My Take | America’s human rights chief is giving the job title a bad name
- Hong Kong should not dismiss UN rights report on the city but it doesn’t need more propaganda spin from Uzra Zeya and Consul General Gregory May
It must be tough being Uzra Zeya. I imagine every time the US undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy, and human rights opens her mouth publicly these days, people just roll their eyes.
That is the only appropriate and human reaction to Zeya and her kind. Words like hypocrisy and double standards do not do them justice. You really need inhumanly thick skin to do her job.
Both latter claims have been debunked by multiple investigative journalists and international human rights groups, including United Nations agencies. Instead, there is strong emerging evidence that both types of war crime have been committed by the Israeli military. Close to 200 staff from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) have been killed.
In May, Stacy Gilbert, a 20 year-veteran of the State Department, resigned in protest after it endorsed a government report claiming that Israel was not blocking humanitarian assistance into Gaza, a position which was vital for the Biden administration to legally continue to ship weapons to Israel to be unleashed on the Gazan population!
In an interview with Democracy Now, Gilbert said she was “shocked” by the report: “That is not the view of subject matter experts at the State Department, at USAID, nor among the humanitarian community. And that was known. That was absolutely known to the [Joe Biden] administration for a very long time.”