (ICC) complaints about Israel, and treated inflated Hamas-supplied casualty figures from Gaza as gospel. But when Palestinians are beaten, imprisoned, and killed by their own rulers, those voices fall silent.
